It's been almost three years since Metric's last album, Pagans In Vegas, but there's been plenty of activity in their world. Last year alone, frontwoman Emily Haines resurrected her solo backing band the Soft Skeleton for a new album called Choir Of The Mind, debuted her own fragrance, and rejoined the Canadian indie mega-group Broken…

For his first-ever appearance on Swedish television Kanye West performed the Donda-channeling AutoTune lullaby “Only One” on the Nordic show Skavlan. He wore an all-black sweat suit — probably from his new line — and performed on a darkly-lit stage with just one morphing, geometric spotlight. It’...

By any reasonable metric, the Clash are one of the five best bands in British history. (The others, if you’re keeping score at home, are the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Pulp, and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.) In honor of their history, the BBC has put together a new documentary called The Clash: New Year’s Day &#821...

The band are currently working on new material to follow 2012's 'Synthetica'

Metric has been pretty quiet since wrapping up their tour for Synthetica, and it turns out they got back into the studio pretty quickly. In a new post on their website, Emily Haines writes that the band is now “fully immersed in fresh music and somewhat amazed that we’ve managed to keep on loving what [...]