City and Colour Release New CD "Little Hell" on June 7th // Download "Fragile Bird" for Free

DOWNLOAD: City and Colour - "Fragile Bird" (from Little Hell)

Dallas Green will be releasing his 3rd solo album as a singer-songwriter under the moniker City and Colour on Vagrant Records. The album titled Little Hell is scheduled for release on June 7th, 2011 and it is the follow-up to the 2008’s Bring Me Your Love, which was certified platinum in Green’s native Canada. Alternately sparse and inviting, intense and delicate, Little Hell shows music fans another side of Green’s incredible songwriting skills, and features some of his finest songs to date.

Little Hell was recorded earlier this winter at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton, ON with producer/engineer/mixer Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie). Fans got a sneak preview of a brand new track from the upcoming album when an alternate version of the song titled “Northern Wind” recently made its debut on a special Valentine’s Day episode of the hit series One Tree Hill. Green performed on the episode as part of the show’s story line.



Little Hell – named after the album’s title track, a song that explores the little heavens and little hells that comprise a relationship – is the first of Green’s albums to be recorded and mixed to tape. This sonic move ultimately resulted in the album’s warm immediacy, allowing the songs to take on a spaciousness previously unheard in City and Colour albums. The record allows Green to highlight all of the facets of his songwriting, from Blues-tinged rockers to pedal steel-soaked acoustic gems. Songs like “Northern Wind” have a beautiful intimacy, as if Green is in the same room and singing right to you, while “Sorrowing Man” is dark and brooding, anchored by an ominous organ in the chorus. The record also highlights Green’s impressive vocal range, from driving a full band on the rousing chorus of “Natural Disaster” or sighing mellifluously on opener “We Found Each Other in the Dark.”



Links:
City and Colour

City and Colour Release "Live at the Verge" Digi-Single (Vagrant)

STREAM: City and Colour - "Forgive Me"


City and Colour released a new two-song digital single, Live at the Verge, this past Tuesday that features "Forgive Me" (from Bring Me Your Love) and a solo acoustic cover of Alexisonfire's "Boiled Frogs." These tracks were recorded in February 2008 for the Canadian XM satellite radio show, Live at The Verge.

Here are the remaining tour dates on City and Colour's headlining tour:

Jan 16 2010 8:00PM, The Filmore (reserved seating) w/ Lissie, Detroit, Michigan
Jan 21 2010 8:00PM, Central Church w/ Lissie - SOLD OUT, Austin, Texas
Jan 22 2010 8:00PM, Filmore w/ Lissie, San Francisco, California
Jan 23 2010 8:00PM, Henry Fonda Theatre w/ Lissie - SOLD OUT, Los Angeles, California
Feb 1 2010 8:00PM, Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Feb 2 2010 8:00PM, Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Feb 15 2010 8:00PM, Queen Elizabeth Theatre w/ Rural Alberta Advantage, Vancouver, British Columbia

City and Colour - Boiled Frogs (Alexisonfire)


Links:
Dallas Green's MySpace Profile

Lissie (Maurus) Opens for City and Colour on Friday, Jan. 8th at Webster Hall

DOWNLOAD: Lissie - "Everywhere I Go"
DOWNLOAD: Lissie - "Wedding Bells" (Hank Williams Cover) [HearYa Session]

Lissie made her NYC debut at the end of November with a well received show at Mercury Lounge. After touring late last year with Ray LaMontagne, Lissie is back on the road supporting Dallas Green's folk project City and Colour. The tour kicks off this Thursday at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC and stops at Webster Hall on Friday, January 8th.

Lissie is touring behind her debut EP, Why You Runin', which was released on Fat Possum in early November. This five-track disc combines the country-folk sounds of artists like Tift Merritt and Emmylou Harris with 60's girl group melancholy to come up with an engaging slice of Americana. Tracks include a reinterpretation of Hank Williams' "Wedding Bells", a sentimental piano-ballad that pays tribute to the Mississippi River ("Oh Mississippi") which bordered Lissie's hometown of Rock Island, IL and the haunting and emotional "Here Before". Bill Reynolds (from Band of Horses) produced this disc in addition to playing bass and his production fits the supporting instrumentation and backing vocals around Lissie's emotive, smokey voice.

Here are the upcoming tour dates for Lissie and City and Colour:

JAN. 7 - WASHINGTON, DC @ 9:30 CLUB
JAN. 8 - NEW YORK, NY @ WEBSTER HALL
JAN. 10 - SOMERVILLE, MA @ SOMERVILLE THEATRE
JAN. 11 - ORLANDO, FL @ PLAZA THEATRE
JAN. 13 - MINNEAPOLIS, MN @ TRIPLE ROCK SOCIAL CLUB (Solo headlining show)
JAN. 15 - CHICAGO, IL @ METRO
JAN. 16 - DETROIT, MI @ THE FILLMORE
JAN. 18 - COLUMBUS, OH @ CAFE BOURBON STREET
JAN. 21 - AUSTIN, TX @ CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
JAN. 22 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ THE FILLMORE
JAN. 23 LOS ANGELES, CA @ HENRY FONDA THEATRE

Links:
Lissie's MySpace Profile