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City And Colour — Little Hell

City And Colour fans who were used to Dallas Green's (relatively speaking) stripped down, minimalistic brand of emotionally-heavy indie folk tunes will likely be surprised by Little Hell, his third solo release. But the great thing about the album is it could likely bring those who've looked at City And Colour with hesitation over to Green's side...
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City And Colour's Little Hell

Video Of The Day: City And Colour's "Fragile Bird"

City And Colour's video for "Fragile Bird" might be the darkest, grittiest thing Dallas Green's done with his solo (kinda?) project to date. In it, Green finds himself right in the middle of a bug-infested brothel, with walls that have been cut away to reveal what's going on in each of the rooms. There's a tad bit of nudity, so you might want to...
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City And Colour Studio Documentary Online

City And Colour's Little Hell album comes out June 7, and Dallas Green has been promoting it in various ways around the web so far. But now a new documentary, The Making Of Little Hell, has been released. It follows the making of the album at Hamilton, Ont.'s Catherine North Studios, where it was recorded earlier this year. The 15-minute...
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Official 2011 Juno Awards Drinking Game

Finally. After years of complaining that it's too expensive to fly all their artists out to places like St. John's or Saskatoon, or that there aren't enough limousines to rent in these towns, or that the available bars are too small to host proper after-parties, the Canadian music industry has finally gotten its wish and the 40th anniversary...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 22, 2011

Halifax indie rockers Dog Day will release a new seven-inch mini-album, The Scratches EP, on March 22. They're heading south of the border to promote it in March. —dogdaymusic.com Man, does Sam Roberts' new record ever sound like it's gonna be hippie. Well, I mean, everything he's done so far is pretty hippie, but this one mixes his classic rock-...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 5, 2011

City And Colour's Dallas Green and Shad will release a collaborative EP, Two Songs, on Jan. 11. It features, yes, two songs: a new track and a remix. You can preorder it here and here. All the proceeds will be donated to Skate4Cancer. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead will hit the road with Surfer Blood this spring. Trail Of Dead will...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 23, 2010

American girls! You'll be able to start swooning over Jacob Hoggard and his chest tattoos when Hedley release their The Show Must Go album on Dec. 7 south of the border. It's the first album they've put out in the States. Nickelback and Theory Of A Deadman won SOCAN Music Awards for radio airplay last night. Wait... they were in the same room? You...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 22, 2010

The Dears will launch a webcast at 7 p.m. EST today to preview their upcoming Degeneration Street album. The series will continue until the LP comes out Feb. 15. —Livestream Luke Doucet and blues artist Harrison Kennedy both won three Hamilton Music Awards on Sunday night. No, the trophies were not made of steel. —Hamilton Spectator Wavves' Nathan...
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Alexisonfire Achieve Rare Feat: A Shock Jock (Sort Of) Apology

A bubbling feud between Alexisonfire, one of Canada's biggest rock bands, and the hosts of Toronto modern rock radio station 102.1 The Edge's The Dean Blundell Show morning show has resulted in something that ranks as rare as spotting a unicorn: a shock jock apology.Now, sure, that apology mostly completely ignored the actual reasons why said...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 20, 2010

Former Inbreds singer/bassist Mike O'Neill is helping Halifax indie rockers In-Flight Safety record new material. —TwitterDallas Green has written a song about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster called "At The Bird's Foot." But he says it's different from many of the other songs about the tragedy because he focuses...
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I Read The News Today... For June 3, 2010

Rush want Kentucky Republican senatorial candidate Rand "I'm really, really scary" Paul to stop using their music in his campaign. No wonder — who'd want their music to be associated with this? (Besides Ted Nugent, of course.) —World Entertainment News Network Wilco are sponsoring little league teams throughout Chicago and Northampton...
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City And Colour Opening For... Pink

We know you're probably thinking "WTF?!" right now, but this actually has a back story and therefore makes a lot of sense. Earlier this year, Pink and her motocross hubby Carey Hart went to a City And Colour show in Los Angeles, which led to Pink tweeting about how much she loved Dallas Green's Alexisonfire side-project. Both Pink...
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City And Colour Live EP Coming For Record Store Day

City And Colour has joined the ranks of people issuing zillions of special albums, singles and downloads as part of Record Store Day on April 17. Alexisonfire guitarist Dallas Green's folky side-project will release Live At The Orange Lounge, a limited-edition EP recorded at Sympatico.ca's Orange Lounge in Toronto. It was cut nearly two...
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City And Colour Owns The Podium At Vancouver Cultural Olympiad

Few Canadian bands could be more appropriately named than The Rural Alberta Advantage for playing Vancouver's Cultural Olympiad, which showcases the best  Canadian music has to offer the world during the Winter Olympics. With a 2,500-seat theatre venue normally reserved for ballets and plays filled mostly with rowdy Canadians, The RAA proved...
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Pink, Carey Hart Love City And Colour

Pink and her motorcross hubby Carey Hart are huge fans of Alexisonfire guitarist/singer Dallas Green's City And Colour side-project. The couple attended City And Colour's show at Los Angeles' Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theatre on Saturday (Jan. 23) and were tweeting about it during and after the show. "At the city and colour show in LA. I...
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Alexisonfire/City And Colour's Dallas Green's Top Five Albums Of 2009

In no particular order. DAVID BAZAN Curse Your Branches TEGAN AND SARA Sainthood CONVERGE Axe To Fall DAN AUERBACH Keep It Hid BARONESS Blue Record
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City And Colour Songs On One Tree Hill

OMG, you guys. You should totally watch One Tree Hill on Monday night (Nov. 30) because two City And Colour songs will be used in the episode!!! Eeeeee! City And Colour (a.k.a. Alexisonfire guitarist/singer Dallas Green) won't reveal which songs will appear on the show, but you can tune in to find out. One Tree Hill airs at 8 p.m. ET on Monday....
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City And Colour Plots U.S. Dates

Dallas Green's City And Colour project will spend January touring the United States. Green, who's currently touring Europe with Alexisonfire, will offer U.S. fans a presale through the Dine Alone Records mailing list, which you can sign up to at the Dine Alone website. The presale begins Tuesday at 3 p.m local time and tickets will go on sale a...
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Metric's Fantasies Finally Wins Something (A CASBY)

Metric won two CASBY Awards for their Polaris Music Prize short listed Fantasies in a ceremony and concert held at Toronto's Kool Haus on Thursday (Oct. 22) night. Singer/keyboardist Emily Haines, guitarist Jimmy Shaw, bassist Josh Winstead and drummer Joules Scott-Key won the NXNE favourite new indie release and favourite new album awards for...
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