Tegan &... Hunter Burgan

That's Hunter Burgan for those of you who aren't aware of any non-Davey Havoc AFI members (about 99.9% of the blog-reading population...ie: non Hot Topic employees). For everyone else, Burgan was born in Long Beach, is a vegan and loves old-school R&B, according to Wikipedia. Turns out this guy is teaming up with Tegan of ... Tegan & Sara.

What makes this collaboration interesting (other than it makes my high-school alter-ego rear its head long enough to experience slight disdain that AFI is still "punk enough" to merit being posted about on PunkNews.org) is that I saw both of their full-time projects at the Newport Music Hall, with a somewhat awkward split bills (Tegan & Sara with Communique and AFI -- waaaaaay after they played anything resembling hardcore -- with Sick of it all.)

The AFI/Sick of it all show was immortalized in a Radio Free Tobias concert review. I saw a really short fight! It was awesome! Plus, Lou Koller made a really sweet hardcore hype-man of sorts for AFI, talking with a strangely auctioneer-like cadence in between songs.