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Urban Planner: May 11, 2011

Today in Toronto: a literary festival for kids, a fundraiser for CAMH featuring George Stroumboulopoulos and members of Metric, an event that's all about revenge, and a post-opera boot camp concert.

Metric Played A Free Concert Outside Union Station, But How About That Smartphone?

That free Metric show outside Union Station that was so much in the news yesterday? You might be wondering how that was. Actually, we can’t tell you. We blacked out after the first song and woke up hours later, surrounded by torn shrink-wrap, wallet empty, and clutching a brand-new Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant Smartphone. Okay, [...]

Sound Tracks: “Stadium Love” by Metric

Believe it or not, music videos still exist. Sound Tracks trolls the internet to find the best and the worst of local artists’ new singles and the good, bad, or otherwise noteworthy visuals that accompany them. Guess who! We didn’t have to troll too hard for this one; Metric is sort of huge so they [...]

And the Winner Is…Fucked Up. But Actually.

Fucked Up win the 2009 Polaris Music Prize (!!!) “Did they say Joel Plaskett?” Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham giggled, half-delirious with genuine shock and excitement minutes after he and the rest of the band (drummer Jonah Falco, guitarist Mike Haliechuk, bassist Sandy Miranda, guitarist Josh Zucker, and guitarist Ben Cook) accepted the 2009 Polaris [...]

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Just Not Toronto)

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers. In a change that just might be the culprit for all the Wayfarers, Toronto’s film industry is shining brighter than it has in a while. As recently reported by the Star, Filmport, the almost one-year-old megastudio—still only in its first phase of development—is all but completely booked for production [...]

Sound Advice: Fantasies by Metric

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Isn’t a fantasy supposed to be unrestrained? A wondrous, strange imagining? It’s doubtful that Metric named their new album, Fantasies, out today on Last [...]

A Metric Fan’s Fantasy

Last Thursday night, a lucky few who thoughtfully pre-ordered Metric’s new album filed into a secret show on Queen Street West to get an early taste of what they invested their dollars in. The event’s details, aimed to promote the April 7 release of their latest album Fantasies, was kept under wraps until hours before [...]

Sympathy for the Sound Academy

It sounds like a hit, and now it looks like one, too: “Gimme Sympathy,” one of the better tracks off of Metric’s to-be-released Fantasies (you can still listen to the whole album streaming on the band’s website), now has a great video to go with a song that may well be the one that finally [...]

Metric Welcomes U of T Frosh; Ryerson Unimpressed

As part of the University of Toronto’s frosh week, the Students’ Administrative Council hosted Metric and the Weakerthans on their back campus on Friday evening. Ignoring, for a moment, that Ryerson hosted Metric for their frosh week last year, that the band was delayed by an hour, seemed even grumpier than the increasingly impatient crowd [...]