Video: Metric – Eclipse (All Yours)
The official music video for METRIC’S “Eclipse (All Yours)” written for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Soundtrack. Directed by Brantley Guttierez
News: Metric announce new batch of tour dates
METRIC announces that they will hit the road for a fresh round of North American tour dates this fall, beginning on November 16th at Town Ballroom in Buffalo, NY.
Tour dates for METRIC:
November 16, 2009 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom
November 17, 2009 Portland, ME Portland City Music Hall
November 18, 2009 Hartford, CT Webster
November 19, 2009 Providence, RI Lupo’s
November 20, 2009 Boston, MA House of Blues
November 21, 2009 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights
November 23, 2009 Baltimore, MD Ram’s Head Live!
November 24, 2009 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small’s
November 25, 2009 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
November 27, 2009 Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theatre
November 28, 2009 Atlanta, GA Center Stage
November 30, 2009 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
December 1, 2009 Austin, TX La Zona Rosa
December 2, 2009 Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom
News: Crystal Method New Single and Contest
Crystal Method now on the second leg of their tour for DIVIDED BY NIGHT (Tiny E music)—have just announced “Come Back Clean” as the second single from the album. The hook-injected track features Emily Haines of Metric on vocals and drummer extraordinaire Samantha Maloney (Hole, Motley Crue, Peaches, Chelsea Girls) providing extra beats.
To support the new single, the duo of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland has teamed with Indaba Music for a remix contest. The Crystal Method will be utilizing the Indaba Music platform to make the stems for the song available for Indaba Music’s community of more than 175,000 musicians to rework and remix the track into new versions. Entrants will be able to sign up at http://www.indabamusic.com/featured_programs/show/tcm from August 11 through September 8, during which time they will be able to download the stems and submit their unique version of “Come Back Clean” to the Indaba Music website. Entrants will be able to use Indaba Music’s new online music creation software, the Indaba Session Console 2.0, or their own music software to create their remix, and will be given a personalized widget to spread their submission across the Internet.
After the submission period ends, voting will take place between September 8 and September 22. The top ten popular submissions, as determined by public voting on the site, will receive an autographed copy of Divided By Night. The Crystal Method will also choose a winner to receive a mini Korg synthesizer. Two runners-up each will receive Skull Candy skate decks and Skull candy headphone sets.
Metric – Gimme Sympathy
It is a wonder why other bands who suffer from getting too involved in the band that tensions start to arise, don’t do a Metric and go off and experiment in solo, work and ranging side projects including the fresh and vibrant Juno sound-tracking , Broken Social Scene. This is in the case of singer Emily Haines and guitarist James Shaw, not to mention Bang Lime, the hobby horse of drummer Joules Scott-Key and bassist, Josh Winstead. The freshness in vibe and approach in recent album ‘Fantasies’, of which the stirring 80s pop soiree ‘Gimme Sympathy’ is a prize plum, represents a great argument for allowing each artist in a group to wander and experiment.
It’s difficult to stop yourself shuddering on hearing the first few notes of this stirring single sung by the poet’s daughter, Haines. It possesses the provocative swagger that Karen-O so often uses to create a swooning and lurid impact. However, the electro kick soon gets fussier and the rat-a-tat percussion makes the perfect background for the vocals to slow down. Effectively underlining the copy-cat decrying and thought provoking lyrics;
“Who’d you rather be; The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? Ooohhh Seriously,
You’re gonna make mistakes you know?”
The quick tempo, catchy spurts give a hint as to why they were good tour mates for The Killers recently. Metric, if anything has an extra spring in their step now and this will surely take them even further forward, but there’s sure to be a few side (project) steps along the way too.