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Halifax VFest Feels "Alternative" Like The '90s

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) July 6, 2009 1:45 pm
It wouldn't be summer without a muddy festival on Citadel Hill. This past weekend Halifax hosted the inaugural Virgin Festival Nova Scotia, free of charge due to The Tragically Hip's last minute cancellation. Virgin headquarters sent out notice less than 24 hours before the show, which stated there was an unforeseeable family emergency that...
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Glastonbury 2009 Diary: Part 2

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By Jonathan Dekel (CHARTattack) July 2, 2009 2:45 pm
Hospitality Campgrounds Pilton, England Glastonbury Festival 10:30 a.m. I awake in a bath of warm sweat. It seems in my hurry to buy an economy tent the previous day I'd forgotten to get one with some sort of window or breeze system. The forecast once again calls for rain, and yet, judging by the 40-degree Celsius weather in this tent, the...
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Edgefest 2009 Is Muddy

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) June 22, 2009 3:58 pm
Festivals are great — an entire day of music, hanging out with like-minded people ("You like Metric? I love Metric!! Let's be besties!"), and enjoying the sunshine. Oh wait — scratch that. Sunshine wasn't part of the deal at Edgefest this year. The rain came down all day and transformed Downsview Park into one giant mud puddle. It made...
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Metric's Fantasies Revealed Live In Toronto

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By Sheena Lyonnais (CHARTattack) April 15, 2009 4:29 pm
I'd never seen Holy Fuck before, and was eager for their electro-rock assault. They ripped through primarily instrumental dance numbers with the fervour of a punk band, using a mass of synths, keyboards, effects pedals, heavy bass and raging drums as their weapons of choice. It all seemed to fly over the heads of the collected Metric fans,...
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Metric — Fantasies

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) April 3, 2009 2:06 pm
It's been four years since Metric released Live It Out and, after battling a bout of writer's block, Emily Haines and company are back with their fourth album. Opener and lead single "Help, I'm Alive" is one of the first tracks Haines penned for Fantasies. It's incredibly catchy and recalls the Metric of old. "Sick...
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Metric: Live At Metropolis

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) February 12, 2008 3:48 pm
Just in time for the dead of winter, Metric offer up a couch-friendly alternative to standing in line outside a club in weather better suited to polar and/or grizzly bears. The DVD was filmed during a March 2006 tour stop at Montreal's Metropolis, where the band made short work of a 13-song smorgasbord of both old and (at the time) new. Jimmy...
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Metric Balance Their Numbers Right

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By Jared Moreno (CHARTattack) February 8, 2008 1:30 pm
I hate going to shows where the band only play their hits, and play them exactly how they sound on the record. I also hate shows where they refuse to play anything well-known, simply out of spite for their peripheral audience. I want a balance between the two, and I want each song to have new life simply in the way that it's performed. I don't...
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Metric — Grow Up And Blow Away

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By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) June 26, 2007 2:03 pm
While those interested in Metric have probably already heard it, the group's unreleased full-length is an interesting look at their early days. Written around 2001, Grow Up And Blow Away was made when Canada's favourite dance-rock quartet were just a duo. Emily Haines and James Shaw were clearly trying to figure out just what kind of music they...
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Metric — Grow Up And Blow Away

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By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) June 26, 2006 4:15 pm
While those interested in Metric have probably already heard it, the group's unreleased full-length is an interesting look at their early days. Written around 2001, Grow Up And Blow Away was made when Canada's favourite dance-rock quartet were just a duo. Emily Haines and James Shaw were clearly trying to figure out just what kind of music they...
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Metric — Live It Out

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By Bryan Borzykowski (CHARTattack) September 27, 2005 3:47 pm
The big question of 2005 was how would Metric follow up their stellar 2003 new wave rocker Old World Underground? The answer — create another kick ass record. Everything you loved about OWU is here — the fluid keys, the catchy riffs and of course, Emily Haines' so so sexy vocals, but it soon becomes clear that Metric have matured. The band's...
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I Read The News Today... For July 20, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 20, 2011 2:42 pm
Austra's Katie Stelmanis will appear on Trans Love Energies, the first album in seven years from U.K. psych rockers Death In Vegas. It comes out Sept. 12, and Stelmanis sings on two tracks. Moby's announced a North American tour that'll take place this fall to support his recently released Destroyed album. Go see him... y'know... if you still like...
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Toronto Furniture Store Selling Feist, Metric Rugs

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 27, 2011 11:32 am
Emily Haines and Feist would probably get upset if you stepped on them in real life. But now — whether you like or dislike their music — you can trod all over them courtesy Toronto furniture store Elte. The retailer, which is located just north of Eglinton Avenue West near Dufferin Street, has just launched a new line of rugs called Sex, Rugs...
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The Longest Running Albums On The Campus Radio Chart

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 27, 2011 12:24 pm
Here is the complete list of every album that has been on the Campus Radio Chart for 20 or more weeks since September 1995. The albums are listed in chronological order with each week total.The dates in the brackets indicate the week the record initially entered the chart, followed by the last week of continuous presence before exiting the chart....
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Metric Vs. Glenn Beck

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 15, 2011 11:18 am
One day, Metric fan Thomas Horn was listening to the Glenn Beck Program on FM NewsTalk 104.7 in Pittsburgh when he heard something extremely surprising: The conservative pundit's program was using Metric's "Rock Me Now" in its bumper.Horn took note of this and sent Metric's management an email about what he'd heard."Every time I hear it I think it...
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K-OS Records Weezer Cover With Billy Talent Frontman

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 31, 2011 3:33 pm
Genre-bending rapper K-OS' next album will likely feature a duet between himself and Billy Talent lead vocalist Ben Kowalewicz covering Weezer's 1995 alternative nation hit, "Say It Ain't So."The pair covered the song during a mostly-hits K-OS performance at Toronto's Masonic Temple that was being recorded for a live album and (presumably)...
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Official 2011 Juno Awards Drinking Game

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 25, 2011 10:31 am
Finally. After years of complaining that it's too expensive to fly all their artists out to places like St. John's or Saskatoon, or that there aren't enough limousines to rent in these towns, or that the available bars are too small to host proper after-parties, the Canadian music industry has finally gotten its wish and the 40th anniversary...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 18, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 18, 2011 3:44 pm
Joel Plaskett, Sloan, Hey Rosetta!, Matt Mays and Hawksley Workman will perform during this year's Canada Games, which take place Feb. 14 to 18 in Halifax. Christina Martin and The Novaks will also play free outdoor shows.  —canadagames2011.ca Kanye West was trying to be funny when he accidentally started a Twitter fight with Britney Spears'...
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