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The Breeders - New European Tour Dates, Back Catalogue Vinyl Reissues
The Breeders : New European Tour Dates, Back Catalogue Vinyl Reissues
24th April 2018

The Breeders continue to tour their latest album All Nerve with further European dates announced for November.  Tickets for the band’s headline shows go on sale this Friday, 27th April.  The group will also play two shows before FYF Festival in July.  Currently on the road in North America, The Breeders will tour the UK and Europe throughout the Spring and Summer.  Find all dates below, with new announcements in bold.  

April
25th - Iron City, Birmingham AL, US + [TICKETS]
26th - Cannery Ballroom, Nashville TN, US º [TICKETS]
28th - 29th - Homecoming Festival, Cincinnati OH, US [TICKETS]
30th - Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY, US + [SOLD OUT]

May
1st - Terminal 5, New York City, NY, US ◊ [TICKETS]
2nd - Capitol Theater, Port Chester NY, US º [TICKETS]
4th - House of Blues, Boston MA, US º [TICKETS]
5th - Corona Theater, Montreal QC, Canada º [SOLD OUT]
6th - Phoenix Concert Theater, Toronto ON, Canada º [SOLD OUT]
8th - Vic Theater, Chicago IL, US º [TICKETS]
9th - The Rave, Milwaukee WI, US • [TICKETS]
11th - The Truman, Kansas City MO, US × [TICKETS]
13th - First Avenue, Minneapolis MN, US º [TICKETS]
25th - BBC Weekender, Belfast, Ireland ≠ [TICKETS]
27th - Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland ≠ [TICKETS]
28th - Liquid Room, Edinburgh, UK ≠ [SOLD OUT]
29th - Stylus, Leeds, UK ≠ [SOLD OUT]
30th - Roundhouse, London, UK ≠ [SOLD OUT]

June
1st - Primavera, Barcelona, Spain [TICKETS]
2nd - Westrock, Cognac, France ≠ [TICKETS]
3rd - This Is Not A Love Song, Nîmes, France [TICKETS]
5th - Cortile Estense, Ferrara, Italy ≠
6th - Santeria, Milan, Italy ≠ [TICKETS]
8th - Primavera Porto, Porto, Portugal [TICKETS]
26th - Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland ≠ [TICKETS]
28th - Gruna Lund, Stockholm, Sweden ≠
29th - Tinderbox Festival, Odense, Denmark [TICKETS]

July
1st - Down The Rabbit Hole Festival, Beuningen, Netherlands [TICKETS]
3rd - Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany ≠ [TICKETS]
4th - Gloria, Cologne, Germany ≠ [TICKETS]
6th - Main Square Festival, Arras, France [TICKETS]
7th - Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium
8th - Beauregard Festival, Caen, France
10th - Academy, Bristol, UK ≠ [SOLD OUT]
11th - Institute, Birmingham, UK ≠ [TICKETS]
13th - Ritz, Manchester, UK ≠ [TICKETS]
14th - Latitude Festival, Southwold, UK [TICKETS]
19th - Marquee Theatre, Tempe AZ, US [TICKETS]
20th - Brooklyn Bowl, Las Vegas NV, US [TICKETS]

21st - FYF Festival, Exposition Park LA, US [TICKETS]

November
10th - Rolling Stone Weekender, Weissenhauser Strand, Germany [TICKETS]
11th - VoxHall, Aarhus, Denmark [TICKETS]
13th - Niebo, Warsaw, Poland [TICKETS]
14th - Lucerna Music Bar, Prague, Czech Republic [TICKETS]
15th - Flex, Vienna, Austria [TICKETS]
17th - Rolling Stone, Europa-Park Rust Park, Germany [TICKETS]
18th - Transborder, Lyon, France [TICKETS]
19th - Dynamo Saal, Zurich, Switzerland [TICKETS]
21st - Le Trianon, Paris, France [TICKETS]
22nd - La Madeleine, Brussels, Belgium [TICKETS]
23rd - Den Atelier, Luxembourg, Luxembourg [TICKETS]

# - w/ Post Pink
% - w/ Dead Soft  
^  - w/ Your Heart Breaks 
+ - w/ Flasher
º - w/ Melkbelly 
◊  - w/ Screaming Females 
•  - w/ Dorth Nakota 
× - w/ The Funs
≠  - w/ Pip Blom 

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All of the Breeders’ previous albums – Pod, Last Splash, Title TK, and Mountain Battles – will be re-issued on vinyl on 18th May.  Available to pre-order from today, this is the first time Pod and Last Splash will be released by 4AD in North America.



Pod, the 1990 debut featuring the line-up of Pixie’s Kim Deal, Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly, the Perfect Disaster’s Josephine Wiggs and Slint’s Britt Walford, was recorded by Steve Albini.  Kurt Cobain listed the record as one of his top three favourite albums saying, “the way they structure [the songs] is totally unique.”  Critically acclaimed when it came out, Pod’s legacy lives on – Pitchfork called it a “blissful mindfuck of a record,” and ranked it in their Best Albums of the 90s. 
Pre-order here.



Last Splash was recorded in 1993 by what is now regarded as the ‘classic’ Breeders line-up of Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson.  Including the twisted pop singles ‘Cannonball’ and ‘Divine Hammer’, it has become one of the defining albums of the 90s.  
Pre-order here.



2002’s Title TK saw the band work with Steve Albini once more, with the Guardian saying it was “a welcome return to punky pop that knows how to flex some melodic muscle.”  The album has been out of print on vinyl since its release.  
Pre-order here.



Fourth album Mountain Battles, a perfectly formed album of 13 miniatures in 36 minutes engineered by Steve Albini, was originally released in 2008.  Like Title TK before it, Mountain Battles has been out of print since its release.  
Pre-order here.



All Nerve, the Breeders’ fifth studio album, saw the iconic line-up of Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson reunite for the first time since the release of the platinum-selling album Last Splash. Released earlier this year, critics and fans welcomed them back with open arms and they scored their highest chart positions – including top 10 in the UK – in 25 years. 
You can buy the record, out now, here.