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 [...]

Last month, Canadian indie-poppers Metric debuted their stomping new single “Youth Without Youth,” a song about a generation drowning in debt. And now Rolling Stone has posted a video of the band’s Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw doing an acoustic-plus-drum-machine version of the song, which translates nicely. Watch the...

Canadian popsters Metric are back with a drum-heavy, anthemic new jam called “Youth Without Youth,” which serves as the first single from their forthcoming album Synthetica. Listen to a stream of the track, along with some commentary on the making of the song from Metric members Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw, at Soundcloud. Syn...

Emily Haines also tells NME about the inspiration for the title of their fifth album

Dutch DJ Tiësto's fourth studio album Kaleidoscope comes with a variety of collaborative vocal guests spots including Jónsi of Sigur Rós, Kele of Bloc Party, Nelly Furtado, Calvin Harris, Emily Haines, and Tegan & Sara. He explains the logjam:The starting point was to work with different artists that I liked. It was as simple as that. Sig...