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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 mark 30th anniversary of “Last Splash” with new reissue, tour — hear an unreleased song

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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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 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 Announce Reissue of ‘Last Splash’ on Top of North American Tour

by Jon Mendelsohn June 27, 2023, 1:32 pm

The Breeders have just announced that they are releasing a 30th-anniversary reissue of their hit album, Last Splash . Last Splash was originally released on August 31, 1993, and received universal acclaim. The Breeders previously released an LSXX reissue of Last Splash in 2013, and also had the album re-pressed on vinyl in 2018.

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The latest reissue of Last Splash will be released on September 22 via  4AD . In addition to receiving a remaster, the reissue of Last Splash will also feature two previously archived songs, including “ Go Man Go .” In honor of the reissue of Last Splash , The Breeders will be embarking on a North American tour beginning in August.

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The tour will start with a show at the Knitting Factory in Boise, Idaho on August 3. The tour currently has scheduled dates that span as far as October 25. The Breeders will be accompanied on their tour by popular artists such as Foo Fighters  Horsegirl, Screaming Females, and Belly.

The band recently played a set at this year’s Coachella Festival. Their most recent album was 2018’s All Nerve , which is the band’s fifth studio album and their first in 10 years. It received universal acclaim at the time of release and featured Courtney Barnett on the song, “Howl at the Summit.”

Check out the official line-up for The Breeders’ upcoming North American tour below:

08-03 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory 04-08 Spokane, WA – Spokane Arena * 08-06 Big Sky, MT – Wildlands Festival 08-08 West Valley City UT – USANA Amphitheatre * 08-10 Stateline, NV – Lake Tahae 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 Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring % 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 #

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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.

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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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American indie rock band The Breeders 1993 album Last Splash is being reissued for its 30th anniversary. The album features the alt-rock classic ‘Cannonball’, reached the top 10 in the UK and was certified platinum in America.

The headline news for this reissue is that it is from the original analogue tapes which were thought to have been lost but have now been discovered (deep in Warner’s vaults). These half-inch tapes consisted of final mixes, but were un-sequenced and unmastered. There were transferred to digital before cutting to vinyl. This is due to the album being recorded over many months at several different locations and the tapes having different line up standards. Everything was mixed to 1/2” but, as Miles Showell confirmed to SDE, some of the tracks were recorded at 15 IPS (speed, rated in inches-per-second) while the majority were done at 30 IPS. Add to that the fact that some tracks were Dolby SR encoded and some were not, this mix of standards would have made it impossible to work on while keeping the signal path AAA.

One bonus is that the tape discovery brought to light two unreleased tracks from the 1993 Last Splash recording sessions: ‘Go Man Go’, a track that Kim co-wrote with Black Francis, and ‘Divine Mascis’, a version of ‘Divine Hammer’ with lead vocals provided courtesy of Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis.

This 30th anniversary ‘Original Analog Edition’ of Last Splash is being issued as a 2LP set. A bonus one-sided 12-inch offers the two newly discovered tracks (the other side is etched) meaning this is a three record set . Artwork sees the original, iconic sleeve design by the late designer Vaughan Oliver reimagined by his long-time design partner Chris Bigg.

CD fans can delight in a one-time pressing Japanese replica version of this release which is available at non-import prices. The sleeve is being printed by Ichikudo in Tokyo and will come with an obi strip, lyric booklet and includes the two bonus tracks from the vinyl version.

Last Splash is reissued on 22 September 2023, via 4AD.

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• New Year (2023 Remaster)1:55
• Cannonball (2023 Remaster)3:33
• Invisible Man (2023 Remaster)2:47
• No Aloha (2023 Remaster)2:06
• Roi (2023 Remaster)4:11
• Do You Love Me Now? (2023 Remaster)3:01
• Flipside (2023 Remaster)1:59
• I Just Wanna Get Along (2023 Remaster)1:44
• Mad Lucas (2023 Remaster)4:36
• Divine Hammer (2023 Remaster)2:37
• S.O.S. (2023 Remaster)1:34
• Hag (2023 Remaster)2:55
• Saints (2023 Remaster)2:31
• Drivin’ on 9 (2023 Remaster)3:21
• Roi (reprise) (2023 Remaster)0:44
• Go Man Go2:16
• Divine Mascis2:58

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Music Review: With reissue of ‘Last Splash,’ The Breeders make waves 30 years later

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The Breeders are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their second studio album with the release of “Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition),” out Friday on 4AD.

The re-release won’t rewrite the history of the ‘90s alt-rock band, but it surfaces new curiosities from the vault, and it delivers plenty of opportunities for discovery within the landmark album’s songs and lyrics.

In 1990, Pixies bassist Kim Deal launched The Breeders as a side project to explore an independent creative direction. Their first album, “Pod,” was famously a favorite of Kurt Cobain . Three years later, Deal essentially shuffled the lineup, keeping bassist/cellist Josephine Wiggs and adding twin sister and guitarist Kelly Deal and drummer Jim MacPherson, and recorded “Last Splash.”

The Breeder’s unique blend of angular, sledgehammer instrumental and dreamy harmonies had more in common with bands such as The Kinks and early, live Go-Go’s performances than it did with the Pixies or any of their ‘90s contemporaries. And the band has proven too quirky to become a classic-rock staple. Perhaps, as a result, they still sound fresh three decades later.

The two new songs on the analog edition are welcome additions to the catalog.

“Go Man Go,” co-written with Frank Black from the Pixies, fits in just fine on the album, delivering a classic Breeders blend of punchy guitars and sweet harmonies. Nobody is going to mind an extra 2:16 runtime on “Last Splash.”

The second new track, “Divine Mascis,” features Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis on vocals in an alternate take on the Breeders’ “Divine Hammer.”

After the Pixies years, Kim Deal was no stranger to eccentric vocalists, and the Breeders play it loose and swingy as Mascis groans the lines like Eeyore. His presence brings a whole new chemistry, but it works, and it is not too hard to imagine a parallel universe with Mascis in the lineup.

The impact of the remaster on the original “Last Splash” songs merits a close listen. The Breeders were never really an audiophile’s band. But this analog edition doesn’t try to clean them up – it instead doubles-down on their gritty side. Wiggs and Macpherson emerge from the background with a rhythm section as gritty as early Led Zeppelin , and the Deal twins’ harmonies soar.

The mid-album stretch best highlights the band’s high-wire act between oddball experimentation and pop sensibility. The remaster isolates the slide guitar on “No Aloha” and the shaky cello on “Roi” to make the songs more expansive. And the vocals on “Do You Love Me Now” soar, starting sweet and sad and growing in implied menace as the song builds.

The lyrics booklet is a hidden gem within the box set. The lines are typeset in concrete-poetry style, using various typefaces and styles. The treatment pays proper tribute to Kim Deal’s vivid, cryptic writing, in lyrics like: “I’ll be your whatever you want;” “Count the bubbles in your hand;” “Saw it on the wall, motherhood means mental freeze;” “Hag! Coastal cut throat! You dirty switch.” The booklet is a terrific read, even with the volume turned down.

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

By William Goodman

William Goodman

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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What happened to the Breeders?

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.

DAYTON, Ohio

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.

AhhOOOOOwah! AhhOOOOOwah!

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.

Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition)

The Breeders

17 SONGS • 44 MINUTES • AUG 30 1993

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With their volatile mix of hooky pop and experimental tangents, the Breeders shaped the early-'90s alternative rock revolution and have forged a resolutely independent path ever since. The band started as a way for Pixies' Kim Deal and Throwing Muses' Tanya Donelly to let out some suppressed creative energy, and those bands' shifting dynamics and warped pop sensibilities could be heard within the Breeders' 1990 debut album Pod. However, it was 1993's platinum-selling Last Splash -- and its smash hit single "Cannonball" -- that brought the band's mischievously sexy style to a wider audience while drawing on country, surf, and reggae influences. Their later albums, such as 2008's Mountain Battles, were more stripped down but just as unpredictable. When the reunited Last Splash lineup returned with 2018's tough yet vulnerable All Nerve, the Breeders' enduring influence was apparent in the work of artists like Courtney Barnett, Speedy Ortiz, and Lucy Dacus.

When Pixies bassist Deal and Throwing Muses guitarist Donelly became friends during their bands' 1988 European tour, they pledged to make music together. Initially inspired by the Sugarcubes, they tried their hand at making their own version of dance-pop, recording a version of Rufus and Chaka Khan's "Tell Me Something Good" and the Donelly original "Rise." In 1989, they worked with Ed's Redeeming Qualities violinist/vocalist Carrie Bradley and bassist Ray Holiday -- for this project, Deal switched to guitar as it was easier to play while singing -- on a set of country-tinged demos.

After hearing the songs, Pixies and Throwing Muses' label 4AD greenlit an album from the group, which was dubbed the Breeders after an LGBT slang term for straight people; Deal previously used this name for the music project she had with her twin sister Kelley when they were teenagers. Deal and Donelly brought in Perfect Disaster's Josephine Wiggs as bassist, and when Kelley couldn't get enough time away from her job to become the band's drummer, Slint's Britt Walford joined the fold under the pseudonym Shannon Doughton. The Breeders recorded their debut album at Edinburgh, Scotland's Palladium studio in January 1990 while Deal's Pixies bandmates were starting work on Bossanova in Los Angeles (she joined them in the studio that February). Engineered by Surfer Rosa collaborator Steve Albini, Pod arrived in May 1990. The album peaked at 22 on the U.K. Albums chart and won praise from critics and artists including Nirvana's Kurt Cobain for its roomy, lively sound and unconventional songwriting.

Though Deal and Donelly recorded demos for the Breeders' second album following Pod's release, Donelly departed in 1991 to form her own band Belly. Walford left around the same time, but he and Donelly both contributed to the Breeders' next release, April 1992's muscular yet melodic Safari EP. The EP also marked the debut of Kelley Deal as the band's second guitarist, and was their only release to feature both her and Donelly. Later that year, the Breeders drafted drummer Jim MacPherson and played their first high-profile gigs in 1992, opening for Nirvana on their European tour.

As the band worked on its second album in the beginning of 1993, Pixies disbanded, leaving Kim Deal able to pursue the Breeders full-time. Produced by Deal and co-produced by Mark Freegard, August 1993's Last Splash added some pop gloss to the band's sound but also incorporated touches of reggae, grunge, country, and surf as well as noisy experiments. Driven by the success of the sonic collage "Cannonball," an Alternative Airplay number two hit that also charted in several other countries, Last Splash catapulted the group into stardom. The album was certified platinum in the U.S., silver in the U.K., and gold in Canada, Australia, and France and spawned two other charting singles, "Divine Hammer" and "Saints." The Breeders rounded out the year by joining Nirvana on the In Utero tour and lending a live version of Pod's "Iris" to the Red Hot Organization's AIDS benefit compilation No Alternative.

In 1994, the Breeders had a prime spot on 1994's Lollapalooza tour and released the J Mascis-produced Head to Toe EP, which featured covers of Sebadoh's "Freed Pig" and Guided by Voices' "Shocker in Gloomtown" along with originals from the band.

Just as quickly as success hit the band, the Breeders went on a sudden hiatus, partly due to exhaustion from the rapid nature of their fame and from their extensive touring. Late in 1994, Kelley was arrested for drug possession and went to a rehab clinic in Minnesota; the rest of the bandmembers went their separate ways while she recuperated. Wiggs played with musicians around New York, ultimately forming the Josephine Wiggs Experience with them; Kim returned to Dayton with MacPherson, learned how to play the drums, and continued writing songs. By early 1995, Kim had an album's worth of new material ready to record. Though she considered recording them on her own, Deal decided to assemble a backing band of MacPherson and other Dayton-area musicians, including Nathan Farley and Luis Lerma of the Tasties. Not surprisingly, the Amps -- originally called Tammy & the Amps -- sounded like a rougher, lo-fi version of the Breeders; their gigs and their 1995 album Pacer emphasized the loose, charming spontaneity of Deal's style.

Though the Breeders' break was supposed to be temporary, it lasted several years. Along with her time in the Josephine Wiggs Experience, Wiggs later formed Dusty Trails with Luscious Jackson's Vivian Trimble and co-produced Klassics with a "K" by the Kostars, another Luscious Jackson side project. After Kelley completed her rehab, she formed her own solo project, the Kelley Deal 6000. She toured and released an album with this group, 1996's Go to the Sugar Altar.

That year, Kim reclaimed the Breeders name and played some California dates with the band, which featured members of the Amps and Bradley. In 1997, the Breeders played the Tim Taylor Memorial Benefit Concert -- in honor of Brainiac's singer/keyboardist, who had been killed in a car accident earlier that year -- with that group's drummer Tyler Trent replacing MacPherson (the latter went on to play with Guided by Voices). Later that year, Deal went into the studio in one of many frustrated attempts to make the third Breeders album. However, the group's low profile didn't mean that it didn't have any hits; a sample from "Cannonball" used in the Prodigy's worldwide smash "Firestarter" earned Kim songwriting credits and royalties. By early 1998, Kelley had rejoined the band and the duo continued to write and record songs, contributing a cover of the Three Degrees' "Collage" that appeared on the soundtrack to the big-screen adaptation of The Mod Squad.

In 1999, Kim and Kelley spent time in the studio with Steve Albini, and in 2000, the Breeders played their first gig in over three years (and Kim's first show with Kelley in over six) at a free, secret show in Los Angeles. This version of the band featured bassist Mando Lopez and guitarist Richard Presley (both formerly of Fear), and drummer Jose Medeles backing the Deal sisters. The group reconvened in the studio with Albini in 2001, completing an album's worth of songs. The Breeders began a flurry of activity in 2002, including the release of the Off You and Huffer singles and their long-awaited third album, Title TK, that May. A rawer-sounding effort than Last Splash that put the Deals' harmonies at the forefront, the album reached 51 on the U.K. Albums chart and 130 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart in the U.S. That year, the Breeders appeared on an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and in 2003, they covered "Wicked Little Town: Hedwig Version" for the Hedwig and the Angry Inch tribute album Wig in a Box.

In 2004, Kim Deal joined Pixies on their North America and Europe reunion tours, with Kelley accompanying her on the road to work on Breeders songs. The songwriting process extended into 2007, and the group -- which comprised the Deal sisters, Lopez, and Medeles -- worked with several engineers, including Albini, to record their next album. Appearing in April 2008, Mountain Battles continued Title TK's minimalist rock; it peaked at 46 in the U.K. and at number 12 on the Independent Albums chart in the U.S. While touring the U.K. in late 2008, the Breeders recorded some songs written after Mountain Battles' release at London's Fortress Studios and continued sessions at Albini's Electrical Audio studio and in Kim Deal's basement studio. Released in April 2009, the Fate to Fatal EP featured a cover of Bob Marley's "Chances Are" and guest vocals from Mark Lanegan. Later in the year, the band curated the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England. The following September, they played the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival again, this time in Monticello, New York. In 2013, the band celebrated the 20th anniversary of Last Splash with a deluxe reissue that included singles, B-sides, demos, and live performances. Kim and Kelley Deal also reunited with Wiggs and MacPherson for a tour where the band performed Last Splash in its entirety.

Following the tour's success, the band began work on their fifth album. The Breeders recorded with longtime producer Albini at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, as well as with Mike Montgomery at Kentucky's Candyland Recording Studio and with Tom Rastikis at Ohio's Fernwood Studios. In October 2017, the band delivered its first new music in eight years with "Wait in the Car," the lead single from All Nerve. Featuring backing vocals by Courtney Barnett, the album was released in March 2018, nearly 25 years after Last Splash. All Nerve peaked at 79 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart in the U.S., cracked the Top Ten in the U.K., and charted throughout Europe.

The members of the Breeders began the 2020s spending time on their individual projects. Kim wrote a solo album; Kelly worked with R. Ring and Protomartyr; MacPherson played with the surf band the Mulchmen, and Wiggs collaborated with drummer Jon Mattock. In 2021, they reconvened to contribute a version of His Name Is Alive's "The Dirt Eaters" to the 4AD compilation Bills and Aches and Blues. Two years later, the Breeders hit the road to commemorate Last Splash's 30th anniversary with dates at Coachella and Riot Fest as well as with the Foo Fighters, Belly, and Horsegirl. September 2023 saw the release of a Last Splash reissue that was remastered from the original analog tapes and included two previously unreleased songs from the album's sessions: "Go Man Go," which was co-written by Pixies' Black Francis, and "Divine Mascis," a version of "Divine Hammer" with J Mascis on lead vocals. ~ Heather Phares & Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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The Breeders line up 2024 UK and European tour dates

They’ll be kim deal and co.’s first live shows on the continent in six years..

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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^

JUNE 2024 24 Leeds, O2 Academy Leeds+ 25 London, Troxy+ 26 Manchester, Albert Hall+ 28 Nottingham, Rock City+ 30 Bristol, Bristol Sounds

JULY 2024 02 Amsterdam, Paradiso 03, Cologne, Live Music Hall+ 04 Berlin, Festsaal Kreuzberg+ 06 Belfort, Les Eurockéennes 07 Werchter, Rock Werchter 09 Paris, La Cigale 11 Barcelona, Razzmatazz 12 Madrid, Mad Cool Festival 13 Lisbon, NOS Alive

AUGUST 2024 13 Los Angeles, CA, The Forum ^ 14 Los Angeles, CA, The Forum ^ 16 Los Angeles, CA, The Forum ^ 17 Los Angeles, CA, The Forum ^

^ with Olivia Rodrigo + with Big Joanie

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• Jul 2 Paradiso Grote Zaal Amsterdam, Netherlands
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I t's a theater-heavy weekend, with four local troupes presenting a wide array of productions. In addition to staged readings from Wild Women Writing and Stage Right Theatrics, Shadowbox Live will pay homage to rock legends Queen and Led Zeppelin, while Short North Stage showcases the music of Stephen Sondheim.

Speaking of tributes, Judy Garland will be saluted by the New Albany Symphony Orchestra with vocalist Joan Ellison, who will also perform a famous Judy Garland-Liza Minnelli duet with New Albany High School alum Lorelei Roeger.

Also this weekend, a smorgasbord of the strange is headed to the Franklin County Fairgrounds. The family-friendly Mystics and Marvels will offer two days of fantasy and spectacle, sideshow fun, costumed vendors, a firebreather, live music and more.

These are just a few things you can do for fun this weekend in Columbus; read more about them and other events below. If you'd like to receive these ideas in your inbox each week, sign up for the  Life in the 614 newsletter .

SBX will rock you with 'Thunder & Lightning'

Two of rock’s most iconic bands will be saluted when Shadowbox Live (SBX) reprises the popular “Thunder & Lightning: The Music of Queen and Led Zeppelin” for an extended run at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The tribute, which debuted in 2019, is presented in collaboration with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra , who will share the stage at select shows. Performances at Shadowbox Live, 503 S. Front St., Suite 260, will take place on Thursdays and Sundays through Oct. 1. Beginning Oct. 5, performances will be Thursdays-Sundays through Nov. 12. Tickets, which are sold by the table, range from $40-$240. ( shadowboxlive.org ) 

The Breeders to make 'splash' at Kemba Live

Fresh from an appearance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Dayton-spawned alternative rockers The Breeders will play Kemba Live, 405 Neil Ave., on Friday. Doors open at 7 p.m. The band – Daytonians Kim Deal, Kelley Deal and Jim Macpherson, and Brit bass player Josephine Wiggs – is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its popular platinum album, “Last Splash,” ranked number 293 in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . In addition to the worldwide hit “Cannonball,” the Breeders’ many accomplishments include appearing on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and recording a song, “Collage” for the soundtrack of 1999’s “The Mod Squad.” Chicago rock trio Horsegirl will open. General admission is $35 in advance, $40 day of show. Platinum seating is $85. ( promowestlive.com ) 

Short North Stage to salute Stephen Sondheim

In a unique multimedia presentation, Short North Stage will give audiences a glimpse into the life and creative process of the Father of the Modern Musical, Stephen Sondheim. Staged concert-style, “Sondheim on Sondheim” will be performed on the Garden Theatre MainStage at 1187 N. High St. The revealing, funny and affectionate production features exclusive interview footage, two dozen of Sondheim’s beloved compositions and new arrangements by David Loud. Performances will be at 7 p.m. Friday-Sunday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $95.25, which includes a lightly catered reception after each show. ( shortnorthstage.org ) 

Local woman's story to take the stage

The true story of a Columbus woman who befriends the young man who brutally attacked her will launch Stage Right Theatrics’ staged reading series, “Preambles.” Performed by local actors, the reading of “A Crime of Forgiveness,” will take place at Staged 270, 1115 Worthington Woods Blvd., 7 p.m. Friday. The play is written by Lynette Grace, who was stabbed in 1991 by then-16-year-old Johnny Bell, who also killed his mother in the attack. After he is tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison, Grace, seeking answers, paid him a visit during which Bell asked for forgiveness. "I cannot do anything less for him than the second chance at life that was given to me," Grace said in the telling of her story for The Forgiveness Project . Admission is free. ( stagert.org ) 

Concert to spotlight songs of Judy Garland

A hit parade of standards like “The Trolley Song,” "Stormy Weather," "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and others are lined up for "Get Happy! A Judy Garland Celebration." The program will feature vocalist Joan Ellison with the New Albany Symphony Orchestra at the Hinson Amphitheater, 170 E. Dublin Granville Road, New Albany, at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Ellison also will perform with recent New Albany High School grad Lorelei Roeger on a duet of "Together," popularized by Garland and daughter Liza Minnelli. Gates will open at 6:30 p.m. for picnicking. Wine and beer will be sold, and patrons may bring food and non-alcoholic beverages. General admission (lawn) tickets are $35, and $30 for students and seniors. Reserved individual table seats start at $55; tables for eight are $500. ( newalbanysymphony.com ) 

'New Era' exhibit to open with public reception

Artist Michael Kennedy, a seventh-generation member of one of Granville’s founding families, will open his exhibition, “New Era,” with a free, public reception at the Old Academy Building, 103 W. Elm St., Granville, from 5-8 p.m. Friday. The 30 paintings — acrylic on canvas, with some also integrating other media like charcoal, oil pastels and pencil — will be on display from 2-4 p.m. Fridays-Sundays this weekend through Oct. 8. A percentage of sales of Kennedy’s work will go toward supporting the Granville Historical Society. ( granvillehistory.org ) 

Sensory-friendly concert series to begin

The New Albany Symphony Orchestra will offer the sensory-friendly "Over the Rainbow" at the McCoy Center for the Arts, 100 E. Dublin-Granville Road, New Albany, at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. The hour-long concert will feature tunes like "I Got Rhythm," "Begin the Beguine" and, of course, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." All are welcome to attend but the concert is specifically designed for those on the autism spectrum, young families needing a relaxed concert environment, and those in the dementia and Alzheimer’s communities. Patrons are free to talk and walk around, and “chill-out” zones will be available in the lobby for those needing a break. A limited number of free tickets (four per family) are available by entering the promo code SMILE2324 online. Additional tickets are $10. ( newalbanysymphony.com ) 

Family-friendly faire to feature the fantastical

Fantasy and fun are in store at Mystics and Marvels, billed as a “faire of unusual things,” taking place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Franklin County Fairgrounds, 4100 Columbia St., Hilliard. The weekend’s spectacles will include live music, demonstrations and performances, as well as vendors in pirate, steampunk and other garb selling rocks and crystals, vintage items, herbal products and more. There also will be selfie areas with photo-worthy settings like a pirate ship and live wolves. Visitors are welcome to attend in costume. Admission is $10, with children in strollers admitted for free. The faire is presented by the promoters of Angels & Aliens and the Gift of Light Expos, a Worthington-based group. ( mysticsandmarvels.com ) 

'Hope is a Bird' to take wing at premiere

A professor and student set off in pursuit of an ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct, in Wild Women Writing’s world premiere of Canadian playwright Dave Carley's "Hope is a Bird." The staged reading, set in the Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Georgia, will be performed at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St. Carley, whose works have been performed around the world, will participate in a talkback after the performance, which is free. It is also a free day at the museum, so come early, grab a seat and visit the exhibits. (614-457-6580, [email protected] ) 

Pet-centric fun to be unleashed at new fest

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