The Breeders are back. Mind you, Kim Deal’s Pixies-side-project-turned-alt-rock-powerhouse never really went away, releasing Title TK in 2002 and Mountain Battles in 2008. But those albums were recorded by Deal and her sister Kelley and other perfectly capable and creative musicians who are not bassist Josephine Wiggs and drummer Jim Macpherson, the rhythm section that anchored the band’s 1993 breakthrough, Last Splash.
Five years ago, the Deal sisters, Wiggs, and Macpherson reunited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Last Splash with a tour, and they haven’t stopped working together since. The Dayton, Ohio, quartet wrote and recorded the Breeders’ fifth album, All Nerve, which came out in March, and on Friday, April 13, their US tour will bring them to Showbox Sodo. Read my article on the Breeders here. Below, read the full version of my wide-ranging interview with Kim Deal.