01/12/2006
Hey come be an extra, it will be pretty boring and you'll stand around all day eating potato chips but maybe you'll meet some nice people...

METRIC MUSIC VIDEO
!!CALL FOR EXTRAS!!

Shoot Date
Monday, January 16, 2006

On January 16th, 2006, Metric teams up once again the with award-winning music video director of “Monster Hospital”, Micah Meisner (k-os “Crabbuckit”, “Man I Used to Be”, “Superstar Pt. 0”, Buck 65, The Dears, Tangiers) to create a video for the song Poster of a Girl from their new album, Live it Out.

Poster of a Girl, the latest video for Metric, is a psychological thriller set in an after-hours voyeuristic night club.

!!CALL FOR EXTRAS!!

We are looking to fill our voyeuristic nightclub with Metric fans. Extras should be 18 to 30 years of age and be available in Toronto all day on Monday, January 16th, 2006. Extras should have the fresh style and look of Paris in the 1960s.

Submissions Please email a photo and contact information to video@revolverfilms.com by 5 pm on Sunday, January 14th
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12/21/05
"Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?” has gone GOLD in Canada!!! Much love and thanks to our brothers & sisters of the north xooxox
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12/16/05
Ladies and Gentlemen...the rumors are true: METRIC will be supporting The Rolling Stones for two sold out nights at Madison Square Garden in NYC on January 18th and 20th...now if we could just afford tickets for all the people who suddenly want to be our friends! oxxoxo
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12/06
Well tonight is the last show of the tour, in Toulouse, France. Then we drive overnight to Paris and then...home! Our spring tour of the USA has just been announced, check the LIVE page for details... This has been an incredible 3 months on the road, can’t wait to do it all again. thanks for keeping up with us! xoxoxo
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11/23
Ahhhhh... Our north american tour is all wrapped up and now we’re off to France, thanks to everyone who came out and made every night epic. We’ve got a bunch of great photos & road reports which we’ll post when we get around to it....probably never. Also, as promised, we’ve booked a short run of shows in canada at the end of february & tickets go on sale this week! Take a look at the live page for details... Spring tour dates in the USA coming soon... love, metric
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hey check out the bit about our "Monster Hospital" video in this month's issue of JANE magazine...Emily looks exactly like Catherine Deneuve! You can download the video from MTV.com at the address below, so please do! Let MTV know that you love metric! http://www.mtv.com/music/#/music/artist/metric/artist.jhtml
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11/05
Texas! Thanks so much for three sold out shows in a row in Austin, Dallas and Houston. we love you.

ATTENTION ASPIRING DESIGNERS: The touring never stops and she’s been wearing the same few pieces for weeks. Help us! We’re looking for the right person to help Emily build a new line of stage dresses, preferably someone based in Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York or Paris... If you think this might be you, send an email to hello@ilovemetric.com telling us who you are, how good you are, how fast you are. We want you! xoxoxo
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11/05
big love to the CDN/US west coast- including Edmonton! thanks for coming out to the shows in force. xooxo
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10/14
December tour dates in France just announced! see the LIVE page for details xoxoxo p.s. metric loves nashville
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Writing to you from Birmingham, Alabama...we’re in a parking lot trying to remember that this is glamorous. The shows so far have been astounding, every room packed with people who have found us somehow and memorized the words to “Glass Ceiling” before coming to the show, everybody all dressed up real good and ready to be rocked... What a sight! Playing in Chapel Hill was especially rewarding, it was our first time there and we ran into lots of old friends from NYC and L.A...Everyone seems to be discovering these smaller cities and fleeing to them. People, please keep traveling around, it makes our touring easier! So yeah no dark road tales yet, but we’re sure they’re coming for us, and when they do you’ll be the first to know. Thanks to everyone who has showed up so far in Boston, Providence, New York, Philly, Washington, Carborro & Atlanta....and thanks for buying “Live it Out”, you’re making all this happen for us. More news later, now sleep oxxxooometric
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10/03
Hey everybody, “Live it Out” comes out tomorrow!  We’ll be in NYC and we’re playing an instore at Tower Records.  

Here are the details:
4th St.& Broadway, Greenwich Village
6:00 pm

Hope to see you there xoxoxometric
P.s. big love to pop montreal...and Islands xoxo
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Metric can be found in various locations across the NYC area this week, look for us at your local dive bar eating peanuts. Also we’re playing a special little CMJ party at Hiro Lounge on Saturday night around 9 with The International Noise Conspiracy! if you’re around, come...otherwise we’ll see you at our two New York shows oct 4&5...take care of yourselves & we’ll try to do the same xooxxo
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08/05
everybody let's have a real good time together starting....right....now! we played at La Route de Rock after Sonic Youth and had our little minds blown. It was as though we had been orphans all these years and were finally reunited with our parents knowing they are also the parents of so many other freaks in bands. ok this is not the SY fan site...but we do want to say thanks to aaron for doing sound for us at the festival and to tim for hooking it up and while we're at it thanks to olivier for that party in paris on the last night. we have some great pictures and swoopy video from the concert which we'll post sometime if we can get around to it. lots of general excitement these days as we get closer to the release of "Live it Out" on the 27th... oxoxox

p.s. the show at the phoenix on sept 29 is SOLD OUT, so we added another one.
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08/09
Official North American Fall Tour Dates Announced! Check the live page for details.
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08/05
Ok hi we’re not sleeping we’ve finished the new record...it’s epic! The album is called “Live it Out” and it’s being released by Last Gang in Canada on September 27 and in the USA on October 4. You can hear a bit of our first single “Monster Hospital” and read an exclusive interview with jimmy & emily at MTV.com. Or you can just go for a walk or read a book or call your mom and tell her you love her and wait until the record comes out to hear it the way you want to. Here’s what we wrote for our official press release:

“Our new record “Live it Out” is an expression of each of us as individual musicians. It’s a record of questions and struggles as opposed to the answers and observations of “Old World Underground...” We recorded it ourselves in Canada without having to explain or justify our decisions to anyone. A lot of people have supported us throughout our various misadventures, coming to see us play in all sorts of strange venues and searching to find stores that actually carry our stuff. Without them we would have been unable to continue making music at all. We wanted to make an album for those people, and we did. The result is 10 spontaneous and heartfelt songs that fucking rock.”

Alright then. All our Fall Tour dates have now been confirmed, check out the Live page soon for a concert in your town. We’re bringing The Lovely Feathers from Montreal on the entire tour! Other openers include The Organ, Jason Collett, Death of a Party and Arts&Crafts most recent signing The Most Serene Republic.

see you soon xooxxo
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07/05
Ok hi we're not sleeping we're in our last days mixing the new record with John O'Mahony...and it's a Monster! The record was produced by our own Jimmy Shaw and was recorded over the past 7 months at the band's studio in Toronto and at Studio Plateau in Montreal with Drew-happy dragon-Malamud. If you've seen us play live anywhere this past year you'll recognize a bunch of songs like "Patriarch on a Vespa", "Handshakes", "Monster Hospital" (I fought the war) & "Empty"...The artwork is being done by Josh Hassin, the same guy who did old world. It looks amazing! The album is called 'Live it Out' and it's being released by Last Gang in the USA & Canada on September 27. We took a break from working on it this past weekend to play Hillside Festival with Stars, Broken Social Scene and Arcade Fire, went swimming in the lake with nude mothers until the O.P.P came by in their boat and kicked everybody out of the water. Other than that the festival was the usual transcendent summer thrill, with hardly anybody wearing black except us. Let's all buy houses in Guelph and wait out the end of the world in peace.

Also...'The List' video is done and you can watch it here! Thanks to everyone who sent in their concert photographs from all over the world, there were some amazing shots in there, lots of hair blowing in the wind, underwear and honest sweating. We ended up using photos by the following people: IVAN OYARZUN, CHELSEA, DARIO CASTRO, JOSEPH YARMUSH & JESSICA TOLLEFSEN. The live footage in the video was shot mostly at our show on the Toronto Island this summer and with Modest Mouse in Montreal. The video was directed by Chris Grismer. Hope you like it!

there's all this other news but we can't say anything yet, hold on xoxooxo
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06/28
Back in Canada, back in the studio. Had a great time at the shows with Modest Mouse & BSS this weekend, thanks Montreal & Toronto. xooox
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06/01
Wow, Italy. Drove to Bologna through the night from London. Coming back to the UK again this summer, can’t wait! New favorite band: Test Icicles. In other news... Our online Metric store is back, hope you like it. June 9 headlining show at the Maroquinerie in Paris is now SOLD OUT. More concerts in France and elsewhere in the fall TBA, will post dates as soon as we have them.

Also, if you live in London, this just in... Metric are going to be on XFM's X-POSURE on June 7. Tune in from 21:00 as Claire Sturgess plays our exclusive session recorded live in the XFM studios. For more info, go to: http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=5358 thanks everybody! xooxox
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05/23
Writing to you from a pub in Manchester, we’re four shows into our UK tour with DFA1979 and so far it’s been great! It feels good playing little sweaty clubs full of strangers again, we’re like Elvis remembering himself before the capes and the jumpsuits. Just found out “dead disco” got added to the XFM playlist, guess old world won’t quit. And we’ve got good news for people who love... art rock. This summer we’re playing with MODEST MOUSE in Montreal and on Toronto Island... can’t remember the dates, check the tour page for more info. More festival shows in France TBA... xoxoxoxo
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05/10
We just finished our tour of France with the LFSM festival, thanks to everyone who came to the shows and to the other bands who played, especially 50 Foot Wave and the wild youth of Lyon. Now we have a couple days off before heading to Japan & then on to England. And “Old World Underground....” is finally being released in the UK, May 30 it’ll be in stores! We’re told our show with DFA79 at Scala on May 25 is SOLD OUT, so we added our own show at The Metro on May 28. Sorry it’s on Oxford street. xoxoxox
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05/09
Here are some new photos of the band taken by Chelsea, Ivan Oyarzen, Muchelle, Jennifer Gallagher, Gabriel U, Duarte Da Silva & Joseph Yarmush. More to come...xooxxo
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05/03
New European dates with Broken Social Scene announced...Check the Live page for details!
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04/25
Our show at Café de la Danse in Paris is now SOLD OUT, so we added another! We play our own Paris show on June 9 at La Maroquinerie www.lamaroquinerie.fr. Hope you ca make it! More London shows and some European dates with Broken Social Scene soon to be announced.
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04/05
Metric will perform live on air at XFM in London, England on Friday May 27th and we’re playing the NME show that night. Check the LIVE page for details

Chris Grismer’s “Dead Disco” video is finally up! watch it now on the media page.
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03/05
hello from Paris! forgive us for being slow with the news, here’s the latest...

We are very pleased to announce that "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?’" is being released across Europe by NAÏVE we love them! The album will come out April 12 in France, May 16 in Spain, April 19 in Belgium & Switzerland. Take a look at the tour page for details on all our upcoming shows in France and elsewhere. We’re playing a couple shows in Vancouver on April 7 & 8 before heading to France for “Les Femmes S'en Mêlent” festival. Then in May we’re going to Tokyo to play CANADA WET! with friends Broken Social Scene, The Dears, Stars and Death From Above 1979. From there we continue on to tour the UK with Death From Above 1979, our Last Gang label mates & hot crushes. (UK album release plans are in the works). Then on June 2 we’ve been invited by “Clean” director Olivier Assayas to play his event at the Art Rock festival in St-Brieuc, France. There are more festival dates being considered, we’ll let you know when they are confirmed. When we get back to Canada mid-June we’ll be heading into the studio to finish up the new record and making the video for “The List”. Thanks to everyone who sent in photos for the video, keep them coming! Here’s a little live TV appearance to entertain you until we can do it in person... “Combat Baby” & “Dead Disco” thanks for sticking around. much love xoxoxometric
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02/05
Canadian winter! That 401 run really took it out of us ... the fourth Mod Club show ended up selling out too, an excellent end to a very long weekend. It’s hard not to keep saying thanks, the audience every night was so different from the last and the rest of the shows were equally fantastic- aside from Emily being stricken with what is locally referred to as the Hundred Day Cough. The Ottawa cold snap seemed to trigger a van-wide epidemic of sweaty chills and chronic hacking. Luckily the Kingston crowd was an enthusiastic (drunk) choir that pretty much drowned out her croaks. But the London show had to be rescheduled due to aimless vomiting. We’re back to working on new recordings now, and making plans for a video for “The List”. We’re hoping to use a bunch of photographs in the video taken by our talented fans, so if you have any and you’d like to see them show up in our video, please email them to us at hello@ilovemetric.com">hello@ilovemetric.com. If you have prints, email us and we’ll give you an address where you can send them.

There’s a review of Metric’s November show at the El Rey in this month’s issue of Under the Radar, as well as a couple pictures of Emily voting ... wow, so 2004.

On Thursday February 10 Emily has been invited to participate in the fourth annual “Closer To The Heart” benefit, a fund-raising project for the Regent Park School of Music. Regent Park is a low-income area of government housing for under-privileged families, mostly new Canadians: doubtless some desperate Americans avoiding their country are among them! With the recent Ontario budget cuts, schools in Regent Park lost their music programs, and that sucks. The show features various celebrities and is being held at Club 279, 279 Yonge St. Doors 8:00, show 8:30, two sets. Tickets are $25 at the door/ $20 in advance at the Hard Rock Cafe retail store [279 Yonge St. at Dundas], at the Regent Park School of Music [534 Queen St. E] & through the event organizer KJP@ca.inter">KJP@ca.inter.net [416-465-3993]. Come if you can.

Soon we’ll have firm release dates for “Old World...” throughout Europe, right now we keep hearing April for Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Sounds good, believe it when we see it. What else? Just living, laying low with the hibernating bears, trying like hell to be happy and doing moderately well at it, hope you are ok too xoxoox
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