In September 2023, The Breeders received an invitation from US pop star Olivia Rodrigo to join her GUTS tour at a series of shows at New York's Madison Square Garden and the KIA Forum in Los Angeles. The Ohio alt. rock band - fronted by former Pixies bassist Kim Deal and her sister Kelley - were surprised and flattered, but somewhat bemused, with Kelley Deal admitting that she thought the offer might have been made in error.
"I thought, Is she sure?" Deal told the New York Times. "Do they really mean us?"
The invitation was no administrative error as Olivia Rodrigo explained on four separate evenings onstage at Madison Square Garden. The star told her young audience that her life could be divided into two distinct parts" before she heard The Breeders' 1993 single Cannonball, and after.
