How times change. 20 years ago, Frank Black broke up the Pixies, informing the rest of his band that they were done via fax. Of course, the Pixies reassembled as a hard-touring on-and-off unit in 2004. But now Kim Deal, who recently reunited the Last Splash lineup of her post-Pixies band the Breeders, has quit [...]

When the Breeders started, they were a side project for two great college-rock supporting players: Pixies’ Kim Deal and Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly. Donelly was out of the picture, ascending to alt-pop stardom with her own band Belly, by the time the Breeders got around to releasing their classic 1993 sophomore album Last S...

Band take a break from their 'Last Splash' anniversary tour to appear on US TV show    

Kim and Kelley Deal are touring with their reconstituted Last Splash lineup to celebrate the 20th Anniversary (and reissue) of that album. It’s a stone-cold classic, and seeing Kim “Ah-wooo-ooo” to applause into a styrofoam cup-distorted mic here on Fallon two decades after “Cannonball” first swe...

For most of the nineties, The Breeders’ “Cannonball” seemed inescapable on my hometown radio station, WHFS 99.1, in Annapolis, Maryland. Since “Cannonball” announces itself with Kim Deal’s distorted “Ahoooooa,” it was a DJ favorite and allowed for some creative presentation: Straight out of commercial break–“Cannonbal...