artwork! first US dates for Sainthood!!

Hello!

Tegan sent a telegram from the cruise ship, she’s pleased with my performance as Captain Correspondence, and I’ve been given permission to continue. The first order of business:

We’re happy to present the album cover and track listing for SAINTHOOD.

Front cover


Back cover







Last order of business: here are the first couple of dates in support of the new album!

Oct 25 - Los Angeles, CA - Orpheum Theater
All ages! Tickets on sale Aug 28th at 10am PST at

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09004315ABF866C0?brand=goldenvoice

Oct 30 - New York, NY - Town Hall
All ages! Tickets on sale Aug 28th at 10am EST.

Oct 31 - New York, NY - Town Hall
All ages! Tickets on sale Aug 28th at 10am EST.

We are very excited to see you soon!!
skq

more Tiësto and internet Cafés

Hi friends,

Tegan is on vacation and I’ve been left in charge of this weeks announcements. I’m a little rusty, and I’ll admit, a tad nervous to fill her shoes. all that tweeting and blogging she does has sharpened her skills.

I’m incredibly out of the loop and do not currently have the “internet” in my apartment. probably for the best since the temperature hovers near one million degrees, occasionally cooling to a miserable humid chill of 95, and i fear that using my lap top to blog or tweet would only boil my brain.

I write this from the comfort of an internet cafe. Yes, they still exist. I tried the library but apparently all of those were closed in the late 1990’s, along with phone booths. According to the police man staking out the location across from my apartment, they only get used by drug dealers now. Who knew?

So! Here i go! First post of the week! Tiësto! Tegan and Sara! I feel it in my bones! Etc!

Tegan traveled east for the big video shoot this week, a treat since I generally fly west for music related shenanigans!

The highlight of the shoot for me was dancing on camera. It’s an incredibly fine line between what I was doing and actual dancing and I only hope that my awkward seizure of jerking limbs in that dark warehouse while 15 people looked on in bewildered horror/amusement translates to the giant jumbo LED screens used in Tiësto’s live show.

Apparently dancing isn’t like riding a bike. Tegan screamed helpful feedback…”move your hips for christ sake!”. She did much better. I credit her DJ phase in 2006 for the mad skillz. Dancing aside, the video was so much fun and we’re truly grateful to be included on Tiësto’s new album. I hope you all go and check out the show (and the video) when he’s on tour this year.

Below, are some photos of the shoot. Enjoy!

The record is called Kaleidoscope and is out 10/20 via Ultra. Here is the tracklist showing some of the other amazing collaborators.

01 Tiësto (Feat. Jónsi from Sigur Rós) - “Kaleidoscope”
02 Tiësto (Feat. CC Sheffield) - “Escape Me”
03 Tiësto (Feat. Kianna) - “You Are My Diamond”
04 Tiësto and Sneaky Sound System - “I Will Be Here”
05 Tiësto (Feat. Priscilla Ahn) - “I Am Strong”
06 Tiësto (Feat. Cary Brothers) - “Here On Earth”
07 Tiësto - “Always Near”
08 Tiësto (Feat. Kele Okereke) - “It’s Not The Things You Say”
09 Tiësto - “Fresh Fruit”
10 Tiësto (Feat. Calvin Harris) - “Century”
11 Tiësto (Feat. Tegan and Sara) - “Feel It In My Bones”
12 Tiësto (Feat. Nelly Furtado) - “Who Wants To Be Alone”
13 Tiësto - “LA Ride”
14 Tiësto - “Bend It Like You Don’t Care”
15 Tiësto (Feat. Emily Haines) - “Knock You Out”
16 Tiësto - “Louder Than Boom”
17 Tiësto - “Surrounded By Light”

Monday, I’ll be back here at the internet cafe to post album artwork for SAINTHOOD, as well as a track listing!

Off to ice my feet!

skq

T+S+ Tiesto

T+S+Tiesto from Tegan and Sara on Vimeo.

Go to stereogum.com on Aug 18th to hear the exclusive premiere of the Tiesto and Tegan and Sara collaboration track “I Feel It in My Bones”. Starting Aug 19th it will be streaming at myspace.com/tiesto.

New blog post from Tegan

Hello everyone!

It’s so hot! Oh my goodness. I feel like I’m melting. Vancouver is never this hot.
I have 3 fans on me at all times. I drag them from room to room with me. Well
only 2 can actually move from room to room, but my ceiling fan is going full
speed non-stop! My plants, which were looking so happy and healthy until this
week, are looking a bit wilted. My mom told me I look tired over lunch today.
I am. It’s hard to sleep in a loft when it’s this hot. I roll around a lot and kick the
blankets off and wake up to soak my head in the sink and re-moisturize. It’s all
very exhausting and complicated.

Things are good in our world otherwise. We’ve been super busy. Between album
artwork and booking tours and mixing the record - not to mention finishing the
books so we can print them in time to come out the same day as the record - we’ve
hardly got time to eat. I have been making time for yoga though. Expect a very toned
and athletic looking Tegan and Ted next time you see us. That’s right, Ted has
been coming too! He moved to Vancouver this past Spring. It’s very nice to have
him close by. We shopped together the other day for new keyboards. We got a
parking ticket.

Sara is out East supervising album artwork and preparing emotionally for months
of West coast living. We’ll be starting rehearsals mid-September and we’ll be doing
them here in Vancouver. FINALLY! So Sara is soaking up the humidity and all the
other things that distinguish the West coast from Montreal or New York or where ever
it is that she resides. She doesn’t return my calls so I never know. Oh Sara.

Alright. No real news to report today. We have some HUGE announcements in the
coming weeks but… nothing we’re ready to share today. EXCEPT this:

We opened up our online store in the US to everyone outside of the US too, so feel
free to shop there if you’re from… say… Melbourne. There are lots of items and designs
that are not available in the Maple (Canada/International) store.

We also dropped the price on all the shirts there to $20. So shop shop shop!

Okay friends,

Wear sunscreen and stay hydrated,
Your friend,
Tegan (and Sara)

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