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, ...

I'm at the band's West End studio in Toronto, and Metric is reacting to good news. They've just found out that their single Youth Without Youth had debuted at No. 1 on Mediabase Canadian Alternative ...

Metric’s new album “Art of Doubt” is a quintessential record from the Canadian rock band. But it was almost the complete opposite. The quartet first approached the follow-up to 2015's "Pagans In Vegas ...

Exactly one year after the release of Metric’s 2022 album Formentera the band has surprised fans with an unannounced and unexpected part two companion album - Formentera II, set for release on October ...

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 ...

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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When Metric first started releasing records in 2003, the Toronto-formed, New York-nurtured band were playing synths against a tide of sepia indie rock. The Strokes had spawned hundreds of tribute acts ...

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 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 ...