Well, our three week tour with Young Rival is over and we're back home in Toronto, where there was a pretty out of control homecoming party for us - torched cop cars, smashed windows, even the President was here! Thanks Toronto! But for now let's flash back to our show in Cleveland, where we blew the power. Yep. Little old us. In fact, we blew it during our gentlest, least-rockingest song ever, Little Garcon. One second we were playing, the next, the PA was gone. We kinda looked at each other like "wtf guys," but luckily, the fine people of Cleveland… … were kind...

I'm going to start this off with a bit of a tale - because it turns out I didn't really know what we were in for when I sent my first blog entry from Calgary - things took a turn for the douchey. Not the Calgary show itself. No no no. That show was a lot of fun (including the dance party after). There was a small incident however; one we've never encountered before, because our fans are usually (a.k.a. always) not the type to give us the finger, because hey, if you're a fan of something, you generally don't show...

Hello internet users and people who print out the internet to read it on regular paper (do you exist?). My name is Mitch and I play bass for a band called Born Ruffians, and we are currently on a North American tour in support of our new album, Say It. There are seven fellers in our van because we're travelling and playing with Young Rival, a rock and roll band from the rock and roll town of Hamilton (of the rock and roll province of Ontario). So now is the time that you hum the Perfect Strangers theme song  in...

You Say Party! We Say Die! have been catching up with us as they traverse from East to West this great Canadian north in what is only loosely referred to as "springtime" which is a relative term for Canadians.

End of the night at Amigo's, Saskatoon. Great show, great food, great place.

We hit a brutal blizzard driving out of Saskatchewan towards Edmonton, wind gusts were up around 100km/h and there were a lot of highway closures all over the province. What is usually a five hour drive ended up taking about nine...

Vancouver’s You Say Party! We Say Die! Are touring across the Great White North as I type this. They’ve been gracious enough to do a Tour Diary for us as they traverse their home country after a month in the USA! USA! USA!. As a side note, they take really nice photos and are making us envious of the ever illusive cross-Canada road trip that all Canadians grow up lusting after. We played an all-ages Easter Monday matinee show in Sault Ste. Marie. It was not the busiest show in the world, despite the nice weather. An abandoned gas station somewhere along...

Technically I’ve been to Paris once before. This journey occurred when I was in grade ten on a school driven trip. DONT WASTE YOU MONEY ON SENDING YOUR CHILDREN ON SCHOOL TRIPS. Not cool man. The only thing I remember about the trip was my principal eating baguettes. So needless to say that was not the MOST FUN EVER. But don’t get sad dear friends, because five years have passed since my school trip and once again I find myself on a face off of fun with Paris. During university spring break I travelled to Paris with two pals. The mission...

Sara Quin of Tegan & Sara is writing a Tour Diary for Pink Mafia on her trek across the great white north. The entire Tour Diary is based on the gnarly and hilarious dreams she has every night. Read. Enjoy.

TOUR DREAM DIARY: FINAL WEEK

The last week of our tour was a blur. I haven't slept well because of a lingering hacking cough and so what I recorded was mostly fragments.

Egyptrixx just released (yesterday) his latest offering, Battle For North America EP, released on influential UK imprint Ramp / AAh Real Monsters Records.

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With the tons of hyped up (but utterly mediocre) dance music that comes out these days it’s pretty hard to stand apart from the herd; not the case with Toronto’s Egyptrixx.

Sara Quin of Tegan & Sara is writing a Tour Diary for Pink mafia on her trek across the great white north. The entire Tour Diary is based on the gnarly and hilarious dreams she has every night. Read. Enjoy.

Tour Dream Diary: Toronto

Tegan and I are at a street fair. There are magicians performing and we stop to watch a man who is shooting arrows that are weightless and hovering in the air above our heads. Another man is doing tricks with a small white sheet. The sheet keeps taking the form...

Sara Quin, 1/2 of super Canadian sister-duo Tegan and Sara (who are just now getting their dues in the press after over a decade of beating the proverbial shit out of the people who DO get all the attention where it counts in tour tickets, downloads and albums sold) is doing a tour diary for us. But it's not just any old tour diary filled with boozy nights and airport talk. Over the next month, Sara's going to detail her dreams on the road. Oh you think that boring do you? Well we've known her for over a decade and...