US Tour - Tix Presale

METRIC hits the West Coast this March and starting this Monday, February 1, you can get your tickets ahead of the pack directly from us on ilovemetric.com. All presales start at 10am PST and will be on sale for the week, or until we sell out. More details are on the individual show pages in the Store, and if you have any questions, email tickets@ILoveMetricTickets.com.

Dates are below. Check back in February for more shows (including Oakland) to be announced!

Mar 17 - Tempe, AZ - Tempe Beach Park
Mar 21 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
Mar 22 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
Mar 25 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
Mar 26 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
Mar 27 - San Diego, CA - IndieFest 6

METRIC Live On "Canada For Haiti" Tonight!

METRIC is excited to be taking part in Canada for Haiti - a combination of the top Canadian charities, relief organizations, artists and celebrities coming together to raise money for emergency and relief efforts in Haiti. Jimmy & Emily will be performing live along with many other Canadian acts.

Jan 22nd, Friday night at 7 p.m. ET/PT, 8 p.m. AT/MT, 8:30 p.m. NT, 9 p.m, Canadian broadcasters CTV, CBC, and Global will join forces in support of relief efforts in Haiti. The commercial free one hour telethon will air across all three networks hosted by Ben Mulroney, George Stroumboulopoulos, and Cheryl Hickey.

Show the people of Haiti that they are not alone and there is love out there!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays and New Year from all of us to you and yours!

Well, well, well...

Its been a hell of a year hasn't it?!  It was a year of firsts for us. First album released on our own label, first time in the top twenty of US radio, first time meeting Spinal Tap, first time playing next to La Roux at a dance music festival in Australia, first time meeting John Paul Jones and on and on.

What? Yes.  To celebrate it all we've made what looks like a crazy ball of yarn on a map.  No, it's not your favorite internet search "cats gone wild", it's actually a retrospective of our 2009 touring schedule.  Makes us dizzy just looking at it.  So which line were you on? The blue? The purple? Did you mix the two and can't remember?  Well we were on all of them!

Take a look at the crowd shots below and maybe you'll spot yourself screaming!  So many full-on experiences and now it's all over.  But before we shake that etch-a-sketch clean and send ourselves off to places unknown for a little holiday privacy, we wanna thank all of you, from Jaime who brought us sobering tales from Cambodia to Anthony who drove six hours to catch us in Atlanta.  You have all been amazing in your undying support of us and our goal to bring you great music and a happening good time!  We thank you, from the bottom of our collective Metric heart.  Everybody have a great holiday and rest up, cause we're gonna do it all again in 2010! 

 
photos by Alana Krenbrink and Joshua Winstead

Vote For “Sick Muse” on Triple J!

Hey everyone,

It’s been a great year thanks to you guys!

As a nice way to send off the year, Triple J in Australia (an incredible community radio station in Australia who was one of the first to put Help I’m Alive on the air after it leaked on the internet last December) has nominated several of our songs as contenders to make their Hottest 100 of 2009 list!

The station has been really good to us this year and we’d really like to show them how much we appreciate it by having you vote for our song Sick Muse.

The top 100 songs as voted by the public will make it on Triple J’s Australia Day countdown.

If you would like to help us make the list, you can vote HERE

Thank you!

Happy Holidays!

Thank you, USA!

Hey Everyone!

 

We just wanted to say thank you for making this tour a sweet success!  Thanks to everyone who came out to the shows, and shout-outs to those who entered the Twitter and VIP mailing list contests we set up along the way. If your name is below, we’re so happy you won, and hope you had a blast!

 

Matt S.

Jennifer T.

Kevin W.

Kurt N.

James Z.

Alexander A.

John G.

Michael B.

Matt J.

Jacob B.

Meredith R.

Camellia B.

Katie P.

John T.

Erica D.

Samantha P.

Beatrice A.

Steven H.

Rae J.

xoxo metriclovesyou

Bucky Awards - VOTE!

Hey Canada--

We've been added to the CBC 3 Bucky Award short list! This is the very award Emily won in 2007 for her solo composition Doctor Blind: "Best Song to Listen to While in the Fetal Position" (which she displays with pride on her coffee table at home in Toronto). From now until November 29th, you can go to CBC Radio 3 and vote every damn day if you wish (it takes less than 30 seconds to vote). Winners will be announced in a special live broadcast of Grant Lawrence Live on Wednesday, December 9th, on cbcradio3.com and Sirius 86.

Canadian Tour Report

Our epic sold out Canadian tour ended on a high note last week with a concert at one of the most beautiful theatres in the country, the Orpheum in Vancouver. We were seriously blown away by the overwhelming response in every city and we're running out of new ways to express our gratitude to everyone who came out and brought the rock! Especially hope all the VIP fan club members who we put on the guest list enjoyed their much deserved all-access status & meeting the band in weird fluorescent rooms after the show. Thanks for all the gifts and memorabilia you brought us, that ruled. Got a few days off now before the US tour starts in Buffalo on Monday. Excited to make our way back to places we haven't played in ages and perform FANTASIES for the first time! See you out there...

p.s. We've had a lot of people asking about the music we play in the venue before the show... We put a lot of thought into our pre-show playlist & it's awesome that you noticed. As requested, here it is!

Old Yellow Bricks (Cryptonytes Remix)     Arctic Monkeys
Ulysses                                             Franz Ferdinand
Fool Your Mind                                   Knaeckebroedt
Real Good Time Together                     Lou Reed
Ready For The Floor                            Lissy Trullie
Niobe                                               Caribou
Golden Age                                       TV On the Radio
Jumbo                                              Underworld
Talk to the Devil                                 Knaeckebroedt
All My Friends                                    LCD Soundsystem

2009 Australia Tour: Photographic Memories and Video Blog

LOOK WHAT AUSTRALIA DID TO OUR ROADCASES

PARKLIFE CROWDS ACROSS THE COUNTRY BRING THE LOVE

BEST AUSTRALIAN DESIGNERS: SASS & BIDE...

...AND KSUBI !

THAT'S THE SYDNEY SKYLINE IN THE BACKGROUND

NO, JIMMY ISN'T PLAYING THE AIR.  IT'S CALLED A THEREMIN!

JARVIS WUZ HERE

THANK YOU MELBOURNE!

We have the best fans in the world

Hey everyone,

Sending out a massive thank you for making METRIC a winner at this year's Casby's! Awards like these, selected by you, are the ones that really matter. We wouldn't be here if it weren't for our fans, so THANK YOU!