Features
Wednesday, September 15 2010
From Old World Underground to Hollywood (and Back): Metric's New Wave Adventure
Emily Haines' journey with her band Metric has taken her everywhere from on stage with Lou Reed in Sydney, Australia to writing songs for teenage vampires in Hollywood. But all roads continue to lead back to her Toronto home.
Tuesday, January 26 2010
Part 2: From Handsome Furs to Oneida
Slipped Discs continues with hip-hop royalty, a genre-busting classical quartet, the future of soul music, an Americana demigod and many more. All records that missed our top 60 list last year.
Wednesday, September 16 2009
Happiness Is a Warm Band: An Interview with Emily Haines of Metric
Haines fled to South America, Metric scrapped their new songs, and everyone realized their well-considered Fantasies.
Reviews
Thursday, August 2 2012
Howard Shore and Metric: Cosmopolis OST
Continuing in the growing trend in electronic-based film scores, Howard Shore and Metric's collaboration on the Cosmopolis soundtrack doesn't do much to stand on its own.
Tuesday, June 12 2012
Metric: Synthetica
Metric consolidates its wares for what is potentially its big commercial breakthrough. And while the presentation is nice and tidy, the band ends up repeating itself in too machinelike of a manner.
Wednesday, December 16 2009
Metric: 16 November 2009 - Buffalo, NY
A purple halo of fog swirled over the heads of Metric, continuously making the crowd forget they were in a beat-up, time-worn theater.
Tuesday, July 28 2009
Metric: 14 June 2009 - Chicago
From the moment she touched the mic, Emily Haines owned the crowd.
Tuesday, April 14 2009
Metric: Fantasies
Fantasies finds Metric displaying a progression and maturity that comes as easy to them as swagger and general smarminess comes to most groups in their position.
Blogs
Friday, November 12 2010
Metric Unleash "Black Sheep" Video from 'Scott Pilgrim' Soundtrack
If you haven't seen Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by now, you should be slapped into oblivion. Criminally ignored at the box office, this soon-to-be…
Tuesday, May 25 2010
Metric: 20 May 2010 - Chicago
Upon a stage bathed in soft blue light, the members of Metric electrified the crowd with their signature stadium rocking anthems.
Thursday, October 29 2009
Metric - "Help I'm Alive" (80kidz Remix) (tour dates / MP3)
80kidz, Japanese DJs who've created remixes for acts like Simian Mobile Disco, Phenomenal Handclap Band, and Dan Black, now have bestowed their mash-up genius on…
Monday, July 20 2009
Metric - "Help I'm Alive" (Live on David Letterman) (video)
Metric played the Letterman show on Friday, offering up a take on "Help I'm Alive" from their recent release Fantasies. PopMatters' Daniel Rivera says, "Half…
Tuesday, June 23 2009
Metric - "Help, I'm Alive" (Live on Craig Ferguson) (video)
Fantasies finds Metric and their illustrious front woman at a pivotal moment in their career. “If I stumble/Their gonna eat me alive,” Haines confesses on…
