SOUNDCHECK
September 25, 2026 | 7PM
$10 for Members | General Admission for general public
SOUNDCHECK is back. One Friday per month from 7–8 pm, Phoenix Art Museum turns into a live-music venue for one hour: unplugged sets, local and regional acts, and art all around you. Season one brought you 76th Street, fearofmakingout, and The Phoenix Symphony. Season two goes bigger with Arizona Hall of Fame recipients, Meat Puppets.
Formed in Phoenix in the early 1980s, the Meat Puppets turned punk's creative freedom loose on country, psychedelia, and Southwestern desert weirdness, making landmark albums like Meat Puppets II and Up on the Sun before Kurt Cobain brought brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood onstage for Nirvana's MTV Unplugged and introduced them to a generation. More than 40 years in, the founding trio is back together, joined by keyboardist Ron Stabinsky and guitarist Elmo Kirkwood. As drummer Derrick Bostrom puts it, "This doesn't feel like an oldies act. It feels like the culmination."
Tickets include all-day access to the Museum.
SOUNDCHECK is made possible through the generosity of Presenting Sponsor Men’s Arts Council,
with additional support from the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for the Performing Arts.