One tip for the weekend - something for the whole family. By that I mean, I'll be listening to a Broken Social Scene song with Emily Haines' voice haunting me ("Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl" in particular), and one of my teenage sons will walk into the room and grunt, "yeah, I know her from Metric."
The Canadian singer, daughter of poet Paul Haines and over-the-border tv journo Avery Haines comes to the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and will play an all-ages show in the sanctuary Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Tall Firs open.
Attention must be paid to the lass whose Wikipedia entry notes her early influences were Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt, then P.J. Harvey. R5's Production's describes the show this way:
Metric chanteuse Emily Haines is gearing up to take her solo show on the road. In January, Haines will support her debut Knives Don't Have Your Back with a few weeks of touring in the U.S. and Canada. She'll be backed by members of her Soft Skeleton band (drummer Scott Minor of Sparklehorse and bassist Paul Dillon). The shows will also feature film projections by director Guy Maddin.
Go to R5's site for three free songs: "The Lottery," "Our Hell" and "The Maid Needs a Maid." Or you can watch a real performance here, on a clip of Metric playing "Hustle Rose" at Fearless Music in NYC.
