Metric's tour on the back of Fantasies and its many videos brought them to L.A. last night, where the band played their biggest, most sold-out show yet. Props were paid onstage to the various Los Angeles venues they've performed and outgrown along the way -- Silverlake Lounge, El Rey Theater, Henry Fonda Theater. It's a good stage-banter device, simultaneously inviting, humbling, and self-congratulatory; it's also one that their BSS-mate Feist loves whipping out whenever she's in NYC (like at Town Hall and McCarren last year). Anyway the crowd ate it and their set up last night, including a theremin-ed "Twilight Galaxy," the "summer jam" "Gimme Sympathy," and the "Monster Hospital"/"Live It Out" encore. Opening the show was the non-MSTRKRFT half of DFA1979, Sebastien Grainger and his Mountains, along with Band Of Skulls, who our photographer Andrew Youssef tells us have been playing a slate of L.A. showcases over the past week. A few more chances to see Metric remain:
06/11 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
06/12 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada
06/13 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
06/14 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
06/15 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
