When a band opens a concert with two of their biggest hits and fan favorites, they’re usually looking to prime the crowd for newer songs that might not go over as well. And sure enough, Tegan and

 There’s no more challenging dive than the one from a cult perch into the mainstream. Many artists take it only unwittingly, but a few

On this week's wide-ranging episode of The Disclaimer, WMSE's near-weekly crosstalk between station promotions director Ryan Schleicher, A.V. Club Milwaukee editor Matt Wild and I, we consider a recent Journal Sentinel editorial that contended "too many of us like Milwaukee just the way it is," and concluded that, yeah, that's about right. Then we turn the discussion to a contentious OnMilwaukee p...

Singing sisters Tegan and Sara will return to the Pabst Theater on Thursday, March 7, the venue announced today. They'll be touring behind their forthcoming album Heartthrob, out Jan. 29, an album that looks to expand on the power-pop of their last couple of albums. Tickets are $35 and go on sale Friday, Dec. 14 at noon.Below you can stream the video for Heartthrob's lead single, "Closer," a new-w...

After a dozen years touring together, twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin’s stage banter has taken on the air of a Smothers Brothers routine, with each sister dryly playing the straight man during the other’s turn to talk. At their perform...

Canadian twins Tegan and Sara Quin introduced themselves in the late-’90s as a young folk-pop duo for the Lilith Fair crowd before embracing the guiltier pleasures of rock and New Wave on their 2004 breakthrough album, So Jealous. Even better was their 2007 follow-up, The Con, which they recorded with Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris...

The sister duo of Tegan and Sara are coming to perform in Milwaukee! Tegan and Sara are set to perform at the Riverside on Thursday, March 25 at 8:00 pm...

Of all the things I admire about Tegan and Sara—and, to be sure, after the duo’s charged 2007 album The Con, there’s plenty I admire about Tegan and Sara—I’m most awed by how they condense lofty sentiments and grand arrangements into such tiny songs. Most songs on The Con clock under three minutes, and not a single track cracks three-and-a-half. The Con’s songs are nervy and short—Ramones short, even—but where The Ramones largely limited their between-song banter to “1, 2, 3, 4,” the Quinn sisters get chatty . . .

Long associated with the late-’90s folk scene they first made their name in, the singing Canadian twin sisters Tegan and Sara have since moved on to a much different sound, one that’s driven and electric. Their hyper-charged, power-pop synths serve well their latest batch of songs, The Con, complementing the album’s . . .

Songwriters have long understood the poignancy that results from exposing their less-becoming side, but Tegan and Sara take self-disclosure to masochistic extremes. On their latest album of hyper-dramatic, uncomfortably autobiographical power-pop, The Con, the singing identical twins unabashedly cast themselves in the vilest light possible. “Sara and I both have this very self-deprecating, almost abusive way of looking at ourselves,” Tegan Quin explains. “We both feel like we can be very destructive and very pessimistic and very tortured and very weak, but in a weird way those are some of our best qualities.”