Has it really been almost two months since our last mix? Hey, give us a break. We’ve been busy. All this groundbreaking music coverage doesn’t write itself, you know. Plus, we had the holidays to contend with. Everyone’s busy around the holidays, right? Yeah, that’s a feasible excuse…

Formed in Toronto but, at various times, based in Montreal, London, New York and L.A., Metric boasts the sort of history that requires one of those connect-the-dots redlined maps you see in an Indiana Jones movie — and the story of their latest release Fantasies is no different. First stop: Bear Creek, located outside Seattle, [...]

If she wanted to, Emily Haines of Metric could start an outright riot. I witnessed her come close to inciting a riot in March of 2004 at Nashville’s Exit/In, when Haines had so much command of the frenzied audience that she was able to pull us back from the edge. That show became the standard [...]