"4:50 Michael Franti is spotted watching Tegan and Sara from the side of the main stage. Not only does he appear to be enjoying what he is seeing, but Franti is actually singing along." (read full article).

"And then you really start to experience what the industry really is. I've never been part of a competitive culture before, and all of a sudden that's all it seemed like it was. It was a competition to get radio, to get press, to get noticed, to get a show, to get an agent, to get a manager. It was just really competitive, and it really traumatized me." (read full article).

"The Sled Island Festival organizers have added some impressive new artists to the lineup for the June 25 to 28 event in Calgary.

Broken Social Scene, Tegan And Sara and Fucked Up are among those who'll join the previously confirmed artists, including Wire, Of Montreal and Mogwai." (read full article).

"'I always feel like I'm writing sort of retrospectively about things that have passed or come to fruition and that can be really disturbing. Like, you're digging back into something you've already overcome, and that can really thrust you back into a place of feeling I'm sad or emotional and I'm like, god, that's so strange. Because right now I feel very settled and normal and whatever, and I'm writing about how I was feeling six months ago. And so it can be strangely uncathartic. ... You're like, no, I've worked through this. Why am I upset again?'" (read full article).

Read Tegan and Sara's Coachella Blog at RollingStone.com.

“What makes it special is, we’re two people collaborating. That’s the heart of what we do,” said Sara, who makes her Aspen debut when Tegan and Sara perform, as a five-piece band, at Belly Up Aspen on Wednesday, April 30, with Australian duo An Horse opening. “It’s always been very easy, very intuitive, and it’s always worked. That’s the area where we work best." (read full article)

"So why do you hate Sara so much?

[Laughs] I don't really hate her, but sometimes I wish I did. Like, we could just have a sister breakup and get our own lives. A few months ago in Europe, we got into a fistfight for the first time in seven years. We have fights, but it's never about the things you'd think. It's never about sibling rivalry or "Your song is better than mine, so I'm going to punch you in the face." We saw some movie a few years ago about Siamese twins, and there's a scene where they're fighting and they're pushing each other, but they're completely stuck together and I turned to Sara and said, "That's how I feel about you." So even if that's how it is, we still have this career and life together and it can be really tense. But Sara and I can't fire each other, otherwise we wouldn't have a career. We've gone though enough tour managers and band members, so thank God we can't fire each other." (read full article)

"I think it was around the time of our third album, we started to notice that, even more than our songs being traded on the Internet, people were trading MP3s of our stories." (read full article at STLtoday).

"Tegan: We watched The Dog Whisperer this morning when we got up, that helped us ease into Coachella.

Sara: It’s like a safe place to watch Cesar Millan talk to the dogs. I own two seasons of The Dog Whisperer on DVD, and I don’t even like dogs, I’m a cat person." (read full article).

"INDIO, Calif. (AP) — Tegan and Sara, the identical twin powerpop duo, are accustomed to writing intimate, emotional songs about heartbreak. But when performing, for every song like "Back in Your Head," there's a balance of silliness. Between nearly every song played by the singing-songwriting pair, the two casually — often hysterically — banter back and forth in what amounts to indie music's answer to Laurel and Hardy." (read full article).

Sheknows.com

"I like the idea that you are kind of conning someone into loving you and then sort of unleash what’s really deep down inside of you. In terms of a career perspective, I never thought about it. We worried that people would run with the idea that we were conning people. If people take that approach, then they’re jerks." (read full article)

"In the forward to Kate Bornstein's bookHello Cruel World, Sara writes about the childhood games she used to play. So how did games like Jail or Orphanage actually go?

Sara: That's very controversial! I think that there was a point in therapy about five years ago when I was talking about the games I played when I was a kid. My therapist really saw it as part of these divorced kid, isolated, depressed, lower middle class issues and I was like, "Listen! I may just like being confined in a small space!" Like I was born in a womb that was way too small for both me and Tegan and there's some sort of a desire to be back in some kind of tiny, uncomfortable space. I don't really know who really thought about those ideas first, and I feel kind of upset at the idea that Tegan and I were the ones that encouraged it. There are probably a load of adults that we grew up with in therapy right now going, 'And then there was Tegan and Sara and they made us play Jail and Orphanage and it was terrifying!'" (read full interview)

We don't have sibling rivalry

"And if you pee on the seat you're obviously not old or mature enough to use a toilet." (read full article).

Belfast Telegraph

"All of our success so far is down to our haircuts," laughs the 27-year-old. "No-one would like us if we didn't have cool do's. But seriously, I love the mullet. I always looked pretty conservative before I moved to Montreal five years ago. Everyone there had the raddest hair so I went to a hairdresser and let them do whatever they wanted to me. I can see the headlines now: Come see Tegan and Sara, they've got cool hair!" (read).

What's on your iPod?

Copyright 2008 Western Mail and Echo Ltd
All Rights Reserved
South Wales Echo
February 15, 2008, Friday
First Edition

SECTION: FEATURES; Pg. 37
LENGTH: 127 words
HEADLINE: what's on your iPod?
BYLINE: GAVIN ALLEN

"THIS week: Tegan Quin, one half of the Vancouver-based Canadian twin duo Tegan and Sara...

Radiohead - In Rainbows "I've always been a fair weather Radiohead fan.

I was into them when I was in high school in the '90s, then I didn't get into Kid A.

But in the last couple of years I've really got into it and In Rainbows is so cool."

Wintersleep - Wintersleep "They're an indie band, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and have a really big sound."

Uh Huh Her - I See Red "I got to meet Leisha Hailey when we appeared in the American TV series The L Word, which is filmed in Vancouver.

I knew she'd been in The Murmurs before acting. My friend wanted to go and see them live and she got me into this their first EP."

Tegan and Sara play The Point, Cardiff Bay, on Sunday, March 2."

Sunday Mail Article

"Copyright 2008 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail Ltd.
Sunday Mail
February 17, 2008, Sunday

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 34
LENGTH: 543 words
HEADLINE: DOUBLE CROSSED;
GIGS; 60 SECOND INTERVIEW
BYLINE: Avril Cadden

TEGAN AND SARA

The Canadian twins'Sara reveals why they think life's a big con.Their fifth album is out tomorrow and their first Scots concert is at Glasgow's QMU on February 29.

Why is your fifth album called The Con?

Tegan liked the idea of The Con. At the time she was single and dating. When you're meeting people, you show them parts of you that you think are positive or cool. In a weird way, you're conning them.

You're only letting them see what might be attractive, fun or exciting and not the high-maintenance, dramatic, strange parts that are more difficult to love.

She felt love was a con because by the time you start to like or love a person, you are already in too deep - you have to accept the other stuff - and I agreed.

I was thinking more about the con of life. This presentation that we walk around projecting that we feel happy but you go home and stay awake at night wondering what you're doing with your life.

Are the two of you single now?

I am single and not dating but Tegan is in a relationship. Because I'm on the road I feel like a monk, I shut down. It's a challenge, not just for romantic relationships but also for my family and friends. Often everyone is forced to accept my schedule.

How did you get involved in music?

Tegan and I started touring straight out of high school. We were turning 18 and it was 1998. We put out our first record eight years ago and we've been touring since.

I had a couple of crappy jobs but, for the most part, I've made a living playing music.

What else would you do if not this?

The way some people fantasise about being a rock star, I've always fantasised about being an author. I would do creative writing.

Being twins, do you work well together or fight?

We have quite a successful relationship.

We're the only kids in our family and we love each other and we're best friends. There was a lot of bickering and fighting but we are much better than we used to be.

I know so many bands that are terrifying.They fight and don't trust each other.

I'm so used to being told it must be hard being in a band with my sister. But looking at all those other bands, I think me and Tegan are pretty good at this. I trust her, she would never steal or lie or hurt me and we can say whatever we want to each other.

Will you do any individual projects?

We'll definitely do other stuff. Tegan has another side project. She's in a band with Hunter Burgan, the bassist from AFI. It's sort of a pop-rock-electro thing. But we worry about putting out a side project. Her voice sounds like my voice and we wonder if it seems like a Tegan and Sara project. But in future we'll do separate things.

Have you been to Scotland before and are you looking forward to it?

We've never been. Our stepdad is Scottish and our biological dad's father was from Scotland. Because both of our dads have a Scottish connection, I'm excited to be going there.

I don't know where they are from but I'm going to figure it out because we must have relatives somewhere.

Any other plans for this year?

We'll be on the road for another year and spending more time in Europe. Our focus is getting outside of North America. We want to make inroads in the UK and we know we have grassroots support because of the internet. We want to be a more visible band.

Avril Cadden"

The Sun (Interview)

"WHY is the UK special to you?

Tegan: It is a great place to tour. We have a loyal and devoted fan base and we are intent on touring anywhere people are interested in seeing us tour. We were in the UK last summer and had an amazing time.

Sara: The UK feels like a metropolis of many different bee hives. There is so much happening. It’s always a challenge for us to stand out somehow; staying underground, relying on the support of word of mouth has been our best bet. But we’re ready to surface." (read full interview at The Sun).

"We've had six weeks off, and we wrote six songs. What we learned on The Con is not to leave anything out. Sara's songs particularly have a lot of electronic weirdness." (read).

Tegan and Sara: The Rise of Lesbian Rock Stars, in 4 Parts

"I gave interviews to gay press in America a couple weeks ago and almost every single interviewer asked me at some point or another in some way or another, why we didn’t talk more about being gay. In ten years, I don’t think I’ve done one interview where they haven’t asked me about being gay. [So] I disagree that there isn’t a lot of stuff about us being gay. I think it has been written about so much that people aren’t that interested in writing about it anymore because how many times can you say we’re gay? How many different ways can you say it? We’re gay." (read the whole interview with Tegan).

So Happy (and Anxious) Together

Interview with Tegan and Sara ("So Happy (and Anxious) Together") at Ragged (download the free .PDF, see pages 14-15).