Tegan & Sara’s 6th Full-Length Album Sainthood came out yesterday, go get it! It’s the first record that the Canadian twins have ever written together in the same room in their 29 years! Just like 2007’s The Con, it was recorded by Chris Walla from Death Cab for Cutie in Portland. They are currently on tour with dates going through April 8th.

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Friday November 14th:

*The Little Ones, What Made Milwaukee Famous @ The Echo - Echo Park (1822 Sunset Blvd) – 8 PM

*The Anti Prop 8 Show @ UCB Theatre - Hollywood (Franklin Ave & Bronson) – Midnight

via UCB: Prop 8 passed. Are you gonna sit around and sulk or are you gonna do something about it? Come learn what you can do next at this comedy show filled with sketches, stand-up, and videos inspired by the insipid Prop 8.

Informative. Hilarious. Cathartic.

Hosted by:
James Adomian

Featuring:
Steve Agee (Sara Silverman Program), Heather Campbell, Jackie Clarke, Convoy, Drew Droege, Colton Dunn, Janeane Garofalo, A Kiss From Daddy, Nicol Paone, Ryan Perez, Jennie Pierson, Amy Rhodes, Mike Rose, Bryan Safi, Ben Siemon, Chris Farah, Amanda Sitko, A video by Jonathan Smith, Pete Zias, and more!

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Saturday November 15th:

*PROTEST AGAINST PROP 8 @ CITY HALL - Downtown (200 N. Spring St) - 10:30 PST

via Facebook Event: This is a nation wide event. Every major city in America (and some around the world) will be protesting on 11/15 10:30 PST (or 1:30 EST). http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/

Locally we will be gathering at LA city hall 200 N. Spring St at 10:30am on 11/15. All the latest information on the LA event can be found at http://protest8la.wordpress.com/

*Dirtiest Sketch In L.A. Contest @ UCB Theatre – Hollywood (Franklin Ave & Bronson) – Midnight

Come exercise your freedom to watch disgusting, depraved and hilarous sketches @ the UCB. Hosted by Joe Hartzler & Amanda Egge

There is a lot to love about Tegan And Sara, pretty much everything in fact. They’re adorable Canadian twins that write the best indie-pop out there, what more do you want? But the best part about a Tegan and Sara crowd is that being predominantly younger girls, anyone over 5′7″ has an AMAZING, unobstructed view of the show! Ok, don’t get me wrong, the crowd was great. Sara herself exclaimed that the audience was the best out of the 4 at Hollywood’s Music Box @ The Fonda Theatre. This being the last stop of a pretty solid year and a half of touring behind 2007’s The Con they played a pretty tight set with plenty of evidence of change since the album’s release. Tempo, Tone and Instrumentation seemed to differ slightly from record; It could be that reproducing what The Sisters Quin and Chris Walla created in the studio would be nearly impossible or because after their journey around the world they, themselves and their songs had changed. This is starting to sound like fan fiction, so I might as well you about this dream I had about them the other night… ok I’ll save that one, because I should probably tell you that they had some decent support on this tour with Girl In A Coma and City And Colour.

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I have posted a review of the Tegan and Sara, Girl In A Coma and City and Colour Concert at the Fonda from last Sunday. This review of the last show of the tour is up on Filter Magazine’s Site. I have my own draft with PLENTY of pictures and swear words that will be posted here soon. Im trying to simplify life a bit because things are a busy mess right now. I haven’t done laundry all week! I’m wearing winter tubesocks and recycling underwear here!

Tegan and Sara – All 4 Nights SOLD OUT!
City and Colour
Girl In A Coma

Music Box @ The Fonda
6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028

I will be attending the last of the 4 dates of Tegan and Sara’s residency at The Music Box @ The Fonda to review Girl In A Coma for Filter-Mag.com.