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Broken Social Scene always seemed like more of a collective than a band, and a new clip from It’s All Gonna Break — an upcoming doc about the group that’s hitting movie theaters around North America in the months to come — shows the hard work the musicians had to put into getting on the road.

First off, they needed a female singer that could replicate vocals recorded by Leslie Feist, Metric’s Emily Haines, and Stars’ Amy Millan, so they hired vocalist-keyboardist Lisa Lobsinger to tour with them.

A new documentary about the history of the indie rockers Broken Social Scene examines how they broke out of Toronto’s social scene onto the world stage. The film, It’s All Gonna Break, will premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival on Oct. 16; ticketing details are on the fest’s website. More festival screenings are expected in the future.

“There was some kind of renaissance going on around 2000 in Toronto,” a voice narrates in the trailer. “The creativity was on fire.” More band members explain how they felt special freedom...

Rush frontman-bassist Geddy Lee, Simple Minds lead singer Jim Kerr and Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley appear in a new documentary about the origins and high points of pioneering Toronto radio station Cfny.

Veteran film producer Matt Schichter makes his directorial debut with Cfny: The Spirit of Radio, which has just wrapped post production. Other artists appearing in the doc include Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies), Peter Hook (New Order/Joy Division), Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Emily Haines (Metric), Ben Kowalewicz (Billy Talent) and Andy McCluskey (Omd).

During the 1970s and 1980s, major record companies and large independent labels relied on records being played on local radio in major markets to promote commercial releases. Toronto’s Cfny, which launched in a small city suburb in 1960, eventually became hugely influential in breaking punk and new wave acts after evolving into an alternative radio station on the FM dial.

In 1979, Rush drummer Neil Peart wrote a song,...

Added: Scott Pilgrim is back (in anime form), and he is ready to rock. With the release of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the upcoming animated series from Netflix, comes a 63-track soundtrack album from Lakeshore Records, featuring the music of artists Anamanaguchi and Joe Trapanese. Also included are three tracks from Sex Bob-Omb (the in-world band featuring cast members) as well as a few additional original songs.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the upcoming animated series based on the graphic novels, reunites the cast from Edgar Wright’s 2010 film adaptation for a new take, produced by anime studio Science Saru and written by Bryan Lee O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski. Once again, hapless 20-something Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) will meet Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), the girl of his literal dreams — and fight her seven evil exes in order to have a chance with her.

Anamanaguchi previously worked on the soundtrack for...

Track by Track is a recurring feature series in which artists guide readers through every song on their latest release. Today, Metric take us through their latest record, Formentera II.

Canadian rock mainstays Metric return today with their brand new album, Formentera II, out via Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers. This is the follow-up and direct sequel to their 2022 album Formentera, building on the addictive hooks and lushness of its predecessor. With these nine new tracks, the band is showing they still have what it takes to mix things up.

The band is as groovy as ever, particularly on the single “Just This Once,” with Joshua Winstead’s bassline rooting the song in a funk style before it switches up in the second half. With another year to grow together, the band sounds re-energized on the dream pop-influenced single “Who Would You Be For Me,” while still remaining faithful to their alternative rock roots.

One year since they released Formentera, Metric have announced the album’s follow-up, Formentera II. The LP arrives October 13th via Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers, while lead single “Just the Once” is out now.

Metric laid down the initial recordings for Formentera II during the pandemic at the band’s Main Street Studios in Toronto before putting the finishing touches on the project earlier this year, at Motorbass Studios in Paris. Guitarist Jimmy Shaw and frequent collaborators Liam O’Neil and Gus van Go returned to handle engineering and production. The album will be available on CD as well as marble blue vinyl and sea glass blue vinyl. Even better, both Formentera and Formentera II will come on an opaque white double vinyl. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Featuring strings composed and arranged by Drew Jureka (Dua Lipa) and mixing by Stuart White (Beyoncé), Metric singer Emily Haines describes “Just the Once” as “regret disco.

The first solo LP by Metric frontwoman Emily Haines, 2006’s Knives Don’t Have Your Back, is one of my desert-island records, a collection of autumnal chamber-pop that’s not only suited to my favorite time of year, but which was also a key ice-breaker in the relationship that eventually became my marriage. So I was…

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Watching a film by Olivier Assayas is a little like wandering into the bedroom of a teenager, taking in the aesthetic décor that clings to his or her walls and bookshelves—posters, pop records, hastily cut-out collages of idols, and literature—and being left to draw a logical conclusion based on these ephemeral scraps. This idea of collage, assembling or reinventing an identity, has always been a concept inherent to punk and youth culture: British punk historian Jon Savage coined the term “living collage” to describe European teenagers in the 1970s who tore apart thrifted vintage clothing at the seams to fuse and repurpose them with safety pins. Assayas’ work is essentially the filmic equivalent of that same idea: he populates his frames with torrents of ideas and surfaces and lets loose cinematographers Yorick Le Saux and Eric Gautier to pan wildly, struggling to encapsulate everything into their widescreen, handheld compositions.

Canadian pop outfit Metric journeys to Mexico City for its new video "Lost Kitten," a single off its 2012 album "Synthetica." But don't expect to see the band anywhere in this video that is stylized like a Pedro Almodóvar film and chronicles the story of a lost, voguing dancer. Check it out here or below.   The song "Lost Kitten" recalls Metric in its angsty-pop "Grow Up and Blow Away" period, with frontwoman Emily Haines chirping sassy lines like "they got it, they want it, they give it away." The video takes a literal approach to the song's plea for home...

Memorials for Lou Reed, who died yesterday at age 71, have been arriving at Rolling Stone all day. Metric's Emily Haines, who performed alongside Reed for the first time in 2010 and went on to collaborate with him on her band's latest album, Synthetica, has written a touching statement about her personal relationship with the icon. Here's what she told Rolling Stone exclusively about the loss of Reed:

Look back at Lou Reed's remarkable career in photos

When Lou Reed asked me, "Emily Haines, who would you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones,...

The televised Michael Bublé-hosted portion of the 2013 Juno Awards in Regina may be The Big Show, but Saturday's non-televised gala dinner is where many of the big-deal awards are actually handed out — including categories-to-watch such as Pop Album of the Year, R&B/Soul Recording, Rap Recording, Alternative Recording and Breakout Artist of the Year.

Or, you know, Artist of the Year, which also shockingly wasn't televised. Elder statesman Leonard Cohen justly took that prize for his album "Old Ideas." Carly Rae Jepsen's victory over the Biebs in the Pop Album of the Year category was also not televised.

Toronto producer The Weeknd, a.k.a. Abel Tesfaye, was one of the night's big winner, snagging both R&B/Soul Recording of the year as well as Breakthrough Artist of the Year on the strength of "Trilogy," a compilation of his three independent mixtapes. The win doubtless comes...

Canadian Screen Awards 2013 nominations: War Witch rules The Genie Awards are dead, long live the Canadian Screen Awards! Well, in truth, the Genie Awards aren’t exactly dead; they’ve just been transmogrified, along with Canadian television’s Gemini Awards, into the aforementioned Canadian Screen Awards, organized by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. But Genie or Canadian Screen, once again a Québécois production dominates the nominations roster. (Photo: Rachel Mwanza in Kim Nguyen’s War Witch.) Kim Nguyen’s Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nominee Rebelle / War Witch, the story of a (very) young African rebel fighter, received a total of 12 Canadian Screen Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Berlin Film Festival’s Best Actress Rachel Mwanza), Best Supporting Actor (Serge Kanyinda), and Best Original Screenplay (Nguyen). War Witch follows in the heels of recent Quebec-made Genie Award powerhouses and eventual Best Picture winners such...

Canadian indie-rockers Metric are no strangers to having their music set to visuals. After all, their songs can be heard on "CSI: Miami," "Grey's Anatomy," "Entourage," "One Tree Hill," "90210," "Twilight," "CSI: NY," "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," "The Vampire Diaries" and a handful of video games.

So it's unsurprising that the band feels comfortable releasing a Sony-branded video (filmed entirely on Xperia Ion smartphones and directed by Chris Lenox Smith) for "Synthetica," the title track off their fifth studio album.

In an email interview with HuffPost Entertainment, the band's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw said they have "no problem with licensing music to TV shows." "People like TV," they wrote. "Doctors fall in an out of love sometimes and there needs to be music in the background while it happens. It might as well be one of our songs."

It's that type of simplicity and honesty which has long endeared the group to their fans.

There are about a million places you could start with this thing.

Oh, hell: “Brilliant.” Cosmopolis is certainly a brilliant film, one filled with all the subtext and qualities we call “cinematic” that you could ask for, but it presents this in a manner so deceptively simple it can only feel like genius. David Cronenberg’s newest effort says inordinate amounts about our society, often, by saying so little, to the point where it feels as though we, the modern audience, are looking into a funhouse mirror only two degrees off from being an exact portrait.

And that’s more terrifying than anything the Canadian auteur has ever put onscreen.

More unsettling, yet, is Cosmopolis’ insistence on what truly constitutes time. Everybody here is moving, everybody is going toward something, everybody is trying to get away from something, yet they’re not reaching anywhere. Cronenberg’s world is one in which time is an inevitable,...

As is the case with any outdoor music festival -- or anything else held in the city of Chicago -- sometimes the actual meat of any particular goings-on can be overshadowed by the weather that serves as its backdrop.

As it happened last year when a series of downpours soaked Lollapalooza to the bones, the 2012 edition is sure to be at least partially defined by the incredibly oppressive heat. Temperatures Friday, the festival's opening day, hit 95 degrees, the hottest temperature Chicago has seen in August in six years, leaving the 100,000 concertgoers who packed in Grant Park on the mega-fest's first day caked in sweat.

(Scroll down to view 2012 Lollapalooza festival photos.)

Ah yes, the six-digit crowd, the other story that tends to threaten on-stage happenings at Lolla. This year, the sold-out festival's organizers appear to have managed to squeeze even more people into the gates. Lines for nearly everything are atrocious,...

Metric's "Youth Without Youth" from brand new "Synthetica" is the sound of disenchantment and a riot to the sound of a Gary Glitter beat. The video is pretty contained, but has many of the same emotional elements. Lead singer Emily Haines and her bandmates are featured in shots in-between slow-motion of the old and young doing unexpected and unsettling things. For instance, stacking tires to knock them down? Stacking cakes on top of each other in the same manner? Both mischievous, both unexplained. It's a mystifying but visually interesting take on the song, which features an upbeat tempo opposite of the...

For me, the biggest draw to any band or solo act is the vocals. Until a few years ago, the emergence of talented vocalists seemed far rarer than it should have been, with the likes of Eric Sean Nally coming along as more the exception than the rule, though in the last few years it seems they're coming out of the woodwork (and that's of course discounting the one's cheating entirely with autotune). Pamela Bell of Letterist, though not quite one of the best yet, has vocals caught somewhere in the spectrum between Metric's Emily Haines and Kylie Minogue, with a flair for electronic beats to match. There's a lot of promise in Bell, and excellent instrumental support from Rammy Yogendra and Alex McCown only combine with the full vocals for a well-rounded sound of electronic light rock.

Their sophomore album Solace and Gold releases soon and in honor...

With a release eyed for this summer following a Cannes debut, the updates from David Cronenberg‘s crazy-looking Cosmopolis are coming in full swing. Today we’ve got our first listen from the score for the Robert Pattinson-starrer by long-time collaborator Howard Shore and the Canadian indie band Metric. Howe Records have a preview of the 11 tracks and it sounds to be a pumping, energetic good time. These collaborations with established composer and popular band have proved successful in the past and under Cronenberg’s guidance, this is sounding like a great one. Check out those previews at the link (via The Playlist), with a blurb about the score, along with new photos from the film featuring Samantha Morton, Jay Baruchel, Mathieu Amalric, Kevin Durand and more. [Official Press Kit, Kinopoisk]

The soundtrack for Cosmopolis reunites composer Howard Shore and the band Metric for another cinematic collaboration. While writing the score for David Cronenberg...

Metric were right in that their first single "finally" get to utilize the omnipresent Gary Glitter "Rock and Roll" beat -- it'll have you saying "Hey!" to boot. "Youth Without Youth" is the initial track to arrive from "Synthetica," and is going on sale on May 1. The band pushes crunchy, smarmy guitars way up front in the mix as a Muse-like synthy underbelly balances out Emily Haines' penchant creepy-little-girl voice. The child-like front is appopriate for "Youth," which explores what the band describes as a "slow sad story." It tackles "the decaying social state through the eyes of a depraved child......

With top composers like Danny Elfman, Clint Mansell and Cliff Martinez all having graduated from the rock'n'roll world (Oingo Boingo, Pop Will Eat Itself and Red Hot Chili Peppers respectively), the idea of having bands tuning up a movie is becoming more and more and common these days, with Yo La Tengo, Mogwai, Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx among the many acts who've written film scores in recent years. The latest to join them; Canadian indie rock band Metric. The Emily Haines-led group, no strangers to the film world having lent the song "Black Sheep" to the…...

On July 19th, and imprint called Greyday Records will release a second volume of its "Live From Nowhere Near You" charity compilation. Looking through the first one, out in 2003, a few artists jump out: Spoon, Emily Haines, Brad Hargreaves of Third Eye Blind. For "Live From Nowhere Near You, Vol. 2," many of the names may be familiar to you. Over three discs, musicians including Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst with Spoon's Britt Daniel, the Strokes' Julian Casablancas and Fabrizio Moretti, Modest Mouse, the Shins' James Mercer, Wilco, Ryan Adams, Josh Homme (hi, Josh), Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker, the Decemberists'...

If you are not familiar with Broken Social Scene than you most likely don’t listen to the same type of music as me. The Canadian supergroup includes as few as six and as many as nineteen members with contributions by such artists as Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Bill Priddle, Leslie Feist, Jessica Moss and Evan Cranley, Amy Milan, Andrew Whiteman, Jason Collett, and Emily Haines—to name a few. The band’s music features a very large number of sounds, grand orchestrations featuring guitars, horns, woodwinds, and violins, unusual song structures, and an experimental, and sometimes chaotic production style. Since wooing fans and critics alike with their 2003 Juno Award-winning album You Forgot It in People, the band’s popularity has made them such big stars that in 2010, Bruce McDonald made This Movie Is Broken, a film about the band’s Harbourfront show during the 2009 Toronto strike.Their newest video...

Though they were eligible to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Song for their song Eclipse (All Yours) off of the soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, unfortunately Metric didn’t make a cut. But don’t feel too bad, because Metric front-woman Emily Haines took to the band’s official Twitter account to make light of the situation:

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Actual Nominees:

• “Coming Home” from “Country Strong”

• “I See the Light” from “Tangled”

• “If I Rise” from “127 Hours”

• “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3″

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I love that they’re able to joke about it, but I still love the song and wish it had been given more of a chance.

What did you think of Metric’s Eclipse soundtrack contribution? Do you think it should have been nominated?...

Despite being hailed the best at some coveted prize-giving events, Justin Bieber ends up bagging three nominations in 'worst' and 'least' departments of 2011 Shockwaves NME Awards. The pint-sized singer is up for Villain of the Year along with Axl Rose, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Simon Cowell.

Last year's winner of the meanest character is Kanye West. Now, the rap mogul gets three nods for Best Solo Artist, Best Band Blog or Twitter and Hero of the Year. In the latest category, he is facing off the likes of Gerard Way, Julian Assange and Lady GaGa.

Also, Bieber's choice of fashion made him appear as one of the nominees for Least Stylish star. He is listed in this category alongside Cheryl Cole, Ke$ha, GaGa and Liam Gallagher. His third chance to win a 'prize' in the upcoming prize-giving event comes from his debut album "My World".

The 2009 effort is up for Worst Album.

As you know, Metric is the band responsible for "Eclipse (All Yours)" from the official soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The song itself appeared first on the final credits for the film, but the melody became a big part of the official score for the film (by Howard Shore).

You might recall that Shore chose to work with Metric for this endeavor.

According to the band's most recent interview with Scene Louisiana, this was a great honor for them because while they've appeared on other film and TV soundtracks - including Zomebieland, Grey's Anatomy, and even the recent Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World - this was their first time serving as a composer for a feature film. Here's what Emily Haines had to say:

"We wrote the theme song for the Twilight movie with Howard Shore, the composer ...

A film packed with plenty of solid tunes as well as pop culture references, we celebrate the eclectic soundtrack of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World...

The recipient of two excellent four star reviews on this very site, courtesy of Michael and James, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is, without doubt, the geekiest film of the year. And while it's not a film without faults, it's as close to a perfect an adaptation of the source as I could have hoped for.

I had a lot of fun with the film and it blended everything I'm geeky about in a 110 minute film. Given the nature of my weekly column, it's no surprise that music, and specifically movie music, is something I'm quite passionate about and, as more news about the soundtrack surfaced, I got more and more excited.

The wait for the UK release of the soundtrack was rather excruciating, but it was worth it.

Even with hilariously bad movies like "The Expendables" blowing away "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" at the box office, they can't touch it's music. Long after these movies are gone from the screen and people have stopped marveling at hulking geriatrics, iPods will still be playing the "Scott Pilgrim" soundtrack. I admit to contributing to the initial ticket sale discrepancy -- for me the toss up boiled down to the tag lines "Choose your weapon," or "An epic of epic epicness" and I just couldn't swallow the latter at the last minute.

But here's some love for "Scott Pilgrim" from Metric's Emily Haines who, wearing sunglasses that look like candy, talks briefly about how director Edgar Wright invited her band to help facilitate his vision after they finished their album, "Fantasies," and about getting to work with Radiohead's producer Nigel Godrich. The soundtrack is out now on Abkco.

The name origin of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack band Metric has just been revealed by Spin Magazine, and it might not be what you think.

"Some people think it has something to do with the fact that we're from Canada -- which uses the metric system. That was coincidental," explained singer and guitarist Emily Haines.

"It came from a song that [bandmate] Jimmy [Shaw] and I were working on back in Toronto in the early days, like '97 or '98. . . . When we saw that word on the keyboard's Led screen it looked so electro. It had a no [B.S.] vibe. It was a little cold and standoffi ..

About a month ago, Metric's music video for "Eclipse (All Yours)," their contribution to the official motion picture soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, was revealed, and now Spinner has unveiled a behind-the-scenes video from the shoot.

In this new video, a bit about the song's creation is explained as well as some of the themes associated with the music video. According to Spinner, the feature is directed by Luke Wooden and was shot in "the rustic North Vancouver location in which the song's video was filmed."

Metric's singer and guitarist Emily Haines has always been very positive about the Twilight series, and she had some really interesting things to say about Kristen Stewart as w ///...

Afraid that you won't be able to get your fill of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart with the release of the Twilight sequel Eclipse? Don't worry, you'll be able to obtain your Robsten fix on the small screen too now. The video for Canadian indie band Metric's "Eclipse (All Yours)," from the Eclipse soundtrack, has been released, and as luck (or savvy marketing) would have it, there's plenty of footage of R-Pattz, K-Stew and the rest of the gang is interspersed with shots of singer Emily Haines warbling the tune. Never has being attacked by a pack of marauding wolves seemed...

Last week, at the worldwide premiere of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in Los Angeles, Metric's Emily Haines revealed that the band was putting together a music video for their Eclipse soundtrack contribution "Eclipse (All Yours)."

Today, the video has been revealed, and it includes a great deal of clips from the movie itself as well as, it seems, a representation of the song's creation.

When speaking of the song's formulation, Haines revealed that it was written by the band as a reflection of the emotions they thought Bella might be experiencing during the final scene of the film - when Bella and Edward discuss their future in the ..

Happy "Eclipse" day! This, of course, is the day that "Twilight Saga: Eclipse" heads to theaters across the nation, cancer gets cured, doves fly and Metric releases its music video for "Eclipse (All Yours)." I'm a fan of the track, and the clip is kind of pandering. I don't say "but it's pandering" because I don't blame the band for making what it's made. This appeals squarely to the early teenaged girl crowd, much like Paramore was a perfect fit: it features heavily eyelinered Emily Haines scrawling in her journal high school style, laying around in roots and dirt and stuff, crouching helplessly....

Metric go to a secluded location in a music video for their new single "Eclipse (All Yours)". In the middle of nowhere, they are seen occupied with the songwriting of "The Twilight Saga's Eclipse" soundtrack while footage from the vampire movie is sometimes displayed on a TV screen.

When Metric was asked to write a theme song for the Robert Pattinson-starring flick, they knew nothing about the book and the big screen adaptation. But, Howard Shore considered their lack of knowledge about the vampire saga was a good thing because he wanted the anthem to be penned "from the perspective of the character."

"Since then, I've learned a little bit more about how Muse plays into the books, and the larger themes. But I think it's good I went into it just looking at the character," the band's member Emily Haines told MTV when attending the world premiere of...

Torontonians are a strange lot. We’re often accused of being uptight, snobbish and centrist by fellow Canadians. As a born and bred local, I’ve always felt that maybe we’re a little uptight because we get shat upon so much by the Roc (seriously, do you know any other nation that hates their biggest city so much?) and I think that hometown pride is mistaken for snobbery; spending a lot of time on the east coast, I’ve met my fair share of snobs. Everyone thinks that their city is the centre of the world; I’ve heard nothing worse of out a Torontonian than I’ve heard from Haligonians, Vancouverites or Montrealers.

Which brings me to Broken Social Scene, a bit of a strange band, like the city that spawned it. It expands and contracts its numbers, so it can be either 5 members or 20. The members come and go,...

MTV found Emily Haines of Metric on the red carpet at the premeire for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse last night. Emily talked about not knowing anything about the books prior to writing the song, but loving collaborating with Howard Shore to do a song for the soundtrack. Check out more below: Movie...

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'Eclipse (I'm Yours),' written from Bella's perspective, closes the film.

By James Montgomery, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Emily Haines of "Metric"

Photo: MTV News

Metric's Emily Haines wasn't exactly the natural choice to pen the closing number to "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," and not just because she fronts one of the most fiercely independent bands out there. When she was asked to contribute to the flick, she hadn't read a page of Stephenie Meyer's books or seen a second of the first two films.

"I was not aware of anything about the books or the movies," Haines told MTV News at the world premiere of "Eclipse" on Thursday night in Los Angeles. "I don't know where I was the whole time. Maybe in the studio, or on tour? I don't know."

But even though she had, uh, limited knowledge of the series, legendary composer Howard Shore...

'Eclipse (I'm Yours),' written from Bella's perspective, closes the film.

By James Montgomery, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Emily Haines of "Metric"

Photo: MTV News

Metric's Emily Haines wasn't exactly the natural choice to pen the closing number to "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," and not just because she fronts one of the most fiercely independent bands out there. When she was asked to contribute to the flick, she hadn't read a page of Stephenie Meyer's books or seen a second of the first two films.

"I was not aware of anything about the books or the movies," Haines told MTV News at the world premiere of "Eclipse" on Thursday night in Los Angeles. "I don't know where I was the whole time. Maybe in the studio, or on tour? I don't know."

But even though she had, uh, limited knowledge of the series, legendary composer Howard Shore...

Five singles in and Metric's "Fantasies" just keeps going. "Stadium Love" has its animalistic, survivalist elements in its core lyrics: "Every living thing / Pushed into the ring / Fight it out / To wow the crowd / Guess you thought / You could just watch / No one's getting out / Without stadium love." And the band lives it up in the new video for the track, putting the band in a cage, animals waging war on each other and with their prey, and frontwoman Emily Haines mugging ferociously. The contrast of hearts casting around Haines' face and the bouncing,...

Bruce McDonald's This Movie Is Broken is, in essence, the perfect convergence of nearly all aspects of Toronto's independent arts scene. There is McDonald himself, of course, the helmer of Hardcore Logo, The Tracy Fragments and Pontypool arguably the most influential independent film maker in the English speaking part of Canada. Then there is writer Don McKellar, himself a talented director and actor, lately best known for his massive Broadway success as the author of The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical originally written and performed as a wedding present in lieu of a physical gift that has since gone on to win multiple Tony awards. And then there is the musical component of this concert doc / romantic drama hybrid. Appearing on stage: Feist, Emily Haines from Metric, Amy Millan from Stars and the titular Broken Social Scene. The gang's all here, apparently.

Unbelievable! Bruno (Greg Calderone) wakes up in bed...

Twilight fans have been hearing a lot from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack contributor Metric lately, and for good reason. The band was hand-picked by Eclipse score composer Howard Shore (a compliment by anyone's standards), and the composer worked with them to put together their song for the album, "Eclipse (All Yours)."

The latest interview featuring Metric's Emily Haines is with Spinner, and in the chat she revealed the song's placement on the album.

"It was one of the most interesting experiences of my musical life so far," singer Emily Haines tells Spinner of th ...

Just yesterday, Metric was the first of a long list of artists announced to be a part of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse's soundtrack, and almost immediately the band's vocalist Emily Haines took to MySpace blogs to talk about Metric's inclusion on the soundtrack (with the song "Eclipse (All Yours)").

Haines revealed that Metric's song was co-written by the band and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse score composer (and fellow Eclipse soundtrack contributor) Howard Shore - who also cherry-picked the band for the film's music list.

I've always wanted to write music for film, but I never expected to start with something on this scale, so you can imagine how surprised I was when out of nowhere I got a phone call from Howard Shore, who I’d never met or even spoken with before. Most people know him as the man who wrote the acclaimed score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy,...

'It was really cool to feel the emotions of someone else,' frontwoman says of connecting to Kristen Stewart's character.

By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer

Metric's Emily Haines

Photo: MTV News

It's not exactly breaking news when the folks behind the wildly successful "Twilight" soundtracks tap indie acts to appear on their albums — at least not after last year's "New Moon" 'track featured contributions from the likes of Bon Iver, Lykke Li and Grizzly Bear.

But on Wednesday, as MySpace Music unveiled the list of bands that would appear on the upcoming "Eclipse" album, a few names stood out from the fold; chief among them was Metric.

Over the years, the Canadian quartet — led by frontwoman Emily Haines — have forged a reputation for being fiercely independent, making their own path and, as much as possible, shying away from the limelight, to the point that, to be honest,...

'It was really cool to feel the emotions of someone else,' frontwoman says of connecting to Kristen Stewart's character.

By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer

Metric's Emily Haines

Photo: MTV News

It's not exactly breaking news when the folks behind the wildly successful "Twilight" soundtracks tap indie acts to appear on their albums — at least not after last year's "New Moon" 'track featured contributions from the likes of Bon Iver, Lykke Li and Grizzly Bear.

But on Wednesday, as MySpace Music unveiled the list of bands that would appear on the upcoming "Eclipse" album, a few names stood out from the fold; chief among them was Metric.

Over the years, the Canadian quartet — led by frontwoman Emily Haines — have forged a reputation for being fiercely independent, making their own path and, as much as possible, shying away from the limelight, to the point that, to be honest,...