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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 09:16 am


This is Metric an indie rock/new wave band hailing from the great land of Canada. They are Emily Haines (vocals, synthesizer & guitar), James Shaw (guitar & theremin), Josh Winstead (bassist) and Joules Scott-Key (drummer). They started in Toronto but have been all over the world at various times.

Background Info:
Wikipedia
Offical Site Bio


I found them thanks to My One True Radio Station, aka the Alternative Channel on Music Choice. They kept playing "Help I'm Alive" and finally I just had to find out more about the band that made this song I liked so damn much.

So first I hit up RCRD LBL's site to see if they had a listing for Metric, which they did: Metric page on RCRD LBL

Happily, they had two, not just one, songs available to stream & download. I've embedded the streaming player here, or you can just click on the link above.

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At that time Lala.com was still alive, and so I used some of my sign-up credits to 'buy' the streaming version of their album Fantasies. I fell in love. It was utterly delightful. I liked every single song and that is one of the things that's really special for me. I want to be able to enjoy the entirety of what an artist/band has to offer, and with Metric that was no problem at all.

Here again was a female-lead band that played the music I enjoyed and had lyrics that didn't depress me. And on top of that, they're really good. I do hope you'll give them a chance.


Important Links:
Official Site
Myspace
Twitter
YouTube

Buy Metric's Fantasies:
Metric's Webstore
Amazon [CD] or [MP3]
iTunes

All Other Merch
Saturday, June 5th, 2010 02:17 pm


This is Tegan & Sara, immensely talented twins from the great land of Canadia, I mean Canada. They've been making music since they were fifteen and they've been touring almost as long.

You can read a detailed History of Tegan & Sara over on Wikipedia, so I won't replicate that here. I found them because I heard one of their songs played on a tv show, but for the life of me I can't recall which one. Obviously their music was superior to the show using it.

I promptly looked them up and was thrilled to find a female-lead band (two queer females even!) that made songs that were both musically and lyrically satisfying to me. All too often I find the best female bands/singers have songs that, while amazingly well done, are also fucking suicide-inducing. And I understand why that is. Women, even now, have a lot of shit poured on them. It's only natural to write about that, work through it, protest against it via art. I applaud that even. But as someone who honestly can't handle my own shitty life, I am unable to take on the additional burden of other women's pain. So with Tegan & Sara I was pleased to find songs that resonated strongly on an emotional level but that did not overwhelm me with pain and despair.

Looking through their discography I realize that I basically really love every other album they do and am just kind of meh about the others. Not sure why, just one of those things. Still, with six studio albums to their names, there is plenty to enjoy even for weirdos like me. FYI: my faves are This Business of Art (2000), So Jealous (2004), and Sainthood (2009).

And here's a sampling of songs off those records (though I love the full albums so):
on Grooveshark
or embedded here )

So go buy their music!
at Amazon
on iTunes


Vital Links:
Official Site
MySpace
Facebook
Twitter
Youtube
Vimeo
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