Even if you haven’t read Simon Reynolds’ excellent Retromania, you’ve probably noticed that we are living in an age when seemingly bands of every era simultaneously exist. Take the Breeders, for instance. Formed by Pixies bassist and Dayton native Kim Deal as a side project with Tanya Donnelly, the Breeders achieved their greatest success once the Pixies were put to bed and the band released its second album, The Last Splash, in 1993. By then, Donnelly had moved on to form Belly, and Deal had recruited her sister Kelley and drummer Jim Macpherson, another Ohioan. Along with British bassist Josephine Wiggs (who had played on the Breeders’ debut, Pod), the group eclipsed Kim’s former band commercially, with The Last Splash going platinum largely on the success of single “Cannonball” on alternative radio. However, by 1995 this version of the band had disintegrated. Though Kim and Kelley still released several albums with new line-ups under the Breeders moniker, they never achieved the same popularity.

As such, the reunion of The Last Splash line-up to tour playing the album in its entirety has sparked the interest of Gen-Xers and others who still remember the band primarily for that record. Tonight, they’ll be playing New York for the second time (they began the tour in March at The Bell House in Brooklyn). The show is at Webster Hall and will also feature Cincinnati up-and-comers Tweens, as well as Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts. Tonight’s gig is sold out, but if you don’t have tickets, you can catch the band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tomorrow. If you do have tickets, be sure to check out the merch table as the band has a t-shirt of particular interest to Ohioans.