Emily Haines, second from right, calls her band Metric “a family with no parents.” The group brings its indie electro-rock to the Ogden Theatre on Thursday. Emily Haines has a novel way of looking at ...

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Last year as the early singles for a new Metric album began rolling out, one thing became clear: Art Of Doubt was packed with the same dark, shimmering rock that made their 2009 record, Fantasies, a ...

Toronto’s “emotionally primitive” (their description, not ours) synth-rock group Metric are still learning new things about themselves. “It feels like we’re growing, thank God, because otherwise we’d ...

Canadian “new wave” rockers, Metric, will join Paramore at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in Saint Paul Saturday night. A&E caught up with Metric’s guitarist James “Jimmy” Shaw a few hours before the band ...

Most of Metric's 2014, a year off save for seven shows, has been spent in Ibiza. Don't worry, Metric is not busting out some club bangers. Instead, the Toronto band has been getting in touch with… By ...

Guitarist and Metric co-founder Jimmy Shaw reckons it’s a natural development for a band who struggled with the product based mentality of traditional record labels. “The more the industry is flailing ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Alternative rock band Metric are no strangers to success. Music industry plaudits have rung high ...