The Breeders hit Seattle on their reunion tour April 13. Tickets aren’t sold out—yet. MARISA GESUALDI
All Nerve, the excellent new album from reunited 1990s rock heroes the Breeders, might never have happened if it depended entirely on Kim Deal reaching out to Jim Macpherson.
“In ’97, we get back from the tour, I go downstairs one day, and all of his drums are out of my basement,” Deal says in a phone interview from Dayton, Ohio. “We were drinking a lot during that tour, and I thought, ‘What did I say to him?'”
Bandmates for five years prior, Deal and Macpherson were keys to one of the alt-rock revolution’s biggest success stories: the Breeders’ platinum-selling 1993 album Last Splash.