Metric free show at Union Station 7pm 2nite

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It was supposed to be a surprise. Kinda a like that birthday party your gf organized for you while talking so loudly on the phone that even the neighbours came uninvited.

Who’s Metric, you’re asking? These guys:

How did it happen?

Here’s what dose tells us:

The Juno-award winning band will reportedly play a free concert tonight outside Union Station. The show, sponsored by Samsung Mobile Canada, has been shrouded in secrecy (mostly to appease city officials worried about crowd control, reports the Toronto Star). But fans figured out the identity of the mystery band after Samsung dropped a huge hit on Twitter: "I wonder who this band is going to be? Is it the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?" (paraphrasing a lyric in the Metric hit "Gimme Sympathy"). The band confirmed the news on their official site Tuesday night.

The show is set for 7 p.m. on Front Street. Metric is also scheduled to play a free show Thursday at New York City's Prospect Park.

Tell me mo’

This band is happening, according to wikipedia:

Metric is a Canadian indie rock and New Wave band. Originally formed in Toronto, the band has also, at various times been based in Montreal, London, New York City and Los Angeles.

The band consists of vocalist Emily Haines (who also plays the synthesizer and guitar), guitarist James Shaw (who also plays the theremin), bassist Josh Winstead and drummer Joules Scott-Key. Their first full-length album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, was released in 2003 and earned a Juno Award nomination for Best Alternative Album. Live It Out was released on October 4, 2005 and was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the Canadian Album of The Year and once again the Juno Award nomination for Best Alternative Album.

The first album the band recorded, Grow Up and Blow Away, was finally released on June 26, 2007 by Last Gang Records. The album was originally recorded for Restless Records, but got neglected when the label was bought out by Rykodisc.

Haines and Shaw also perform with Broken Social Scene, and Haines has been a guest on albums by Stars, KC Accidental, The Stills,Jason Collett and Tiësto. Scott-Key and Winstead have their own side project, Bang Lime, and Haines has released a solo album and companion EP, Knives Don't Have Your Back and What Is Free to a Good Home?, respectively, under the name Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton.

Their fourth studio album Fantasies (previously scheduled for an April 14 release) was released in Canada and the United States on April 7, 2009.[1] It was shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for Canadian Album of the Year, and won the Alternative Album of the Year at the 2010 Juno Awards, as well as Group of the Year.

I’ll be there.

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