Hear "All Yours" Today On eclipsesoundtrack.com

Starting today at 12pm EST, the full soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will be streaming at www.eclipsesoundtrack.com for 24 hours. Be the first to hear METRIC’s “All Yours”, co-written with film composer Howard Shore. We hope you all enjoy it!

Toronto July 9 - Lawn Tix Available!

Due to overwhelming demand, and the irresistible appeal of the sunny Toronto summer we have ahead of us, the GA lawn at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre is now open for sale to our show on Friday, July 9! Lawn tickets are $23.25 all-in, and 4 & 6 ticket package deals will be offered soon! You can purchase yours here or on the Roger’s Wireless Box Office.

See you soon, Toronto!

P.S. For the month of June, Ticketmaster is waiving their fees. We appreciate their help in keeping these tickets so affordable!

Stadium Love

Hi everyone,

Recently we had the pleasure of making a video for our song Stadium Love with some new wild friends. 

As one of the sentiments expressed in the song is man's disregard for the natural world around us, we were concerned with how the animals we would be working with would be treated.  Rest assured, not only were these animals treated with love, respect and tenderness, they were the stars.  The word divas comes to mind. It was perfect, we worked on their schedule and pace.

Needless to say, you will see what an amazing experience it was for us to be this up close and personal with these stunningly powerful Hollywood stars. Yes it is truly very close.

 

Malkin Bowl June 11 Show Rescheduled

Hey everyone,

Regrettably, there has been a change to our touring schedule. Due to a scheduling error by the venue, our June 11 performance at Malkin Bowl has been moved to June 13.

Tickets for June 11 will be honored at the door on the rescheduled show date. If you have tickets, but are unable to attend the June 13 date, you can get a refund at the point of purchase any time until June 10.

The June 12 show will remain as scheduled.

We are very sorry for this inconvenience, but this is the result of circumstances outside of our control.

p.s. Thanks to Much Music for nominating “Gold Guns Girls” as best indie video for this year’s MMVA’s!

UK -- London Concerts + FANTASIES Deluxe Edition Release

Hey everybody,

Monday May 24 marks the release of the deluxe version of FANTASIES in the UK, which includes a bonus disc featuring exclusive acoustic tracks, remixes, new covers + a photographic poster designed by the band. You can pre-order it now on iTunes, Amazon, and Play, see below for the complete track listing!
 
To celebrate, we're coming to play in London!  Our show at Shepherd's Bush Empire on May 24 is sold out but there are still a few tickets left for our show at Koko on Sunday May 23.  Thanks to our friends at Spotify, you can get 25% off the ticket price here.
 
Also, we're excited to announce that we’ll be performing on BBC’s “Later with Jools Holland” alongside Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Corrine Bailey Ray, Crystal Castles and, yes, Tom Jones.  Tune in on Tuesday May 25 & Friday May 27 to catch the show!
 
UK Fantasies Deluxe Edition
 
Disc 1
 
1.       Help I’m Alive
2.       Sick Muse
3.       Satellite Mind
4.       Twilight Galaxy
5.       Gold Guns Girls
6.       Gimme Sympathy
7.       Collect Call
8.       Front Row
9.       Blindness
10.     Stadium Love
 
Disc 2
 
1.      Waves
2.      The Gates
3.      Help I’m Alive (Acoustic)
4.      Gimme Sympathy (Acoustic)
5.      Sick Muse (Acoustic)
6.      Sick Muse (Adam Freeland Remix)
7.      Gimme Sympathy (Adam Freeland Remix)
8.      Help I’m Alive (Twelves Remix)
9.      Nobody Home (cover)
10.    Sugar Mountain (cover)
11.    The Making of Fantasies: Buenos Aires to New York City (Video)
 

METRIC COMPOSE THEME SONG FOR TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE -- "All YOURS"

Yes ... It’s official.  Our song “All Yours”, co-written with the legendary film composer Howard Shore and performed by Metric, is going to be featured in the movie Eclipse, the next installment in the worldwide phenomenon known as the Twilight saga.
 
I've always wanted to write music for film, but I never expected to start with something on this scale, so you can imagine how surprised I was when out of nowhere I got a phone call from Howard Shore, who I’d never met or even spoken with before. Most people know him as the man who wrote the acclaimed score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I grew up on Shore's earlier works--  his score for David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch in collaboration with jazz great Ornette Coleman still stands as one of the most ambitious & unusual scores out there. 

To my amazement, Howard was calling to ask me to work with him on his latest project: scoring the next Twilight movie, Eclipse. He wanted Jimmy & I to write the theme song for the pivotal last scene in the movie, integrating the music from his existing score into a composition that would express the emotional ending of the film. Seriously?!?!  The lyrics would have to be in the voice of the main character Bella, and we had to stay within the confines of harmonic and melodic themes Howard had in mind for the last scene. 

We've had songs from our albums licensed for use in movies & tv shows before, but composing for a score was completely different.  Every day as the song progressed--from sitting at the piano with Jimmy in NYC recording acoustic versions and reading the script (see photo below), to working at Howard's studio upstate, to tracking vocals at our own studio Giant in Toronto, to mixing at Electric Lady with Howard on the line from Abbey Road in London-- every step of the way we did our best to fulfill Howard’s vision of the film's last moments.

Still, everybody knows the movie business is insanely competitive, and for things like this, it’s never a sure thing until the movie is done and the picture is locked...

But as of today, it's happening.  Our song, “All Yours”, is in the movie and will be the lead off track from the soundtrack, to be released on June 8th.

I don't have to tell you what an honor it was to be hand picked by Howard to do this work. We are massively grateful for the opportunity & hope you all enjoy Metric's first ever film composition.

Now, back to reality...

METRIC + Muse!

METRIC is heading out on tour with Muse this fall!

Announced dates are as follows.. check back, as more shows may be added.

Oct 21 - Quebec City, QC - Pepsi Coliseum
Oct 23 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Coliseum
Oct 24 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
Oct 26 - Raleigh, NC - RBC Center
Oct 27 - Charlottesville, VA - John Paul Jones Arena
Nov 2 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
Nov 3 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
Nov 5 - Columbus, OH - Value City Arena
Nov 6 - Cincinnati, OH - US Bank Arena

You can find your tickets here.

UK Single Release & VIP Ticket Comp

Today sees the UK release of our single "Gold Guns Girls" backed with the Adam Freeland Remix of "Sick Muse". You can download from iTunes.

And… continuing our work with music streaming service Spotify we're running a competition with the chance to win VIP tickets to our  London Koko show on May 23rd, a meet and greet with the band and signed copy of the new deluxe version of the album. Head here to find out how to enter....

Vancouver + Toronto: Presale Tix on ilovemetric.com!

Heads up Canada! www.ilovemetric.com is holding presales for METRIC’s upcoming performances in Vancouver and Toronto!

METRIC will play two shows at Vancouver's Malkin Bowl  on June 11 and 12, and we’re heading back to Toronto to perform at the Molson Ampitheatre on July 9! Presale tickets will be available on Tuesday April 20 at 10:00 am PDT (Vancouver) / EDT (Toronto). All three concerts are all ages.

P.S. In case you weren't tuned in to the 2010 Juno Awards last night, we're excited to announce that METRIC took home Group of the Year, and Alternative Album of the Year for Fantasies! Thank you to everyone who have helped make this such an incredible year!

METRIC in the UK :: Lots of News!

On 24 May, we're re-releasing our album Fantasies in the UK! It's a super-deluxe version with a bonus disc of remixes, acoustic tracks and covers, a limited edition poster designed by the band plus a behind-the-scenes video on the making of Fantasies.

And...

In keeping with our desire to embrace the future, we've started working with a new music streaming service called Spotify. Metric fans in the UK, France, Spain, Norway, Sweden & Finland can stream content from the bonus disc (and more) on Spotify before anybody else.  Welcome to the cloud!

If you are not on Spotify, you can request a free invite to the ad supported service here, or sign-up anytime for the Premium service here . And for a limited time, in the UK and continental Europe, if you go here you can download the original version of Fantasies for only £0.99 with no strings attached and receive a free bonus track... a song called "The Gates.” Thank you Spotify!

Plus...

Metric is playing in London at Shepherd's Bush Empire on 24 May & at Koko on 23 May. Once again thanks to Spotify you can get a 25% discount on your ticket here. Tickets for Koko go on sale this Thursday (tomorrow), but Metric fans can still get first crack at the tickets at the same discount via an exclusive pre-sale on our website which ends later today or when tickets sell out.

Hope to see you all in May!