Thirty-one years, 13 albums and a million miles of road traveled and there seems to be no end in sight for The Meat Puppets. From their humble beginning in Phoenix in 1980 playing parties and punk bars to flirting with commercial success in the early ’90s grunge boom, the “brothers meat” have put together one of the most interesting catalogs in alternative music. We interviewed frontman Curt Kirkwood to find out some more about them. BB: Tell me about the new album, “Lollipop.” CK: Well, it’s the third record since we reunited in 2006. We’ve been on tour pretty much non-sto...
When he was 3 years old, he was playing drums and drawing like crazy. When he was 14, he picked up the bass. He has toured all over the U.S. and beyond. Both his day job and night gigs form a life in which he is always doing something he loves, creating. He is Gerard Dominick. Dominick currently plays bass in The Juke Hounds, a rocky blues band based in Akron. They had planned on playing at the Kent Blues Fest until they ran into some scheduling problems. After winning the Northeast Ohio Road to Memphis Competition, The Juke Hounds competed in the International Blues Competition in Memphis....
A writer takes his metaphors and similes to an unknown painted world — and, after hours of work, he has captured the story behind the canvas. It’s now 6 p.m. on May 6 at Anderson Creative, and the writer waits with baited breath for the artist — who’s similarly anxious — to read his interpretation. With an awkward shuffle of greeting, they discuss the blind date that has led them to this interlude. Craig Joseph, curator of Anderson Creative, brings together the nervous tension and eager anticipation felt between two paired creative minds in this month’s Blind Date: The Romanc...
