GENRE: new wave/indie/rock
FROM: New York/Montreal/Toronto
BAND MEMBERS:
Vocalist/synthesizer/songwriter - Emily Haines
Guitarist - James Shaw
Bassist - Josh Winstead
Drummer - Joules Scott-Key
TOGETHER SINCE: 1998
BEST KNOWN HIT: "Combat Baby"
STATUS: Awesome
- Metric's band members are in a close-knit Canadian musical clique and continually collaborate with the likes of the Stills, Broken Social Scene, the Stars, (all signed on the popular Canadian label Arts & Crafts) and many more
- Have a side project called Bang Lime and Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton
- Emily's father was a famous poet and avant-garde jazz musician named Paul Haines. He worked with Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt and Albert Ayler and is best known for his lyrics featured in Carla Bley's 1971 jazz opera Escalator Over the Hill
- Emily Haines and James Shaw met when Haines was attending a Toronto art college and Shaw was at the Julliard School studying classical trumpet
- Metric won a Juno award in 2006 for "Best Alternative Album of the Year" Live It Out, and were nominated for a 2006 Polaris Music Prize for "Canadian Album of the Year"
- Emily Haines and James Shaw met a nightclub and decided to form a band because they both hated the music being played there
- "Monster Hospital" and "Police and the Private" were featured on Grey's Anatomy
- Haines was raised in New Delhi, India
- Shaw and Haines used to live with the future members of The Yeah Yeah Yeah's when they lived in New York
- Warner Bros. Records were going to sign Metric onto their label but decided against it at the last minute
"It’s strange to think a lot of new music is modeled on the past already, and
then people are modeling themselves on people who model themselves on the past.
I do think we’re in a recycling era, everything’s so retro. People should
recycle more plastic and less culture.”
If you're not familiar with Metric then I highly recommend you check out some of their music videos...while high:
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