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Pink Joins City And Colour During L.A. Concert

@coltondaniel — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:42:34 +0000

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Pink, the pop mega-star, and Dallas Green from City & Colour (R.I.P. Alexisonfire) joined forces at the Orpheum in Los Angeles on Thursday night. It was a collaboration that was inevitable.

Okay, maybe not. But, it’s result is something eargasmic. The two performed a haunting duet of Green’s ‘What Makes A Man’ from his 2008 Bring Me Your Love album.

Pink harmonized perfectly, with just the right amount of raspy deliverance. Green later called the collab “best moment of my life,” on his Twitter. She shared her own Twitter love for City & Colour back in January 2010, after seeing one of his shows.

Looks like Green’s decision to leave Alexisonfire in August to pursue City and Colour full-time wasn’t a bad decision.

Alexisonfire Breakup is Bitter

andPOP Staff — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:00:58 +0000

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St. Catharines, ON band Alexisonfire is calling it quits after 10 years together. However, the breakup is not what can be called “agreeable.”

The band announced their breakup via their website. Lead singer George Pettit posted a note explaining the situation. Some of the highlights of the note include:

- ”After 10 years, Alexisonfire has decided to part ways,” he wrote. “Was the break-up amicable? Not really. Was it necessary? Probably.”

- ”Regardless, the members of this band are my family and I wish them nothing but good fortune.”

- Dallas Green wanted to leave to focus on his solo project, “City and Colour.” ”Trying to balance his life between touring with us and at the same time quelling the success of City and Colour was a task too difficult to continue managing,” Pettit wrote

- ”I would like to offer my sincerest gratitude to the fans of Alexisonfire around the world. I’m forever grateful to anyone who has ever taken any interest in what we did. You were the coal that stoked our engines. You have given us a spectacular decade, rich with experience and joy. I love you all.

Sad to see such an amazing Canadian band breakup, but nevertheless we did get to see a solid decade with the band.

City and Colour Debuts New Single, ‘Fragile Bird’

@coltondaniel — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:36:07 +0000

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The true Canadian songbird Dallas Green will release his third solo album ‘Little Hell’ on June 7th, but today we were offered a taste with the first single: “Fragile Bird”.

Green recorded the follow-up to Bring Me Your Love over the winter at Saint Catherine North Studios in Hamilton, Ontario with Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, Mars Volta). The new LP explores the high-points and the hellish moments of a relationship and echoes the intimate acoustic rock that made Green Songwriter of the Year at the 2009 Juno Awards.

‘Fragile Bird’ delivers a Black Keys vibe with the use of heavily fuzzed-out guitars clanging against a tambourine backbeat. Save your scissors fans, there is still the same-old high soaring vocals delivered by Green. And what? Is that a guitar solo?

City and Colour performed a tribute cover of Neil Young’s ‘Old Man’ at this year’s Juno Award’s and are currently touring around the world.

‘Fragile Bird’ will be available on iTunes on April 12th.

But for now, listen to ‘Fragile Bird’ here. Enjoy!

Arcade Fire blazes, Neil Young trumps Bieber at 2011 Junos

@coltondaniel — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:14:20 +0000

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This year’s Golden Globe’s dropped jaws, the Oscar’s received yawns and the Grammys’ only highlight was the Arcade Fire.

And at Sunday night’s 40th Juno Awards, the Montreal-based independent rock band cleaned up again and won four awards including Songwriters of the Year, Group of the Year and Album of the Year.

“Thank you, we are so happy,” Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler told the audience in accepting their first award of the night for Best Group.”I want to just give a shout-out to all the bands that we kind of came up with from Royal City to Hidden Cameras to The Unicorn to Wolf Parade and all the amazing Canadian bands and thank you so much.”

Arcade Fire homecoming victories for ‘The Suburbs” was a followup to winning Album of the Year at this year’s Grammies and winning Best International Group and Best International Album at this year’s Brit Awards.

“It’s a long way from Sneaky Dees — the first place we played in Toronto,” said Butler as they picked up their second award on Sunday’s show. The only category the band lost was to Daniel Lanois for Producer of the Year for his work on Neil Young’s “Le Noise” won.

That Saturday night win for “Le Noise” was just a prelude to Neil Young’s triumphant evening on Sunday. Representing the old Canadian values, Young was honoured with the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for his founding both Farm Aid and the Bridge School Benefit concerts.

“What year is this?,” remarked Young after shutting out Justin Bieber for Artist of the Year. ”I was 16 one time. He’s fantastic. He’s got some moves, doesn’t he?”

Young, who has not attended the Junos gala in 29 or so years, also won Best Adult Alternative Album.

The mighty tour-de-force that is Justin Bieber picked up two trophies via-satellite for Juno Fan Choice Award and Best Pop Album. ”Thank you so much for being so supportive,” said Bieber from Rotterdam, where he is currently on tour. “You guys have been incredible. 2011 has been absolutely crazy.”

Unfortunately, the Juno host and local-rapper Drake who led the list of nominees with six, left with no hardware. He was up for essentially every major category: Album, Fan Choice, Artist, Album, Songwriter, Single and Rap Recording. The latter of the bunch he surprisingly lost to the up-and-coming Toronto artist Shad on Saturday night.

However, the former Degrassi star had a refreshing opening to the show that involved Bieber on Skype exchanging verses on the timeless Sarah McLachlan tune “I Will Remember You”.

“You my friend have the voice of a young rabbi,” said Drake. Afterward, he was joined by pianist Chilly Gonzalez for a lounge medley that included a tribute to Shania Twain.

“You’re from Timmins, I’m from Toronto, you worked at McDonald’s and I eat McDonald’s, we should be together … Man, I’d like to make you feel like a woman baby,” he sang out.

Later in the evening, Bryan Adams presented his friend Twain with the Hall of Fame Award. The montage tribute video of her career included appearances by Anne Murray and Taylor Swift, who both praised her for inspiration.

“This is just a very beautiful moment for me. I’m really so proud of Canada’s talent,” said Twain. “I sit here tonight in the audience and I watch these amazing new artists up here on the stage. I have more pride in what the country has created musically than I am even of my own success. This is a beautiful country. I feel like I should just be wearing the Canadian flag tonight.”

“I love our lakes,” and then Twain dropped what will likely be the joke of headlines tomorrow morning: “I love our bush.”

Another highlight of the evening was the Love Letter to Toronto that featured today’s young and hot artists performing hits of yester-year! That’s likely how the initial concept was explained… It was well executed though. From Sarah Harmer’s angelic rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Carey” from Blue to Dallas Green’s take on “Old Man” with Young gleaming from front row.

Gordon Lightfoot and the Band were also paid tribute to by Jim Cuddy, Sarah Slean, Kevin Hearn, Serena Ryder, Greg Keelor, the Sadies and Derek Miller.

Other performers on Sunday were Down With Webster, Hedley, Tokyo Police Club, Johnny Reid, Broken Social Scene, Chromeo and Arcade Fire.

Click here for a full list of the 2011 Juno Award Winners.

New City & Colour Album ‘Little Hell’ Coming June 2011

@coltondaniel — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:43:05 +0000

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Dallas Green tweeted at 3:19 p.m. that a new City and Colour album, entitled Little Hell, has been confirmed for release set for this June…

“cityandcolour Dallas Green:
LITTLE HELL – new @cityandcolour album coming June 2011. check out the cover art here: http://bit.ly/fdmJTX“

The follow up to 2008′s Bring Me Your Love has been in production over the past year and a website was created for fans to follow Dallas. It includes photos, video clips and blog updates of the recording process. The sessions have taken place at Hamilton, Ontario’s Catherine North Studios; a church-turned studio where the last album was also recorded.

Dallas reported in late January that the album’s material will be split between a full ensemble and songs that were “with just me and a guitar”. Also, everything has been recorded in analog, instead of computers or Pro Tools, to create the texture and intimacy that was familiarized on the other City and Colour albums.

So save your scissors fans, it doesn’t sound like it’ll be too different.

Dallas also posted the artwork for Little Hell on his website this afternoon, check it out here.

City and Colour Announce U.S. Tour Dates

Stephen Baldwin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:00:37 +0000

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Dallas Green’s band City and Colour has scheduled nine tour dates across the U.S. starting January 7th, CHARTattack reports.

Green is currently on a European tour with his original group, Alexisonfire, and will have a ticket pre-sale for his American fans through the Dine Alone Records mailing list.

With two bands and a solo career, not to mention his marriage with Leah Miller nearing its one-year anniversary, Green has a lot on his table.

City and Colour will be promoting music from their sophomore album, Bring Me Your Love, whish was released last year. Stops on the tour include New York, Washington, Chicago and L.A.

City And Colour To Headline Rogers Picnic

Eva Lam — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:33:49 +0000

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The Rogers Picnic, back for a second year, will take over Toronto’s Fort York on July 20.

City And Colour a.k.a. Dallas Green is slated to headline a diverse line-up that includes Cat Power, Tokyo Police Club, Chromeo, Animal Collective, Dizzee Rascal, Born Ruffians and The Carps.

DJs and vendors will also be present to entertain the masses in between sets.

Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Saturday for $49.50, plus application charges.

Rogers Wireless customers can get their hands on tickets earlier – and at a $10 discounted rate – by texting “TIX” to 4849 beginning Thursday.

Last year’s inaugural Rogers Picnic featured the Roots, Bedouin Soundclash and Bad Brains.

In other City And Colour news, Green will headline Flick-Fest in Estevan, Saskatchewan on May 30. The city won the right to host the carbon-neutral music festival after it came first in a national competition by saving the most energy of any community.

Tegan And Sara, City And Colour To Play Austin

Eva Lam — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:36:35 +0000

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Canadians Tegan And Sara and City And Colour will be among the bevy of musicians descending upon Texas this September for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

More than 100 acts are slated to play this year’s edition of the annual extravaganza, including such heavy-hitters as Foo Fighters, Raconteurs, Beck and Gnarls Barkley.

Among the Texan natives returning to their home state are Erykah Badu, Robert Earl Keen and Roky Erickson.

The festival, featuring eight stages, will take place at Austin’s Zilker Park from Sept. 26 to Sept. 28.

Three-day passes are being sold for $170 U.S. on the festival’s website.

In 2007, Austin City Limits grossed $11.3 million and was attended by 225,000 people during three sold-out days.

Here’s the 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival lineup:
• Foo Fighters
• Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
• Beck
• Manu Chao
• John Fogerty
• David Byrne
• The Raconteurs
• The Mars Volta
• Gnarls Barkley
• Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band
• N.E.R.D
• Erykah Badu
• Robert Earl Keen
• Patty Griffin
• Tegan And Sara
• Iron & Wine
• G. Love & Special Sauce
• Neko Case
• Band Of Horses
• The Swell Season
• Silversun Pickups
• Gogol Bordello
• Gillian Welch
• Eli Young Band
• The Black Keys
• Against Me!
• Jakob Dylan And The Gold Mountain Rebels
• Okkervil River
• Galactic
• Kevin Fowler
• Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings
• Hot Chip
• Vampire Weekend
• Slightly Stoopid
• Duffy
• Alejandro Escovedo
• Roky Erickson
• Yonder Mountain String Band
• Spiritualized
• Flyleaf
• Drive-By Truckers
• Ingrid Michaelson
• Stars
• Jose Gonzalez
• CSS
• Del Tha Funky Homosapien
• Man Man
• Jamie Lidell
• MGMT
• What Made Milwaukee Famous
• Jenny Lewis
• M. Ward
• Asleep At The Wheel
• Mason Jennings
• Heartless Bastards
• Antibalas
• The Nachito Herrera All-Stars
• Shooter Jennings
• Xavier Rudd
• Yeasayer
• Octopus Project
• Joe Bonamassa
• The Kills
• White Denim
• Louis XIV
• Delta Spirit
• Mates Of State
• Nicole Atkins & The Sea
• Electric Touch
• Black Joe Lewis & The Honey Bears
• Back Door Slam
• Tristan Prettyman
• The Strange Boys
• Ryan Bingham
• Scott Biram
• Freddy Jones
• Colour Revolt
• Five Times August
• Langhorne Slim
• Sybris
• Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves
• Bavu Blakes And The Extra Plairs
• AA Bondy
• Christopher Denny
• Mike Farris
• The Lee Boys
• South Austin Jug Band
• American Bang
• Bobby Bare, Jr.
• The Massacoustics
• The Belleville Outfit
• We Go To 11
• The Band Of Heathens
• City And Colour
• Sunny Sweeney
• Elizabeth Wills
• Autamata
• Bonnie Bishop
• Ben Solee
• Ben Cylus
• The Concert Supremes
• River City Christionettes
• Shields Of Faith
• The Jones Family Singers
• Nakia And His Southern Cousins
• Brotherly Luv
• The Hensley Ensemble
• School Of Rock
• Jambo
• Q Brothers
• Buck Howdy With BB
• Uncle Rock
• Big Don
• Mr. Ray
• The Jimmies