Tegan And Sara

the con is the fifth album that we have released as "tegan and sara". but first, here is a brief history:

we are born (at the same time, give or take eight minutes). we are raised in calgary, alberta, canada.

fifteen years pass.

we find a guitar. we record demo tapes at school and in our bedrooms. we enter a "garage band" competition (it was the '90s) and we win. we make "the yellow tape". we graduate from high school and we make two more demos, "the orange tape" and "the red tape". we play shows and do small tours in canada.

tegan and i make "under feet like ours" in april of 1999. we start to tour more extensively in canada. we eventually send the album to elliot roberts, president of vapor records. we sign a record deal with vapor.

we then make "this business of art" and go on tour in the USA with neil young. after the tour we embark on our first national tour of canada as headliners. we tour with rufus wainwright and melissa ferrick, and make our first attempt at touring europe and japan. we play david letterman!

we head back into the studio with john collins of the new pornographers and david carswell of the smugglers in february 2002, to make "if it was you". we tour with ryan adams, hot hot heat, and manage to get ourselves to australia for the first time! we tour canada. we play every small, dirty club in the USA.

we go back into the studio with JC/DC and howard redekopp in february 2004 to make "so jealous". we finally sell some records! we get nominated for a juno! the killers take us on tour all over the USA, and the white stripes cover one of our songs. we buy hummers and do cocaine.

just kidding.

fifteen years pass.

we tour and tour and tour. and after 18 months on the road, we decide to take some real time off. we see the seasons change. we record demos like crazy. we add drums, bass,