Metric
Metric
As summer is unofficially beginning we have a new song from Metric to warm our days. As Emily Haines sings: “I want it all.”
“Shade”
Metric
The Canadian band Metric release their 5th album in June.
The band has grown exponentially since 2003 and the new album Synthetica will add to their renown.
One listen to the new single and you will know what I mean.
“Youth Without Youth” is wildly infectious and is already one of my favorite songs of the year.
Free Downloads for Haiti
The devastation in Haiti may no longer be the story du jour but the suffering continues. Linkin Park’s non-profit effort, Music For Relief, launched an initiative a few weeks back to help raise money to support relief efforts in Haiti. An album of exclusive tracks from various artists is available for free download at musicforrelief.org in exchange for a suggested donation of any amount.
Hear the album here at Music For Relief as well.
Download to Donate to Haiti
1. Not Alone-Linkin Park
2. Mother Maria (featuring Beth Hart) – Slash
3. Never Let me Down (produced by Mike Shioda of Linkin Park and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes) – Kenna
4. Butterfly – Weezer featuring Allison Allport on Harp
5. Still (Acoustic, Vancouver Sessions) – Alanis Morissette
6. Resurrection – Lupe Fiasco and Kenna
7. We Are One – Hoobastank
8. The Wind Blows (Skillrex Remix) – The All-American Rejects
9. It Must Be Love – Enrique Iglesias
10. Typical Situation (live) – Dave Matthews Band
11. Slipstream (Slimmed Down Mix) -The Crystal Method featuring Jason Lytle
12. Gold Guns Girls (Mike Shinoda Remix) – Metric
13. Times Like These (Live From Red Rocks) – Jack Johnson
Oedipus Podcast #2: Canadian Olympian Music
We had some friends over the other night who wanted to watch the opening ceremony of the winter Olympics. Hopefully you didn’t waste precious moments of your life viewing this sorry excuse for a spectacle. It was like a bad high school production with a large budget. Ok, let me say it straight. It sucked! Sorry to my friends North. And as the commentators fell all over themselves telling us how wonderful it was, I could not help thinking that it certainly was not the Canada that I know and love. Musically it did give proper deference to Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, but the rest were American Idol wannabes. Where was Neil Young or even Rush for that matter, the latter at least having a prominent cameo in the popular film I Love You Man. Here are few other artists that I think of when I think of Canada.
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Metric
Tegan and Sara
The New Pornographers
Ron Sexsmith
Tara MacLean
Peaches
Delerium
Arcade Fire
Skinny Puppy
Sum 41