friends!

still having a blast supporting Paramore! The crowds have been so kind to us and the backstage vibes have been really welcoming! Also had a great headline show in Burlington! Thanks Higher Ground! AND, finally, we had our minds blown at Lilith Fair in Boston! So enjoyed everyone at the festival!

More updates soon, but wanted to direct you here:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Ca7mw/www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-margaret-cho-teams-tegan-sara?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=spintwitter/r:t

and here:

http://twitter.com/margaretcho

We’re so excited and honored to have a song on the new Margaret Cho album! It was a co-write, and the song features Tegan on drums! We absolutely love, adore and admire her and we’re super excited about the project! Check it out!

Just had a terrific day off in New Hampshire. Big spiders, canoes, death-defying walks along the interstate, lodge coffee, lounging, reading, fish and chip eating, mad men/true blood watching happiness!

Happy August!

Do you want to hear the bonus album Home Recordings from The Official Vinyl Collection box set?


It’s streaming here today at 1pm PST!


http://www.becausesoundmatters.com/blog/friday-vinyl-lunch-7-30-2010

the official vinyl collection is now available for pre-order!

First off, today is On Directing video premiere day! Today Canadians can view it at muchmusic.com and the rest of the world can see it at teen.com/music.


Now to even more exciting news…





Our parents had a lot of vinyl. Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Pretenders…an Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas Collection… The record player was stacked on top of an amp with impossibly large speakers on the floor layered with dust next to it. I was too young to be trusted with actual operation of the stereo, so I busied myself staring at the album artwork and torturing my cats with the vinyl brush. Soon enough I was DJ of my own Cassette Tape player and shed no tears when the turntable and vinyl collection disappeared from our lives.


Who knew what we were all missing!


Over the years we’ve manufactured small runs of vinyl for our tours and for limited sales online, but today we’re so thrilled to announce that we’ve gone ahead and collected ALL of our albums into one sleek box set! This Business of Art, If It Was You, So Jealous, The Con and Sainthood, plus we’ve included a special record called Home Recordings that includes demos of Fix You Up, Dark Come Soon, the Ocean and more!


This was particularly fun because some of them haven’t been heard publicly before! Just like my parent’s vinyl collection (that really only exists in my memories now…) these demos are audio snapshots of the songs that went on to become very important parts of our musical history. I’m so glad that we’re able to offer them with this really special collection!!


The box artwork is designed by EE STOREY, and pre-orders will also include a special limited edition poster (signed by us) inside as well.


The pre-order starts this Wednesday, July 28. Check back here then for more info and links to buy!

sara

FRIENDS!

Day three! Summer Tour 2010! We’ve played a couple of shows with Paramore and I’m totally convinced this is going to be a fantastic summer and tour! I really can’t say how excited and grateful we are that we’re supporting this really special band all summer. So thankful to be asked! It truly is giving us an opportunity to perform in front of a really unique and diverse audience. Its also been really fun to be sharing the stage with New Found Glory and Kadawatha! Both terrific bands.

It has been remarkably hot, unlike weather I’ve ever performed in before. I’ve been feeling like a true rock star watching as my hair drips sweat onto my guitar and the sweat from my arms makes it difficult to play with precision. Its like we’re Bon Jovi in the 80’s. Last night at the State fair in Delaware I wore my Canadian tuxedo. This is jeans on top and jeans on the bottom. I think that people were generally confused by me. But I’m sticking to my look. No matter how alien it makes me seem!!! Watch out state fairs…here I come in my seasonally inappropriate get-up!

Paramore’s fans are so sweet and its been really nice to see T+S fans singing along in the crowd too. Good vibes all around! Hayley is a firecracker, and we’re all loving Paramore’s set. Great band! Everyone has made us feel so welcome!

More updates soon!

Tonight is our first headline show, Hesta Prynn is supporting (http://hestaprynn.tumblr.com/) and I’m really looking forward to playing a full set indoors~! Hello air conditioning!!!

We had a nice break after Europe, but thank you again to all the fans who came out in June. There were some really incredible moments, including my 48 hours of food poisoning. After the tour I attended Wimbledon. Pimms+ strawberries and cream + Rafael Nadal = living the dream.

So many exciting updates this week…

Stay tuned, stay hydrated!

sara

People of the world!


A few months ago we shot two new music videos in Vancouver while we were between tours. Sara and I wanted to do something really simple and performance based for these latest videos from Sainthood and so if you were becoming attached to our high concept, confusing music videos of late, then you might not dig these videos.


In On Directing, Sara and I are wearing gorilla suits and are on the moon. We spend most of the video trying to come up with a formula to make the iPHONE not break when you drop it.


In Northshore, Sara and I spend most of our time in an imaginary mosh pit in a room decorated with artwork from our past 12 years as a band.


Obviously only one of those treatments is real. To find out which one is made up and which one is exactly as I described watch the video premiere for On Directing this Monday, July 26! Canadians will be able to view it at muchmusic.com and the rest of the world can see it at alloy.com. We will post the direct links on Monday.


Then two weeks later, Northshore will be premiering on Tuesday, August 10 on myspace.com worldwide.


Obviously you have to wait a bit longer to actually see the videos, but we wanted to tease you a bit by showing you some of Lindsey Byrnes’ photos of the shoot (find them on the photo page) and a video I made.





Enjoy the videos you guys! They are from us to you!


Tegan (and Sara)

Hey T+S fans!


We’re so excited to announce the release of THE 2010 SUMMER TOUR EP TODAY! The EP has six tracks from the four bands who are touring together this summer on The Honda Civic Tour. It includes two tracks from Paramore, two from T+S, one from New Found Glory and one from Kadawatha. We’ve never done something like this before and we are so proud and excited with the final result.


The two tracks Sara and I included on the 2010 Summer Tour EP are:


SHEETS - Sara and I recorded Sheets during the recording sessions for Sainthood last spring. This track was one of our favourites but we couldn’t fit it on the record. It’s a true Sainthood B-SIDE! Sara and I wrote it together. It’s only the second official T+S collaboration ever released (Paperback Head being the other).


BACK IN YOUR HEAD - Obviously everyone has heard the album version or some remix version but this is a true acoustic version of the song with just Sara and I performing together. The recording is from our latest tour to Australia and we love it!


It is available at TODAY on iTunes (sorry, only in the USA). It will also be available in Hot Topic stores in limited quantities starting August 10. Both are only available until September 26!




Tegan (and Sara)

Happy Friday everyone! Tickets are now on sale for the following shows! Get em quick!


August 30 - The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC - ticketweb.com
August 31 - WorkPlay Soundstage - Birmingham, AL - workplay.com
September 11 - Cain’s Ballroom - Tulsa, OK - protixonline.com


AND for our lovely US fans you can go to iTUNES today to pre order the Summer Tour EP!


http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/2010-summer-tour-ep/id382323991


Have a safe and happy weekend! See you soon!


Tegan and Sara