Australia! PARKLIFE 2009

METRIC is coming to Australia for the first time! See you in Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Check out Parklife 2009 for details and tickets!

New Merchandise!

Hi everyone!

If you haven't been to one of our recent shows, you may not have seen our new merch line! Check out METRIC's storefront at Kill The 8!

Polaris Music Prize 2009

METRIC has been nominated for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for FANTASIES!
The Polaris Music Prize is a non-profit organization that hands out an award
to one Canadian artist each year. We're honoured to be included!

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson!

We're so excited to announce that METRIC will be performing on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Thursday, June 18th! Stay tuned for more TV performances coming soon!

METRIC does "Morning Becomes Eclectic"

 This Monday, June 8th, we will be appearing on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic"! We love this show and are honoured to be a part of it! Tune in at 11:15am PDT for an on-air performance and interview with Jason Bentley! The whole thing will be broadcast live and streamed from KCRW's website, where it will be available for two weeks.

"Sick Muse" video

Check out our brand new video for "Sick Muse"! When FANTASIES was released, we realized pretty quickly that "Sick Muse" was getting a lot of attention in the UK. In the midst of a heavy schedule of touring and press engagements, we didn't know how we were going to manage to find the time to shoot another video! In the end, it happened spontaneously during a photo shoot with a couple of friends in Toronto. We went into the shoot with nothing but a wardrobe, a white wall and some party supplies, but we pulled it off! We had fun and we hope it shows!

METRIC takes over Drowned in Sound

We're celebrating the UK release of FANTASIES and it's METRIC Week on Drowned in Sound! DiS will be posting new content each day, including the online premiere of "The Rawside of... METRIC" documentary, track-by-track commentaries, some advice from all of us about exploring the cities we love, behind the scenes shots from our forthcoming video for "Sick Muse", The Beatles vs. Rolling Stones Discussion, contests and much more! Check it out!

Short film from Deco

So check it out. Before Christmas we did a tour across Canada in conjunction with a kids' charity and made a limited edition 7 inch vinyl single of "Help I'm Alive" originally to be sold only at the December shows. The world being what it is, the song got leaked onto the internet from the pressing plant and took on a life of its own. Suddenly, we were getting calls from radio stations all over the world, from Australia to Ireland, saying they were playing the hell out of "Help, I'm Alive". This totally caught us off guard. We never could have guessed that this song would be a radio contender! It's success proved our theory that programmers and listeners are more open minded than anyone gives them credit for! Meanwhile, we were all set to release "Gimme Sympathy" as our logical first single but "Help I'm Alive" continued to amaze & confuse us by climbing all the way up to the top of the charts. The song became Metric's first #1 hit and we thanked the mysterious universe.

What came next only makes sense in such a scenario. When I was working with Winnipeg cult-filmmaker Guy Maddin on visual projections for my Soft Skeleton tour, I met Maddin's editor and co-cinematographer Deco Dawson. Guy Maddin is known as the Canadian David Lynch and I love Deco's editing of "Heart of the World". Deco has since become one of the country’s foremost experimental film makers and a friend of the band. He edited Metric's live concert DVD "Live at Metropolis" and we brought him along to oversee the live filming of Fantasies on our December tour. A few weeks ago, as we were scrambling to keep up with the unexpected radio momentum of Help I’m Alive, we got a call from Deco saying he had a surprise for us: He had taken the concert footage of "Help I'm Alive" and turned it into something that looks like Yo Gabba Gabba on acid. Jimmy held a late night test screening of Deco's creation at Giant Studio to rave reviews and now we have decided to share it with the online world.

This is not a music video. This is a short film in an imaginary landscape and the soundtrack is "Help I'm Alive".
Thank you Deco.

Dates for the UK

Hey UK!

We'll be touching down in your part of the world soon for our European tour in May!

Check out the dates on our new UK micro site ilovemetric.com/uk.

There is so much going on around the world with us right now that we thought it might make sense to have a couple of these types of pages setup for each of the major territories around the world where we can post updates that are relevant to fans living there, without inundating the rest of you with information that totally doesn’t concern your part of the world.

While you're at it, if you live in the UK, come and join our new Facebook Group too! It’s also specifically dedicated to UK centric news & updates.

5 private acoustic appearances

Big News!

Jimmy and I just agreed to do a series of 5 private acoustic appearances in Western Canada at the end of the month with support from some local radio stations in each of the cities we're going to visit... but there is a twist. There won't be any tickets sold for these shows. Originally, the only way to get in was going to be through radio station contests, but since we're going to be passing through and we always want to take care of you guys, we decided to move the shows into slightly bigger venues, while still keeping it totally intimate, so we can give out some tickets directly to fans. There are very few tickets available, so click here to enter to win.

We're also holding back some tickets for people who pre-ordered the record directly from us. Half of them will go exclusively to those who pre-ordered the deluxe limited edition, and the other half will go to anyone who bought any one of the Fantasies packages. These tickets will be randomly distributed.

For anyone who can't make it or doesn't end up being able to get tickets, don't worry, we're planning another massive Canadian tour for later this year.