Pitchfork: Metric to Extensively Tour Behind New LP

Metric to Extensively Tour Behind New LP

Metric, you see, have no true home. It is sad. Singer Emily Haines and guitarist James Shaw have variously lived in Toronto, Brooklyn, London, and L.A. while working under the Metric name; in the same eight years the band signed to various labels, recorded an album, scrapped it, collaborated with Broken Social Scene on You Forgot It In People (Haines, of course, contributing the vocal to "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl"), and recorded and released Old World Underground, Where Are You Now in 2003. Metric are currently preparing for the release of their next album, Live It Out, which will drop October 4 on Last Gang Records. The band is also recording a video this month for the first single off the record, "Monster Hospital", to be released the last week of August.

Writing on the band's website, Haines and Shaw described the album as "an expression of each of us as individual musicians. It's a record of questions and struggles as opposed to the answers and observations of Old World Underground.... We recorded it ourselves in Canada without having to explain or justify our decisions to anyone. A lot of people have supported us throughout our various misadventures...Without them we would have been unable to continue making music at all. We wanted to make an album for those people, and we did." The tracklist:

01 Empty
02 Glass Ceiling
03 Handshakes
04 Too Little Too Late
05 Poster of a Girl
06 Monster Hospital
07 Patriarch on a Vespa
08 The Police and the Private
09 Ending Start
10 Live it Out

Metric are also surrounding their album's release date with many, many North American tour dates, assuming they don't get beaten up too badly by the police when they play New York:

09-22 Guelph, Ontario - University of Guelph Peter Clarke Hall
09-23 Hamilton, Ontario - McMaster University Quarters
09-26 Kingston, Ontario - Stages
09-29 Toronto, Ontario - The Phoenix Concert Theatre
09-30 Ottawa, Ontario - Capitol Music Theatre
10-01 Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda
10-02 Boston, MA - The Paradise
10-03 Providence, RI - Century Lounge
10-05 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
10-06 Brooklyn, NY - Southpaw
10-07 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
10-08 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
10-10 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
10-11 Atlanta, GA - The Loft
10-12 Birmingham, AL - Zydeco
10-13 Nashville, TN - Exit/In
10-14 Cincinnati, OH - Top Cats
10-15 Cleveland, OH - The Grog Shop
10-17 Detroit, MI - The Magic Stick
10-18 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
10-19 St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl
10-20 Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
10-21 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
10-22 Minneapolis, MN - Ascot Room at The Quest
10-23 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Ramada Conference Centre
10-24 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - University of Saskatchewan Louis Pub
10-25 Regina, Saskatchewan - University of Regina Riddell Centre
10-26 Calgary, Alberta - University of Calgary MacEwan Hall
10-27 Edmonton, Alberta - Starlite
10-30 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Commodore
11-01 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Caf�
11-02 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
11-03 San Francisco, CA - Slims
11-04 Los Angeles, CA - The El Rey
11-05 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
11-07 Tempe, AZ - Big Fish Pub
11-08 Tucson, AZ - Plush
11-10 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Tea Room
11-11 Austin, TX - The Parish
11-12 Houston, TX - The Meridian
11-13 New Orleans, LA - The Parish
11-15 Tampa, FL - The Orpheum
11-16 Fort Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room