#the breeders

[meetmeinthesandbox]

Kim Deal is the coolest.

[sometimess-maybee]

I know you, little libertine

I know you're a real koo koo

(Hey now)

Want you

[persephone-nymph]

Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal (December 13th, 1993)

[cosmonautroger]

The Breeders, Cannonball, 1993

[tvneon]

[calimarikid]

[undergroundrockpress]

Kim Deal / Photo : Oliver Hadlee Pearch.

[legendarytragedynacho]

Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal, December 13th, 1993, Seattle, WA. (Melody Maker magazine photoshoot)

📸Steve Gullick

[antcomrade]

I got a song stuck in my head so I’m drawing mae doing her lil dance to it

[life-adjourned]

merry christmas man!

[romance-film]

HONESTLY I'd love to know ruby's favorite bands and singers. Since her dad is a punk rocker himself I feel like he's a little influence on her.

Please share your Spotify/Apple music wrapped, I wanna see something @ ruby

[moth-ghoul]

do not quote me on these being strictly punk songs, i am making shit up and having fun

[fireland]

The Breeders / Cannonball

[branchflowercuriosa]

Kim Deal, The Breeders, 1993

[holdoncallfailed]

the breeders' [almost] original lineup with tanya donelly and britt walford, photographed by michael lavine for melody maker, september 1991.

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

The Breeders - The Palace, Los Angeles, California, April 1, 1994

April 1994! Bill Clinton was in the White House, Kurt Cobain was (barely) still alive, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult was in theaters — and I was a freshman in high school, on my way to see The Breeders at the Palace with my pals Ryan and Sean and my older brother Nathan, hurtling towards Hollywood in a Ford Tempo. A momentous occasion, 30 years ago, jeez louise.

I was just talking to Ryan about this show and we both remembered that it was, up to that point, the most high-energy, packed-house, Alternative Nation-style event we'd attended. Previously, we'd seen gigs that were either big arena affairs or mellow sit-down kinda things. This might not've been an insane crowd by any stretch, but there was light moshing and so forth. And the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion opened! We had never heard of them before and let me tell you we were confused. And thrilled! Pretty sure we all went out to get Orange immediately that weekend.

I haven't tracked down a tape of the JSBX set, but I just recently came across this recording of The Breeders' Last Splash-heavy performance that evening. The previous fall, I had fallen heavily under the spell of The Breeders, Frank Black and the Pixies, so getting to see the Deal Sisters was a big deal. And they did not disappoint. Hearing it back all these years later doesn't disappoint, either — though there is some hilarious/cringe-y audience chatter ... the dude being an idiot near the taper is not any of us, I promise you.