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Album A Day: Tegan and Sara - The Con

Feb 13, 2009, 11:46am

Friends and fellow music geeks Alisa and Zack have been bugging me to listen to Tegan and Sara for ages. For some reason before today I had little interest. Today I decided to just give it its due spin. Tegan and Sara are, on the surface, the indie kid's Veronicas. Those who know me would assume that's two strikes against them (I hate indie, and why would the world need another Veronicas when the orginal are perfectly good?). But there's something charming about Tegan and Sara that kept my attention. The music [...]

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