MetroLyrics Blog

If you’re not getting ready to party in the desert with 225,000 other people at Coachella 2011,  then you’re definitely dreaming of it (like us)! We’d obviously be stoked to see Kanye West, Lauren Hill, and the Strokes headlining the popular music & arts fest, but what about the up-and-comers? To kick off this musical [...]

It make sense for a seriously buzzworthy band like The National to team up with John Slattery from the seriously buzzworthy TV show Mad Men to make a seriously buzzworthy video for the song “Conversation 16.” If you still aren’t familiar with The National, you should know they’ve been making records since 2001, but are [...]

Indie rock band The Strokes have released a music video for their newest single “Under Cover of Darkness” off their upcoming album Angles. In the event that you’ve been living under a rock, you should know that this is kind of big news, as it is the band’s first album since ’06 The video follows [...]

Swedish pop sensation Lyyke Li premiered a new video for her song “I Follow Rivers.” The video, directed by Swedish artist Tarik Saleh, begins and ends with a shot of the ocean’s waves crashing on the beach. It’s fitting imagery for a video that crashes over us with waves of different emotions. Between the closing [...]

I’d normally write more, but I’ll sum up this video in just one word: WEIRD. MGMT – “Congratulations” Music Video 0

Late last week, Ted Leo and his band of “Pharmacists” premiered a video for their second single off of their new album, The Brutalist Bricks, entitled “Bottled In Cork.” In the video, Reginald Van Voorst (aka comedian Paul F. Thompson) successfully persuades the band to stage a Broadway show as a means of making their [...]

Ugly pets: they’re still just as lovable. Yeasayer definitely understands. Their clip for “Madder Red” features actress Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) trying to hold herself together through her pet’s final days. Not only does she struggle to tend to her sick pet and give it what it needs, but also hold herself together emotionally [...]

As a born and bred Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada kid, I hold a deep and passionate bias towards anything that has to do with my dear Van-City. Because of this, you might think that the reason I am posting songs by Dan Mangan is due to the fact that he, too, hails from the city [...]

I missed this one last week, but it deserves some attention. In an act of certain genius, the band combined three things that absolutely everyone in the entire world likes into one video: Music Dogs A Swimming Pool How could anyone possibly not approve of this video? You can’t, it’s impossible. Genius move, guys. Check [...]

A Converse sponsored collaboration between Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, Kid Cudi, and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij has been floating around the net for the last week or so. Today, a video showed up for the track. It’s called “All Summer,” which sounds, well, a lot like summer. Check it out below to see the three [...]

I was on a roadtrip with a bunch of buddies recently, and one of the guys randomly had a copy of Blink 182′s Enema of the State album. We threw it in for a little bit of nostalgia during the ride. Awesome decision. As an early 20-something, my high school experience included A LOT of [...]

I’m in New York this week, so I haven’t exactly been keeping to my regular blog routine. Sorry. As a result, Music Video Monday is happening on a Tuesday this week. You’ll have to get over that. The good news is that we’ve got some classics this week from contemporary blues-rock kings, The Black Keys. [...]

The summer music season is upon us. Every Memorial Day long weekend, I kick off my summer music season by heading to the Sasquatch Music Festival.  It’s a 3 day event filled with music, comedy, camping and loads of fun. The festival takes place at The Gorge Amphitheater, which is located basically in the middle [...]