The September 2014 tour by the alternative rock band the Breeders
included thirteen concerts in the central and western United States. The
tour featured the lineup from their 1993 album Last Splash, with
Josephine Wiggs, Jim Macpherson, Kim Deal, and Kelley Deal (pictured
with Wiggs in 2009). Invited to open for Neutral Milk Hotel's September
18 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, they planned a tour to lead up to this
show, using the opportunity to practice some recent compositions. They
performed in eleven cities, including St. Louis, Denver, Seattle,
Portland, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. The group then played at the
Hollywood Bowl concert, and finished the tour on September 20 at the
Goose Island 312 Urban Block Party event in Chicago. As well as their
new songs, they performed numerous selections from Last Splash and Pod
(1990). Music critics commented that the performances were rousing, and
that the band was as good as—or better than—in its heyday.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breeders_Tour_2014>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1878:
The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River
Thames after colliding with a collier, killing over 600 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_SS_Princess_Alice>
1914:
World War I: The German army began an assault against French
positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Couronn%C3%A9>
1967:
Dagen H: All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads in
Sweden while drivers switched from the left-hand side of the road to the
right-hand side.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H>
2001:
The Troubles: Protestant loyalists began picketing a Catholic
primary school for girls in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_dispute>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bosk:
1. (obsolete except dialectal) A bush.
2. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bosk>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant
hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and
impel it not to action?
--Louis Sullivan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan>
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