This year it’s touring time. They already visited Australia and New Zealand last month
and next June/July they’ll perform in the UK and Europe for the first time in seven years.
Antwerp, Belgium, 2017 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume
Last month, on 30 August, the utterly charismatic rock Amazons THE BREEDERS celebrated the 30th anniversary of their best known and most successful album LAST SPLASH.
Today a deluxe anniversary edition is out.
Details and order info here.
Stream digital version below.
The special issue features these two previously
unreleased tracks from the Last Splash sessions.
Go Man Go and Divine Mascis. Kim Deal told Uncut Magazine about the collaborative song with Dinosaur Jr‘s mastermind J Mascis: “At the time, J Mascis was a guitar god… We sent him the tape to put guitar on, so when it came back and he’s got rid of our voices and just put his vocal on, we were like, “Wha?!” But it’s really cute. There’s a freshness to it, and it’s just so weird. I like his voice and the idiosyncratic way he sings and delivers lines. So I thought it was really neat.”
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On August 30 THE BREEDERS featuring the Deal twins Kim and Kelly
will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their best and most famous LP THE LAST SPLASH.
A special anniversary reissue will land in September. It has been remastered
based off of the original analog tapes, which were previously thought to be
lost. This process actually unearthed two unreleased tracks from the Last
Splash sessions.
Pitchfork said: “The brilliance of Rid of Me is in the vividness and detail with which it captures that Boschian panorama using only blues rhythms, loud-quiet-loud dynamics, Harvey’s voice.”
TUTV Pick: Rid Of Me
Stream the album HERE
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Pitchfork wrote: “This major-label debu is a harrowing song cycle chronicling the death
throes of a relationship. That cycle implies a romantic fatalism, as though every relationship is doomed to end painfully. Gentlemen is both personal and unknowable, cocksure yet deeply troubled.”
TUTV Pick: Debonair
Stream the album HERE
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BBC Music: “Suede’s main sources were Bowie (in Anderson’s wonderfully fey delivery) and
the Smiths. Ironically, Mike Joyce of the Smiths was a member for a short spell, but their bleak chronicles of urban dysfunction, modern love and sexual confusion were never a million miles away from Morrissey’s home ground.”
TUTV Pick: Animal Nitrate
Stream the albumHERE
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AllMusic: “Its best moments — and the Deal sisters’ megawatt charm — end up
outweighing its inconsistencies to make it one of the alternative rock era’s defining
albums.”
TUTV Pick: Cannonball
Stream the albumHERE
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Rolling Stone wrote: “Blur‘s second LP is their secret classic. Coming between the pop-psych shimmer of 1991’s Leisure and the cool Britannia of 1994’s Parklife, the brittle jangle and bitter observations on Modern Life Is Rubbish were near-career-killers.”
AllMusic said: “With their cult following growing, Morphine expanded their audience even further with their exceptional 1994 sophomore effort, Cure for Pain. Whereas their debut, Good, was intriguing yet not entirely consistent, Cure for Pain more than delivered. The songwriting was stronger and more succinct. Cure for Pain was unquestionably one of the best and most cutting-edge rock releases of the ’90s.”
TUTV Pick: Buena
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Rolling Stone wrote: “The album is a lot of things – brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once. But more than anything, it’s a triumph of the will.”
TUTV Pick: All Apologies
Stream the albumHERE
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GuitarCom said: “A Northern Soul may have more choruses, Urban Hymns may have shifted 10 million copies and made them Wigan’s only global superstars, but Verve‘s (the ‘The’ came later) celestial debut A Storm In Heaven is the guitarist’s choice. Nick McCabe’s enveloping waves of reverb and tape delay, in turn soothing and savage, moved producer John Leckie to conclude “To some extent, A Storm In Heaven is his record”.
TUTV Pick: Slide Away
Stream the album HERE
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JOE WALSH (74) is best known as the guitarist of country rock legends Eagles. Before joining those superstars he had his own band called James Gang.
Walsh founded a charity fund for military veterans’ in 2017. Yesterday he played
with the James Gang members at VetsAid in Columbus, OHIO. It was Walsh himself who organised the event and he invited some big-name acts such as The Black Keys and NIN.
The Breeders with the Deal twins also took part in the 6-hour show.
One of the songs they played was Gigantic. A Pixies classic from their
1983 Surfer Rosa album, sung by Kim Deal. The omnipresent Dave Grohl
joined them on guitar.
