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The Breeders
Also Playing: Whispertown2000
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Tue Aug 11
7:30 pm
The Breeders and Whispertown2000 at Fine Line Music Cafe
Fuzz-gun femmes The Breeders have managed to build up a loyal following over the years without always exactly being a functioning band—and it's been a long time since Last Splash vaulted them from Kim Deal's curious Pixies side project to “alternative rock” stars—but as with the Pixies reunion, absence has only made the heart grow fonder. Enduring breakups, rehab stints, and cold indifference (check cutout bins for the group’s 2002 effort, Title TK), The Breeders returned with 2008's Mountain Battles just in time to ride the cresting wave of ’90s nostalgia. Not much has changed: Kim still has a knack for oblique arrangements that are greater than the sum of their parts, and she and twin sister Kelley still harmonize like dirty-faced angels. Of course, there’s nothing here as instantly arresting as “Cannonball”—but they’ll probably play that too.
Fine Line Music Cafe 318 1st Ave. N., Twin Cities, MN
Fuzz-gun femmes The Breeders have managed to build up a loyal following over the years without always exactly being a functioning band—and it's been a long time since Last Splash vaulted them from Kim Deal's curious Pixies side project to “alternative rock” stars—but as with the Pixies reunion, absence has only made the heart grow fonder. Enduring breakups, rehab stints, and cold indifference (check cutout bins for the group’s 2002 effort, Title TK), The Breeders returned with 2008's Mountain Battles just in time to ride the cresting wave of ’90s nostalgia. Not much has changed: Kim still has a knack for oblique arrangements that are greater than the sum of their parts, and she and twin sister Kelley still harmonize like dirty-faced angels. Of course, there’s nothing here as instantly arresting as “Cannonball”—but they’ll probably play that too.
Updated 08/04/2009
