METRIC live on St. Patrick's Day

This past Thursday was St. Patrick's Day and I had foolishly scheduled myself to take the GREs on Friday morning, completely forgetting it was St. Patrick's Day and the fact that I was going to a concert in Boston the night before. But that has never stopped me from having a great time and enjoying life. In fact, my school days the day after a concert and getting only 4 hours of sleep are usually my best, most relaxed days. So, I headed to Boston after school and saw one of my favorite bands that I've been following since their inception- Metric. The singer, Emily Haines, has an incredible and soothing voice. Their songs and sound are awesome and I've seen them a couple of times before, so I knew I had to see them for their latest album "Pagans in Vegas" (even though I haven't physically or electronically bought an album in a few years now, luckily there's been multiple ways to listen to music and I have found my own place on Spotify.

Metric did not disappoint at all. It was an amazing set with a great variety from their catalogue of albums.


  1. IOU
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  2. Help I'm Alive
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  3. Youth Without Youth
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  4. Twilight Galaxy
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  5. Cascades
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  6. Raw Sugar
    (Acapella Snippet)
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  7. Too Bad, So Sad
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  8. Artificial Nocturne
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  9. Dreams So Real
    (Acoustic, with choir)
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  10. Blind Valentine
    (Instrumental snippet)
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  11. Sick Muse
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  12. Collect Call
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  13. Other Side
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  14. Black Sheep
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  15. Synthetica
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  16. Combat Baby (Acapella)
    (Snippet)
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  17. Gold Guns Girls
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  18. The Shade
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  19. Encore:
  20. Empty
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  21. Celebrate
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  22. Gimme Sympathy
    (Acoustic)
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Their opening band was pretty decent as well and seemed to have quite a following- Joywave. They reminded me of Joy Division and The Killers. They are definitely worth checking out. 









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