There doesn't seem to be any middle ground on this one. Some absolutely love it, some detest it. I like the minimalist take but the vocal seems too cool/detached.Pod was the debut of The Breeders. Kim Deal (of the Pixies) and Tanya Donnelly (of Throwing Muses) were feeling somewhat stifled in their respective bands and wanted to branch out. They formed the Breeders almost as a goof but soon di...
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It started off with one song and ended with a four track EP named for it. The Breeders, the baby of Pixies bassist Kim Deal and twin sis Kelley, recorded "Fate and Fatal" at Fortress studios in London. It didn't stop there. They eventually took the project to Kim's basement where she also invited Screaming Trees/Queens of the Stone Age/Gutter Twins guitarist/vocalist Mark Lanegan over for a sin...
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Wow, I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since the start of Coachella. I was planning to do separate posts about the other great performances I felt were worthy to mention(& hadn't been mentioned much by others of the Coachella crew w/me) but decided to incorporate them into two posts. You're probably sick of hearing about it by now,oh well,too bad, heh.First up, The Breeders were incredibly fun ...
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"It's SO not fair!" @=P This song by The Breeders I automatically call 'At The Fair' since that's the chorus in it. In fact when I went to look for it on the album I forgot it was called 'Saints'! Great little rocker of a song. The Breeders were so much fun live when I saw them at Coachella earlier this year too. I WUV them! I was inspired by Sam The Artist's post here about going to the fair ...
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Steve Albini produced this low key acoustic cover of Bob Marley's Chances Are by Kim Deal and The Breeders. Listen to the way her vocal sounds so delicate slightly lifting towards those high notes with his sister Kelley singing harmony. Beautiful.
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2:57 mins.Diggin' the new The Breeders(leaked)album(to be released 3/28 in the UK, probably the 29th in the US). It's quite good & some really interesting songs on it. The uploaded song is a really sparse one. I think it's a tribute to the They Might Be Giants' remake "Istanbul(Not Constantinople)". Or maybe it's a tribute to The Four Lads original. Maybe it's a tribute to both. It's a fascina...
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Before the music industry's own personal credit crunch - caused, to varying degrees, by the ascent of the MP3, overpriced albums and the failing, ephemeral, television-created popstar - a good way for people to discover new bands (especially before the internet existed), was by record labels issuing cheap samplers displaying their wares.In fact, label samplers such as Cooking Vinyl's Delicatess...
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Any Breeders fans in the house? Perhaps their last album in 2002 left you hesitant to respond, after all, who can get excited about something called Title TK? Well, Kim Deal and sister Kelley Deal, along with Jose Medeles and Mando Lopez are hoping to win back fans with a new album next April! (Apparently Tanya Donnelly is not Breeding anymore) And this time, it has a name that just resonat...
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I've seen many a bands play McCarren Pool, the former public pool turned music venue in Brooklyn. So it's a littel disturbing to hear that a decomposed body was fished out of a shed on the premises on Thursday morning.Workers told police of "a foul odor coming from a shed at the pool for months." It was reported that the shed was part of the main entrance at the venue, that is frequented by hom...
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The Breeders - Mountain Battles(4AD, 2008)7.5 out of 10Singing "I can feel it!" over and over again, Kim Deal hurtles tumbling with her band out of the speakers on "Overglazed." Two minutes of this excited psychedelic revelry pass, evoking the Who as much as Throwing Muses, and then the Breeders land in the semi-glorious, scatterbrained mud that is the remainder of Mountain Battles. It is the f...
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Cannonball was one of my favorite songs of the 1990's. I actually wrote a short story around Cannonball for a writers workshop class I was taking as an undergrad in college. I had such a crush on Kim Deal, it was her cigarette tinged vocal and her over all rock grrl style of take me as I am au natural that screamed hear me roar.I discovered this way cool website that Pixies and Breeders fans mu...
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The Breeders will be in Glasgow, in the middle of their next tour, when their new album Mountain Battles hits the streets (April 8th). First, they will wow audiences at Canadian Music Week and SXSW in N. America. Then, a string of UK shows before returning West for Coachella. Ideally, a full N. American tour would follow the Cali music festival which ends the current list of dates on April 2...
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Last week we shared the news that the Pixies’ plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their epic album Doolittle with some European tour dates. This week in Pixies-related news comes word the band’s bass player, Kim Deal, has announced plans to hit the road with her other band - The Breeders - this August. The band has lined up a 16 date run that includes a two-night stand at NYC’s Bowery
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I damn almost forgot it was Sunday, so here we go peoples, and oh by the way yeah a big welcome back if you please for "Dale":http://mog.com/Dale, and his sis, "Anna":http://mog.com/Anna without whom Mog just wouldn't be Mog. Oh yeah, the cover. Probably the best cover of a Beatles song I have heard. Ever. Really. I can hardly believe it myself, what, with all the multitudinous covers of S...
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~ June 26th, 2009 in Calgary, AB Sled Island 2009 featuring the Breeders, Liars, Holy Fuck, Anvil, M5, Biz Markie, MalajubeAn absolutely georgous Friday afternoon in the middle of downtown Calgary was the perfect setting for Sled Island 2009’s main stage performance. Read the review here. We only wish we were able to get photos [...]
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