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Metric (Band)

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Beck Jack White are the Most Exciting Sasquatch! Headliners Since ... Beck, 2006

    Yes, yes, yes, your favorite mid-level indie band is playing Sasquatch! 2012 (full lineup after the jump), but when the lineup was announced tonight at the Neptune during the Sasquatch! launch party, I got most excited about the headliners at the top of the bill. Jack White, who recently announced a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Why Is the Twilight: Breaking Dawn: Part I Soundtrack So Terrible?

    We all know the Twilight movies are terrible--they're either just flat-out terrible, or, if you're like me, they're so terrible they're amazing. I spent last night at the Big Picture drinking beers and watching the latest installment, Breaking Dawn: Part I, while a pack of feral cougars behind me sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Is Justin Bieber Going to Win an Academy Award? (Please, God, Yes)

    ​The Academy appears to have Bieber Fever. This morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their short list of 41 songs in the running for the the Best Original Song award at the 83rd Academy Awards. Among the notables include Christina Aguilera's "Bound to You" from Bur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2010

    Broken Social Scene Create Clever Sonic Textures and Fill the Stage With a Dozen Canadians at the Paramount Last Night

    ​Broken Social Scene Friday Oct. 15, 2010 The Paramount Theatre Broken Social Scene proved there is such thing as strength in numbers at the Paramount Theatre last night. At times the Canadian collective swelled to as many as 12 members on stage, which must have helped the band power through ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Tonight: Starfucker at Neumos, Sonny Rollins at the Paramount

    ​Starfucker, with Truckasaurus, Copy. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $12. Starfucker is back. Last year, the Portland electronic band changed their name to Pyramiddd in hopes that dropping the expletive would make them more marketable in the mainstream. But recently, they came to th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2010

    Starfucker

    ​Starfucker, with Truckasaurus, Copy. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $12. Starfucker is back. Last year, the Portland electronic band changed their name to Pyramiddd in hopes that dropping the expletive would make them more marketable in the mainstream. But recently, they came to th ... More >>

  • Music

    May 5, 2010

    The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

    ​Starfucker, with Truckasaurus, Copy. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $12. Starfucker is back. Last year, the Portland electronic band changed their name to Pyramiddd in hopes that dropping the expletive would make them more marketable in the mainstream. But recently, they came to th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2010

    Tonight: Metric Plays at a Sold Out Showbox SoDo, Rachel Harrington at Empty Sea Studios

    Justin Broadbent​Metric, with Codeine Velvet Club, Nico Vega. Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., 382-7877. 8 p.m. Sold out. Carving their niche out of alt rock and disco, the Canadian electro-pop quartet Metric has found a way to maintain a staunch level of independence while simultaneously ach ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2010

    Metric

    Justin Broadbent​Metric, with Codeine Velvet Club, Nico Vega. Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., 382-7877. 8 p.m. Sold out. Carving their niche out of alt rock and disco, the Canadian electro-pop quartet Metric has found a way to maintain a staunch level of independence while simultaneously ach ... More >>

  • Music

    March 17, 2010

    The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

    Justin Broadbent​Metric, with Codeine Velvet Club, Nico Vega. Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., 382-7877. 8 p.m. Sold out. Carving their niche out of alt rock and disco, the Canadian electro-pop quartet Metric has found a way to maintain a staunch level of independence while simultaneously ach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    CD Review: Phantogram's Eyelid Movies Is a Beautiful Dream

    ​Band: Phantogram Album: Eyelid Movies Label: Barsuk Release Date: Yesterday, February 9 Rating (Skip, Stream, or Buy): Stream Download: "When I'm Small" Fifteen seconds into poptronica duo Phantogram's debut full-length, Eyelid Movies, I did a double take and checked to make sure I hadn't ac ... More >>

  • Music

    December 30, 2009

    What We Listened to in 2009

    Even if the music came from 1956, 1995, or … the future!

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Last Night: Deck The Hall Ball Gets Some Wrong, A Lot Right With Muse, Metric, and Vampire Weekend

    Justin Dylan RenneyMetric, featuring Emily Haines, played The End's Deck the Hall Ball on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the WaMu Theater. Watch a slideshow featuring Muse, Vampire Weekend, and rest of the night's bill.​Review By Nick Feldman As the biggest and best of local radio's holiday parties--th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Tonight: Deck the Hall Ball '09, Mean Jeans

    Metric​Coconut Coolouts, Partman Parthorse, Mean Jeans, Cowabunga Dudes at the Funhouse, 9:30 p.m., $6 We here in Seattle are fortunate that Coconut Coolouts (a super fun, throwback sort of punk band that contains Dutchess and the Duke member Ruben Mendez) and Partman Parthorse (creepy art ro ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 9, 2009

    Deck the Hall Ball 2009

    Metric​Coconut Coolouts, Partman Parthorse, Mean Jeans, Cowabunga Dudes at the Funhouse, 9:30 p.m., $6 We here in Seattle are fortunate that Coconut Coolouts (a super fun, throwback sort of punk band that contains Dutchess and the Duke member Ruben Mendez) and Partman Parthorse (creepy art ro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Tonight: Laura Veirs and Blind Pilot

    Tucker MartineLaura Veirs​Laura Veirs, Blind Pilot, Mimicking Birds at Neumos, 8 p.m., $12 adv Portland songwriter Laura Veirs recently released two tracks from her upcoming album, July Flame, for download: the title track and "I Can See Your Tracks." Veirs' voice has a unique character to it ... More >>

  • Music

    December 2, 2009

    Five Holiday Shows That Won’t Make You Retch

    But which would be even better after a glass of hot buttered rum.

  • Music

    October 7, 2009

    Once a Starfucker, Always a ...

    The Portland band aims to be less vulgar, but will their career suffer in the process?

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Bumbershoot Review: Is Metric's Emily Haines the Most Entertaining Frontwoman Ever?

    Justin Dylan RenneyMetric, earlier in the day at KEXP's Bumbershoot Music Lounge. For all our festival coverage, visit Bumbershoot.SeattleWeekly.com.​Who: Metric When: 9:30 p.m. Where: Broad Street Stage Like pretty much everyone else in the world who's ever seen a Yeah Yeah Yeahs show, I am ... More >>

  • Music

    September 2, 2009

    Bumbershoot: Metric’s Indie Credibility

    Why the band’s authentic DIY attitude is working in its favor.

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Live Music Roundup: Monday, August 10

    Toumani Diabate and Bela Fleck​If I like electropop now, I'm pretty sure I owe it to my stepmom's ritualistic insistence on blasting "Just Can't Get Enough" as loud as possible every single time she gets drunk. However I might feel about other '80s pop bands my stepmom holds in high esteem (ne ... More >>

  • Music

    August 5, 2009

    Blue Scholars and the New Deal

    With the backing of Caffé Vita, the Blue Scholars are turning the artist-label relationship on its head.

  • Music

    October 15, 2008

    Anti-Folk Only by Definition

    Just because French duo Herman Dune sounds nothing like Dylan doesn’t mean they hate the guy.

  • Music

    November 28, 2007

    Reserved Local Musicians: Take Note of Monotonix and Les Savy Fav

    They'll rip your head off.

  • Music

    April 7, 2004

    Seven Nights

    They'll rip your head off.

  • Music

    January 21, 2004

    Music Calendar

    They'll rip your head off.

  • Music

    November 5, 2003

    Music Calendar

    They'll rip your head off.

  • Music

    May 21, 2003

    May 21-28, 2003

    They'll rip your head off.

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