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‘I blamed everyone else but I was the problem’: The Breeders on fallouts, reunions and 30 years of Last Splash

Despite decades of drugs and estrangements, the playful pop-grungers are back with new clarity and purpose. They discuss how a mutual appreciation of their 1993 opus made them put aside their differences

I n any successful band, the proof that they’ve crossed from cultish acclaim to overground recognition hits each member differently. For the Breeders’ English bass player, Josephine Wiggs, it was when her sister and mother were visiting her in New York. The three were at the top of the Empire State Building and somebody tapped Wiggs on the shoulder to confirm her identity. It struck drummer Jim MacPherson suddenly at a sold-out show in Paris. “I was just totally blown away by being in a band that had catering following us around, because we actually had a crew now,” he recalls, a note of wonder in his voice three decades on. “I was so green compared to Kim and Kelley and Josephine – it was all so new to me. And when I saw the video for Cannonball on TV, that’s when I thought: ‘This is really special, this song is affecting people’.”

The infectiously gleeful Cannonball, released exactly 30 years before the day of our Zoom call, was the first single from the Breeders’ second album, Last Splash. The Dayton, Ohio band – fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist Kim Deal (formerly Pixies’ bass player) and featuring her twin sister Kelley, also a guitarist – are in Nevada, on tour supporting Foo Fighters. September sees the second reissue of Last Splash and the start of a headlining US tour during which they’ll again play through the album in its entirety. It’s won the status of a modern classic marked by eccentricity: a disarming mix of art rock, grunge, guileless pop and punk noise, where opaque, often dark lyrics are cut with sardonic humour and both melodic and vocal sweetness. The sound of Kelley’s mic’d-up sewing machine features, while some of Kim’s vocals were recorded in the studio toilet. None of which sounds much like the makings of a UK Top 5 and US Top 40, platinum-certified hit.

“It encompasses everything,” agrees Kelley of the record. “It is legion. As we’ve been preparing to do the shows, one of the things I’ve discovered is that it sounds so effortless; [it’s as if] we went into a room and just jammed some stuff, then it was like, ‘There’s our record!’ It took a week and a half and we were so pleased with it. I love that that’s how it sounds. That’s not what happened: everything on there is highly curated, every ‘accidental’ thing …” she trails off. “It is, isn’t it? Do you not think it is?” she asks, catching her sister’s doubtful look.

“It’s the way you say it,” Kim replies, wary of any suggestion of a grand plan. “I’ve seen bands who have said: ‘We had a group meeting and decided we were going to make this album the sound of the global happiness that we wish the universe would live in.’ People have mock mantras and stuff, you know,” she scoffs. She reckons it’s partly the band’s resistance to using any sound that was then fashionable that has preserved Last Splash’s freshness. Although they’ve always been keen to experiment, the Breeders remain committed to analogue recording and all use the same vintage gear today as they did back then. MacPherson is still playing the drum kit his parents bought him in 1982, though he’s chewed through a few cymbals since, and Kim still works on her most promising lyrics using paper plates and an orange Sharpie.

In interview the Breeders are an entertainingly unguarded bunch, trading jokey slights and feigning outrage with an ease that comes only through years of closeness, though theirs is a chequered history. After a three-year high that included opening for Nirvana’s European tour and playing Lollapalooza, the band disintegrated around the time of Kelley’s arrest in 1994 for heroin possession and her subsequent spell in rehab. It was 24 years before the four made another record together, the triumphant All Nerve.

In the interim, Kim released an album as the Amps in 1995, with MacPherson and others, then revived the Breeders’ name in 1997 and put out two LPs with a different rhythm section and contributions from Kelley. Kim also spent some time in rehab and, in 2004, rejoined Pixies for their reunion tour before quitting for good in 2013. Along the way, she and MacPherson became estranged and ended up not speaking for 15 years, despite living in the same town, though neither can identify a specific trigger point. Her explanation is “individual psychological implosions”, but MacPherson now admits to “almost having a breakdown. I could blame everybody else but, really, I was the problem. I couldn’t handle things and that was a result of drugs and drinking.”

It’s been a bumpy ride, which raises the question as to what has drawn the “classic” Breeders lineup back together for two Last Splash anniversary tours, especially given that all members now have their own independent music projects. Kelley is half of the moody alt-pop duo R Ring and also plays with Protomartyr; Kim has her solo songwriting (an album under her own name is due next year) and seven-inch single series; MacPherson plays in an instrumental surf band called the Mulchmen; while Wiggs is tinkering with a backlog of music she recorded with UK drummer Jon Mattock. It was a combination of the band’s ineffable chemistry and the twins’ sobriety that convinced Wiggs to jump on board again in 2012. “I had played with Kim and Kelley in 2005, when we went to London to do the 25th anniversary of [record label] 4AD. They put on two nights of events and it was unexpectedly magical – first of all to be playing with Kim and Kelley being 100% present and second, just playing those songs. I thought that it would be a great opportunity.”

MacPherson agrees: “We had such a great formula together and I missed it so much. I deeply love that album and I wanted to see if that specialness between all four of us was still there.”

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As Last Splash notches up its third decade, the band’s memories and emotions connected to its heyday are inevitably mixed. “It was a blast,” enthuses Kim. “We toured and went to different countries, people were so excited to see us play – it was so much fun. We were playing a lot with Teenage Fanclub at the time and quite a bit with Nirvana, we played with Luscious Jackson, she [Kim nods at Wiggs] fell in love, Urge Overkill … all those people.” If she could go back in time, Kim admits she would “stop drinking so much beer and smoking so much pot. It really amped up because of the touring cycle. If you’re working all the time you just have a certain amount of coffee and it’s not how much you drink when you’re not working. But when you go to work, you drink more coffee. Do that with beer …” Wiggs’s regrets are mainly sartorial, relating in particular to a pair of pleated trousers (“my ‘show pants’”) from a San Francisco charity shop. “My other cringe moment is when I see photographs of Lollapalooza and I’m wearing short shorts,” she winces. “Drummers are allowed to wear them but if you’re upfront, you shouldn’t be wearing shorts.”

So much for the Breeders’ unchangeable past. Beyond their 30th anniversary tour dates, the future lies open, as does the question of a new album. MacPherson readily admits he “would love to do another record with the girls” though Kim’s upcoming solo release (which features contributions from the other three) and touring commitments would have to be considered. Asked if she reckons there will be a follow-up to All Nerve, Kim looks expectantly around at her bandmates: “We’re still playing music together so I assume there will be. I mean, I hope. Do you?”

The 30th anniversary reissue of Last Splash is out on 22 September.

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The Breeders Announce Last Splash 30th Anniversary Edition, 2023 Tour Dates

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The Breeders have spent the past three decades crashing on the last splash. The ’90s alt-rock legends are celebrating the occasion with Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition), plus 2023 tour dates where they’ll play the 1993 record in its entirety. You can preview the reissue now with a newly-unearthed track from the era called “Go Man Go,” co-written with Pixies vocalist Black Francis.

Then composed of twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal along with Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, The Breeders rose to international fame with Last Splash,  their sophomore album. Along with a double-LP of the original tracklist — including classics like “Cannonball” and “Drivin’ on 9” — comes a one-sided etched 12” disc containing “Go Man Go,” as well as a version of “Divine Hammer” with Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis on lead vocals, appropriately titled “Divine Mascis.” The remaster was cut at half speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, and pre-orders are ongoing.

The Breeders’ headlining tour dates will take them across North America this fall, and they’ll be playing  Last Splash  in its entirety; they also have previously-announced shows coming up with Foo Fighters .

Tickets go on sale Friday, June 30th via Ticketmaster . You can also check for deals StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Watch a brand-new music video for “Go Man Go” below, and then keep scrolling to see the details for Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) and The Breeders’ 2023 tour dates.

Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) Artwork:

Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) Tracklist: 01. New Year 02. Cannonball 03. Invisible Man 04. No Aloha 01. Roi 02. Do You Love Me Now? 03. Flipside 04. I Just Wanna Get Along 05. Mad Lucas 06. Divine Hammer 07. S.O.S 08. Hag 09. Saints 10. Drivin’ on 9 11. Roi (Reprise)

12” 01. Go Man Go 02. Divine Mascis

The Breeders 2023 Tour Dates: 08/03 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory 08/04 – Spokane, WA @ Spokane Arena * 08/06 – Big Sky, MT @ Wildlands Festival 08/08 – West Valley City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre * 08/10 – Stateline, NV @ Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys * 08/25-26 – Abiquiu, NM @ Ghost Ranch Music Festival 09/07 – Cleveland, OH @ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ^ 09/08 – Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! ^ 09/15 – Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest 09/17 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Sea.Hear.Now. Festival 09/19 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater * 09/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Fillmore % 09/21 – Silver Springs, MD @ Fillmore % 09/23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theater % 09/24 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues % 10/03 – Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort * 10/05 – El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center * 10/06-08 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/13-15 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/19 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern # 10/20 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory # 10/22 – Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Library # 10/23 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield # 10/25 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount #

* = w/ Foo Fighters ^ = w/ Horsegirl % = w/ Screaming Females # = w/ Belly

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The Breeders Announce Last Splash 30th Anniversary Edition, 2023 Tour Dates

Stream the newly-unearthed B-side "Go Man Go"

The Breeders have spent the past three decades crashing on the last splash. The ’90s alt-rock legends are celebrating the occasion with Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition), plus 2023 tour dates where they’ll play the 1993 record in its entirety. You can preview the reissue now with a newly-unearthed track from the era called “Go Man Go,” co-written with Pixies vocalist Black Francis.

Then composed of twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal along with Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, The Breeders rose to international fame with Last Splash,  their sophomore album. Along with a double-LP of the original tracklist — including classics like “Cannonball” and “Drivin’ on 9” — comes a one-sided etched 12” disc containing “Go Man Go,” as well as a version of “Divine Hammer” with Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis on lead vocals, appropriately titled “Divine Mascis.” The remaster was cut at half speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, and pre-orders are ongoing.

The Breeders’ headlining tour dates will take them across North America this fall, and they’ll be playing  Last Splash  in its entirety; they also have previously-announced shows coming up with Foo Fighters .

Tickets are available via StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Watch a brand-new music video for “Go Man Go” below, and then keep scrolling to see the details for Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) and The Breeders’ 2023 tour dates.

Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) Artwork:

Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) Tracklist: 01. New Year 02. Cannonball 03. Invisible Man 04. No Aloha 01. Roi 02. Do You Love Me Now? 03. Flipside 04. I Just Wanna Get Along 05. Mad Lucas 06. Divine Hammer 07. S.O.S 08. Hag 09. Saints 10. Drivin’ on 9 11. Roi (Reprise)

12” 01. Go Man Go 02. Divine Mascis

The Breeders 2023 Tour Dates: 08/03 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory 08/04 – Spokane, WA @ Spokane Arena * 08/06 – Big Sky, MT @ Wildlands Festival 08/08 – West Valley City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre * 08/10 – Stateline, NV @ Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys * 08/25-26 – Abiquiu, NM @ Ghost Ranch Music Festival 09/07 – Cleveland, OH @ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ^ 09/08 – Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! ^ 09/15 – Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest 09/17 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Sea.Hear.Now. Festival 09/19 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater * 09/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Fillmore % 09/21 – Silver Springs, MD @ Fillmore % 09/23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theater % 09/24 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues % 10/03 – Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort * 10/05 – El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center * 10/06-08 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/13-15 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/19 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern # 10/20 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory # 10/22 – Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Library # 10/23 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield # 10/25 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount #

* = w/ Foo Fighters ^ = w/ Horsegirl % = w/ Screaming Females # = w/ Belly

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The Breeders will mark the 30th anniversary of their breakthrough second album Last Splash with a new reissue featuring unreleased music — and by playing the record in full on a tour that will include some dates opened by Belly, the band founded by ex-Breeder Tanya Donnelly.

The 4AD label will release Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) on Sept. 22 in digital formats, on CD and on both black and clear vinyl. The album is remastered for the first time from the newly-found original analog tapes, the label says, and the vinyl was cut at half-speed at Abbey Road for a 45 rpm, 2LP pressing.

The new reissue can be pre-ordered now via Amazon.com or from 4AD’s store .

The vinyl edition of the new reissue will include a bonus one-sided, etched 12-inch featuring two previously unreleased tracks: “Go Man Go,” a song Kim Deal cowrote with her former Pixies bandmate Black Francis, and “Divine Mascis,” an alternate recording of “Divine Hammer” with Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis on lead vocals. Both songs date back to the original recording sessions for the 1993 album, the label says, and “were left forgotten until the sessions were exhumed to create this new master.”

You can hear “Go Man Go” below via its new music video.

The CD edition is a single-disc affair featuring a Japanese vinyl replica sleeve with the original LP art that will include a “high definition master of the album” — and both of the previously unreleased tracks.

The Last Splash -era lineup of The Breeders — Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson — reunited in 2012 in conjunction with the 20th anniversary reissue of that album. After considerable touring, the group went on to record the band’s fifth album, All Nerve , which was released in 2018.

Since then, the band has released a cover of His Name Is Alive’s “The Dirt Eaters,” part of a 4AD collection of cover songs called Bills & Aches & Blues (40 Years of 4AD) that released in 2021.

To mark the 30th anniversary of Last Splash , The Breeders will play a special run of concerts in September and October during which they’ll perform the album in its entirety. They’ll be joined at those shows by Belly, Screaming Females and Horsegirl, depending on the date. The band is also opening a number of Foo Fighters shows and playing festivals.

Below, check out those tour dates and the reissue’s tracklist.

The Breeders, Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition)

LAST SPLASH A1. “New Year” A2. “Cannonball” A3. “Invisible Man” A4. “No Aloha”

B1. “Roi” B2. “Do You Love Me Now?” B3. “Flipside”

C1. “I Just Wanna Get Along” C2. “Mad Lucas” C3. “Divine Hammer” C4. “S.O.S.”

D1. “Hag” D2. “Saints” D3. “Drivin’ on 9” D4. “Roi (Reprise)”

BONUS 12-INCH A1. “Go Man Go” A2. “Divine Mascis”

The Breeders tour dates 2023

Aug. 3: Knitting Factory, Boise, ID Aug. 4: Spokane Arena, Spokane, WA * Aug. 6: Wildlands Festival, Big Sky, MT Aug. 8: USANA Amphitheatre, Salt Lake City, UT * Aug. 10: Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey’s, Stateline, NV * Aug. 25: Ghost Ranch Music Festival, Albuquerque, NM Sept. 7: Union Home Mortgage Plaza, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH ** Sept. 8: KEMBA Live!, Columbus, OH ** Sept. 9: Fillmore, Detroit, MI ** Sept. 15: Riot Fest, Douglass Park, Chicago, IL Sept. 17: Sea.Hear.Now Festival, Asbury Park, NJ Sept. 19: Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA * Sept. 20: Fillmore, Philadelphia, PA *** Sept. 21: Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD *** Sept. 23: Kings Theater, Brooklyn, NY *** Sept. 24: House of Blues, Boston, MA *** Oct. 3: Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre, Phoenix, AZ * Oct. 5: Don Haskins Center, UTEP, El Paso, TX * Oct. 8: Austin City Limits Music Festival, Austin, TX Oct. 15: Austin City Limits Music Festival, Austin, TX Oct. 19: The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA **** Oct. 20: Observatory, San Diego, CA **** Oct. 22: Henry Miller Library, Big Sur CA **** Oct. 23: The Warfield, San Francisco, CA **** Oct. 25: Paramount, Seattle, WA **** Nov. 19: Corona Capital 2023, Mexico City, Mexico

* Opening for Foo Fighters ** With Horsegirl *** With Screaming Females **** With Belly

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It’s been reissued. so what’s the big DEAL? LOL

Lots of room on the calendar to add dates in Houston and Dallas – make it happen!

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The Breeders Extend Last Splash Anniversary Tour

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This year, Kim and Kelley Deal's band the Breeders are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark record  Last Splash with a deluxe reissue , out in April via 4AD . They're also reuniting the 1992-1994 lineup (with Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson) for a tour, on which they'll play the album in its entirety. Along with a string of previously announced European dates , including a slot at the Deerhunter-curated ATP fest , the band has now announced a North American tour and more UK dates.

Carrie Bradley, who played violin on  Last Splash , will also join the band for the tour.

After the dates, watch the Kim Gordon- and Spike Jonze-directed video for "Cannonball".

03-29 Brooklyn, NY - The Bell House 05-03 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre 05-04 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club  05-05 Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero 05-06 New York, NY - Webster Hall 05-09 Boston, MA - Royale Nightclub 05-11 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall 05-12 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre 05-14 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge 05-15 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse 05-24 Barcelona, Spain - Parc Del Fòrum (Primavera Sound) 05-27 Toulouse, France - Le Bikini 05-28 Bordeaux, France - Le Rocher De Palmer 05-30 Porto, Portugal - Primavera Sound 06-01 Paris, France - Trianon 06-02 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique  06-03 Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso 06-14 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street 06-17 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC 06-18 Manchester, England - Ritz  06-19 London, England - Forum 06-21 Camber Sands, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (All Tomorrow’s Parties)

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When the World Cafe team arrived at the studio to interview The Breeders , the atmosphere was warm, funny and a bit chaotic.

The band travels with an espresso machine that never stopped running the entire time I was there, and they'd brought homemade brownies. It felt like a family trip. More than that, this band feels like family (and that's not just because lead vocalist and guitarist Kim Deal and lead guitarist Kelley Deal are twin sisters).

It's because they've been doing this together a long time. Kim and Kelley, along with bassist Josephine Wiggs and drummer Jim MacPherson, released their breakout album, Last Splash, 30 years ago. Now, they're celebrating that 30th anniversary with a new remastered version of the album.

In this session, all four members join World Cafe to talk about revisiting Last Splash; what they remember from when it came out and blew up; and how they see their legacy now that their music is being rediscovered by new generations of fans.

You'll also hear a song that didn't originally make it onto Last Splash called "Go Man Go." Kim explains how she'd written for the Pixies , who broke up the same year Last Splash was released.

Special thanks to Steve Albini for mixing and mastering these live performances, as well as Eric Matthews for engineering. This session was recorded at Louisville Public Media Studios, in partnership with WFPK.

The Breeders Launch ‘Last Splash’ 20th Anniversary Tour in Brooklyn

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The mood inside Brooklyn’s Bell House on Friday night, when the Breeders kicked off a 10-date North American tour for the 20th anniversary of their classic 1993 album,  Last Splash , was nothing short of flip-out celebratory. “Thanks for doing this!” a fan shouted, prompting an uproarious applause that had singer-guitarist Kim Deal blushing. The only thing missing was a birthday cake.

Barring a secret warm-up show in Kentucky, the 90-minute gig was the first time the LP’s original lineup – Kim’s sister Kelley, bassist Josephine Wiggs and drummer Jim MacPherson, plus violinist Carrie Bradley – had shared a stage in nearly two decades. The intimate, 350-capacity venue, paired with a track-by-track run-through of an Alternative Nation classic – it’s Number 80 on Rolling Stone ’s list of the 100 Best Albums of the Nineties – had fans in a tizzy. The show sold out in less than two minutes; overweight, grown men were pogo-bouncing like teenagers at the Warped Tour. The room glowed with sentiment: “I first heard it when . . .” and “I remember seeing them play . . .” stories abounded.

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Like the album – set for a deluxe reissue on April 23rd with era B-sides, EP tracks and live recordings – the show was charmingly rickety yet powerful, a reminder that “Cannonball” was one of the artiest songs to ever storm the charts – even by Nineties standards. Unlike their onetime tour mates Nirvana (and Deal’s first band, the Pixies ), the Breeders didn’t lean on the soft-loud, verse-chorus-verse formula; Last Splash is a deeply experimental art-as-music album, full of fuzz explosions and blissed-out guitar riffs, achingly gorgeous melodies and love-drunk lyrics. The Deal Sisters’ girly charisma and bubbly chemistry topped it off.

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All was in fine form Friday night. Opener “New Year” chugged and accelerated into dizzying blasts. “Cannonball” was a sonic amusement ride with its hop-skip drum-and-bass lock, two-part harmonies and Kim’s distorted, broken-bull-horn vocals. It’s the instantly accessible single that  Last Splash will be remembered for, but hardly the LP’s only transcendent moment.

The 15-track release has a stunning breadth, too. The Hawaiian-esque guitar riff of “No Aloha” and the meandering Moog of “Roi” – the latter featuring Wiggs on drums “because she recorded it that way,” Kim said – flaunted the album’s weirder moments, while “Divine Hammer” delivered its most straight-ahead pop sound with weaving guitar and hooky vocals. The night’s most tender blow came with “Do You Love Me Now?” on which Kim ponders, “Does love ever end / When two hearts are torn away?” The hushed sing-alongs were many.

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But it all hinged on the Deal sisters’ uncontainable personalities. “Justin Bieber wrote this one,” Kim joked while introducing “I Just Wanna Get Along.” Later she stopped the intro to “Mad Lucas” to ask Wiggs a pressing question: “Could you walk here from your apartment?” Wiggs awkwardly responded, “Um . . . I could . . . but I didn’t. . . .” Kim smiled. “Okay,” she spat, returning to her guitar. And the Deal sisters were constantly whispering in each other’s ears and laughing, like they were in on the best inside joke of all time.

And they might be. The beauty of the Breeders, and their Nineties-alternative classic Last Splash , lies in this sloppy, off-the-cuff charm. When Kelley solos, you want to hold your breath and then congratulate her for nailing it. Which happened numerous times Friday night. After a member nailed a solo or technical section, the band flashed encouraging grins all around and occasionally exchanged high-fives. That’s what seals the band’s legacy. 

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With ‘last splash’ 30 years ago, they seemed like rock’s post-nirvana future. now touring again, the band better understands how they fell apart — and how to keep it together..

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I n a cluttered suburban basement this summer, Kim Deal cupped her hands over the mic to distort her lilting voice into something like the moan of a humpback whale, and suddenly it was 1993 again.

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A few taps on the snare rim and cymbal stand from her bandmate Jim Macpherson. Then Josephine Wiggs came in with the bass line, that inquisitive Morse-code riff that telegraphs within a heartbeat that you’ve tuned into the biggest hit of the Breeders’ all-too-fleeting heyday.

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“Cannonball” was no mainstream chart-topper, but its delectably off-kilter riff was everywhere in the mid-’90s, making it the 22nd greatest indie anthem (according to New Musical Express), the 83rd greatest song of its decade (says VH1), one of the 500 greatest hits of all time (Rolling Stone). The Deal sisters’ cooing vocals against their scowling guitars, those impenetrable lyrics, that lifeguard whistle beckoning us … where exactly? The song was in “South Park,” over the sports highlights, on MTV. If you were filming a pitch-black comedy about bank-robbing cheerleaders, as someone actually did back then , you would definitely cue up “Cannonball” to score the madcap heist scene.

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For many critics and fans, though, the Breeders weren’t just supposed to be the sound of 1993. They were supposed to be the future — a femme-powered vanguard of grunge that could have, should have, led the way in the post-Nirvana vacuum. But “Last Splash,” the platinum-selling album that spawned “Cannonball,” somehow ended up being the Breeders’ last act in their prime.

“Sometimes I think, God, wow, we really should have probably done another Breeders record,” Deal said dryly. “Because it really was quite popular.” Popular enough that they are marking “Last Splash’s” 30th anniversary by playing it live in its entirety, in a tour that comes to the Fillmore in Silver Spring, Md., on Thursday.

Instead, the Breeders disappeared at their peak, for reasons that are easy to itemize — the drug abuse, the writer’s block, the fights, etc. — but hard to pin on one person. Like their greatest work, their mystifying collapse was a true collaboration.

W hat makes a band click? The Breeders were in their fourth year and third lineup before they conjured the magic that was “Last Splash.”

Kim Deal founded the band already something of a legend for her role as the bass player for the Pixies. Wiggs was there from the start, too, a bookish Brit with a master’s degree in philosophy and multi-instrumental chops. Macpherson, who joined after 1990s “Pod,” pounded his Gretsch kit like an Ohio schoolboy raised on Rush.

But it can be argued that the Breeders didn’t really become the Breeders until 1992, after co-founder Tanya Donelly defected to start the band Belly, and Deal managed to persuade twin sister Kelley to replace her as lead guitarist.

The hitch, of course, was that Kelley — at the time, working for a defense contractor in the Deals’ hometown of Dayton — didn’t play guitar.

“I was just like, ‘what the f---?’” recalled Wiggs.

Kim had previously tried, unsuccessfully, to lure Kelley into the Pixies. But her sister passed up the chance to join the Boston band whose galvanizing loud-quiet-loud sound went on to inspire Kurt Cobain and many others who would better monetize it.

Born 11 minutes apart, the sisters were always close, both of them gymnasts at Wayne High School, where Kim was also a cheerleader. And they were always musical, Kim playing guitar, and Kelley harmonizing in their folk-rock combo that would perform at the local Ground Round and Trolley Stop, using their grandfather’s potty chair as a speaker stand.

Siblings who sing together are said to have a special sound — a “blood harmony” that has raised goose bumps again and again over the years, in acts as varied as the Louvin Brothers of bluegrass, the Bee Gees of pop and the rock band Haim. And it was the blend of the twins’ clear, guileless voices on “Cannonball” as well as “Divine Hammer” that gave those songs their spark.

“The sister-throat thing is real,” observed Donelly. “And their voices together, it’s magic.”

The guitar part would have to follow. Donelly, the former teen prodigy of Throwing Muses, had brought serious playing chops to Breeders 1.0. Kelley Deal had to learn on the fly. Producer Mark Freegard recalled having to record her sliding line in “Cannonball” one chunk at a time and piece it together in the studio.

But she quickly developed a distinctive sound, driven by vibrato and creative melody — more guitar strategy than technique, but exactly what her frontwoman sister wanted for the band.

“It’s not ‘how loud can my guitar go right now’ and ‘let me pull out my blues scale in G’ or whatever,” Kim Deal told The Washington Post during the band’s rehearsal in Dayton.

“I’ve always tried not to do that,” Kelley said.

“And you counted how many times Neil Young hit that one note on ‘Down by the River,’” Kim added.

“Yeah,” said Kelley. “Thirty-eight times. And it’s just one note over and over, and it’s the f---ing best solo ever.”

In the Pixies, Kim Deal played second fiddle to founder and lead singer Charles Thompson, a.k.a. Black Francis. But the Breeders would reflect her vision. Of the two sisters, she had been the home-studio rat, collecting equipment every birthday and Christmas — the Yamaha PA, a Tascam 8-track, an Oberheim DX drum machine. From early on, she absorbed disparate influences through her boombox or the radio of her Volvo — Curtis Mayfield’s “The Makings of You,” Free’s “Lying in the Sunshine,” Billie Holiday’s “For All We Know.”

“There’s an aphorism that a junkie only gets high the first time and the rest of the time is just trying to relive that experience,” said Steve Albini, the era-defining alt-rock producer who engineered “Pod,” the Breeders’ 1990 debut. “And music is very much like that for Kim. The sensations that she has when she is animated by a piece of music enrich her so much that she will then go through whatever it takes to try to re-manifest that sensation.”

Launched with the imprimatur of an MTV “Buzz Bin” pick, lead single “Cannonball” helped “Last Splash” get classified as alternative rock. But the album defied definition by stretching into country (“Drivin’ on 9”), surf instrumentals (“Flipside”), no wave (“ROI”) and shoegaze. The latter was evoked in “No Aloha,” an echoing tragicomic ballad whose even-more-cryptic-than-usual lyrics ( No bye, no aloha/ gone with a rock promoter ) made fans ever more curious about Deal’s world. Was it about the Pixies? A boyfriend? Some industry sleaze? Deal still isn’t telling. She never explains her songs.

The album was packed with sonic experiments: The tape-splicing trick that warped the guitar riff on “New Year” into the sound of piano strings plucked from inside. The sewing machine pumped through a Marshall amp on “S.O.S.” Deal would sometimes listen to the daily session outtakes that Freegard sent home with her and return to the studio the next day asking if he could re-create the hiss of the cheap cassette tapes on the polished final version.

“If I listen to ‘Last Splash’ as a hi-fi experience, I’m kind of horrified,” said Freegard, who would go on to co-produce the album with Deal. “Kim was just like, ‘Mark, record it louder. I want it to distort.’ I think I put my head in my hands at the end going, ‘oh my God, this might be the end of my career.’ But in retrospect, it has this energy, this exuberance.”

T wo legends have always swirled around the Deal sisters. One is about Kelley and the drugs.

Outsiders were inclined to assume that life in the Breeders ruined Kim’s sister. That, removed from her button-down world as a technical analyst and thrust into the fast lane, an innocent Ohio gal careened into addiction. In fact, Kelley Deal was pushing the limits long before Lollapalooza. Their mom caught her sneaking cigarettes in high school and tried to punish her by forcing her to smoke an entire carton. (She shared a few of the Marlboro Reds with Kim.) In her work life at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, she ended up going to meetings in the same outfit two days in a row.

“I’d done ecstasy the night before and was up all night long, and one eye was going this way and the other was going that,” she recalled. “I was having all the same addiction and drug issues that everybody was. Lawyers and stockbrokers and Realtors and salespeople.”

“There’s an aphorism that a junkie only gets high the first time and the rest of the time is just trying to relive that experience and music is very much like that for Kim.” — Steve Albini, alt-rock producer who engineered the Breeders’ 1990 debut.

A little more than a year after “Last Splash,” Kelley Deal was at home in Dayton when she accepted four grams of heroin in an airmail package in November 1994. It was a controlled bust. As part of her plea, she agreed to go to the Hazelden drug treatment center in Minnesota. Nobody tried to hide the incident. In fact, the band mentioned it in an issue of their homemade Breeders Digest zine that was mailed out to fans.

Then there is the myth surrounding Kim, echoed in countless feature stories, books and blog posts. That she was a creative adventurer stifled during her time in the Pixies by an overbearing Thompson, marginalized like George Harrison in the Beatles.

To Deal, the theory is not just false, it’s insulting. It was Thompson’s band. She had no aspirations to take it over, and she always was free to leave if she wished. She didn’t need the Breeders to find liberation, and by 1993, the Pixies had run their course anyway.

“People liked my voice, and yes, they wanted to hear it more, so that’s nice,” she says. “But I don’t know how ‘I like your voice’ turns into ‘you’re trapped.’”

S o what happened to the Breeders?

Over pizza at Marion’s — a Dayton institution, where black-and-white head shots of visiting dignitaries like Cloris Leachman and Dom DeLuise line the walls — the band breaks it down.

After rehab, Kelley Deal landed at a halfway house in St. Paul, Minn. Meanwhile, Macpherson — who learned to mix his first daiquiri at 9 — found his hard-won sobriety challenged in the beer line at a Lollapalooza show.

“I called my wife, and I was like, ‘you know, I think I’m just going to drink a beer,’” he recalled. “She’s like, ‘uh, okay.’”

Wiggs exited for reasons they still debate. Deal remembers her asking for time off to live in New York with her then-partner, Luscious Jackson drummer Kate Schellenbach. Wiggs, however, assumed the entire band was taking a break after an exhausting two years on the road. She also didn’t want to be inside what felt like chaos.

With Wiggs and her sister absent, Deal kept writing and playing in the basement. Macpherson would come over and play drums, and those songs became material for a new band, christened the Amps. After relocating to Ireland to record what would be their first and only album, Macpherson’s drinking got serious. He had two separate accidents that required him to get stitches in the same Irish ER. Eventually, he and Deal had a fight, and he walked out. They wouldn’t speak for 15 years.

“I was also abusing drugs and drinking, so I didn’t pick up what he was going through,” said Deal. “I had no insight or perspective at all. Things were hard, that’s all. And then I came back, and I went downstairs, and his drums were gone.”

The Amps album, “Pacer,” flopped, and Freegard tried to work with Deal on a new Breeders album. The band, at this point, included both Deal sisters but not Wiggs or Macpherson. Deal rolled up nearly $250,000 in studio bills and still couldn’t finish. And with the collapse of her Amps side project, her own drinking accelerated.

“She was at the mixing board with the bass in her hand going through incredibly repetitive takes of the same riff on and on and on,” recalled Robin Hurley, head of U.S. operations for record label 4AD. “And she’d be sitting there for hours on end. I’d go home, go to bed at the hotel, come back in the morning, and I’m sure things had changed but it almost looked like nothing had changed since I left.”

To term the end of the Breeders as an explosion or implosion would be wrong, the Deal sisters now say, just as it would be to try to blame anyone in particular.

“It was always just the lack of a return phone call or a nice conversation saying, ‘well, I think I’ll just skip this one,'” said Kelley Deal. “I think if there had been an implosion or something, that would probably have been healthier almost.”

T he inspiration for the Breeders reunion is easier to trace.

In 2004, the Pixies famously began touring again, as their old cult following began to hit the kind of critical mass that could nudge them past their old acrimony. “I just laugh all the way to the bank,” Thompson told The Post in 2004.

Deal joined the tour, which for nine years grossed tens of millions playing to the kinds of packed arenas they couldn’t have imagined in the 1980s. Eventually, though, she had enough. She won’t go into detail about it other than to say she felt uncomfortable with the Pixies’ decision to record new music.

In the meantime, she and her sister had toured under the Breeders name and put out two records, in 2002 and 2008, without Wiggs and Macpherson. Kelley Deal, who stopped drinking in 1995, relapsed with opioids but has been clean since 2010. She said she has never been happier.

“Because of being in recovery,” she said. “Without it, I would not be alive because of fentanyl. I would actually be a dead person.”

In 2012, with the 20th anniversary of “Last Splash” approaching, Kelley told her sister they should do something with the old lineup. Kim told her she would have to be the one to ask Macpherson if he would join. Without question, he said.

Kim texted Wiggs. She also agreed. The Breeders toured again and eventually, in 2018, released “All Nerve,” the first album of original songs featuring the four of them since “Last Splash.”

This time — understanding, as many bands before them, that there is a thirst for their greatest work — they’re turning back the clock.

On the tour that continues into the fall, they play all 14 of the album’s songs. And “Last Splash,” remixed from a tape unearthed in the archives at Warner Music Group, will be reissued on Sept. 22, with a bonus track, “Go Man Go,” that was cut from the roster at the last minute in 1993, as well as a version of “Divine Hammer” sung by Dinosaur Jr.’s J. Mascis. Olivia Rodrigo, the new pop superstar who was born a decade after “Last Splash,” announced Wednesday that the Breeders will open for her at Madison Square Garden in New York and the Forum in Los Angeles next year.

Dayton remains home for the sisters and for Macpherson, whose regular job these days is as a carpenter. They rehearse in the same basement as always, in a house Deal bought in 1990 with Pixies money, surrounded by the guitar pedals and the instruments — Kim’s Les Paul, Kelley’s Strat, Macpherson’s maple Gretsch kit — that they used on “Last Splash.”

During rehearsal breaks, Wiggs tapped away on a laptop for something else making a comeback: the Breeders Digest. Would anyone even know what a zine was anymore? Their last issue was released 28 years ago. But why not?

“How many bands get to do this?” said Macpherson. “Kim looked at me just recently, and she goes, ‘This just does not happen to every album, to every band. It’s something special.’”

An earlier version of this article misidentified Robin Hurley, the former head of U.S. operations for the record label 4AD, as Robert Hurley. The article has been corrected.

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Having recently celebrated 30 years since the release of their seminal album ‘Last Splash’, ’90s icons The Breeders have now shared details of a forthcoming tour of the UK and Europe - their first gigs across the pond since 2018.

Kicking off at the end of June in Leeds, the run of dates will see the band hit 12 cities and festivals across the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal, with punk now-duo Big Joanie joining them for select shows.

The tour comes sandwiched between The Breeders’ huge US shows with Olivia Rodrigo , and the band have marked the announcement by releasing an animated short for their Guided By Voices cover ‘Shocker In Gloomtown’. You can check out the new visualiser and find The Breeders’ full schedule of upcoming live dates below.

APRIL 2024 05 New York, NY, Madison Square Garden^ 06 New York, NY, Madison Square Garden^ 08 New York, NY, Madison Square Garden^ 09 New York, NY, Madison Square Garden^

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Cultural life of Moscow city is various and rich! Operas, ballets, symphonic concerts... Russian composers have created some of the most beautiful classical music. Russian classical music is very popular in Moscow. It is performed in many beautiful historical venues. Do not forget to include a visit to a concert hall in your itinerary when you are planning your stay in Moscow! And do it in advance.

There are almost no restrictions on dress code in Russian theatres. Visitors may wear jeans and sports shoes, they may have a backpack with them. Only shorts are not allowed.

A typical feature of Russian theatre – visitors are bringing a lot of flowers which they present to their favorite performers after the show.

Here are some practical advices where to go and how to buy tickets.

The Bolshoi Theatre

The Bolshoi Theatre is the oldest, the most famous and popular opera and ballet theatre in Russia. The word “Bolshoi” means “big” in Russian. You can buy a ticket online in advance, 2-3 months before the date of performance on the official website . Prices for famous ballets are high: 6-8 thousand rubles for a seat in stalls. Tickets to operas are cheaper: you can get a good seat for 4-5 thousand rubles. Tickets are cheaper for daytime performances and performances on the New Stage. The New Stage is situated in the light-green building to the left of the Bolshoi's main building. The quality of operas and ballets shown on the New Stage is excellent too. However, you should pay attention that many seats of the Bolshoi’s Old and New Stages have limited visibility . If you want to see the Bolshoi’s Old Stage but all tickets are sold out, you can order a tour of the theatre. You can book such a tour on the official website.

If you want, following Russian tradition, to give flowers to the performers at the end of the show, in the Bolshoi flowers should be presented via special staff who collects these flowers in advance.

In August the Bolshoi is closed.

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre

This theatre is noteworthy. On one hand, it offers brilliant classical opera and ballet performances. On the other hand, it is an experimental venue for modern artists. You can check the program and buy tickets online here http://stanmus.com/ . If you are opera lover, get a ticket to see superstar Hibla Gerzmava . The theatre has a very beautiful historic building and a stage with a good view from every seat. Tickets are twice cheaper than in the Bolshoi.

The Novaya Opera

“Novaya” means “New” in Russian. This opera house was founded in 1991 by a famous conductor Eugene Kolobov. Its repertoire has several directions: Russian and Western classics, original shows and divertissements, and operas of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is very popular with Muscovites for excellent quality of performances, a comfortable hall, a beautiful Art Nouveau building and a historic park Hermitage, which is situated right next to it. You can buy tickets online here http://www.novayaopera.ru/en .

Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center

The Opera Center has become one of the best theatrical venues in Moscow. It was founded in 2002 by great diva Galina Vishnevskaya. Nowadays its artistic director is Olga Rostropovich, daughter of Galina Vishnevskaya and her husband Mstislav Rostropovich, great cellist and conductor. Not only best young opera singers perform here, but also world music stars do; chamber and symphonic concerts, theatrical productions and musical festivals take place here. You can see what is on the program here http://opera-centre.ru/theatre . Unfortunately “booking tickets online” is available in Russian only. If you need help, you can contact us at and we can book a ticket for you. 

Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and The Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory

These are two major concert halls for symphonic music in Moscow. Both feature excellent acoustics, impressive interior, various repertoire and best performers. You can check the program here http://meloman.ru/calendar/ . You need just to switch to English. Booking tickets online is available only for owners of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian phone numbers. If you need help, you can contact us and we can book a ticket for you. 

Moscow International Performing Arts Center (MIPAC)

This modern and elegant concert hall houses performances of national and foreign symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, solo instrumentalists, opera singers, ballet dancers, theatre companies, jazz bands, variety and traditional ensembles. Actually, it has three concert halls placed on three different levels and having separate entrances. The President of MIPAC is People’s Artist of the USSR Vladimir Spivakov, conductor of “Virtuosy Moskvy” orchestra. You can see pictures of the concert halls here http://www.mmdm.ru/en/content/halls . The program is impressive in its variety but is not translated into English. You can contact us at and we can find a performance for you.

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