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 ...

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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 ...

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Ah, Metric! The band that has consistently, gloriously, and sometimes even a bit too subtly, rocked our world for decades. I’m talking about the kind of band that makes other bands take notice, ...

"We all knew what a special song this was from the first time we heard it," says Thirty Tigers' Lindsay Reid. By Kevin Rutherford For the first time, Metric have a top 10 song on a Billboard airplay ...

Twenty years into Metric's career, and its bandmates still eat dinner together. It's a fact that surprises some of the band members' closest friends — two decades can fortify or disintegrate a group's ...

Metric's 2005 album Live It Out solidified the Toronto-based band as pop stars and saw them playing with bands like Bloc Party and the Rolling Stones. But after stepping out of the spotlight for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Metric's new album, its second on the band's own label, is titled Synthetica. Left to right: Joshua Winstead, Emily Haines, James Shaw, Joules Scott-Key. Metric has long been identified as an ...