Metric shares their latest single, “Crush Forever.” The new track from their upcoming album, Romanticize The Dive – arriving April 24 on Thirty Tigers – is what frontwoman Emily Haines calls “my love letter to strong girls in this world.” She wrote the lyrics in a stream-of-consciousness style as a passing of the torch: “Have the best but don’t be had, don’t be scared of pain, you’ll bounce right back, much stronger, sweeter than before, that’s us, go crush, go get what’s yours.” The new song follows recent singles “Time Is A Bomb,” a hard driving ode to seizing the moment with a dangerous adrenaline junkie edge; and “Victim of Luck,” a mission statement tracing the band back to their early days and revisiting the tension, vulnerability, and hunger of youth.
Listen to “Crush Forever” here: https://30tgrs.ffm.to/crushforever.
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For their tenth LP, Metric went back to the place where they met: New York City at the height of its indie-rock explosion. Recording once again at Electric Lady, Metric reunited with Fantasies and Synthetica producer Gavin Brown, joined by co-producers Jimmy Shaw, Liam O’Neil, and mix engineer John O’Mahoney. This emotional reunion sonically captures the thrill of the band’s earliest ascent, with all the chaos and possibility of the early-2000s music scene, and brings it into the cultural context of 2026.
Fans can pre-order Romanticize The Dive HERE.
Metric has also just announced a release week in-store at Rough Trade NYC on April 22nd featuring an acoustic performance with Emily and Jimmy – tickets available HERE. They also just announced a special Blood Records variant of the album – tricolour oxblood, silver and transpired green smash LP with silver cream and oxblood splatter, limited to 350 and hand-numbered that can be ordered HERE.
ROMANTICIZE THE DIVE – TRACKLISTING:
01 – Victim Of Luck
02 – Wild Rut
03 – Time Is A Bomb
04 – Crush Forever
05 – Tremolo
06 – Moral Compass
07 – As If You’re Here
08 – Loyal
09 – Antigravity
10 – Clouds To Break
11- Leave You On A High
In addition to their new album, Metric, Broken Social Scene and Stars have announced the All The Feelings Tour, promoted by Live Nation. A celebration of lifelong friendship and creative communion amongst the Toronto legends, the tour kicks off in Austin at the Moody Theatre on June 8th and continues through the summer with an already sold out homecoming show at RBC Amphitheatre in Toronto on August 7th. Highlights include The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on June 16th, two sold out nights at The Brooklyn Paramount on July 30th & 31st and The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on August 4th. Since originally announcing the tour, they have added 15 new dates including a stop in Seattle, WA at Chateau Ste. Michelle on Thursday, June 25, along with several newly added shows in Canada, Europe and the UK, including Dublin, London, Paris, Berlin, and more. Tickets are on sale now at LiveNation.com.
THE ‘ALL THE FEELINGS TOUR’ 2026 DATES:
Mon Jun 8 – Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater
Tue Jun 9 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
Thu Jun 11 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
Sat Jun 13 – Sandy, UT – Sandy Amphitheater
Tue Jun 16 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre
Thu Jun 18 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
Fri Jun 19 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
Sun Jun 21 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic **SOLD OUT
Mon Jun 22 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
Wed Jun 24 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Thu Jun 25 – Seattle, WA – Chateau Ste. Michelle – NEW DATE
Fri Jun 26 – Vancouver, BC – FIFA Fan Festival **Metric Only
Fri Jul 24 – Chicago, IL – Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
Sat Jul 25 – Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre
Mon Jul 27 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Tue Jul 28 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia Presented by Highmark
Thu Jul 30 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount **SOLD OUT
Fri Jul 31 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount **SOLD OUT
Sat Aug 1 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
Mon Aug 3 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
Tue Aug 4 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
Fri Aug 7 – Toronto, ON – RBC Amphitheatre
Wed Sep 09 – Dublin, IE – 3 Olympia Theatre – NEW DATE
Fri Sep 11 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy Glasgow – NEW DATE
Sat Sep 12 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton – NEW DATE
Sun Sep 13 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Academy – NEW DATE
Tue Sep 15 – Paris, FR – Salle Pleyel – NEW DATE
Wed Sep 16 – Antwerp, BE – De Roma – NEW DATE
Thu Sep 17 – Utrecht, NL – TivoliVredenburg – NEW DATE
Sat Sep 19 – Berlin, DE – Columbiahalle – NEW DATE
Fri Oct 2 – St. Catharine’s, ON – Cicada Festival **Metric Only
Sat Oct 3 – London, ON – Canada Life Place – NEW DATE
Mon Oct 5 – Ottawa, ON – The Arena at TD Place – NEW DATE
Wed Oct 7 – Laval, QC – Place Bell – NEW DATE
MORE ABOUT METRIC:
Metric is Emily Haines (vocals, keys), Jimmy Shaw (producer, guitar, keys), Joshua Winstead (bass guitar, keys) and Joules Scott Key (drums). They have spent over 20 years together in creative partnership and are releasing their 10th studio album in 2026 maintaining the original lineup.“The band has become Canadian indie-rock icons,” says Pitchfork. “Metric [has] their own increasingly rare success story.” The band resisted major label offers in favor of starting their own label and retaining control of their own material and career, and for the last two decades have found themselves on an unusual trajectory of increasing success while continuing to push their own artistic boundaries past conventional expectations.
Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw are also early members of Broken Social Scene. While Metric has always been their first priority, they have both written and performed songs on all of the collective’s albums from 2002-2017 including such tracks as “Almost Crimes,” “Swimmers,” “Sweetest Kill,” “Sentimental X’s” and “Protest Song.” Emily’s most notable contribution to the group is the breakout hit “Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl,” from the award winning album You Forgot It In People. Haines has also collaborated with numerous other artists, most famously striking up a strong creative connection with the late Lou Reed, who performed “Wanderlust” on Metric’s album Synthetica and joined Metric on stage at their sold out headlining show at Radio City Music Hall in 2013 to perform “Wanderlust” and the Velvet Underground’s “Pale Blue Eyes.” Haines worked with Lou Reed on various additional live events overseen by the late producer Hal Willner as well as performing “Ballrooms of Mars” on Willner’s final tribute album, Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs Of Marc Bolan and T. Rex alongside U2, Nick Cave, Joan Jett, and others. Haines has released three solo studio albums, including the acclaimed Knives Don’t Have Your Back. Jimmy Shaw has also released a solo album and works as a sought after, JUNO award-winning producer.
Metric have a long history of creating music for film, starting in 2004 with their appearance in Olivier Assayas’ Clean, acting and performing their song “Dead Disco.” In his Scott Pilgrim series, graphic novelist Bryan Lee O’Malley based his fictional band Clash at the Demon Head on his experience of live Metric performances, and director Edgar Wright used their song “Black Sheep” in his 2010 film adaptation Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Also in 2010, Metric contributed the theme song “Eclipse (All Yours)” to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack which they co-wrote with Howard Shore. In 2012, they won a CSA (Canadian Screen Award) for their score of David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, also with Howard Shore. Metric songs have been featured in numerous feature films and television shows including Grey’s Anatomy, The L Word, Zombieland, Nikki Glaser’s HBO Special Good Clean Filth,the hit animated film Nimona, and popular Netflix shows Wayward and I Love LA in 2025.
Both Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw grew up surrounded by art. Haines was born in New Delhi where her father, poet Paul Haines, was writing the lyrics for Carla Bley’s monumental Escalator Over the Hill and her activist/teacher mother Jo ran a household steeped in experimental art and discourse stemming from their years in the Greenwich Village scene in the early 1960s. Born in the UK and raised in Toronto, Jimmy Shaw spent the first half of his life immersed in classical music and was accepted at the age of fifteen to the Curtis Institute in Boston and later graduated from the Juilliard Music School in New York. Metric has been nominated for numerous Polaris Music Prize and JUNO Awards, including five wins. Metric has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Later…With Jools Holland and has toured extensively, playing headline shows and festivals around the world.
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