The Breeders was the name of the occasional duo act Kim and Kelley Deal performed in Dayton, Ohio in the early 1980s. In 1989, while a member of the Pixies, Kim resurrected the name for a project she intended to record with her friends Tanya Donelly (then of Throwing Muses, later of Belly), Josephine Wiggs, bassist for the British band the Perfect Disaster, and violinist Carrie Bradley.
While recording a song with the Pixies in Chicago, Kim met drummer Britt Walford of the later-legendary Slint, and he agreed to play drums for the project,...
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