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  Metric's 'Breathing Underwater' Soars in MNDR's Dance-Pop Remix

  February 14, 2013 – Metric's Synthetica standout "Breathing Underwater" has enough stadium-rock anthem in its genetic makeup that our reviewer Josh Modell called it "the ass-kicking younger sister of 'With or Without You.'" MNDR, the duo of Amanda Warner and Peter Wade, are steeped in the history of electronic dance music, as last year's Feed Me Diamonds exhilaratingly illustrates. …
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  Metric Stay Loyal to Morrissey's 'Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself'

  December 19, 2012 – A spoonful of arsenic helps the sugar go down. Morrissey has no shortage of songs with cutting shards of "glass / Hidden in the grass," but the bitter strummer "Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself," from 1994's Vauxhall and I, is the one where he actually uses that particular vivid lyric. …
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  Watch Metric Faithfully Cover Blondie's 'Heart of Glass' for VH1 Divas Concert

  December 17, 2012 – VH1's annual Divas special aired Sunday night (December 17), and among the usual lineup of R&B staples (Kelly Rowland, Keri Hilson, Brandy), American Idols (Kelly Clarkson, Jordin Sparks, and host Adam Lambert), and former Disney Channel stars (Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato), indie rock was well represented by the presence of Metric. …
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  Relive Metric's Thrilling Summer Tour in 'Breathing Underwater' Video

  November 13, 2012 – Metric, to mix a metaphor or two, are taking a well-deserved victory lap before coming back out for an encore. …
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  Lollapalooza 2012: SPIN's Best Live Photos

  August 4, 2012 –  …
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  Lollapalooza 2012: 10 Best and Worst of Day One

  August 4, 2012 – SPIN's intrepid team has invaded Chicago's Grant Park, attempting to see as many of the 30 essential sets at this year's Lollapalooza as possible while avoiding the twin evils of 21st-century festivals (no, not Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie: bad-attitude bros and foul corndogs). …
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  Watch Metric Play 'Synthetica' Songs All Over the Place

  June 22, 2012 – Earlier this month, Metric gave the world SPIN Essential album Synthetica, which our reviewer Josh Modell called "big, glossy, sexy, and willing, but never cheap." In the past few days, the Toronto-based rockers have, in fact, been willing to perform new songs from the album in all sorts of settings, from the great outdoors to a hotel room on New York City's Lower East Side. …
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• Metric, 'Synthetica' (Mom + Pop)

  June 14, 2012 – Unlike Broken Social Scene — her besties in the very social scene from which she sprang — Emily Haines has never seemed destined for anonymity. Since 2003, when she presented the world at large with her own band Metric — via the new wave-indebted firecracker Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? — Haines has sure-footedly and purposefully inched closer to the brightest possible spotlight. …
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  Metric Unleash 'Youth Without Youth' Live Footage as New LP 'Synthetica' Arrives

  June 12, 2012 – Metric's May 18th show at Le National in Montreal wasn't remarkable just because it was the quartet's first live run-through of new album Synthetica before they headed off to Sasquatch! "We gave away all the tickets for free, bussed in fans from outlying towns, and we asked everyone to refrain from filming or recording because it was before the release," frontwoman Emily Haines tells SPIN. The most remarkable part? …
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  SPIN's 25 Best Summer 2012 Tours

  June 7, 2012 –  …
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