Tegan and Sara

Following up 2004's hit album, So Jealous, Tegan And Sara teamed up with Death Cab For Cutie's Christopher Walla to share production duties on The Con, and also enlisted an all-star lineup of guest contributors including Death Cab's Jason McGerr (drums), Matt Sharp of The Rentals / Weezer (bass) and Kaki King (guitar).

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 JCDC and howard redekopp in february 2004 to make “so jealous”. we finally sell some records! we get nominated for a juno (canadian grammy). 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.