Metric

Canadian indie poppers Metric are still touring in support of 2012’s Synthetica, and they just wrapped up a leg of that tour last week which hit Austin on May 1 at Stubb’s for a show with The Colourist…

(more at BrooklynVegan) Right now, hundreds–maybe thousands–of teenagers are enjoying their successful pilgrimage to the desert of Indio, California, some hundred miles East of Los Angeles, for the first of two weekends of sweat, music, drugs, and Lindsay Lohan at the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival…

(more at BV Chicago) Coachella 2013 is underway and streaming live. if I had to choose a theme musically for day one (Friday), it would have to be new, solo and side projects…

Grimes aboard the SS Coachella 2012 (more by Greg Cristman) Names like Grimes, Stars, Woods of Ypres (RIP), Crystal Castles, Metric and Leonard Cohen sit side-by-side with names like Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jebsen, Celine Dion and Drake as part of the 2013 nominees for the Juno Awards, Canada’s answer to the Grammys…

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Moby at Moogfest 2011 (more by Diana Wong) Moby was one of the commercially successful electronic musicians of yesteryear, but as popular taste shifted towards distorted synths and abrasive bass drops, Moby chose not to follow the pack…

SPIN have revealed their list of the top 50 albums of 2012. It continues SPIN‘s trend of giving love to crossover punk and metal (which they’ve been pretty consistent with since naming Fucked Up’s David Comes to Life their top album of 2011) with the inclusion of Baroness, Torche, Pallbearer, Cloud Nothings, and Japandroids, but rather surprisingly excludes the SPIN Essential’d Ceremony – Zoo and The Men – Open Your Heart, in favor of popular blowouts by Taylor Swift, fun…

Aimee Mann @ Brooklyn’s MHoW earlier on tour (more by Dana (Distortion) Yavin) today in Chicago * Pentatonix, SJ @ Lincoln Hall * Nas, Lauryn Hill @ Congress Theater * Trixie Whitley, Dumpster Hunter @ Schubas * Damien Echols @ Logan Square Auditorium * Aimee Mann, Ted Leo @ Park West (Night 1) * The Joy Formidable @ Metro’s Top Note Theatre * Flesh Panthers, Bent Left, City Mouse, The Roaring …

You already saw one set of Jack White pictures and the Neil Young & Crazy Horse setlist and a whole bunch of Instagrams (and pictures from Day One)…

wet fans watching the Shins (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) The sold out 2012 ACL Festival happens October 12-14 in Austin and on YouTube (where you’ll find the stream schedule if you scroll down – Jack White, Delta Spirit, A-Trak, Alabama Shakes, The Black Keys, Metric, Rufus Wainwright, Alt-J, Garcy Clark Jr…