The legendary Meat Puppets will release their new album Lollipop on April 11, 2011 on Megaforce Records.

Recorded at Spoon\’s HiFi Studios in Austin, Texas, the album features the indelible Kirkwood brothers, Cris and Curt. SPIN summed up the hypnotic power by saying, \”the interplay of Curt\’s drowsy vocals and freaky guitar can still induce vertiginous spells.\”
Also new to this album is the addition of drummer Shandon Sahm, son of the legendary Doug Sahm.

Lollipop is chock full of tunes that run the stylistic gamut. Case in point, the opening keyboard-laced \”Incomplete\” (that Curt wrote back in 1983, and envisioned as \”something that I thought would be good for Elvis or Engelbert Humperdinck in the \’60s\”) and the rocking \”Hour of the Idiot,\” to the sunny ska of \”Shave It,\” and such acoustic country ditties as \”Baby Don\’t\” and \”The Spider and the Spaceship.\” And Cris certainly approves of the finished product. \”The continuity that runs through Curt\’s work is just a trip, and how you can reference different parts. I think it\’s a fairly bitching effort, considering the amount of time we put into pre-work. I think it\’s indicative of where the band\’s at right now. It\’s a fairly fluid moment, and that\’s a trip, considering how long we\’ve been at it and the band\’s history. Curt\’s been at it non-stop, and I\’m pleased to be able to provide him with a stable outlet for his art.\”

The highly influential Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock. The Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana\’s MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band\’s subsequent album Too High to Die went gold, selling over 500,000 albums, and became their most successful release. The band reunited in 2006.

Everyone from Nirvana to Pavement to Stone Temple Pilots cite The Meat Puppets as one of the most significant American bands.