"Its not THAT much snow!"
Dear Everyone,
As I write this to you I am watching EVEN more snow fall here in Vancouver. Its been snowing for over a week!!! Some might have you believe that it is like this during winter here but it is in fact very uncommon for us to have so much snow. Usually it is gone the day it falls as we are at Ocean Level and our temperatures don't typically stay cold enough to sustain snow. As you can imagine people are losing their minds. No one has snow tires here and it seems we don't have very many snow removal vehicles because my street still has not been cleared. My friend Jeremy wouldn't even drive down my street to pick me up last night out of fear he would never get out. I had to run through knee deep snow to him. Jerk!
I'm feeling only slightly anxious about the snow as I grew up in Calgary and so for me to see snow around Christmas is a delight! I hope where ever you all are that you have the weather of your Christmas fantasies and are safe and sound and happy!
Sara and I and the band and crew leave for Australia on Saturday. As always I feel a little nervous about hurtling myself across the world for 15 + hours but I know once I am in the hot Australian sun I will be happy to be there. Touring Australia is one of the most fun things our band has ever done. I am reading Bill Brysons Book "Down Under in a Sunburned Country". SO FUNNY! If you have not read any Bill Bryson you should! He is so funny and his books are all about travelling. Great plane reads!
While you are home this Christmas go check out: www.myspace.com/ryanrussell, www.myspace.com/lindseybyrnesphotography and www.myspace.comeestoreydesign.com!
These links are two of our favourite photographers (who just happen to be working on a 3 part series of books to be released this spring about Tegan and Sara!!!) and to Emy (our favourite artist/deisigner) who has the incredible task of laying out these books this holidays season. ((She also has a sale on her merchandise items so go check her out!!!!))
Also! Sara and I just sent 40 songs to Chris Walla and are making plans to record our new record this spring! We can't wait for you to hear what we've been up to! Sara and I went down to write songs together in New Orleans and it went REALLY well! My drumming is getting almost tolerable. At least to me and Sara. Ha. You'll get to read and look at photos about it when the books come out this spring!
This has been a wonderful year as always and we want to thank all of you for your continued support and love! Everyone says it but we really mean it. We love you guys and we really do depend on your support and so heres to another year!
Love Tegan (and Sara)
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Link:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2096711&blogID=458756357
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Macbeth shoes sneak peak + Sara's top 10 albums of 2008
(Sorry, I'm a little late on both of these)
Click for a look at the new "Tegan" and "Sara" Macbeth shoes!
http://www.ifeltyouinmyknees.com/
They look so awesome. I'm definately saving up for both.
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And on afterellen.com, Sara posted her top 10 favourite albums of '08. Here they are:
1. T.I., Paper Trail
"Anything with Rihanna guesting is my kind of jam."
2. Ra Ra Riot, The Rhumb Line
"Killer. Plus Tegan and I both love it — a small miracle when we both like something."
3. No Age, Nouns
4. F----d Up, The Chemistry of Common Life
"Dallas, from City and Colour, recommended this to me. I love it. Sometimes on the subway, it makes me feel like I'm going to have an anxiety attack, but it helps with the "taking two stairs at a time" vibe I have when I hit the streets."
5. Atlas Sound, Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
"Became a pre-show favorite for me. Calming, but also strange."
6. Flying Lotus, Flying Lotus
"Similar to my feelings above - great pre-show music, for both me and the crowd."
7. An Horse, Rearrange Beds
"Bias! I love this band."
8. Jennifer O'Connor, Here With Me
"This is my morning tea music. Sometimes I imagine myself stretching or lounging in a beam of sunlight, but generally just stare in horror in my e-mail inbox and swill coffee down my throat."
9. Chad Vangaalen, Soft Airplane
"His voice makes me feel like crying and his albums make me think of snowshoeing."
10. Times New Viking, Rip it Off
"Loud, fun."
Link here:
http://www.afterellen.com/music/2008/12/celesbiantopalbums?page=0%2C1
Click for a look at the new "Tegan" and "Sara" Macbeth shoes!
http://www.ifeltyouinmyknees.com/
They look so awesome. I'm definately saving up for both.
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And on afterellen.com, Sara posted her top 10 favourite albums of '08. Here they are:
1. T.I., Paper Trail
"Anything with Rihanna guesting is my kind of jam."
2. Ra Ra Riot, The Rhumb Line
"Killer. Plus Tegan and I both love it — a small miracle when we both like something."
3. No Age, Nouns
4. F----d Up, The Chemistry of Common Life
"Dallas, from City and Colour, recommended this to me. I love it. Sometimes on the subway, it makes me feel like I'm going to have an anxiety attack, but it helps with the "taking two stairs at a time" vibe I have when I hit the streets."
5. Atlas Sound, Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
"Became a pre-show favorite for me. Calming, but also strange."
6. Flying Lotus, Flying Lotus
"Similar to my feelings above - great pre-show music, for both me and the crowd."
7. An Horse, Rearrange Beds
"Bias! I love this band."
8. Jennifer O'Connor, Here With Me
"This is my morning tea music. Sometimes I imagine myself stretching or lounging in a beam of sunlight, but generally just stare in horror in my e-mail inbox and swill coffee down my throat."
9. Chad Vangaalen, Soft Airplane
"His voice makes me feel like crying and his albums make me think of snowshoeing."
10. Times New Viking, Rip it Off
"Loud, fun."
Link here:
http://www.afterellen.com/music/2008/12/celesbiantopalbums?page=0%2C1
Friday, December 12, 2008
BONNAROO 2008 DVD
Tegan and Sara performing "Back in Your Head" at Bonnaroo 2008 will be featured in a Bonnaroo Live DVD alongside a hand picked selection of some of last year's finest moments. This DVD collection showcases incredible performances and exclusive Bonnaroo footage. The audio has been remixed from the Bonnaroo master tapes in stereo and 5.1 surround. Live From Bonnaroo 2008 captures the Bonnaroo experience and the incredible performances that made this an unforgettable event.
A limited number of 'Live From Bonnaroo 2008' DVDs are currently available for pre-order for $16.95 plus shipping and handling. These will be shipped out in January.
Track Listing:
1. The Raconteurs - Old Enough
2. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Let Them Knock
3. Broken Social Scene - Love Is New
4. Gogol Bordello - Think Locally Fuck Globally
5. Chali 2na with Galactic - Lock Shit / Right Now
6. Metallica - Fade to Black
7. Lee Boys - Come On, Help Me Lift Him Up
8. Tegan and Sara - Back In Your Head
9. Against Me! - We Laugh at Danger (And Break All The Rules)
10. The Avett Brothers - Die Die Die
11. Jack Johnson - If I Had Eyes
12. Les Claypool - One Better
13. Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen
14. Two Gallants - Despite What You've Been Told
15. My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed
16. Pearl Jam - Better Man
Please visit http://www.bonnaroo.com for more info!
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From T&S Myspace Bulletin
http://bulletins.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bulletin.read&authorID=2096711&messageID=6249108348&MyToken=84d44ada-c722-4c1a-8807-6d5f77f50ce0
A limited number of 'Live From Bonnaroo 2008' DVDs are currently available for pre-order for $16.95 plus shipping and handling. These will be shipped out in January.
Track Listing:
1. The Raconteurs - Old Enough
2. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Let Them Knock
3. Broken Social Scene - Love Is New
4. Gogol Bordello - Think Locally Fuck Globally
5. Chali 2na with Galactic - Lock Shit / Right Now
6. Metallica - Fade to Black
7. Lee Boys - Come On, Help Me Lift Him Up
8. Tegan and Sara - Back In Your Head
9. Against Me! - We Laugh at Danger (And Break All The Rules)
10. The Avett Brothers - Die Die Die
11. Jack Johnson - If I Had Eyes
12. Les Claypool - One Better
13. Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen
14. Two Gallants - Despite What You've Been Told
15. My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed
16. Pearl Jam - Better Man
Please visit http://www.bonnaroo.com for more info!
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From T&S Myspace Bulletin
http://bulletins.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bulletin.read&authorID=2096711&messageID=6249108348&MyToken=84d44ada-c722-4c1a-8807-6d5f77f50ce0
"It's win-win for Quin Twins"
Article from Australian website:
Defying assumptions that twins are close and identical twins even closer, Tegan and Sara Quin live nearly 3700km apart in the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Montreal, respectively.
And, when not in Canada or on tour, the 28-year-old indie pop sisters spend their time even further apart; Tegan stays with her girlfriend in Los Angeles while Sara lives in New York.
Despite recording five studio albums and touring the globe as a duo, the Quin twins - both lesbians - have never written songs together.
As Tegan explains from LA, where she is escaping the Canadian winter, that is about to change.
The twins will convene in New Orleans for their first ever joint writing sessions, the follow-up to last year’s critically adored album, The Con.
“Earlier this year we swapped back and forth a few instrumentals,” she begins. “I had a couple that I didn’t know what to do with and so did she. So, we sent them to each other and the songs turned out cool.
“We thought if we took our two different sensibilities and put them together maybe we truly would make a Tegan and Sara record.”
The sisters first picked up acoustic guitars and started writing songs when they were 14, yet Tegan says they were both too shy and awkward to share their innermost thoughts with each other.
They would write alone, and then collaborate during the recording process.
“We sort of kept that up over the years, so the fact we were living on different coasts really wasn’t that big a deal,” she says.
And it wasn’t just music — the sisters were so shy, Tegan says, that they felt alienated from each other.
“People always found it strange that we didn’t talk about our relationships with each other. That only really started in the last couple of years.
“We support each other no matter what but it doesn’t necessarily mean that we talk about everything, thank God,” she laughs. “There’re some things I just don’t want to know.”
Tegan reveals that this separate songwriting methodology means she doesn’t always know what Sara is singing about, and vice versa. Sometimes this results in a raised eyebrow or dropped jaw, as when Sara first played her girlfriend and Tegan the song Back in Your Head, which contains the line “I’m not unfaithful but I’ll stray”.
Despite being shocked by the sentiment of those lyrics, Tegan respected her sister’s brutal honesty.
“The passion for what we do sometimes transcends our reasonable nature and sometimes you just have to say things that aren’t necessarily nice. I read into (Sara’s songs) from time to time, but I’m also a fan,” Tegan continues. “I automatically take Sara’s songs and apply them to my own life.”
Tegan and Sara have written 30 new songs. While she avoids talking about her own compositions, Tegan says the fresh material is moving on from the heartbroken theme of The Con.
“The stuff that Sara’s writing is very interesting. She’s avoiding writing about love.
“One of the songs, my favourite so far, Light Up, is about my mom and what it was like for her … to be so young and alone with us. When my dad left, my mom would’ve been 26 or 27. There’s a lyric in it about being the same age as my mom when my dad left and how that must’ve felt for her,” Tegan says, before adding: “Trying to imagine us right now having children seems terrifying.”
Tegan says that they’re talking to potential producers for their sixth album, including Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla, who helmed The Con.
They’re aiming for a mid-2009 release, but admit that might not be realistic with an Australian tour from late December to early January, plus a February concert with fellow Canadians Broken Social Scene, in her hometown of Vancouver.
“They’re rad dudes,” she says. “I love their record. I’m totally stoked to play in Vancouver again and, in particular, to play with them.”
Two years ago, Broken Social Scene’s self-titled release beat Tegan and Sara’s So Jealous for the alternative album of the year title at Canada’s top music awards, the Junos. Arcade Fire repeated the feat this year when their Neon Bible was preferred to The Con.
“I’m holding out that we don’t ever win any sort of award,” Tegan laughs. “I can’t even imagine going up there, I’m so shy. I don’t want to win.”
Tegan and Sara, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, Feist and many more, are at the forefront of an impressive Canadian music scene that seems to have exploded in recent years.
Tegan insists there’s always been great music made in Canada - we’ve just started to notice it thanks to the internet helping bands break out internationally without the support of major radio.
“Sites like MySpace and blogs and Pitchfork Media, these kinds of things, they started this momentum…where it didn’t matter if you had sold millions of records or if you had a major record label deal or if you got radio, you could still sell 150,000 records and go out and tour huge venues,” Tegan explains.
“More than anything, it’s just allowed countries like Canada and Australia to have music from their country exposed to a bigger and wider and more diverse audience.”
Tegan and Sara play Southbound at Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton on January 3. The event has sold out.
PERTH
SIMON COLLINS
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LINK:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=112769
Defying assumptions that twins are close and identical twins even closer, Tegan and Sara Quin live nearly 3700km apart in the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Montreal, respectively.
And, when not in Canada or on tour, the 28-year-old indie pop sisters spend their time even further apart; Tegan stays with her girlfriend in Los Angeles while Sara lives in New York.
Despite recording five studio albums and touring the globe as a duo, the Quin twins - both lesbians - have never written songs together.
As Tegan explains from LA, where she is escaping the Canadian winter, that is about to change.
The twins will convene in New Orleans for their first ever joint writing sessions, the follow-up to last year’s critically adored album, The Con.
“Earlier this year we swapped back and forth a few instrumentals,” she begins. “I had a couple that I didn’t know what to do with and so did she. So, we sent them to each other and the songs turned out cool.
“We thought if we took our two different sensibilities and put them together maybe we truly would make a Tegan and Sara record.”
The sisters first picked up acoustic guitars and started writing songs when they were 14, yet Tegan says they were both too shy and awkward to share their innermost thoughts with each other.
They would write alone, and then collaborate during the recording process.
“We sort of kept that up over the years, so the fact we were living on different coasts really wasn’t that big a deal,” she says.
And it wasn’t just music — the sisters were so shy, Tegan says, that they felt alienated from each other.
“People always found it strange that we didn’t talk about our relationships with each other. That only really started in the last couple of years.
“We support each other no matter what but it doesn’t necessarily mean that we talk about everything, thank God,” she laughs. “There’re some things I just don’t want to know.”
Tegan reveals that this separate songwriting methodology means she doesn’t always know what Sara is singing about, and vice versa. Sometimes this results in a raised eyebrow or dropped jaw, as when Sara first played her girlfriend and Tegan the song Back in Your Head, which contains the line “I’m not unfaithful but I’ll stray”.
Despite being shocked by the sentiment of those lyrics, Tegan respected her sister’s brutal honesty.
“The passion for what we do sometimes transcends our reasonable nature and sometimes you just have to say things that aren’t necessarily nice. I read into (Sara’s songs) from time to time, but I’m also a fan,” Tegan continues. “I automatically take Sara’s songs and apply them to my own life.”
Tegan and Sara have written 30 new songs. While she avoids talking about her own compositions, Tegan says the fresh material is moving on from the heartbroken theme of The Con.
“The stuff that Sara’s writing is very interesting. She’s avoiding writing about love.
“One of the songs, my favourite so far, Light Up, is about my mom and what it was like for her … to be so young and alone with us. When my dad left, my mom would’ve been 26 or 27. There’s a lyric in it about being the same age as my mom when my dad left and how that must’ve felt for her,” Tegan says, before adding: “Trying to imagine us right now having children seems terrifying.”
Tegan says that they’re talking to potential producers for their sixth album, including Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla, who helmed The Con.
They’re aiming for a mid-2009 release, but admit that might not be realistic with an Australian tour from late December to early January, plus a February concert with fellow Canadians Broken Social Scene, in her hometown of Vancouver.
“They’re rad dudes,” she says. “I love their record. I’m totally stoked to play in Vancouver again and, in particular, to play with them.”
Two years ago, Broken Social Scene’s self-titled release beat Tegan and Sara’s So Jealous for the alternative album of the year title at Canada’s top music awards, the Junos. Arcade Fire repeated the feat this year when their Neon Bible was preferred to The Con.
“I’m holding out that we don’t ever win any sort of award,” Tegan laughs. “I can’t even imagine going up there, I’m so shy. I don’t want to win.”
Tegan and Sara, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, Feist and many more, are at the forefront of an impressive Canadian music scene that seems to have exploded in recent years.
Tegan insists there’s always been great music made in Canada - we’ve just started to notice it thanks to the internet helping bands break out internationally without the support of major radio.
“Sites like MySpace and blogs and Pitchfork Media, these kinds of things, they started this momentum…where it didn’t matter if you had sold millions of records or if you had a major record label deal or if you got radio, you could still sell 150,000 records and go out and tour huge venues,” Tegan explains.
“More than anything, it’s just allowed countries like Canada and Australia to have music from their country exposed to a bigger and wider and more diverse audience.”
Tegan and Sara play Southbound at Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton on January 3. The event has sold out.
PERTH
SIMON COLLINS
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LINK:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=112769
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
New MySpace blog post!
So Tegan or Sara made a new MySpace blog post. Here it is.
"holiday goodies"
so we have finally topped up the T&S online stores across the world (okay not everywhere, but a few places in the world).
we are happy to announce that we now have an online store located in the UK, so Brits and their friends and neighbours can order shirts without having to wait for them to arrive from North America on a storm battered ocean vessel.
you can access it here...www.bandmad.com
as for the canadian and us stores, they are bursting at the seams with new stuff, including a fancy new, never seen before design that will never see the hard realities of life on the road. it is going to be a web exclusive, so if you want it (and you will) you will just have to order it online!
US - gomerch.com
Canada and International - www.maplemusic.com
in the maple store, which you can still place orders at from anywhere in the world, there are hoodies, scarves, totebags, pins, Under Feet Like Ours cds (all the cds and dvds actually), vinyl, I'll Take the Blame EPs and even discount bundles for the bargain lover.
what we are trying to say here is that if you want T&S merch, it is ready and waiting for you!
happy holidays!!
<3
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Link:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2096711&blogID=455453744&Mytoken=4D7DBD12-23B2-4A6A-BA3D5A48506B7A3149892362
"holiday goodies"
so we have finally topped up the T&S online stores across the world (okay not everywhere, but a few places in the world).
we are happy to announce that we now have an online store located in the UK, so Brits and their friends and neighbours can order shirts without having to wait for them to arrive from North America on a storm battered ocean vessel.
you can access it here...www.bandmad.com
as for the canadian and us stores, they are bursting at the seams with new stuff, including a fancy new, never seen before design that will never see the hard realities of life on the road. it is going to be a web exclusive, so if you want it (and you will) you will just have to order it online!
US - gomerch.com
Canada and International - www.maplemusic.com
in the maple store, which you can still place orders at from anywhere in the world, there are hoodies, scarves, totebags, pins, Under Feet Like Ours cds (all the cds and dvds actually), vinyl, I'll Take the Blame EPs and even discount bundles for the bargain lover.
what we are trying to say here is that if you want T&S merch, it is ready and waiting for you!
happy holidays!!
<3
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Link:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2096711&blogID=455453744&Mytoken=4D7DBD12-23B2-4A6A-BA3D5A48506B7A3149892362
New photo from New Orleans!
Taken by Ryan Russell. I don't know if any of you have seen it before, but I sure haven't!
(click to enlarge)
And just so I don't have to create another post, I also stumbled across a yearbook photo of T&S that I've never seen before.
(click to enlarge)
Jeez, they were always hot.
:)
(click to enlarge)
And just so I don't have to create another post, I also stumbled across a yearbook photo of T&S that I've never seen before.
(click to enlarge)
Jeez, they were always hot.
:)
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
New exclusive online-only shirt available on U.S. merch store!
But hurry, there were only 102 made!
Front:
Back:
Go now!!!
http://gomerch.com/interface/body.php?module=store&id=27&substoreid=16
Front:
Back:
Go now!!!
http://gomerch.com/interface/body.php?module=store&id=27&substoreid=16
Sunday, November 23, 2008
"I'll Take the Blame" EP and "The Con" Vinyl LP available on MapleMusic!
In case you didn't already know, the "I'll Take the Blame" EP is available on MapleMusic.
And "The Con" Vinyl LP is also now available!EDIT: The Vinyl LP is already sold out! Maybe there will be more in soon.
Welcome, folks.
Welcome to teganandsaranews.blogspot.com! I thought I'd try this out and see what happens. Basically, this is just a place where I'll post anything and everything Tegan and Sara related that happens so all you hardcore fans can be kept up to date. Check back soon, I'm sure something interesting will happen!
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