New MySpace blog post + 2 new photos!

hello friends!

a few important things to tell you:

We are supporting Death Cab For Cutie Sunday July 5th at the Hollywood Bowl (New Pornographers will also be performing!)

Fan presale is happening right now and runs until May 1

password is BOWL2009

go to ticketmaster

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in merchandising news. those of you who purchased the "metal" tshirt...those will ship this week! and new t+s spring merchandise will be up this week at maple!

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our dear friend matt sharp and his ambitious new project with the rentals has started to post new songs/photos and film at :

THE RENTALS

SO SO good. please check it out.

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i won't lie, watching the calgary flames be eliminated last night from the playoffs was upsetting. i blame the chocolate ice cream and sunstroke for the fretful sleep and my subsequent cranky mood. today, i feel no anger towards the chicago franchise. in fact, i'm...happy for you chicago. and your cities people. may you Zamboni the shit out of vancouver in the next round.

who's excited for this? http://www.tsspivet.com. i am.

also sort of getting hyperbolic about the show deadwood. don't be surprised if the new album is death pop meets r&b with a little bit of sheriff meets gold rush 1800's sexy. just saying.

skq

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Link:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=2096711&blogId=485985234

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New photos! (click to enlarge)

(from Lindsey Byrnes' MySpace)

(from T&S's MySpace)

In the studio with Char2d2

From Char2d2's Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/char2d2

(click images to enlarge)


"pre-red bull guitar tracks p.s. tegan is awake...she's just feeling the music...hehe"
photo by Lindsey Byrnes



"it was a really high keyboard"
photo by Soizic Limage



"so many secrets"
photo by Lindsey Byrnes



"the mac is full of secrets"
photo by Lindsey Byrnes

Some news about the record

From altpress.com:

On the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2007's The Con, members of their touring band join Tegan and Sara Quin, and Con producer Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie) for an album Sara begrudgingly describes as "upbeat. I hate saying that, but we just get together in the studio and Tegan and I just dance awkwardly!" Fans can expect plenty of surprises, including a track called "Alligator," which Sara based around a piano hook in a bid for urban pop hit-making. "When it came to fleshing the arrangement out, nobody reached for a guitar," she recalls. "Six hours in and there were four people jamming on keyboards. I was like, 'Oh, my God, are we Kraftwerk?'" But like many of the Quins' adventures, there's always a great back story involved. "Tegan and I did a writing session in New Orleans a couple months ago," Sara begins, "We wrote seven songs together and all we had was an electric guitar, a weird acoustic guitar, a microphone and a drum kit. And we were like, 'We're gonna make a really stripped-down Replacements record, just harsh, reverb-y guitars and focus on melodies and lyrics. Watching everybody playing keyboards on 'Alligator' made me think, 'You know, we've really gone off the path here...'"

http://www.altpress.com/features/six-degrees-discs.htm

New photos from Brooks Reynolds photoshoot!

http://portfolio.brooksreynolds.com/

Cancer Bats Cover "So Jealous"!!!

"Cancer Bats' cover of Tegan And Sara's "So Jealous"
will appear on a deluxe edition of last year's Hail
Destroyer that will be released on April 20 in the U.K."

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Read full here:
http://www.chartattack.com/news/68236/cancer-bats-are-so-jealous