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......
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