Metric news

Metric fans who pre-ordered the Canadian rockers' new album through the band's website got a shimmering surprise in their inboxes yesterday. That's "Speed the Collapse," a layered, sophisticated head-nodder from June 12 release Synthetica , and it was actually the second song sent with pre-orders...

One of the pleasures of any new David Cronenberg film is the new work from Howard Shore that traditionally accompanies it. Cronenberg and Shore have worked together on almost every one of the director’s features since The Brood in 1979. (Michael Kamen did the score for The Dead Zone in 1983.) And while not every [...]

Metric are no strangers to hyping themselves up. During the past week, the band has been sharing clues about " Youth Without Youth ," the first single from their upcoming release, Synthetica . They have released video footage from the recording studio, and even had fans create their own interpretations of the song.  Luckily, " Youth Without Youth " is now available to purchase via ilovemetric ...

More details have emerged on Dave Grohl 's upcoming documentary on the Sound City recording studio. According to The Hollywood Reporter , the film Sound City is indeed directed and produced by Grohl and that Roswell Films , a branch of the Foo Fighters ' Roswell Records , will distribute it.

Canadian band also debut new single 'Youth Without Youth'

Student loan debt is on a lot of people's minds lately. Protesters gathered last week in New York and about 20 other cities to call for forgiveness of this debt load, which has reached $1 trillion nationally...

by David Greenwald, L.A. | May 01, 2012 8:12 EDT Over the course of five albums, Toronto's Metric has become an indie institution, but the group's latest single is as fresh-faced as ever.

Lushlife ft. Heems – “Hale-Bopp was the Bedouins” (Shabazz Palaces Remix ft The Palaceer, Fly Guy Dai, and Thadillac)

Emily Haines also tells NME about the inspiration for the title of their fifth album

Bon Jovi , Aerosmith and Skrillex are just some of the bigger names confirmed for this year's Festival D'Ete De Quebec which runs from July 5 to 15 in Quebec City, Quebec. According to the festival's Facebook page , LMFAO , Metric , Sarah McLachlan , Grimes , the Offspring and legendary French singer Johnny Hallyday are just a small sample of the other artists who will also perform during the ...

At the campus's 9th Sustainability Summit, progress in "greening" the Berkeley campus was everywhere evident — from the sheer number of student projects in the works to the metric tons of greenhouse gases not being emitted thanks to new institution-wide programs.