Ben Lee continually finds interesting projects to keep himself busy. Last year that meant cohosting a star-studded panel with Lena Dunham in which the pair psychoanalyzed Oasis’ Liam and Noel Gallagher. Before that, the Australian musician released an album with How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor under the name Radnor & Lee. Before ...

Alvvays have been playing a ton of covers at their recent shows. In their hometown of Toronto, they covered Devo and last October they covered the Hummingbirds’ 1987 single "Alimony" with Snail Mail and Hatchie in Brooklyn. Last night, the band headlined the SummerStage in Central Park, playing a set that included a cover of The Breeders�...

As The Breeders release their fifth album, frontwoman and estranged Pixies bassist Kim Deal talks Kevin EG Perry through her rock’n’roll lifeKim Deal1. Joining Pixies (because they made her laugh) In January 1986, a week after moving to Boston from Dayton, Ohio, Kim spotted an ad in the Boston Phoenix placed by future Pixies bandmates Charle...

Back in March, the Breeders released their first album in 10 years, All Nerve, and it was the first time that the lineup of Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson recorded an album together since 1993's Last Splash. Last week, they released a music video for "Spacewoman" off of it -- the…

Courtney Barnett and the Breeders have some history together. Obviously, the heavier guitar-rock side of Barnett's sound shares more than a little DNA with what the alt-rock legends were doing in the '90s, and she covered the Breeders' iconic hit "Cannonball" in 2014 and appeared on the Talkhouse's podcast with Kim Deal the following year.