Official Metric New-Album Countdown Begins...

Fresh off its desert turn in Indio, Metric (yes!) is reportedly heading back to the studio to continue working on its follow up to 2005's Live it Out. Said reports make me sleeplessly excited. 

In the interim, I will bide my time reliving last Fall's Metric/Crystal Castles tour (thru the help of YouTube, of course).  

Spin Magazine is doing its part to help with the reliving. Its camera crew caught up with the band last weekend at Coachella as the four-piece described their forthcoming record and (officially) debuted a new track hopeful entitled, "Gimme Sympathy." Sounds like a new record is well on its way!!! Fine entertainment, kids. 

from Spin.com:

"Gimme Sympathy"

Watch footage of the performance, as Shaw fingers through power-chords and Haines coos, "would you rather be the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?," then watch a video interview, in which the band describe their new album ("big and expansive and airy") and unique mindset going into the studio.

In a related (sorta) link, Spin also caught up with fellow Broken Social Scenester, Amy Millan (of Stars), following her band's Sunday debut at the desert fest. If you've never been to a Stars show, please do yourself a favor and visit your local concert ticket conglomerate to see the band, in all its lush and live glory, soon! Break-up and make-up songs never felt so good! 

"Give Me Sympathy"