I am warned by the Breeder's publicist before heading in to interview them that their last interview didn't go over so well. I have no idea what he means by this exactly or what I should or shouldn't expect so my mind begins to conjure up worst case scenarios as I walk up the driveway to Kim Deal's East Los Angeles apartment. When I reach the door to her place, her twin sister and fellow bandmate, Kelley, asks how my week has gone. I honestly answer, "Not so well." The two of them then invite me in, ask about my week, offer me water, cigarettes and ask if I don't mind watching a movie they were just about to finish. I'm slightly shocked by all the hospitality. It turns out, Kim tells me, that their previous interview consisted of a journalist repeatedly asking the whereabouts of Josephine Whigs, former member of the Breeders. He asked so incessantly that the girls finally said, "Look, we don't know where she is but if you see her say hello!"

The movie finally finishes and we are greeted by the Breeder's guitarist, Richard. After about half an hour of hanging out we begin the interview. I start with the question,"So...where is Josephine Whigs?" The three break into laughter.

"Ok, you get her arms, I'll get her legs!" Kim jokingly tells Kelley.

Kidding aside, we begin talking about the Breeder's newest album, Title TK. A slight departure from the last two more heavy hitting rock albums from the Breeders, Title TK focuses a lot more on instrumental intricacy and has an overall mellower feel. However, don't be fooled, it is still a masterful work with melody lines and lyrics that seem to linger for weeks in the mind. When asked how long it took to write the album Kim replies,

"It didn't take long to write it, it took long to find a band because this was the late 90s and no one was into bands. Everyone was into the idea of working on ProTools gear and that's cool and everything but it's like, all of a sudden, everyone was doing that and no one would play. So to ask someone to go to rehearsal was like, 'So how much are you gonna pay me for rehearsal?' and I'm not going to pay someone to practice. It's just to jam to see if you like it..." She trails off. "That was hard, I didn't have a band."

Having come from arguably one of the greatest rock bands ever, The Pixies, hearing Kim Deal discuss how difficult it was for her to find a band with utmost humility is an odd, odd thing. It doesn't really seem like she should have a hard time finding a band.

"It was [hard] though because everyone thought, 'Why practice when we could just go to my room and arrange it on a computer?!" She frustratingly concedes.

We then discuss how the trend has recently turned around with the resurgence of genuine rock bands.

"Hasn't it though?!" She lights up. She then begins to recount how she met her current band members at a bar in New York. Her and Kelley tell the story in tandem, the conversation switching so symbiotically between the twins that when I replay my tape later it's hard to tell where Kim begins and Kelley ends. They discuss how pleased they were with the normality of their bandmates, Richard and Mondo, when they first jammed.

"It's like, I would say, 'Could you play it more like that?' and they would say, 'Oh, show me' not, 'Play it yourself, bitch.'" Kim laughs. "It was just soo...normal."

Richard then details how after their first jam, Kim pledged to come out to the guys' next show with their own band a few nights later and talk about getting together again. However, she never made it.

"She didn't show up and we thought we'd never see her again. We had given her all our cell phone numbers though. When we woke up the next day she had left each and every one of us a ten minute detailed message as to why she missed the show...even down to what socks she was going to wear." Richard recounts smiling.

"I had my little outfit picked out!" Kim exclaims.

"Your taxi cab socks." Richard laughs.

So from a random bar room meeting in New York, Kim finally found her band. We talk awhile about their ultra small rehearsal space, their first demos which cost next to nothing to make and the way she sometimes turns what were incorrect lyrics for another band's song into her own lyrics.

"I'll be singing lyrics and then find out its wrong and use my incorrect lyrics because they usually sound good. I'll think, 'Boy it'd be really cool if that's what they would've said.' so I'll use it!" She delightedly tells me.

At this point Kelley bursts out in song spontaneously,

"I wanna rock and roll all night..." Kim then joins in to finish singing the line with Kelley. "...and PART of every day!"

"That's what I used to think it was!" Kelley confesses.

"Richard cracks up over it, he has a whole monologue about it." Kim adds as Kelley continues in an interpretation of Richard's voice mocking her,

"Ok, I'm going start and I'm going to be rocking from about 9 a.m. to 3, then I'm going to party 'til 5 and then read."

We continue to laugh and smoke and end up discussing everything from Jimmy Fleming to the movie, Showgirls. The unbelievable down to earthness of the band is refreshing. The fact that Kim has no car, lives in East L.A. and struggled to put a band together is beyond comprehension. It makes perfect sense that a band like the Dandy Warhols wrote a song so aptly titled, "Cool as Kim Deal." Quite frankly, someone had to.