The kids love 'em

Friday's Metric show at the Kool Haus made me feel extremely old. Frankly, the appeal to teenaged boys doesn't surprise me, for obvious reasons. But it's the girls who really seem to get into it, which probably says encouraging things about this generation's musical tastes. In any event, much as I'd rather see them in a smaller venue with more people who can legally buy a beer, there's probably no indie band better suited to playing big venues; they're so tight and so slick (and I mean that in the nicest possible way) that I'm pretty sure they could rock an arena with no problem - and one day, they might.

Incidentally, kudos to Metric for the fashion sense - not just Emily Haines' dizzying array of short skirts, but also her bandmates' spiffy shirt-and-tie look. Seriously. If there's one thing I find exceedingly tiresome about most indie acts, it's the ironic bad sweaters.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, here's my brief piece from Friday's Post checking in with Metric on taking flack for their Conan performance, why heavy rotation on 102.1 caught them off guard, and how the others avoid slipping into Emily's shadow. Although in light of their recent success, this profile from a few months back might be a little more insightful.