Every March in Toronto marks The SiriusXM Indie Music Awards. This is the award show’s 13th annual event and will take place at the Kool Haus on Friday, March 22. The awards winners are chosen by the fans who can vote for their favourite artist as of Monday. Performers include Metric, Matt Mays, Diamond Rings, [...]

Calling all Metric fans!   We knew Emily Haines & co. were cool. But last night’s show may have even surpassed their usual benchmark.   Stars was the opener for Metric. But they didn’t seem like an opening act as much as they did a co-act. They had almost the same size crowd rooting for [...]

Toronto natives Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric treated the folks over at the Rolling Stones studio with acoustic versions of three tracks off of their latest album, Synthetica. They also threw in a cover of Tom Wait’s “Strange Weather” to their performance. The duo followed their short set with an interview that covered [...]

Synthetica is finally here. For real. The last time Metric released an album was in 2009, so this highly anticipated release from the band is a breath of fresh air amidst the dance anthems that are currently flooding the Top 40.   I don’t know anyone who listens to a full album at a time [...]

It’s finally here! Montreal’s own summer festival has announced the official line-up for the seventh annual Osheaga and Arts Festival! The festival will be held, as per usual, at Parc Jean-Drapeau from August 3-5. The line-up is completely out of this world, so brace yourselves, because here goes: Snoop Dogg, The Black Keys, M83, Florence [...]

One of Canada’s top indie rock bands, Metric have announced some seriously awesome details regarding their new album. It’s called Synthetica, and is set to be released June 11th, so be sure to mark that date on your calender, people! Lead singer Emily Haines had this to say about the album, ‘…sounds like the culmination [...]

We definitely would not want to be in whatever hospital Metric‘s Emily Haines is at! We’re kicking off our annual Bestfan Top Haunting Halloween Music Videos with “Monster Hospital” by Canadian band Metric. Like a psychological thriller, the visual will have you on the edge of your seat screaming “DON’T GO IN THERE!” Not to [...]

A month today Much Music will be hosting the 2011 Video Awards and they have recently released more updates in regards to the final list of nominees!! Some of the artists that are nominated for more than one award include Fefe Dobson, Down With Webster, Shawn Desman, JDiggz, and Danny Fernandes. There is a great [...]

Canada’s favourite indie rock band has released their new video for “Black Sheep”. It is Metric’s single off of their CD Fantasies released in April 2009. “Black Sheep” is a classic Metric song, poppy, indie and grundgy. Emily Haines voice does not let down yet again. The video for “Black Sheep” is of the band [...]

Lollapalooza took place from August 6 – 8th in the beautiful city of Chicago. Concerts occurred all weekend and there were a number of different artists there including Green Day, Lady Gaga, Stars, Mumford and Sons, MGMT, Switchfoot, B.o.B, and Metric. However, it was Lady Gaga and Green Day who stole the show and put on [...]