INTERVIEW BY DANNY R. PHILLIPS
St. Joseph, Missouri has never been considered a musical hotbed, and the odds are stacked against it becoming the next Seattle, Omaha or Athens. However, the birthplace of jazz great Coleman Hawkins and the Pony Express has been getting some press of late thanks to a one-guy-two-girls rock band named Alice.
For the better part of five years, the trio of guitarist, bassist and vocalist Rachel Hoffman, drummer Bobby Floyd and bassist, guitarist and vocalist
Q&A BY DANNY R. PHILLIPS
Since the early 1980s, the Meat Puppets have been confusing critics and influencing followers with their acid-fueled, psychedelic, country-punk freakouts. Few bands in the history of rock have so openly challenged existing boundaries like the Pups. Any given album (or song, even) features elements of punk, bluegrass, straight -ahead rock and beat poetry style lyrics.
Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, and now based in Austin, the band was formed by twin brothers