Tegan & Sara

What do I even begin to say about T&S...there is so much known about them i don't even know where to start. Yet there is infinitely more stuff about them that the public will never know. They are a band of two twin sisters out of Canada. They are classified as "indie" or "pop", but that just makes them sound generic, and they are anything but that. With Sara's uniquely high pitched voice, and Tegan's rough melodies, they stick to you like glue and paper :) I can go on and on about how much I love these two and how I would give my left kidney just to get a chance to meet them, but I'll give you the bio off their website, by Sara, so here we go...

"the con is the fifth album that we have released, but first, a brief history. we were born (at the same time, give or take eight minutes). we are raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. fifteen years pass, we find a guitar. we record a demo tape at school and in our bedrooms. we enter in a "garage band" competition (it was the 90's), and we win. we make the yellow tape. we graduate from high school and we make two more demos, "the orange tape" and the red tape. we play shows and do small tours in Canada. Tegan and i make under feet like our in April 1999. we start to tour more extensively in canada. we eventually send the album to Elliot Roberts, president of vapor records. We sign a record deal with vapor. we then make this business of art and go on tour in the USA with neil young. after the tour we embark on our first national tour of Canada as headliners, we tour with Rufus wainwright and Melissa Ferrick, and make our first attempt at touring Europe and japan. we play David Letterman, we head back into the studio with john Collins of the new pornographers, and David Carswell of the smugglers in February 2002, to make if it was you. we tour with Ryan Adams, hot hot heat, and manage to get ourselves to Australia for the first time! we tour Canada, we play very small, dirty clubs in the USA. we go back into studio with JCDC and Howard Redekopp in February 2004 to make so jealous. we finally sell some records! we get nominated for a juno, the killers take us on tour all over the USA, and white strips do a cover of one of our songs. we buy hummers and do cocaine. just kidding. we release our first DVD, it's not fun don't do it. we tour and tour and tour. and after 18 months on the road, we decide to take some real time off. we see the seasons change, we record demos like crazy. we add drums, bass, guitars and keyboards. we meet up with Chris Walla (death cab for cutie). we give him the demos, and we make a plan to relocate to Portland, Oregon to record with him in January 2007. we move into a house in Portland. we walk to his studio everyday. we tow our gear behind us in a wagon. we bring angela kendall (who filmed the making of so jealous and speak slow video) down with us from vancouver to film everything we do. we focus on keeping the songs as close to the demos as possible. after a month we're finished tracking most of the guitars, keyboards, and vocals. we bring Jason mcGerr from death cab for cutie. he plays drums and passes along the life lessons. hunter from AFI plays bass on Tegan's songs, and Matt sharp of the rentals plays bass on mine. we film everything, we develop segments and we gather endless footage. we build a set in our basement and every night for two months we records in-person interviews and speaker phone conversations with our friends and family. march 12th arrives, the albums is finished, the movie is ready to be edited. we go home. i arrive in exile. tegan goes to hawaii in search of dog the bounty hunter.

the con