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Metric occupy a curious place in the modern rock landscape. If they had come up ten years earlier, they certainly would have had a different story. But as they exist now, their legacy will probably be that they were the most successful of the crop of bands that emerged from Toronto in the late-'90s, the…
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Starsailor: Magic Numbers, Starsailor, Pretty Things join Hard Rock Calling line-up
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The line up for London's Hard Rock Calling festival has grown, with Metric, The Pretty Things, The Magic Number and Starsailor added to the bill.
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Metric: New Metric Video - "Sick Muse"
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The newest Fantasies track gets a simple treatment: "Sick Muse" features a lower-tech sound stage than "Gimme Sympathy" and none of the layered animations of "Help, I'm Alive," and it feels more alive because of it. (Thanks for the tip, Mark.) Basically, a stationary camera cuts between the (ever wardrobe changing) band hamming it up and rocking...
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Metric: New Metric Video - "Help, I'm Alive"
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Metric: announce US tour
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Metric have announced the first tour dates behind the release of their fourth full-length studio album 'Fantasies', kicking off on June 4 in Seattle, WA at the Showbox.
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Metric: New Metric Video - "Gimme Sympathy"
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If you're a fan, you've already streamed Metric's Fantasies. Now you can stop imaging and see one in living color. If we take the person who posted it to YouTube to heart -- and why wouldn't we? -- the video for the Beatles and Rolling Stones-referencing "Gimme Sympathy" was filmed at Toronto's Sound Academy. But regardless of the exact location...
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