Effective period / Period of releases: 1984

Members: Glenn Graham, Ted Purves

The Breeders were an American punk band from Champaign, IL, formed in the early-eighties by Ted Purves on bass and vocals, Andrew Van Dusen on guitar and Jonno Peltz on drums, they released a 7" EP titled "Zen Punk" and an eight song cassette titled "Things Happen", in 1984 they added a second guitarist Glenn Graham to the line-up, the group disbanded in the following year when Andrew moved to NYC and Ted left for grad school in Ohio.