06/09/2026
“In my insular world of picking up a guitar and writing, playing with a band, doing a show… nothing much has changed,” Kelley Deal tells me. And despite there being some considerable blocks of time between album releases over the past three decades, the Last Splash-era line-up of The Breeders — including Kelley, twin sister Kim Deal, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson — have all been back steadily making music together again since 2012.
Later this month, the group plays Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA amidst their US summer tour dates, shows with Team Dresch, and opening for My Chemical Romance at the end of August (this last one seems an odd pairing, maybe, but I think a lot of millennials wouldn’t bat an eye if they revisited their old high school iPods — those two names together sound like an average school bus ride in 2006 to me). Read the full interview by Dana Brady over on the site.
URL: themetroland.com/blog-main/interview-the-breeders-01