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They've been Up on the Sun and Too High to Die, II, but they'll be damned before they'd call the trip done just yet. Both Curt and Cris Kirkwood will appear on Rise to Your Knees, the newest album from the twisty-wristed punks of the Meat Puppets, due out July 17 on Anodyne. It's the brothers' first on-record pairing since 1995's No Joke! and the first Puppets studio album period since 2000.

And what would a reunion record be without an accompanying tour? Diddly, that's what. The Puppeteers have a few west coast dates slated for May, with an "extensive U.S. tour" promised later in the year.

Rise to Your Knees:

01 Fly Like the Wind
02 On the Rise
03 Radio Moth
04 Tiny Kingdom
05 Eney Love Song
06 Spit
07 Island
08 Vultures
09 Sone Eyes
10 This Song
11 New Leaf
12 Disappear
13 The Ship
14 Ice
15 Light the Fire

Puppet shows:

05-14 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
05-15 Los Angeles, CA - Troubador *
05-16 San Francisco, CA - Independent *
05-18 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
05-19 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café
05-21 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
05-23 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
07-01 Austin, TX - Republic of Texas Biker Rally
07-21 Isle of Palms, SC - The Windjammer Festival