James Shaw (musician)

James Shaw
In Victoria B.C., November 2012
Background information
Birth name	James Alexander Shaw
Genres	Indie rock,alternative rock,new wave,post-punk revival,synthpop,dance-rock
Occupation(s)	musician, record producer, recording engineer
Instruments	guitar, synthesizers, theremin
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Metric Music International Last Gang Arts & Crafts (Mexico Only)
Associated acts	Metric, Broken Social Scene, Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton

James Shaw (sometimes credited as Jimmy Shaw) is a founder and lead guitarist of Canadian indie rock band Metric. He is also founder of the band Broken Social Scene and an award winning producer.

Shaw was born in London, England and raised in Bellevue, Ontario, Canada. He spent three years earning a classical music education at the Juilliard Music School in New York. Upon returning to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he met Emily Haines, and the two began dating and making music immediately. This led to the creation of the band Metric. His early efforts to make sure that former high school friends Haines and Kevin Drew helped the evolution of the band Broken Social Scene and resulted in Drew saying about Shaw "I consider him my husband to this day."

Shaw produced the debut album of the Montreal band The Lovely Feathers (who toured with Metric in 2005).

He is the owner of Giant Studios in Toronto, formerly with Sebastien Grainger, member of Death From Above 1979.

In 2010, he was nominated along with bandmate Emily Haines for the Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year. In 2013 he won the Juno Award for Producer of the Year for the songs "Youth Without Youth" and "Breathing Underwater" from Metric's album Synthetica.