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  Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Pavement Set for Sasquatch

  February 16, 2010 – Vampire Weekend, MGMT, a recently reunited Pavement, and My Morning Jacket top the lineup at the ninth annual Sasquatch! Music Festival, which takes place this Memorial Day weekend (May 29-31) in George, Washington. The three-day music and comedy fest has also nabbed Massive Attack, She & Him, the National, Passion Pit, Dirty Projectors, Tegan & Sara, Ween, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, and LCD Soundsystem. …
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  Meet Amanda Palmer Proteges Evelyn Evelyn

  February 10, 2010 – Last week, it was announced that Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt and Courtney, will make her singing debut on Evelyn Evelyn's forthcoming album (due out March 30). Evelyn Evelyn, in case you're not familiar, is a music and art project conceived by Amanda Palmer, who is best known for her work with the Dresden Dolls, andexperimental musician Jason Webley. …
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  Metric, Tegan & Sara, Badu Play Lilith Fair

  December 10, 2009 – After a decade-long absence, Lilith Fair -- the traveling, female-forward festival -- will return in 2010! The initial lineup was just announced, and while it features not-so-surprising vets like Indigo Girls and Lilith Fair co-founder Sarah McLachlan, there's also plenty to be excited about! Metric, Tegan and Sara, Erykah Badu, Mary J. …
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  Amanda Palmer Shoots Tegan & Sara Video

  December 3, 2009 – Amanda Palmer and Tegan and Sara really heart each other -- and an email we received this morning directly from the ex-Dresden Dolls singer/pianist offers new evidence.Palmer's made her very own music video for Tegan and Sara's current single, "Hell," off the currently-featured-in-SPIN twin sisters' excellent new album, Sainthood. …
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  Tegan and Sara: Across a Crowded Womb

  November 11, 2009 – Here's how Tegan Quin would like this to go down -- we start with the basics: She plays with her sister Sara in a band called Tegan and Sara, they sing catchy songs about relationships, they're from Canada and they like hockey (go Flames!). "Journalists always blow their load in the first paragraph," she says, sipping water at a bar in downtown Vancouver. …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

  October 30, 2009 – Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! …
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  Tegan and Sara Launch Mini-Tour in L.A.

  October 26, 2009 – Tegan and Sara's new album is all about interpersonal tug-of-wars -- the occasionally opposing forces of remaining true to oneself and another -- but there was no doubt Sunday night that the band and their fans were all pulling in the same direction. The Quin twins kicked off their live blitz for Sainthood (due Tuesday on Sire/Vapor Records) by regaling adoring fans at the sold-out Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles with their Can …
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  LISTEN: Tegan and Sara's New Album!

  October 20, 2009 – The wait is over -- almost. While Tegan and Sara's sixth album, Sainthood, which was among our picks for this season's most important albums, won't be available for purchase until Oct. …
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• Tegan and Sara, 'Sainthood' (Vapor/Sire)

  October 15, 2009 – "I know it turns you off when I get talking like a teen," sings Sara Quin in "On Directing," a cut from the sixth studio album by Quin and her twin sister, Tegan. Turnoff or not, talking like teens is precisely what once distinguished this Canadian duo from a nation (a continent!) of similar strummers: On early records -- their 1999 debut, Under Feet Like Ours, and 2004 breakthrough So Jealous -- Tegan and Sara's lovelorn ruminations h …
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  Tegan and Sara: Album Details, Tour Dates

  August 25, 2009 – After receiving near unanimous praise for 2007's The Con -- including four of five stars from SPIN -- Tegan and Sara are gearing up for the October 27 release of Sainthood by unveiling the album's cover art and tracklist, plus the first dates of their fall tour. In a new website post -- a rather tame update from the Canadian duo known for posting lengthy iChat recordings and jokingly calling their mother a lesbian -- they reveal titles …
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