The Aquarian recently sat down with lead singer Emily Haines to talk about the band’s lengthy career, their latest effort ...
Metric ’s music in recent years has taken a more reflective turn that created a context for their new album, Romanticize the ...
Metric has no business playing the Roxy. With a repertoire of melodic anthems going back two decades, the indie darling should be headlining Kia Forum or Crypto.com Arena. The band has previously ...
Over the past two decades or so, the term “indie rock” has been so abused it no longer stands for a way of being; we now use it to describe a particular sound or genre more than anything. But Metric, ...
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Musicians Emily Haines and James Shaw of Metric spoke with NPR's Laura Sullivan on All Things Considered this weekend about the band's new album... Musicians Emily Haines and James Shaw of Metric ...
Metric has long been identified as an indie-rock band, but it recently embraced the "indie" part of that descriptor in a big way. For their last album together, the band's members formed their own ...
As the story goes, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw met in summer 1997 at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. They bonded over their mutual dislike for the band they were watching, decided to date each other ...
Emily Haines is the Karen O-esque singer of Metric (the two actually shared a loft in Brooklyn at one point), she's also one of the many different branches of Canadian collective band Broken Social ...
Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page. Without fully shedding Metric's synths — or ...
For just over 20 years, Canadian indie outfit Metric have felt like both a comfort band and so much more than that. The ...