Stereogum — Metric have just shared a video for their Pagans In Vegas single “The Shade.” In it, the band performs on a roof while a series of images showing both the beauty and ugly side of human nature stutter along to the beat. “We live in a world inund... more info

Stereogum — Metric have shared the third single from their upcoming new album, Pagans In Vegas via their new official app. The app is called the Pagan Portal and, in a new post on their website, Emily Haines explained the band’s motivation for creating it: “... more info

Stereogum — Metric has been pretty quiet since wrapping up their tour for Synthetica, and it turns out they got back into the studio pretty quickly. In a new post on their website, Emily Haines writes that the band is now “fully immersed in fresh music and som... more info

Stereogum — The toy company GoldieBlox has had a rough year in advertising after being accused of copyright infringement by the Beastie Boys for re-working the band’s 1986 classic “Girls” to convey a more “feminist” message. The company settled the law... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sufjan Stevens at Prospect Park in 2011 (more by Jessica Amaya) Sufjan Stevens will be presenting the world premiere of his new piece, Round-Up, in Brooklyn at BAM from January 20-25, part of BAM's 2015 Winter/Spring Season. Here's the premise:In... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — "Hello, Los Angeles," said Metric lead singer Emily Haines near the end of the band's second song on the city's first day of the Budweiser Made in America Festival. Her next words were far more ominous: "They're going to eat me alive, if I stumble." more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian lists Doris Lessing's five best books. Chicagoist interviews Emily Haines of Metric. Chicagoist: You just released Synthetica Reflections, and you have an app that accompanies it. How did you decide to release an app? Emily Haines: I don... more info

Nialler9 — Here’s a musician who I featured three years back who went quiet shortly afterwards. The former member of Irish band The Blonde Majority, Aoife Cleary has been working away ever since along with producer and mixer Fergal Davis. Now billing herself ... more info

Neon Gold — Brooklyn's own bright young things, Little Daylight, have been smashing it out of the park for the better part of the last year, and this week marks the arrival of their much-anticipated debut EP proper Tunnel Vision, out tomorrow on Capitol. To... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — For those who weren’t at the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music arts Festival, the stakes were raised courtesy of the fest’s online stream on YouTube. It was during one of the backstage interviews where Metric lead singer Emily Haines es... more info