Post-Breeders
While with The Breeders, Wiggs had formed the band Honey Tongue along with Jon Mattock, with an album, Nude Nudes, released in 1992. In 1995 Wiggs and Luscious Jackson (and original Beastie Boys) drummer Kate Schellenbach formed Ladies Who Lunch, releasing the 7 inch vinyl "Kims We Love" (an homage to the Pixies' Kim Deal and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, played entirely on Casio keyboards) on the Beastie Boys' label, Grand Royal. This was followed by the 7 inch vinyl Everybody's Happy Nowadays, a cover of a Buzzcocks song.
In 1995, Wiggs recorded and co-produced the album Klassics with a K for the Kostars, aka Luscious Jackson's Jill Cunniff and Vivian Trimble, and then toured with them, playing drums.
In 1996 Wiggs collaborated again with drummer Jon Mattock releasing the Bon Bon Lifestyle album on Grand Royal as The Josephine Wiggs Experience. Wiggs played all the instruments, recorded and produced.
In 1999 Wiggs started a writing and production collaboration with Luscious Jackson keyboardist Vivian Trimble under the name Dusty Trails. Their eponymous 2000 album on Atlantic Records included a track written for and sung by Country legend Emmylou Harris. They also wrote music for Happy Accidents, a movie by Brad Anderson (writer/director of Next Stop Wonderland) starring Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio. In addition, they collaborated with acclaimed New York-based Brazilian choreographers ChameckiLerner, writing and recording music for the performancesPlease Don't Leave Me, 1999, Poor Reality, 2001, Visible Content, 2003, and the soundtrack for ChameckiLerner's awarding-winning short film The Flying Lesson, 2007.
In 2007, Wiggs wrote and recorded the score for Still,a short film by Zohar Kfir, a Montreal-based artist working in experimental video, which was included in the online literary journal Drunken Boat#12, and also shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
In 2009, Wiggs made the soundtrack for ChameckiLerner's Conversation With Boxing Gloves, one of eleven short films that make up Vita Futurista Redux, a re-imagining of the lost 1916 film Vita Futurista, commissioned by Performa 09 and which premiered at SFMOMA.
Wiggs is currently writing and recording the score for a documentary about Modern Houses on Cape Cod.
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