Tegan & Sara Offer Geography Lessons, Solo Project + New Northern State - "Away Away (Dub Mix)"
Our favorite Canadian twins are currently on tour with Northern State -- between the two crews, there's much to report. For starters, Tegan has a forthcoming solo "electronic-based" project with AFI's Hunter Burgan, who played bass on The Con. As far as we can tell from this quote, it seems to be in the very early stages. They've been touring for like the last ten years, so that's understandable. Via Spinner:
"We don't actually have a name, which is kind of funny ... We wanted to call it Tegan vs. Hunter but we both have projects and bands, obviously, with our names already. So we were kind of like, 'I don't know what we're going to call it.' We're slowly working on a record. I'm really inspired by it, but it's hard to get it done in between tours."In other T&S news, the sisters have been doing a series of videos ("Backstage Bilingual") on their current UK/European tour, where they talk to random audience members backstage about local slang, customs, etc. The first one was kind of a wash, but the three following installments yielded pretty amazing moments, including someone saying, "I'm so hungry I could eat the balls off a low-flying duck." Yeah, things get really good once they head into Ireland...
Backstage Bilingual #3: Dublin, Ireland
Backstage Bilingual #4: Belfast, Ireland
"I got up the duff by Matthew." Oh, Matthew, you wannabe Spice Boy, you ... Such a minx! See the British installments here.
Tegan & Sara's frequent touring mates are Northern State, who recently sent us a remix of "Away Away," which was done by John Hill, who's worked with Santogold and also is in Shitake Monkey with Chuck Brody, the guy who produced Northern State's Can I Keep This Pen?. Here, get dubby wid it.
Northern State - "Away Away (Dub Remix)" (MP3)
They should use that remix to soundtrack the next backstage bilingual and move the discussion from cheap booze and "up the duff" to sweet bud, mon. Better hurry up -- Northern State's tour with Tegan & Sara ends in Amsterdam and then the ladies head out on their own. The post-T&S dates:
04/23 - Boston @ Great Scott
04/24 - Northampton @ Pearl Street
04/25 - Montreal @ Le National
04/26 - Toronto @ Mod Club
04/27 - Cleveland @ Grog Shop
04/29 - Chicago @ Beat Kitchen
04/30 - Minneapolis @ 7t St Entry
05/02 - Denver @ The Falcon
05/03 - Salt Lake City @ Kilby
05/05 - Seattle @ Chop Suey
05/06 - Vancouver @ The Plaza Club
05/07 - Portland @ Doug Fir Lounge
05/09 - San Francisco, Café Du Nord
05/10 - Los Angeles @ Knitting Factory
05/11 - San Diego @ Casbah
05/12 - Tucson, Club Conress
05/14 - Austin @ Stubbs
05/15 - Dallas @ The Prophet Bar
05/16 - Houston @ Warehouse Live
05/17 - Baton Rouge @ Spanish Moon
05/20 - Birmingham @ The Nick
05/21 - Atlanta @ The Earl
05/22 - Raleigh @ Local 506
05/23 - Baltimore @ Ottobar
Posted at 3:40 PM in MP3, Tour Dates, Video
Tags: Northern State | Tegan And Sara
I love bands that video blog!
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Those clips were almost as embarrassing as their live show!
It is a very fun idea, however.
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Those video blogs were fun.
But, I'm pretty sure those tour dates are for Northern State's headlining tour. They don't include Tegan and Sara.
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@ Shane
You're totally right. They go their separate ways a few days before that. Fixed.
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I still don't get Tegan and Sara's popularity, and this doesn't help.
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yay! i love tegan and sara and i love their video blogs. always amusing to watch :)
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It's not about the music idiots. It's about the lesbianism. I'd love to bang them. And watch them scissor. Me timbers.
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YES!!!
Maybe I'm a "Spicer" too. I'll be at the TnS San Diego show on the 11th of May.
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ok everybody. go do what tegan and sara do then come back here and tell us how simple it is. they're musical geniuses..
stupid fucks include: suii (what kind of fucking name is that?), wendy (your parents must have loved their burgers THAT much), and skip (what are you, from a comic book? that's the dumbest name ever).
thanks for your time see ya [ :
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"It's not about the music idiots. It's about the lesbianism. I'd love to bang them. And watch them scissor. Me timbers."
Thanks for that homophobic, sexist, incestuous comment fucker. go back to the frat house.
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