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Meat Puppets
Also Playing: Dead Confederate and Ume
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Sat Sep 26
9 pm
Meat Puppets, Dead Confederate, and Ume at Fox Theatre
Despite the best efforts of Kurt Cobain—who did everything but mail copies of Meat Puppets II albums to suburban teenagers everywhere—Meat Puppets have always been comfortably ensconced in the underground. The adopted Austin residents’ scattershot sound still comprises acid-fried country rock and strange psychedelic experiments on this year's Sewn Together, but some great songs lurk within all the weirdness. Opener Dead Confederate hails from Athens, so it’s tempting to lump it in with similarly reverb-drenched, neo-Southern-rock groups such as My Morning Jacket. But while that band tempers its bleakness with the occasional ray of sunshine, Dead Confederate aims for a starker, grungier sound, a slow-moving storm cloud built on guitars that buzz like beehives and Hardy Morris’ plaintive, needling vocals.
Fox Theatre 1135 13th St, Denver/Boulder, CO
Despite the best efforts of Kurt Cobain—who did everything but mail copies of Meat Puppets II albums to suburban teenagers everywhere—Meat Puppets have always been comfortably ensconced in the underground. The adopted Austin residents’ scattershot sound still comprises acid-fried country rock and strange psychedelic experiments on this year's Sewn Together, but some great songs lurk within all the weirdness. Opener Dead Confederate hails from Athens, so it’s tempting to lump it in with similarly reverb-drenched, neo-Southern-rock groups such as My Morning Jacket. But while that band tempers its bleakness with the occasional ray of sunshine, Dead Confederate aims for a starker, grungier sound, a slow-moving storm cloud built on guitars that buzz like beehives and Hardy Morris’ plaintive, needling vocals.
Updated 11/02/2011
