The Breeders Tour 2014

The American alternative rock band the Breeders played a tour of thirteen concerts in the central and western United States in September 2014.

Ahead of opening for Neutral Milk Hotel at the Hollywood Bowl, they planned a tour leading up to this show, using the opportunity to practice recent compositions that would appear on their 2018 album All Nerve.

[1] Macpherson continued playing with Kim Deal in her side-project group, the Amps, and then in the 1996 incarnation of the Breeders,[8][9] but quit the band in 1997.

[15] On September 10, the Breeders started a short Pacific Coast stretch, performing in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco.

[15][n 5] These were followed by Las Vegas and Phoenix, then west again to San Diego,[15] leading up to their concert on September 18 at the Hollywood Bowl with Neutral Milk Hotel and Daniel Johnston.

[15] Following the Hollywood concert, the Breeders finished their tour at the Goose Island 312 Urban Block Party event in Chicago on September 20, with groups such as Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Thao & the Get Down Stay Down.

[34][37] Another composition they performed was "Walking with a Killer",[36][37] which had originally been released in 2012[38]—with the B-side "Dirty Hessians"—as the first in a series of solo 7" singles by Kim Deal,[39][40] and which the Breeders had played in 2013 on their LSXX Tour.

[36] Reviewing the September 17 date in San Diego, critic Alex Packard of Listensd.com opined that the Breeders "deliver[ed] the classics like they wrote them yesterday and new material in no less of a moving way".