A few months ago we posted Metric's Breeders-esque "Help I'm Alive" (see "Divine Hammer") and mentioned that it appeared to be the lead single from the new then-untitled followup to 2005's Live It Out. Perfectly true. A little later we discovered that the new collection would be called Fantasies. More important that that: This is what the whole ...

Metric returns with their highly anticipated fourth full length studio album Fantasies

Metric are lightening up. A little. While the Toronto-based band's music has always leaned toward the upbeat-- shock-treatment new wave, dance, and rock-- its worldview is usually anything but. Whether singer and main lyricist Emily Haines is railing against war ("Succexy"), stagnant art ("Dead Disco"), or an increasingly overbearing world ("The...

Though he's deviated here and there, the central aesthetic strain of Beck's Modern Guilt videos/promos fit a general framework: Black and white, geometric, shadowy, and/or flickering. This new (and seemingly partially recycled) clip for one of Modern's lesser tracks "Replica" stays the course and hits all the above points in a fittingly lesser w...

-- According to MTV, Lil Wayne has pushed back the release of his terrible-idea rock album Rebirth (which my Pitchfork News colleague Ryan Dombal inexplicably believes will be good) to May 19. Here's hoping he just goes ahead and pushes it back to Never.-- Next month, button-cute axe-wrecker Marnie Stern will tour the U.S., so here's your cha...