The VPME They take their name from a quote in Jules Verne's 2000 Leagues under the Sea; they play symphonic electronica with a dream pop sensibility and at times, they sound rather like Emily Haines fronting the Human League, or Ladytron as produced by Giorgio Moroder. It's cool and yet radiates warmth, aloof yet full of allure . Everything By Electricity produce electro pop infused with great melody and depth and as such is far more rewarding than the sort of throwaway nonsense that hangs around the charts giving electro pop a bad name. We may be [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Emily Haines, New Buffalo, Low Song: Lisa Germano - Ruminants [download here ] What's so good? "Ruminants," Lisa Germano's [...]
Fauxchella is a brutal time for music fans. The night Metric played at The Fox, we also had to contend with like minded bands How To Destroy Angels and Savages playing across the bridge. It was a tough night of you enjoy powerful women fronting danceable rock bands. And, as much as I truly love [...] The post Fauxchella Review: Metric with Mona at The Fox Theater - Oakland, 4/18/13 appeared first on Spinning Platters .
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Awards CARAS One of Canada's biggest bands won three Junos at this year's awards on the weekend -- and no one saw it happen. Toronto synth pop titans Metric picked up trophies for Best Alternative Album of the Year, Recording Package of the Year and guitarist James Shaw won Producer of the Year at Saturday night's untelevised Juno Gala [...]
Ron Flieger helps us kick the weekend off on the right note with his brand new remix of Metric's Stadium Love . Following hugely successful official work for both Ladyhawke and Foster The People, we've come to expect great things from the German producer, and that's exactly what we get here. He's done a killer mix on the original, keeping Emily Haines vocals at the forefront while adding in a crisp electro beat to back them up. Make sure you add this one to those weekend playlists. Happy Friday everybody! DOWNLOAD [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: Broken Social Scene - Deathcock [download here ] What's so good? You'll have to apologize, but I feel like a playground with this track! Broken Social Scene was one of my all-time favorite bands circa high school, and [...]
Little Jesus. Foto: Daniel Patlán Little Jesus. Foto: Daniel Patlán Little Jesus. Foto: Daniel Patlán Little Jesus. Foto: Daniel Patlán Little Jesus , una de nuestras nuevas bandas mexicanas favoritas y parte de nuestra lista de Bands to Watch para este año, fueron los encargados de abrir el concierto de Metric en el [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Glass Candy, Chairlift, MNDR Song: Metric - Breathing Underwater (MNDR Remix) [download here ] What's so good? "Breathing Underwater" [...]
It's that bass line - leading, breathless and frustrated - that marks the boundaries of the latest Field Mouse single, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday". Lost somewhere between dream pop and shoegaze, vocalist Rachel Browne finds little slices of menace and fecundity in an arrangement that ends up sounding a little like Silversun Pickups and little like early Emily Haines. Browne is the self-same singer who cracked sarcastic barbs from the stage of Glasslands this past summer about being super stoned - which she surely wasn't - with the sort of dry wit and vague hostility that [...]
Posted in Something For The Weekend Eddi Font's dark piano-led ballads are perfectly suited to a Sunday spin on your speakers. The New York based artist (real name Ivana Carrescia) currently has only a handful of tunes to her name plus a cover of Nick Cave's 'Into My Arms', all of which feature on her self titled EP which was released [...]
Live 105 has managed to put together, once again, a fantastic line up for their annual holiday spectacular. So much so, that they had to split it into two days. One day was a bit more "new wave" oriented, and another day was purely guitar driven. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to check [...]
Seeing as winter is close at hand here in the Northern Hemisphere, I feel it is high time to talk about an album that was dropped at the beginning of summer. After a nearly three and a half year break from the studio, punchy Canadian foursome Metric has returned with Synthetica , an 11-track step towards what seems like the ultimate explosion of new-wave psychedelia meets haunting indie eloquence. When I first tuned in to Synthetica, it seemed to buck up tell me outright that [...]
Here's another one of the great photographers that will be displaying and selling their photography at Photo Pop 2012 this Friday at Red 7. If you're lucky, Rick might give you the sexy photo of me stuffing my face with a cupcake backstage at ACL. His photo to the left is from a GWAR shoot, and you can also read on to find out why he's mad I called Emily Haines to just chat. Here's Rick. ATH: What started your career as a music photographer? [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: Metric - Grow Up And Blow Away [download here ] What's so good? Mad props to Metric for putting up pretty much their entire discography on Soundcloud. It means we can flash all the way back to 2001, [...]
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Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: Metric - Gimme Sympathy [download here ] What's so good? Stumped again, and returning to the archives of awesome. Released on the 2009 album Fantasies , Metric's "Gimme Sympathy" poses an interesting question: who [...]
Metric / Stage AE / 09.18.2012 / Doors 7:00 / $30 Words by Brendan "They were right when they said we should never meet our heroes" Emily Haines opines this line during "Breathing Underwater" on Metric 's newest LP, Synthetica . I'm inclined to disagree. Who wouldn't want to meet their heroes? In particular, who wouldn't want to meet Metric ? Well, we can't promise you that opportunity. What we can do is promise you the [...]
Synthetica by Metric When I first heard Combat Baby back in 2003, I knew I’d discovered something great. Raw, charged, and, great to sing to, Old World Underground, Where are you Now? remains a classic in my repertoire. Ever since, I’ve been following Metric’s releases, enjoying the progression of their sound. With an increasing complexity in lyric, melody, and harmony, I had great expectation for their 2012 release. With their 2007 album Grow up and Blow Away holding the crown as my favourite thus far, I was [...]
Metric , whose songs have been featured in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," is back with their newest album Synthetica . Released on Metric Music International , it captures the dark and foreboding voice of Emily Haines juxtaposed with the energetic and luminous sounds of James Shaw's synths. Following their Hollywood success with a Grammy nomination, the band collaborated earlier this year with composer Howard Shore to score David Cronenberg's film "Cosmopolis." Recently, the band put out a four-part mini documentary series that goes behind the scenes [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: Metric - I.O.U. [download here ] What's so good? I don't know about you, but the new Metric album had little to no impact on my audio-life. On the slip side, their 2003 album Old World Underground, [...]
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