I'm at the band's West End studio in Toronto, and Metric is reacting to good news. They've just found out that their single Youth Without Youth had debuted at No. 1 on Mediabase Canadian Alternative ...

As the story goes, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw met in summer 1997 at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. They bonded over their mutual dislike for the band they were watching, decided to date each other ...

Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw find it a little perplexing that people keep remarking on the fact that Metric is fast approaching its 25th anniversary as a band with some awe when, frankly, this is ...

Metric has long been identified as an indie-rock band, but it recently embraced the "indie" part of that descriptor in a big way. For their last album together, the band's members formed their own ...

Metric’s last album, 2009’s “Fantasies,” quietly sold millions of album worldwide, and those profits — more than any other album in the Canadian band’s history — went largely and directly into their ...

"When there's no way out, the only way out is to give in." Fifteen years ago, Emily Haines sang these words on "Empty," the opening track of her band Metric's sophomore album, Live it Out. As a guitar ...