On some nights you can fool yourself into forgetting that industry weeks like SXSW have shifted from being about discovery to being full-on music festivals. Yesterday was not one of those days. Aside…   Read Story »

Just when you thought we were putting a cap on our ongoing coverage of how it's been a Very Phoenix Summer, with the logical extension of the band's brand expansion (stumping for fun-loving luxury…   Read Story »

At Seattle's biggest music festival, rain is not unexpected; still, the downpours at Bumbershoot '09 were scary even for this neck of the Pacific Northwest. No bands got electrocuted, but the sound…   Read Story »

Interpol frontman Paul Banks' Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper came out a couple of days ago. In the official Javier Aguilera-directed video for his post-punk "Games For Days," Banks plays two…   Read Story »

We got the word on this one from a reader named Kate, who informs us of the following: Broken Social Scene were going to have a show on the island in Toronto but because of the city strike they had…   Read Story »

Metric's tour on the back of Fantasies and its many videos brought them to L.A. last night, where the band played their biggest, most sold-out show yet. Props were paid onstage to the various Los…   Read Story »

The newest Fantasies track gets a simple treatment: "Sick Muse" features a lower-tech sound stage than "Gimme Sympathy" and none of the layered animations of "Help, I'm Alive," and it feels more…   Read Story »

We first heard Metric's excellent single in acoustic form, soundtracking a montage of confessional interviews with singer/songwriter Emily Haines. In the video, posted on the band's site last fall,…   Read Story »

If you're a fan, you've already streamed Metric's Fantasies. Now you can stop imaging and see one in living color. If we take the person who posted it to YouTube to heart -- and why wouldn't we? --…   Read Story »

A few months ago we posted Metric's Breeders-esque "Help I'm Alive" (see "Divine Hammer") and mentioned that it appeared to be the lead single from the new then-untitled followup to 2005's Live It…   Read Story »