News & Updates
Today's Headlines
June 4, 2009
On The Site:
Library Additions:
New Ask Tegan
2009, teganandsara[dot]org
Our goal is to have a redesign of [dot]org ready to launch when the next installment of Ask Tegan posts in July. We're looking forward to an updated look!
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Today's Headlines
May 5, 2009
On The Site:
Library Additions:
New Ask Tegan
2009, teganandsara[dot]org
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Today's Headlines
April 16, 2009
On The Web:
NOFX Diss Tegan and Sara
Listen and comment at
spin.com
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Today's Headlines
April 7, 2009
On The Site:
Library Additions:
New Ask Tegan
2009, teganandsara[dot]org
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Today's Headlines
March 10, 2009
On the Blog
New Post Yesterday
If you use Google Reader, the [dot]org RSS feed won't be working for you. I redirected it to the blog feed as we're in the process of doing a re-design and once that's finished I want to do most of the news & updates via the blog. (Until the launch, I'll keep updating here too.) Anyway, for some reason Google Reader doesn't recognize the redirect...other feed readers are fine. Sorry for the inconvenice. You can subscribe to the blog feed at http://teganandsaradotorgnews.blogspot.com/ to get the latest info.
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Today's Headlines
March 09, 2009
On the Site
Library Additions:
Interview
2009, Coupe de Main
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Today's Headlines
March 05, 2009
From Around the Web
Tegan and Sara to Collaborate with Margaret Cho
Via email from Margaret Cho:
Margaret is working on an album of comedy songs, for release in 2010, and is writing with many of her favorite musicians, including Amanda Palmer, Tegan & Sara, Patty Griffin, Jon Brion & Grant Lee Phillips. She'll be debuting some of her new songs at two showcases at this year's South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX, plus hosting a few parties around town.
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Today's Headlines
March 02, 2009
On The Site:
Library Additions:
New Ask Tegan
2009, teganandsara[dot]org
Blog post about submitting your Ask Tegan questions.
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Today's Headlines
February 22, 2009
On The Site:
Library Additions:
Album Review
Huffington Post, 2007
I'm also starting to update to more relevant code. New articles will look slightly different and I'll be going back through the archives to update the old (meaning anything created before today) files.
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Today's Headlines
February 16, 2009
On The Site:
Library Additions:
Articles
dB Magazine, 2005
mtv.com, 2007
spin.com - book club, 2007
guardian.co.uk, 2008
Orange County Music, 2008
reviewjournal.com, 2008
Express Milwaukee, 2008
Spin.com, 2008
Interviews
Blurt Online, 2008
The Eureka Reporter, 2008
Go Magazine, 2008
Neu! Magazine, 2008
rainbownetwork.com, 2008
Rock Sound, 2008
Rolling Stone, 2008
Sonance, 2005
straight.com, 2006
spinner.com, 2007
Today's Headlines
February 14, 2009
On The Site:
Library Additions:
February Ask Tegan
2009, teganandsara[dot]org
To submit a question for Ask Tegan email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan. And, please remember, you are not writing directly to either Tegan or Sara.
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Today's Headlines
February 8, 2009
On The Site:
Library Additions:
Articles
Canoe, 2007
Belfast Telegraph, 2008
The List, 2008
billboard.com, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald, 2008
To submit a question for Ask Tegan email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan. And, please remember, you are not writing directly to either Tegan or Sara.
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Today's Headlines
January 25, 2009
On The Site:
Discography Update
Added "A Wolf at the Table" to the compilations. I've also started work on adding 7 collaborations that I hope to have finished by next Sunday.
To submit a question for Ask Tegan email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan. And, please remember, you are not writing directly to either Tegan or Sara.
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Today's Headlines
January 11, 2009
On The Site:
December Ask Tegan
2009, teganandsara[dot]org
Tour Date Maintenance
Filled in some missing tour dates from 2007 and 2008. Also added 2009 dates.
To submit a question for Ask Tegan email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan. And, please remember, you are not writing directly to either Tegan or Sara.
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Today's Headlines
December 14, 2008
On The Site:
Added an RSS feed. Subscription button is above.
To submit a question for Ask Tegan email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan. And, please remember, you are not writing directly to either Tegan or Sara.
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Today's Headlines
December 14, 2008
On The Web:
A Tegan and Sara auction from charitybuzz.com for Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund; a non-profit organization dedicated to support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality. Click here and here.
November Ask Tegan
2008, teganandsara[dot]org
To submit a question email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan
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Today's Headlines
December 7, 2008
On The Site:
Library Additions:
Articles
Canoe, 2003
ROCKRGRL Magazine, 2005
SF Weekly, 2005
thelife, 2005
Interviews
The Land Salmon, 2007
Santa Barbara Independet, 2007
Creative Loafing, 2007
Album Reviews
The Stern Opportunity, SJ, 2005
From Tegan and Sara, Ask Tegan
2008, teganandsara[dot]org
To submit a question email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan
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Today's Headlines
December 4, 2008
On The Site:
The November Installment of Ask Tegan Is Up in Articles>From Tegan and Sara. Or click below.
From Tegan and Sara, Ask Tegan
2008, teganandsara[dot]org
To submit a question email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan
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Today's Headlines
November 2, 2008
On The Site:
The October Installment of Ask Tegan Is Up in Articles>From Tegan and Sara. Or click below.
From Tegan and Sara
2008, teganandsara[dot]org
To submit a question email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan
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Today's Headlines
October 23, 2008
On The Web:
The first in a series of Tegan and Sara blogs has been posted by Spinner.com at Laugh, Rage, Cry
Ask Tegan:
To submit a question email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan
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Today's Headlines
October 2, 2008
On The Site:
The First Installment of Ask Tegan Is Up in Articles>From Tegan and Sara. Or click below.
From Tegan and Sara
2008, teganandsara[dot]org
To submit a question email teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan
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Today's Headlines
September 22, 2008
On The Site:
I added some older items to the Library:
Articles
2006, Melbourne mX
2006, teenhollywood.com
2005, Vue
Weekly
2005, The Sydney Morning Herald
Show Reviews
2005, The Hollywood Reporter
2005, The Age
Interviews
2008, The Sun, UK
Only a few days left for the September question window for Ask Tegan. Read below for info on how to submit.
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Today's Headlines
September 14, 2008
On The Site:
I added some older items to the Library:
Interviews
2003, Beat Magazine
2005, ASCAP Playback
Articles
2005, Emmie Magazine
2005, L.A. Weekly
2005, The Age
Album Reviews
2005, Kludge Magazine
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Today's Headlines
September 12, 2008
On The Site:
New [dot]org Feature: Ask Tegan!
Ask those questions that have burning at the back of your mind for years and get answers straight from Tegan!
teganandsara.org loves getting in the middle of things, so send your questions to teganandsara.org[at]gmail.com with the subject: Ask Tegan.
Every month we will submit a list of questions to Tegan and then post her answers for all the world to hear, er, read.
Some things to keep in mind.
1. Please give us your name so we may say who the question came from.
2. We don't want to monopolize Tegan's time too much, so we will choose a small list of questions to send each month. If your question wasn't answered one month, that doesn't mean it is off the list. You are always welcome to inquire on the status of your question. When asking, remember we are old and forget a lot of stuff, please remind us what question you submitted.
3. Don't purposely inundate us with the same question over and over.
4. We hope you are as excited about this as we are!
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Today's Headlines
September 05, 2008
On The Site:
From Around the Web:
Tegan and Sara Expose on Spinner.com
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Today's Headlines
September 05, 2008
On The Site:
From Around the Web:
Tegan and Sara Expose on Spinner.com
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Today's Headlines
August 24, 2008
On The Site:
I added some older items to the Library:
Interviews
2005, Kevchino
2006, Inpress
2006, Pressed Music
2006, AV Club
2007, Audio Reload
2008, Curve Magazine
2008, Out In Perth
Aticles
2006, Beat
Album Reviews
2007, The Con, Stylus Magazine
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Today's Headlines
August 21, 2008
From Around the Web:
Tegan performing with Alkaline Trio from Spinner.com
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Today's Headlines
August 01, 2008
From Around the Web:
Vote for Tegan and Sara on XM's "The Verge Music Awards" from The Verge on XM Satellite Radio
Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio mentions a possible futre collaboration with Tegan from BlackBook Magazine
On Tour:
August 10: Under the Volcano Festival of Art and Social Change, Cates Park, North Vancouver, Canada
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Today's Headlines
July 30, 2008
From Around the Web:
Short Article on the upcoming Volcano Festival from Exclaim.ca
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Today's Headlines
July 28, 2008
From Around the Web:
Cyndi Lauper Interview Mention of Tegan and Sara from Sony & BMG Music
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Today's Headlines
July 23, 2008
From Around the Web:
Tegan Appearing with Augusten Burroughs from Augusten's Blog
Angela Kendall to Direct Call It Off Video
Interview Mention of Call It Off Video from YouTube
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Today's Headlines
July 11, 2008
From Around the Web:
Tegan and Sara donate $15,000 to scholarship fund from Straight.com
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Today's Headlines
July 08, 2008
From Around the Web:
Tegan and Sara Icons from Rock Steady Graphics - on LiveJournal
Sara Writes for "Sedaratives" Advice Column from The Believer Magazine
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Today's Headlines
July 07, 2008
From Around the Web:
Shepherd's Bush Pictures from The Adam PW Smith photoblog - Rock Stock and Two Smoking F-Stops
Sled Island Pictures from
Aubrey McInnis' photostream - on Flickr
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Today's Headlines
July 02, 2008
From Around the Web:
Calgary Show Review from chartattack.com
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Today's Headlines
June 29, 2008
From Around the Web:
Cover Song - Where Does the Good Go from Ukulele Hero - My favourite find this week.
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Links of Interest
Tegan and Sara play an exclusive live acoustic set for AOL Spinner. Go to Spinner.com or straight to the following clips:
Back in Your Head ::
Nineteen ::
The Con ::
Dark Come Soon ::
Tegan and Sara Interview
FILTER Magazine's Impressions of "The Con" at
FILTER Magazine
From FILTER Magazine :: www.filter-mag.com
Campus Web.de
Splendidezine.
Tweed Magazine
Tweed Magazine #2
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Bio
Tegan Raine and Sara Keirsten Quin were born in Calgary, Alberta, on September 19th, 1980. Tegan, who's labret piercing makes it easy to tell the identical twins apart, is the older of the two by eight minutes.
They both studied piano as kids, but didn't get serious about music until they were about 15 when Tegan fell ill and Sara picked up a guitar that their mother's boyfriend had left laying around at their house. They taught themselves to play guitar and almost immediately began writing their own music.
According to an interview on Finnish radio, they took advantage of the facilities in their high school to begin recording and selling their work. As for live performance, they initially performed at local parties. In their own words, "We started playing guitar when we were 15, and we called ourselves PLUNK. We were kind of wussy punk [no drums or bass] and we were really bad. We had really funny garage band parties until some guy broke our P.A. Our mom wouldn't fix it and so PLUNK became Tegan and Sara."
They made their first big splash onto the Canadian music scene in 1998 with the highest score ever in Calgary's Garage Warz Battle of the Bands. They used their prize, studio-time, to record a demo album, the Yellow Demo. Two more demo tapes were recorded under the band name Sara and Tegan. The Red Demo and the Orange Demo. [See the Discography for track listings.]
They released their (independent) debut album, Under Feet Like Ours under the name Sara and Tegan in August of 1999. This album has been re-printed twice under the name Tegan and Sara (once with the song Frozen added as a bonus track).
As for the name change Tegan says, "When we called ourselves Sara and Tegan, it didn't work because of they way our names blended together. 'Sarandtegan.' So we switched to Tegan and Sara. It wasn't like all of a sudden I had to have my name in front. It was just easier to pronounce that way.''
In early 2000 they were signed by Neil Young's manager, Elliott Roberts, to Neil Young's label, Vapor Records. Working with producer Hawksley Workman, they released This Business Of Art in July 2000 and its follow-up, If It Was You, was released in August 2002. If It Was You was produced by John Collins and Dave Carswell who had previously worked with The New Porngraphers, the Smugglers, and the Evaporators, and with its release Tegan and Sara added musicians Chris Carlson (bass) and Rob Chursinoff (drums) to the band. 2004 saw the release of So Jealous and an increase in mainstream popularity for the band who scored a slot opening for The Killers. With So Jealous, Tegan and Sara again teamed up with producers John Collins and Dave Carswell and also added Ted Gowans (guitar, keyboard) to the band. 2007 will bring the release of The Con produced by Christopher Walla (Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists) and features Jason McGerr (Death Cab), Hunter Burgan (AFI), and Matt Sharp (Weezer, The Rentals). The Con opened to rave reviews across North America and is the first Tegan and Sara album to break the Billboard Top 40 - coming in at #34 during the first week of August 2007.
As for personal musical influences, Tegan says they grew up with a lot of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell being played in their house. Their musical tastes include U2, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, and Phil Collins, as well as much punk music.
Over the years, Tegan and Sara have played with the Lilith Fair Tour, and opened for such notables as Neil Young, the Pretenders, Rufus Wainwright, Bryan Adams, Joan Osborne, The Killers, and Ryan Adams. They've headlined countless shows, touring extensively in Canada and the United States, and to a lesser extent in Europe and Japan.
Tegan currently lives in Vancouver, BC.
Sara currently lives in Montreal, QC
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