{"id":3073,"date":"2011-08-03T15:29:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2011-08-03T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:29:53","slug":"tegan-and-sara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/tegan-and-sara\/","title":{"rendered":"TEGAN AND SARA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TEGAN AND SARA<\/h1>\n

Ready to mix things up, in the studio and <\/strong>on stage<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After more than a dozen years\u00a0of recording and performing, Canadian indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara know their fan base. Now they\u2019re finding creative ways to expand it. That was the idea behind Alligator<\/em>, a 17-track iTunes exclusive of remixes (and one demo) of the title song, a bouncy piano-based pop number that appeared on Tegan and Sara\u2019s 2009 album Sainthood<\/em>. For the remixes, twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin commissioned reimaginings of the song from artists known for other styles\u2014from Dutch electronica musician Tiesto to hipster dance-rock band Passion Pit to TV on the Radio\u2019s Dave Sitek.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times we remix a song because we\u2019re attempting yet again to get onto radio, though we never succeed,\u201d Sara Quin says in a cheery torrent of words during a break in the band\u2019s hectic tour schedule. \u201cWe all laugh and say, \u2018Let\u2019s remix it and see if that\u2019ll help!\u2019 This time we wanted to aim the remixes at branching out of the world that we\u2019ve become very comfortable in.\u201d So they simply picked artists they admire, and gave each one free rein to tweak the song. \u201cIt seemed like an art project for us,\u201d Quin says. \u201cWe had a little bit of money to offer people for their hard work and we were like, \u2018Who would be some dream people to have remix it?\u2019 I really pushed for Four Tet. He\u2019s one of my favorite people making music today, and I thought, \u2018Oh my God, if we can get him, we\u2019ve already won.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The sisters are also looking to branch out live. Their diverse touring schedule for this year includes Lilith Fair 2010, opening for pop-punk band Paramore on the Honda Civic tour and accompanying mellow rocker Jack Johnson on a jaunt around Australia and New Zealand. \u201cWe realized that it was going to be a huge asset if we could be versatile,\u201d Quin says. \u201cIn the beginning, it was easy to get tours with bands that were sort of like-minded, like Ben Folds or Rufus Wainwright.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although touring and collaborating with other artists means Tegan and Sara haven\u2019t started working on the follow-up to Sainthood<\/em>, Quin reports that she and her sister have tossed around a couple of ideas for the next album. \u201cAfter 10 years of trying to get people not to use the word \u2018folk\u2019 to describe our music,\u201d she says, \u201cwe\u2019ve been talking about maybe making an acoustic record.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TEGAN AND SARA Ready to mix things up, in the studio and on stage After more than a dozen years\u00a0of recording and performing, Canadian indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara know their fan base. Now they\u2019re finding creative ways to expand it. That was the idea behind Alligator, a 17-track iTunes exclusive of remixes (and one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[623,10156,2289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}