Metric, Courtesy. When Metric singer-keyboardist Emily Haines met legendary crooner and Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed a few years back, she was star-struck. But Reed was equally impressed with the Toronto alt-rock band’s body of work. Live 105’s Not So Silent Night  6 p.m., Friday, Saturday, Dec. 6-7 Oracle…

Metric performs at The Masonic in San Francisco on March 13, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. This story originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune. When Metric was a new band trying to break onto the music scene in the early 2000s, the Toronto troupe needed the kind of exposure that a…

Emily Haines of Metric performs at The Masonic in San Francisco on Feb. 23, 2013. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. This story originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune. Success has made even an urbane landscape exciting for Metric frontwoman Emily Haines. Cheerfully chatting from Metric’s bus at a “beautiful” parking lot in…