The Breeders have announced tour dates in support of the upcoming album Mountain Battles. They're available on the tour dates page or on the following sites:

• BreedersDigest.net
• 4AD

Kim Deal appeared on 6 Music on 2/8. You can listen to the interview as well as two songs from Mountain Battles here.

American Laundromat Records has announced the release of the new Kim Deal tribute, Gigantic. It's currently available for pre-order at a special price. The official release date is April 1st but you can order your copy now and get it early March for sure along with a cool button featuring the Gigantic artwork. Visit the official store for more info.

For those of you that are interested (who isn't?) somebody has posted a sample of "We're Gonna Rise" from the Breeders forthcoming album Mountain Battles:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/539566526ffc63/

The Breeders have announced a new album, Mountain Battles, to release in 2008. It's expected to release on April 7th in the UK and April 8th in the States. The track list for the album is:

1. Overglazed
2. Bang On
3. Night Of Joy
4. We're Gonna Rise
5. German Studies
6. Spark
7. Istanbul
8. Walk It Off
9. Regalame Esta Noche
10. Here No More
11. No Way
12. It's The Love
13. Mountain Battles

• Breeders’ Long-Awaited “Mountain Battles” Due April ‘08 - Rolling Stone
• Breeders Bounce Back With 'Mountain Battles' - Billboard
• The Breeders Return With Mountain Battles - Pitchfork
• Breeders Detail 'Mountain Battles' - Spin
• New Album In 2008 - 4AD
• Breeders Blab About Mountain Battles - TinyMixTapes
• The Breeders: New Album, Mountain Battles - River Front Times
• Breeders Return With Mountain Battles In ‘08 - MOG
• The Breeders wage Mountain Battles on new album - Paste Magazine

The Indie label American Laundromat Records is releasing a 7" Blue Vinyl Split featuring The Caulfield Sisters covering The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Some Candy Talking", and Julie Peel covering The Breeders "Divine Hammer". It's a very limited pressing of 500 copies so you'd best order soon if you would like a copy.

Visit the American Laundromat Records site for details about ordering.

I've added a bunch of streaming video from YouTube on the video page. Most of these are available for download on the site as well, but some are rare gems only available on YouTube.

• Streaming Videos 1
• Streaming Videos 2

The forum upgrade is complete. In addition to the upgrade I've added a number of modifications to prevent spammers from joining and posting. I've also deleted most of the the spam accounts and posts. If by some chance I deleted your account and you're not a spammer, I apologize. You'll have to recreate your account. If you have any issues or find users that are abusing the forum, don't hesitate to email me or send me a Private Message in the forum.

The Forum is currently being upgraded. Unforunately this will require a significant amount of manual effort so it will be unavailable for a few days. The new version will feature some enhancements: avatar support, private messaging that actually works (hopefully), and improved controls to keep spammers out.

Thanks to a fan of the site who sent me these, I've just posted three new videos on the site:

• Safari (music video)
• So Sad About Us (live tv performance)
• Tipp City (music video)

I'm moving the server to a new host that will give me 20x more bandwidth. If all goes well, the site should be back up sometime Monday, 3/6.

Due to my limitations in bandwidth I've made the videos available through BitTorrent. All videos are currently available on the Pirate Bay. You can also download the torrent files on the video page.

You will need a BitTorrent client to download the videos once you have the torrent file(s) (Confused? See WikiPedia or the BitTorrent Intro page to learn how BitTorrent works). Here are some popular BitTorrent clients:

• Azureus (Java-based client)
• ABC - Another BitTorrent Client
• BitTornado
• µTorrent

The Breeders filled in for TV On The Radio who were forced to cancel their performance at the first show celebrating 4AD's 25th anniversary. Josephine Wiggs played bass for the first time since the Breeders hiatus in 1994. Read all about it here.

I've been getting unconfirmed reports that The Breeders are playing two shows at the Blackheath Halls in London November 19th and 20th. There is still no info on the Blackheath Halls website, but I imagine it will be up there shortly.

For tickets, try the Blackheath Halls box-office: 020 8463 0100.

The site was down for a couple days due to a hiccup in the process of moving to a new provider. Everything should be functional again. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Word on the street is that the Breeders have done some demos in LA, and could return to the studio after the latest Pixies tour ends:

More details:

• Contact Music
• ChartAttack

Downloads have been hit and miss lately. I've made some changes and all site downloads should be fully functional again.

I've also doubled the monthly bandwidth on the site. Now the bandwidth should last four days at the beginning of each month instead of two :D

Warner Music Group has announced that it will be dropping many of it's artists, including the Breeders, due to low profits. Final decisions haven't been made yet, but it sounds like the Breeders might be one of the first bands to be dropped due to the low sales of Title TK. See RollingStone for more details.

The Breeders have scheduled a handful of shows in California for one-week tour in March. For more info, check out Tour Dates. There also word from the Breeders camp that a new album is in the works. I will post more as it becomes available.

For the latest on the Pixies reunion, try these sites:

• Pixies Music
• Pixies Reunion

Although it's not really Breeders news, word is out that the Pixies are scheduled to play the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California, May 1, 2004. 4AD has not released any official word of the reunion, and nobody seems to know which of the original members will be present.

More details:

• Billboard
• Yahoo!
• Rolling Stone

BBC 6 Music will broadcast a Breeders live gig Tuesday evening between 10pm and 12am UK time on the Dream Ticket program. No word on where it was recorded or how many songs will be broadcast. Other artists will include Andy White, Longpigs, and Garbage. You can find more details here.

Thanks to Colin Bloor!

Wig in a Box, a compilation of tributes and takes on songs from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, was released this week. It features the Breeders, Sleater-Kinney, Frank Black, Yoko Ono, and others. On the album the Breeders perform "Wicked Little Town". To order, or for more details and track samples, visit the Off Records website.

Order your copy now! All proceeds, after costs, will go to The Hetrick Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk School.

After being down for a month, the forum is once again working. Everything has been moved to a new server...hopefully for the last time. It looks like everything in the forum is intact with the exception of any posts or changes that occurred after August 16, 2003. Anything after that has been lost due to the "host-that-hit-the-highway", as someone put it.

The Breeders forum and any of the MP3's and videos were being hosted on another server. The webmaster took down the server without notifying me, so I lost everything for the last week before it went down. I will be moving the entire site to a new server in the next month. At that point I should be able to run the Forum and provide file downloads again. Stay tuned.

The Breeders forum and the video/music downloads are not working currently. They are hosted on another server that appears to be down. I'm trying to contact the owner to get everything working again as soon as possible.

The ATP Festival has been postponed until September. As a result, the Breeders have cancelled all of their June tour dates. The Breeders will not be a part of the ATP Festival in September either.

The Breeders recently announced some new West Coast tour dates. This includes Anaheim, LA, San Diego, and Tijuana, Mexico. For more info, go to the Tour Dates page.

You can now purchase Breeders merchandise online from Impact Merchandising. They've got shirts, stickers, and buttons.

Shop for Breeders stuff

the Breeders, in addition to a number of other bands, will cover songs from the movie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for Wig in a Box, a charity compilation. The collection is expected to be released in October. Other contributors include Sleater-Kinney, Yoko Ono, Yo La Tengo, and Ben Folds. For more details, click here.

The Breeders just announced that they will be playing a handful of shows in South America this May. These dates will include:

• Santiago, Chile
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Curitiba, Brazil

RollingStone.com has recently posted pictures from the Breeders performance in Sydney, Australia:

Click to view

Once again, Hellbound, a tribute to the Breeders, is available for purchase and download. Visit the Tribute page for more details. Supplies are limited, so get them while they last.

The Breeders have added a warm-up show to their next tour. The show will be in Los Angeles, February 13th at the Echo Lounge. Tickets are on sale now for $10.00 through TicketWeb. The show is 21+. Other acts include the Rotters and DJ Adam Wade.

The Breeders have added a few more dates to their tour this Spring. The venues for the tour have also been finalized and confirmed. Visit the Tour Dates page for more info.

Thanks Kevin!

The following videos have been added to the site:

• Son of Three (video) - courtesy of the director, Kevin Powers, and CJ Etzkorn
• The Breeders appearance on 120 Minutes (Parts 1-5)
• The Amps performing 'Pacer' on Conan O'Brien 1995

• the Amps - Pacer (video)
• the Amps - Tipp City (video)
• KD6K - How About Hero (video)
• the Breeders - Hellbound (video)
• the Breeders - Safari (video)

The Breeders have been added to the line-up for the All Tomorrow's Parties LA 2003 event. The event will take place in June (18-22) and is being curated by Simpsons creator, Matt Groening. For more details, visit the ATP site.

Once again, the Videos page is working again. All videos are available all of the time, so there is no limit on downloads. Enjoy!

An eight date tour has just been announced for Australia and Japan starting in February 2003. The tour begins February 25th in Perth, Australia and ends in Tokyo, Japan March 7th. See the Tour Dates page for more info.

My latest ISP has once again shut down the Videos. They promised me 20 GB of bandwidth per month, but shut me down after only 10 GB.

I've come to the conclusion that is simply not feasible to offer videos on this site. So from this point on there will be no more video downloads. I will leave up MP3 downloads for the time being.

The Videos and Forum are up and working again. Someone (Kris Kris) was kind enough to host videos and MP3's on another server. As of now, all videos are available all of the time.

Also, the Forum is working again. However, any posts made after October 10, 2002 were lost. Also, anyone that registered after October 10, will have to register again.

This forum is a bit different than the last, but overall it is much nicer.

Enjoy!

My second ISP has apparently gone out of business (I guess $4.95/month for hosting *was* too good to be true). As a result, their webservers have been taken offline. This means that the Forum and all downloads are also offline. I'm working on trying to find another ISP, but it will take some time. Please be patient.

Queue up your VCR's. It's confirmed! The Breeders will appear on the episode entitled "Him", which is scheduled to air on November 5, 2002 on UPN. The episode was filmed September 20th. In the episode, The Breeders will play "Little Fury" and "Son of Three" at the Bronze Club. For more details, read the Rolling Stone article.

Tons of videos have just been posted on the site. These are all full-length videos. These are higher-resolution, higher-quality videos than the ones that were on the site previously. These all use the (excellent and free) DivX codec (v5.0), which you must install before you can view these videos. Mac and Linux codecs are available as well.

One video will be available to download each week. When a video is available, it will say 'Available: Now'. You can vote to choose which video will be available each week. If you don't want to wait 20 weeks to see all of the videos, you can find them all on KaZaA right now. The first video will be available Monday, September 2nd, so vote now!

I have not posted the videos for Safari and Hellbound because the quality of my source tape is so bad that I cannot get the audio and video to sync when I digitize it. If anyone would be willing to send me an NTSC VHS copy of these videos, please email me.

NBC will rerun the Late Night with Conan O'Brien episode with the Breeders on Monday, August 26. If you missed it the first time, set your VCR now. On they show they perform "Huffer". Check local listings for times.

Rumor has it that the Breeders are hosting 120 Minutes on M2 this Sunday, August 11th. Check local listings for times.

The Breeders recorded a song (I won't tell which song) on Last Call with Carson Daly last week. However, it did not air on August 5th as originally scheduled. It will air, instead, on Monday, August 12. For more info, visit NBC.com.

Some UK festival dates have been added to the Tour Dates page. They include the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium, and the Carling Weekend in Reading and Leeds. For more info, go to the Tour Dates page.

The next single from Title TK, Son of Three, will be released September 2 in the UK and September 3 in Canada. A US release date has not been announced yet. It will feature a re-recorded version of the title track, plus bonus tracks consisting of a live version of "Safari", recorded earlier this year in Amsterdam, and the Breeders version of the theme to the television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. No word yet on if there will be a video or not.

John Cameron Mitchell, actor, writer, and director, of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, will perform "Angry Inch" with the Breeders at the Bowery Ballroom in New York August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The Breeders "rehearsed" the song at their show in Boston on July 30th with guitarist, Richard Presley, singing vocals.

Yes, the producer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer is trying to work Kim and Kelley Deal into an episode of the next series. Apparently the producer, a Breeders fan, heard them play the show's theme song on tour recently. The Breeders' version of the song will appear on their upcoming Son of Three single to be released September 2, 2002. For more information, click here.

Tons of pictures from the latest Breeders tour have been posted. Enjoy!

In the July 26th issue of the Boston Phoenix, there is a small blurb about the Breeders upcoming performance at the Avalon.

The Breeders will be performing on Last Call With Carson Daly Monday, August 5th.

If you will be in the NYC area and would like to reserve your free tickets for the show, please send an email to lastcallaudience@nbc.com. Tickets are on a first come first serve basis. Please put "The Breeders" in the subject heading, and include your full name, phone number and the number of tickets you would like to request. There is a limit of 4 tickets per party. You will receive an email to confirm your reservation if you receive tickets. All audience members must be at least 16 years of age.

That's right, the MP3's are finally up on the site again. You can find them on the individual album pages under the Music section.

In order to prevent bandwidth overages, this site is limited to a certain number of downloads per month. Once that limit is exceeded, music and video downloads will no longer work until the end of the month.

The new Breeders Forum is finally up and running. Now there is a more appropriate place for everyone to chat, post set lists from shows, and argue about which album is best :) You can get to it by clicking on "Forum" from the main menu, or by clicking here.

The Vancouver and Phoenix shows have been cancelled! Also, the last show in New York at the Bowery Ballroom has been moved from August 4th to August 5th.

Kim and Mando were interviewed on a French radio in April. The interview is part of a 90 minute radio show about the Breeders. You need Real Audio to hear the show. You can find the show in the live section of HelterSkelterFM. The show features various Breeders tunes and Breeders related material as well.

There is an article about the Breeders in the June issue of Spin (with Moby on the cover). It talks about drugs (surprise), the history of the Breeders, and the "true nature" of Kim and Kelley's relationship.

There is an article about the Breeders in Pulse!, Tower Records monthly magazine, in addition to articles in Jane and Nylon.

Billboard has posted two articles on their website. These are excerpts of larger articles from their members section:

  Breeders Bounce Back With 'Title TK'

  Breeders Going Global For 'Title TK'

The Press page (formerly the Articles page) has been added to the site, along with a few recent reviews of Title TK and some Breeders performances.

I've updated the Breeders catalog with all of the items that I have info and cover art for. If you can provide information and/or scans of an item that is not on the music page, please email webmaster@noaloha.com.

MTV recently posted a review of Title TK. The review includes details about most of the songs on the album and how they came about. You can read it here:

  Breeders Shout Out Tater Holler, Truck-Stop Knives, Beer Class On New LP

The Breeders will be performing on the Late Show with Conan O'Brien, May 21, 2002. Check local listings for times.

It appears that new versions of Pod and Last Splash will be released June 4, 2002 as Japanese imports. Each will included one bonus track, both of which are unknown at this time. You can order them through the following links:

CDNOW:

• Pod
• Last Splash

• Pod
• Last Splash

Huffer has been released outside the UK on CD. However, it will not be released on 7" vinyl. You can order it through CDNOW.

The Breeders will be playing a "secret" gig April 24th between their two dates at the All Tomorrow's Parties. The show will be in London at Water Rats. You can get tickets beginning April 17th at both London Rough Trade shops, and at the venue as well.

For reasons unknown, the release of the Huffer 7" and CD single has been put off indefinitely. There's a possibility that it may be released later in the year. Instead, 4AD will release the now promo-only Off You CD as a commercially available single (TAD 2203 CDP). However, they will only be distributing about 500 copies to stores in the UK.

Off You was released today. It is being released on 10" vinyl only in the UK.

The New York Times ran a thorough article about the Breeders which covers just about everything that has happened with the band since 1994. It features audio selections and cool pictures of the band. Read it here.

The track listing for Off You is out now.  The tracks will be "Off You", "Little Fury", and "The She".  4AD will be releasing the 10" single (TAD 2203) in the UK March 25th.  You can order it from 4AD or on NME's site.  All tracks are from the forthcoming album, Title TK, which will be released May 20, 2002.  For more info, see these links:

• NME - Breeders on Comeback Trail With Limited Single
• NME - Breeders Finally Name New Album

The Breeders will be releasing two singles prior to the release of Title TK (CAD2205CD; CAD2205). The first single, Off You (TAD 2203), will be released March 25, 2002. It will be released as a 10" only, and will contain the tracks "Off You", "Little Fury", and "The She". The second single, Huffer (BAD 2204CD; AD 2204), will be released April 29, 2002 on 7" and CD, and will feature the tracks "Huffer", "Forced to Drive (LoHo version)", and "Climbing the Sun". Title TK will be released on May 20, 2002. You can order all of them from 4AD.

The Breeders are planning a European tour for Spring 2002. For a list of dates and venues, check out the Tour Dates page.