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Paramore Announce Honda Civic Tour Dates With Tegan and Sara

Photo: Metcalfe/GettyParamore will headline this year’s Honda Civic Tour, which kicks off July 23rd in Raleigh, North Carolina and is set to wrap September 19th in Anaheim, California. The Brand New Eyes rockers will be taking Tegan and Sara along with them for the ride, as well as two additional “special guests” to be announced soon. Tickets, which “will be priced for maximum affordability for all fans” according to the tour’s organizers, go on sale in some markets starting March 23rd at the Ho

Published: 2010-03-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: On Tour, Paramore

Tegan and Sara - The Con

Artist: Tegan and Sara Review: As lesbians who never reference their oppression or even their sexuality, Tegan and Sara don't have men to lash out at, put up with or gripe about. This may be why their uncommonly detailed love songs are so short on drama - a riddle worth pondering, because their keyboard-heavy, New Wave-ish music is also uncommonly catchy. When Sara changes up a chorus with a melodically climactic "But I promise this/I won't go my whole life/Telling you I don't need," or Tegan caps a verse with a hook tha... Rating: 3.5 Stars

Published: 2007-07-25 Provider: Rolling Stone

Lilith Tour Adds Norah Jones, Cat Power, Heart, The Gossip to Lineup

Photo: Bonaventure/AFP/GettyNorah Jones, Cat Power, Loretta Lynn, Heart and the Gossip are some of the newest additions to this year’s resurrected Lilith Fair touring festival, which as Rolling Stone previously reported will also feature Sheryl Crow, Mary J. Blige, Ke$ha, Tegan & Sara, Erykah Badu and many more. The Lilith lineup, the first in 10 years, reads like a Who’s Who of female artists already, but organizers promise even more stars will be enlisted for the fest in the coming weeks. The

Published: 2010-01-21 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Festivals, Rock News

Lilith Fair Returning in 2010 With Blige, Crow, Tegan and Sara

Photo: Kravitz/AMA2009/FilmMagicIt’s been more than 10 years since Sarah McLachlan’s lady-friendly Lilith Fair went the way of the dodo after three successful, successive summers, and for months now, we’ve been hearing rumors that the fest would be back in ‘10, with McLachlan once again anchoring the bill. Well, the rumors were right on, and not only is Lilith Fair coming back, it’s coming back in a huge way, blending all musical styles. Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Colbie Caillat, and Erykah Ba

Published: 2009-12-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

News Ticker: Chris Cornell, Carrie Underwood, Tegan and Sara, Massive Attack

Photo: Katopodis/Getty Chris Cornell has struck a deal with Virgin America airlines that will bring his music to all flights in the fleet, so passengers can listen to Scream onboard the plane, watch Cornell videos in-flight, and hear some of his tunes while boarding the aircraft. A press release didn’t specify whether the agreement includes work by Soundgarden, Audioslave or Temple of the Dog. Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley have been booked to host the Country Music Association Awards in Nas

Published: 2009-08-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

Breaking: An Horse

Who: Aussie indie-pop duo Kate Cooper and Damon Cox, whose tunes snagged them opening spots on 2008 tours by Tegan and Sara and Death Cab for Cutie. The pair — whose debut, Rearrange Beds, came out in March — met as employees at their local record store in Brisbane. “We used to close up the store and practice,” says Cooper, 29. “Damon would drop me off after work and joke, ‘We’re in Cincinnati tonight. Tomorrow we’re in Boston!’ He was just talking shit, but now it’s actually happening.” Sounds

Published: 2009-05-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Videos, Breaking, Podcasts

Radiohead, Flaming Lips and Sonic Youth: The Best of Summer 2008

Photo by Rory O’Connor for RollingStone.Com With CMJ officially ending the festival season, it’s time to take a look back at the highlights of the summer season, from Rock Dailiy’s visit to the red carpet at VH1 Rock Honors: The Who to our trips through Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Coachella and the rest of the year’s biggest festivals. Click below for highlights from all the season’s biggest events, featuring video interviews with Wayne Coyne, Panic at the Disco, Tegan & Sara and Ben Harper. • Video Guide: The Best of Summer 2008

Published: 2008-10-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Tour Tracker: Billy Joel, Clinic, Tegan & Sara and Liam Finn

The Piano Man is in a Des Moines State of Mind, Clinic look to showcase their upcoming album Do It, plus tours by Tegan & Sara and Artist to Watch Liam Finn. Full dates after the jump. Billy Joel January 26 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Academy of Music February 23 - Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center February 26 - Sacramento, CA @ ARCO Arena February 28 - Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center March 2 - Milwaukee, WI @ Bradley Center April 15 - Des Moines, IA @ Wells Fargo Arena Clinic May 8 - Brooklyn, NY @ Musi

Published: 2008-01-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit: Metallica, John Mayer, My Morning Jacket: Tom Waits, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tegan and Sara and more at the October 27-28, 2007 event

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Published: 2007-10-30 Provider: Rolling Stone

Tegan Quin Talks Against Me! Video, Side Project With AFI’s Burgan

Tegan and Sara’s Tegan Quin dialed up Rolling Stone’s Jenny Eliscu from Los Angeles, where she’s prepping to film her appearance in the video for Against Me!’s “Borne on the Waves of FM Radio.” Quin shared some info on how she wound up on a punk track and her side project with AFI’s Hunter Burgan: How did you first hook up with Against Me! ? “When their first record came out, I loved them, and when they put out the next record, I interviewed them for Much Music during the Warped Tour. I gushed about how much I loved them and I think they thought that I was really weird. Then they told me they were making a record with Butch Vig and I was like, ‘You should have me on the record! I’ll play guitar.’ And then a month later they called and said they had a song they wanted me to sing on: It’s about a long distance relationship, and it basically summed up everything I was trying to say on The Con.” How was it different from recording with Sara? “Well, they had been in a really amazing studio and were joking they hadn’t seen a girl in months, so they were really nice to me. I’m used to just being in a ghetto studio with Sara going, ‘Get away from me!’ But I was at Warped Tour in L.A. yesterday, and I saw the Against Me! guys, and they were all sweaty and stinky. So I hope they smell better when I see them to make the video. I ran into my friend Hunter Burgan from AFI — we have a side project together.” What’s the deal with this side project? “We met like three years ago after he e-mailed me when we were on tour with So Jealous. I sent him a lot of B-sides and things and he started redoing the instrumentation and turning it into a dance electro thing. Sometimes it sounds like Kelly Clarkson, actually. I think it could make us both really rich. Sara and I just did a tour with Cyndi Lauper, and she co-writes on every song. That’s my retirement plan, to sit and write with really cool artists. It was funny writing with Hunter, though. Like, actually being in the same room. I’ve

Published: 2008-08-19 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Coachella Day One: The Breeders, Tegan and Sara, Black Kids and More

While most attendees were still smuggling their stashes past security at the front gates on Coachella’s Day One, math-rock outfit Battles had a large, vocal crowd enraptured at the Gobi tent with their pounding single “Atlas.” Battles are more concerned with complex rhythms than melody, and with a pumped festival crowd feeding off their energy, the band effortlessly locked into curious, mind-blowing grooves, turning what can come off on record as slightly joyless exercises in syncopated songwriting into something spectacular and energetic, like a dancey, mutant Rage Against the Machine. A tent away, the Black Kids were proving that they’re rapidly growing into the band their early buzz promised they would become. The Jacksonville, Florida five-piece’s Motown-garage jangle came off as robust and charming in the mid-afternoon heat. The band got the crowd moving to single “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You,” a bit of poppy disco-rock that brings out the Robert Smith in frontman Reggie Young’s yelpy voice, and hit their peak on “Look at Me When I Rock With You” as Youngblood took a break from ripping out smooth-toned guitar flourishes to sling his instrument off his shoulder and boogie. Back at the Gobi tent, Dan Deacon took the stage — or rather, the floor just in front of it — and smashed away at his keyboard as walls of synth noise kept the kids jumping around to no particular rhythm, while at the Outdoor Theatre, Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington scaled the scaffolding and threatened to jump, to the delight of his fans and dismay of security (he didn’t make the leap). Click here for photos from Day One of Coachella Meanwhile a modest (and slightly older) crowd gathered at the main stage to watch the Breeders play “some songs from Pod, some songs from Last Splash, Title TK and Mountain Battles,” as Kelley Deal put it. “I can feel it,” Kim Deal intoned as the band kicked into “Overglazed,” the triumphantly droning opening

Published: 2008-04-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Coachella

Tegan and Sara’s Coachella Blog: Prince, The Raconteurs and “The Dog Whisperer”

Tegan and Sara will be filing dispatches from Coachella. Here is their opening entry. Click here for more from Rolling Stone at Coachella. 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. T: It really trained us. Then we got up and we got on a cart, a really nice girl came and gave us a ride to our dressing room, and it’s covered in stars and butterflies and rainbows and hearts. It’s super girly, it’s hilarious. S: The people who do the trailers say they have a sweet spot for us every time we play, so they put extra effort into it. T: For each artist, they get artists to paint funny paintings. The one we got this year is two bunnies and their umbilical cords are all tangled up. Which is kind of funny because yesterday we got a fan video for the song “Floorplan” on our new record, and in it there’s a little girl character that’s supposed to be Sara and she’s wearing bunny slippers and they’re all evil at the end, so when we walked in today and it was the bunnies I was like, oh my God! Then we ate, so we took another ride in the cart. S: And that was scary for me, because Tegan and I did not go to camp, our mother was a single parent and camp was totally out of the question. We found out later because she went to Catholic boarding school, she doesn’t like communal living without parents, so she enforced a no-communal living rule when we were growing up, so we have never done camp really. Now we’re at Coachella and we’re in the catering tent and all the bands are there and I’m sweating profusely, I’m very uncomfortable, I’m afraid everyone hates us. I see people looking at me, I think maybe we know each other. I avoid eye contact. The next time we play Coachella I hope we are the size of Prince … T: We are the size of P

Published: 2008-04-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Coachella

Tour Tracker: True Colors Tour, KT Tunstall and Drive-By Truckers

Cyndi Lauper, the B-52’s, Joan Jett, Regina Spektor and Tegan & Sara participate in this year’s True Colors Tour, KT Tunstall announces a trek and the Drive-By Truckers hit the road. The full set of dates for all three tours can be found after the jump. True Colors Tour May 31 - Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion June 1 - Wantagh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater June 3 - New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall June 4 - Toronto, Ontario @ Molson Amphitheatre June 6 - Mashantucket, CT @ MGM Grand Arena at Foxwoods June 7 - Washington, DC @ DAR Constitution Hall June 9 - Minneapolis, MN @ US Bank Theatre at Target Center June 10 - Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre June 11 - Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre June 13 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Resort Spa & Casino June 14 - Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts June 16, 17 - Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park Amphitheatre June 18 - Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall June 19 - Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Frank Sinatra Theatre at Bank Atlantic Center June 21 - Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion June 22 - Dallas, TX @ The Superpages.com Center June 25 - Phoenix, AZ @ Dodge Theatre June 27 - Alpine, CA @ Viejas Casino June 28 - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre June 29 - Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre July 1 - Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theatre July 2 - Vancouver, British Columbia @ Deer Lake Park July 4 - Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre July 5 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre KT Tunstall May 3 - San Diego, CA @ Spreckels Theatre May 4 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Marjorie Luke Theatre May 5 - Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern May 7 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield May 9 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom May 10 - Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre May 11 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom May 14 - Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre May 15 - Madison, WI @ Barrymore May 16 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre May 17 - Ann Arbor, MN @ Power Center May 19 - Louisville, KY @ Brown Theatre May 20 - Nashville, TN @ Ryman Audit

Published: 2008-03-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Smoking Section: Dave Matthews Does It for the Kids

“I can’t tell you that this is not an unusual gig for me,” Dave Matthews confessed on a hot Saturday night in East Hampton, where he and Tim Reynolds were playing at the Hampton Social, an over-the-top concert series held at the posh Ross School. “Unusual in a good way.” With champagne flowing, lobsters cracked and chaise lounges in full effect, the star-studded crowd saw the duo crunch out DMB faves, fresh cuts like “Corn Bread” and, for the first time ever, “#27.” But they opened with “So Damn Lucky,” from Dave’s 2003 solo album, Some Devil — arguably the best tune Dave’s ever written. Dave agrees: “I was jumping up and down screaming, ‘This should be the single!’ But it was like shouting into a cushion.” So download “So Damn Lucky” for 99 cents, and head out to East Hampton in late August for another Ross School show, featuring Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — two tickets will run you only $6,000.* * * * Guitar phenom Kaki King’s unique slapping, finger-picking and fret-hammering style turns up on new albums by Northern State, Tegan and Sara, and the Foo Fighters. “She’s a fucking genius,” says Dave Grohl, who tapped King for “The Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners,” a Foos instrumental. King is currently in the Catskills cutting her fourth album, with producer Malcolm Burn (Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois), but she’s hoping for a reunion with Grohl, who wants them to cut a whole album together. She reports, “When he realized that I also played drums, he said, ‘This is ridiculous! I’m a guitarist-drummer too!’” When January recording plans fell through, she says, “It became, ‘Hey, let’s do the record in one night at my house in L.A. - it’ll be better than Guns n’ Roses!’” Faster, too.

Published: 2007-08-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Smoking Section

ACL Video: Tegan and Sara Feel Lazy Next to Tom Gabel

Last weekend’s Austin City Limits festival was an ample opportunity for people in Texas to see some great bands, but it also allowed Tegan and Sara to catch up with their old pal Tom Gabel from Against Me! Click above for the three-way interview, including news on Gabel’s solo album and the benefits of being the only girls at a rock festival. Related Stories: • Foo Fighters, Beck Give Summer Festival Season a Sendoff at Austin City Limits • Tegan Quin Talks Against Me! Video, Side Projects • On Tour: Tom Gabel of Against Me! Check Out Full Coverage of Austin City Limits and the Rest of the Summer’s Biggest Festivals on the Backstage Blog [Video: Pete Maiden]

Published: 2008-09-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals, Videos

Beck, Black Crowes to Headline San Diego’s Street Scene

Beck and the Black Crowes will headline the twenty-fourth annual San Diego Street Scene, to be held on September 19-20. Also among the thirty bands that will rock four stages throughout San Diego’s East Village neighborhood are TV On the Radio, Tegan and Sara, Justice, Spoon and Cat Power. Tickets for the festival are on sale now. Check after the jump for the complete Street Scene lineup. The 2008 San Diego Street Scene Beck The Black Crowes Justice STS9 Michael Franti & Spearhead The National Spoon TV on The Radio Atmosphere Cat Power Hot Chip Tegan and Sara The New Pornographers X Vampire Weekend The Hives Cold War Kids Ghostland Observatory Spiritualized Antibalas Man Man The Mother Hips Tokyo Police Club DeVotchKa The Night Marchers Nortec Collective presents Bostich + Fussible Does it Offend You, Yeah? Del The Funky Homosapien Eagles of Death Metal Foals The Muslims Dengue Fever MGMT Sea Wolf West Indian Girl Chester French [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-06-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals