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Tonight and tomorrow night, the old world underground and the new arena mainstream collide. Following in the footsteps of everybody from the White Stripes to Queens of the Stone Age to Merle Haggard to the Meters, and yes, Brooks & Dunn, Canada's Metric will open for a little band called the Rolling Stones. And they're not even the Montreal shows, as one might have guessed, but the New York City ones, at Madison Square Fucking Garden no less. Suddenly, Emily Haines has more long lost cousins than Canada has citizens.

In between MSG gigs, Metric will perform on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" tomorrow night. Assuming they survive the Stones and Conan experiences, the band will take a month-long break before embarking on an extensive North American tour in February, March, and April. Big Apple denizens who can't afford $454 Stones tickets will be happy to know that the band will return to the city on March 10, when they will play Webster Hall for merely $20. A bargain, considering ex-Unicorns phenoms Islands are on the bill too.

Live it out:

01-18 New York City, NY - Madison Square Garden *
01-20 New York City, NY - Madison Square Garden *
02-24 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus #@
02-25 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus #@
02-26 London, Ontario - Centennial Hall #@
02-27 Kitchener, Ontario - Elements Nightclub #@
02-28 Kingston, Ontario - Grant Hall at Queen's University #
03-01 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
03-02 Peterborough, Ontario - Club Vibe
03-03 Ottawa, Ontario - Surface #@
03-04 Ottawa, Ontario - Surface #@
03-07 Boston, MA - The Roxy $
03-09 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club $
03-10 New York City, NY - Webster Hall #$
03-11 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom #$
03-12 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle $
03-13 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club #$
03-15 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom
03-16 Austin, TX - Cedar Street Courtyard (SXSW)
03-17 Austin, TX - Stubb's (SXSW)
03-19 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
03-21 San Diego, CA - House of Blues #%
03-23 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre#^
03-24 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
03-26 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom #%
03-27 Seattle, WA - The Showbox #%
04-10 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
04-12 Madison, WI - The Annex
04-13 Chicago, IL - Metro
04-14 Cincinnati, OH - Bogarts
04-15 Detroit, MI - Saint Andrew's Hall

* with thee Rolling Stones
# with Islands
@ with Holy Fuck
$ with Men, Women & Children
% with End of Fashion
^ with Every Move a Picture

In other Metric news, the band recently filmed a video for "Poster of a Girl", the next single from their latest album, Live It Out. And on Saturday, January 21, Last Gang will release the MSTRKRFT (Death From Above 1979 bassist Jesse Keeler and producer Al-P) remix of Metric's "Monster Hospital" as the b-side to MSTRKRFT's first 7" and CD single, "Easy Love". It will be available on iTunes on January 31.