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New Metric Video for “Gold Guns Girls”

April 21st, 2010

A fast paced, black and white new video for Metric’s “Gold Guns Girls” has hit the web. The video shows the band racing through New York City, stopping abruptly in spots around the city to pick up their instruments for impromptu gigs. The always agile Emily Haines even manages to keep up with the rest [...]

Tags: Gold Guns Girls, metric
Posted in Blog | Posted by Jessica F

Arcade Fire, Weezer, Drake, Metric to play Ottawa Bluesfest

April 21st, 2010

Canada may not have Glastonbury, Lollapalooza or Coachella, but the once-small Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest is slowly creeping up on becoming one of those internationally-renowned mega music festivals. Taking place in downtown Ottawa from July 7th to July 18th, the capital city will welcome the likes of Arcade Fire, Weezer, Drake, The Flaming Lips, Rush, Alexisonfire, [...]

Tags: alexisonfire, arcade fire, Blonde Redhead, down with webster, drake, Faber Drive, Iron Maiden, Joan Jett, Keith Urban, lights, marianas trench, metric, Ottawa Bluesfest, passion pit, Rush, The Flaming Lips, The Hold Steady, the rural alberta advantage, weezer, Woodhands
Posted in Blog, Concerts & Events, News | Posted by Cam

Much Worthy Matrix April 19: Juno Edition

April 19th, 2010

Check out this new feature on the MuchMusic blog, it’s the Much Worthy Matrix. Every day we will rate the stories you will see on MuchMusic that day from A-List to D-List and Cringe Worthy to Brag Worthy. Today we check out where we ran into your favourite musicians at the Junos. Let us know [...]

Tags: danny fernandes, down with webster, drake, Faber Drive, justin bieber, metric
Posted in Blog | Posted by Jessica F

Red Carpet Pictures from the Junos

April 19th, 2010

Check out some fly pics of the stars!

Tags: 2010 Juno Awards, Amy Millan, arkells, Barenaked Ladies, billy talent, Carly Rae Jepsen, danny fernandes, Deadmau5, down with webster, drake, jully black, Juno Awards, justin bieber, k'naan, k-os, lights, liz trinnear, metric, Michael Buble, shiloh, the new cities, The Trews
Posted in Blog, Featured, Liz Online, News, pics | Posted by Allison

Live blogging the Juno’s!

April 18th, 2010

The 2010 Juno’s may be the award show’s most epic evah! Bieber? Check! Drake? Check! Metric? Check! Classified? Check! This year has been amazeballs for Canadian music and the Juno’s are doing big ‘tings in Newfoundland tonight! We’re going to be live blogging the awards for you tonight right hurre on the MuchMusic Red Hot [...]

Tags: 2010 Juno Awards, April Wine, Barenaked Ladies, billy talent, bryan adams, classified, Dahmnait Doyle, dallas green, Deadmau5, drake, emily haines, great lake swimmers, Jon Montgomery, Juno, Juno Awards, justin bieber, Leah Miller, lights, metric, Michael Buble
Posted in Blog, Concerts & Events, Music & Videos, News | Posted by Allison

Much Worthy Matrix April 16

April 16th, 2010

Check out this new feature on the MuchMusic blog, it’s the Much Worthy Matrix. Every day we will rate the stories you will see on MuchMusic that day from A-List to D-List and Cringe Worthy to Brag Worthy. Let us know if you agree or disagree with where we place the stories on the matrix [...]

Tags: 40 Year Old Virgin, arkells, chloe grace moretz, Coachella, justin bieber, metric, Rocket Summer
Posted in Blog | Posted by Jessica F

Watch the Junos this Monday on MuchMusic!

April 15th, 2010

If you miss the Juno’s this Sunday – fear not! As always, we got yo’ back at MuchMusic! On Monday April 19 you can catch the fans taking the Juno’s ovah at 2pm ET, followed by the Juno Awards at 3pm ET and a very special MOD at 5pm ET where we’ll be recapping everything [...]

Tags: billy talent, classified, drake, Juno, justin bieber, k'naan, metric, mod
Posted in Blog, Music & Videos, News | Posted by Allison

New Metric Video Just For You

April 9th, 2010

Canadian indie rock band Metric has just released their 4th music video off of their album Fantasies! The video featured the band running around, playing instruments, close-ups of Emily, etc etc. You… click the image to watch! Looks like it was sort of low-budget on purpose (could we expect a really wicked “Stadium Love” video?), [...]

Tags: correspondents, metric, videos
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Matty - Correspondent

Jimmy from Metric talks about Lollapalooza

April 6th, 2010

Guitarist/songwriter Jimmy Shaw from Metric chatted with Liz today about Metric being on the Lollapalooza line-up this year. Jimmy tells us what it’s like for Metric to be performing for the first time at Lolla, as well as the bands he’s looking to forward to seeing at the festival! Check out the video below:

Tags: Jimmy Shaw, metric
Posted in Blog, Celebrities & Pop Culture, Music & Videos | Posted by Maddy

Much Worthy Matrix April 6

April 6th, 2010

Check out this new feature on the MuchMusic blog, it’s the Much Worthy Matrix. Every day we will rate the stories you will see on MuchMusic that day from A-List to D-List and Cringe Worthy to Brag Worthy. Let us know if you agree or disagree with where we place the stories on the matrix [...]

Tags: 50 cent, Agyness Deyn, Chace Crawford, gossip girl, Janelle Monáe, Joannie Rochette, lollapalooza, melanie fiona, metric, robert pattinson, twelve
Posted in Blog | Posted by Jessica F