The toy company GoldieBlox has had a rough year in advertising after being accused of copyright infringement by the Beastie Boys for re-working the band’s 1986 classic “Girls” to convey a more “feminist” message. The company settled the lawsuit and issued an apology to the Beasties, who have alwa...

The Canadian pop group Metric released their album Synthetica last year, and today they give us the video for the album’s slick title track. Director Justin Broadbent’s video focuses almost entirely on singer Emily Haines. But thanks to a split-screen and a mirroring effect, we get a quadruple-view of Haines the entire time, ...

Metric’s new record, Synthetica — their first since 2009′s Fantasies — has gotten a lot of attention lately, thanks to strong lead singles like “Youth Without Youth” and “Speed The Collapse” as well as our Q&A with Metric’s Emily Haines for Progres...

Since Metric announced the details to Synthetica, we’ve consumed anthemic first single “Youth Without Youth.” Now, they’ve dropped the second single from the June release, a pummeling, uptempo song swimming in a Radiohead-esque texture. Stream it below. Synthetica is out 6/12 Metric Music International/Mom...

Name: Metric Progress Report: Emily Haines talks about the making of Synthetica. Since releasing their first album back in 2003, Metric has proven itself to be the little band that could. Even though the band might have suffered a slight identity crisis with U.S. audiences early on (due, perhaps, to the fact that frontwoman Emily [...]