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City and Colour

City and Colour is the recording alias for Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, who was also the guitarist and vocalist of the St. Catharines, Ontario-based post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. He plays melodic acoustic/folk music, and is often accompanied by a rotating number of Canadian indie rock musicians, such as Daniel Romano and Spencer Burton of Attack in Black. The name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt queasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green". Green began relea ...read more

City and Colour is the recording alias for Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, who was also the guitarist and vocalist of the St. Catharines, Ontario-based post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. He plays melodic acoustic/folk music, and is often accompanied by a rotating number of Canadian indie rock musicians, such as Daniel Romano and Spencer Burton of Attack in Black. The name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt queasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green". Green began releasing City and Colour songs on the Internet for fans to download in 2004. Eventually, he compiled and rewrote several of these songs to make his first album, Sometimes. The full length debut was released on November 1, 2005 to a good reception, described by one reviewer as "dynamically gentle and vulnerable". The cover art was designed by Scott McEwan, in a tattoo-esque style; Green "still may decide to have some of them inked at a later point in time". Sometimes was re-released on Vagrant Records on January 13, 2009, which was the first time the album was available in physical form in the United States. Green’s second album, Bring Me Your Love, was released on February 12, 2008 and features a wide array of instruments not used on his previous recordings (such as a harmonica, banjo, drums and lap steel) giving it a more folk-influenced sound. The album also featured collaborations with other musicians, such as Canadian musician Gordon Downie of The Tragically Hip on the track 'Sleeping Sickness', and additional instrumentals done by Matt Sullivan and the members of Attack in Black. The lead single, 'Waiting…', was released on Green’s official MySpace page for the first time featuring a "making of" video. The album is named after a short story by Charles Bukowski. It is also a line sung in the closing track, 'As Much As I Ever Could'. On September 26, 2008, City and Colour embarked on their first American tour, in support of Bring Me Your Love. On the tour, the band supported Tegan and Sara along with Girl in a Coma. This tour was followed by a headlining tour of the US in January 2009, with support from William Elliott Whitmore. In October 2008, Dine Alone Records announced a special 2-disc limited edition of Bring Me Your Love to be released on December 2, 2008. Only 6,000 copies are available; 5,000 in North America and 1,000 in Australia. In Canada, when the record label put up the album on pre-sale on November 20, 2008, so many fans tried to pre-order it that the store’s website crashed. In January 2010, City and Colour embarked on an additional US headlining tour, again supporting Bring Me Your Love, with supporting act Lissie, and an additional UK tour in June 2010, supporting P!nk, along with Butch Walker, along with a few headlining dates. On these tours, Dallas Green performed two new songs by the titles of 'Silver and Gold' and 'Oh Sister', as well as a couple of never-played-before covers - 'Murderer', originally by Low, and 'Grinnin’ In Your Face', originally by Son House. On February 23, 2011, it was officially announced on the Dine Alone Records website that City and Colour’s third album would be titled Little Hell and was set for release in June 2011. On March 23, 2011, the official track listing was posted on City and Colour’s official website. On April 5, 2011, 'Fragile Bird', the first single off Little Hell was released to the radio. The song had its world premiere on Australian radio station Triple J, where the band was touring at the time. The single became City and Colour’s highest charting single, reaching No. 1 on the Canadian rock/alternative chart. On August 5, 2011, Alexisonfire announced their break-up. George Pettit wrote a message on the band’s official website saying Dallas had been planning to leave to focus on City and Colour, as balancing the two bands had become too difficult. City and Colour announced the release of the new album entitled The Hurry and the Harm to be released on June 4, 2013. The song 'Of Space and Time' was released on March 11, 2013 prior to the announcement of the new album. The song 'Thirst' was released on April 1, 2013 on City and Colour’s Soundcloud page. « hide

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LPs
The Love Still Held Me Near
2023

3.6
42 Votes
A Pill For Loneliness
2019

3.6
97 Votes
If I Should Go Before You
2015

3.7
254 Votes
The Hurry and the Harm
06/04/2013

3.3
279 Votes
Little Hell
2011

3.8
682 Votes
Bring Me Your Love
2008

3.9
901 Votes
Sometimes
2005

3.8
892 Votes
EPs
The MySpace Transmissions
2008

4.1
82 Votes
The Death of Me
2005

3.7
36 Votes
Live Albums
Guide Me Back Home
2018

4
22 Votes
Live at the Orange Lounge
2010

4
29 Votes
Live
2007

4
127 Votes

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