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meat puppet

A person who publishes comments on blogs, wikis and other public venues about some phenomenon or product in order to generate public interest and buzz. Using alias names, meat puppets pretend to have experience with the subject or masquerade as an exceptionally satisfied and unbiased user of the merchandise. See astroturfing and sock puppet.

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Any nostalgia is evenly distributed among their former bands' signature flavors; perhaps the Meat Puppets' song template predominates, fueled by Curt's guitar stylings (he plays a '72 Les Paul Gold Top through a variety of old Fender amps).

Eyes Adrift

The GreenRoom show will see Novana perform the entire album with a set list composed of iconic hits, lesser-known material and cover versions of songs by The Vaselines, David Bowie, Meat Puppets, and Lead Belly.

NOVANA, THE GREEN ROOM, STOCKTON

Rock singer-musician Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) is 55.

This Day in History, Jan. 10

Meat Puppets do Smells Like Teen Spirit and the Vaselines Lithium, both great songs that are done great justice by their cover versions.

Gone Too Soon

Fe de erratas: en el articulo de <<El Infierno>>, al citar la cancion <<Lake of Fire>>, dimos credito al grupo Nirvana para referirnos a esa intensa interpretacion; el autor original es Curt Kirkwood, quien la grabo con los Meat Puppets en 1984.

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Under other circumstances, Tablet Magazine would have happily let this unremarkable display of aging meat puppets (we have heard it called "Valentine's Day for dudes") go by unnoticed.

Rambo-vitz

Meat Puppets and the Shaky Hands play a Tuesday show to support the new Meat Puppets album, "Rise to Your Knees," the band's first project of new material since 2000.

O.A.R.'s new, chart-friendly sound put on exhibit tonight

there was a Lemonheads show, Dinosaur Jr., and Meat Puppets, and I don't think one of them sold out.

The man who broke the mold: Bob Mould is what every young musician aspires to be--versatile successful, and beloved. How one man became a legend by defying definition

THE usual horror fodder meat puppets are picked off one by one in gruesome ways.

REEKER *** 15

It turns out that McKibben is indulging in genetic essentialism, the unwarranted idea that we are just meat puppets dangling from our strands of DNA.

Enough already: a leading environmentalist makes a foolish case against technological innovation

What the meat puppets don't tell us is the Victimization Survey also reports the probability of serious injury from an attack is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than for women resisting with a gun.

Arm the Chicks. (The Final Word)

The book's vitriolic tone stemmed from the persecution complex the author acquired at the helm of SST, the hard-core record label founded by Black Flag that made bands like the Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, Husker Du, and Sonic Youth underground legends but failed to win them commercial success.