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Metric Talks Fundamental Differences In 'Art Of Doubt'

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Justin Broadbent
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If you're a fan of the band Metric, you might know their original name was Mainstream. It's worth sharing this tidbit since the band has spent the last 20 years making and publishing its own music outside the mainstream, while being quite successful.

Metric's seventh album, Art of Doubt, is one that was fundamentally different than records of the band's past and it shows. Co-Founder Jimmy Shaw gave up the producer reins for the first time to concentrate on his guitar work, something that was critical to the urgency in the songs, says Emily Haines, the band's other co-founder. Hear that conversation and more in the player.

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Kimberly Junod
World Cafe senior producer Kimberly Junod has been a part of the World Cafe team since 2001, when she started as the show's first line producer. In 2011 Kimberly launched (and continues to helm) World Cafe's Sense of Place series that includes social media, broadcast and video elements to take listeners across the U.S. and abroad with an intimate look at local music scenes. She was thrilled to be part of the team that received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for excellence in music programming. In the time she has spent at World Cafe, Kimberly has produced and edited thousands of interviews and recorded several hundred bands for the program, as well as supervised the show's production staff. She has also taught sound to young women (at Girl's Rock Philly) and adults (as an "Ask an Engineer" at WYNC's Werk It! Women's Podcast Festival).