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Emily Savitri Haines (born 25 January 1974) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the rock band Metric and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she has performed under her own name and as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton.
Metric is a Canadian indie rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Emily Haines (lead vocals, synthesizers, guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano), James Shaw (guitar, synthesizers, theremin, backing vocals), Joshua Winstead (bass, synthesizers, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums, percussion). The band ...
Emily Haines is back with Choir of the Mind, the Metric singer’s first release as her Soft Skeleton solo project in a decade.
Oct 12, 2023 · Metric bought a church in small-town Ontario and converted it into a recording studio. "I got a dog too, though," clarifies the band's guitarist, James Shaw, speaking with Exclaim! over Zoom...
Nov 14, 2023 · Singer Emily Haines and guitarist Jimmy Shaw sat down with Q 's Tom Power to reflect on the early days of the band, finding their sound, and the song that changed everything for them. We've...
Oct 12, 2023 · If you flashed back in time and spoke to a music journalist in the early 2000s, they might portray Metric as a Broken Social Scene side project, but that would be a misrepresentation. After ...
Jul 11, 2022 · Metric’s Emily Haines on Finding Hope in Formentera. By Tom Lanham | July 11, 2022 | 1:15pm. Photo by Jim Broadbent Music Features Metric. Emily Haines has had many opportunities to...
Sep 25, 2020 · Fifteen years ago, Emily Haines sang these words on "Empty," the opening track of her band Metric's sophomore album, Live it Out. As a guitar riff slinks in, Haines delves into a...
Sep 14, 2017 · Q&A: Metric’s Emily Haines Talks Redefining Rock ‘N’ Roll, Overcoming Insecurity, And Her New Solo Album. Interviews September 14, 2017 11:21 AM By Margaret Farrell. Emily Haines has...
Jun 9, 2017 · In Metric, singer-songwriter Emily Haines presides over dark dance-pop, lending even the most upbeat arrangement an undercurrent of tormented melancholy.
