With the release of City and Colour’s new album “Little Hell” on June 7, the internet has been buzzing with teaser videos and song previews. Here’s what’s out there right now. Hopefully this will hold everyone over until June.

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City and Colour – Fragile Bird features Spirits’ Nick Skalkos on drums.

City and Colour – Northern Wind features The Rest’s Anna Jarvis on cello.

When Steve Winnall and Allison Smith contacted us about recordoing BowTie‘s debut EP last spring I was excited to be a part of the project. Steve had told me the main reason they chose Catherine North was that they loved the sound of City and Colour’s Bring Me Your Love. So how funny it was that the mixing of BowTie’s EP was delayed due to Dallas Green coming back to record City and Colour’s upcoming release Little Hell.

BowTie’s EP, Sequins, will be released April 1, 2011. A preview of their songs can be heard on their myspace page, and one of the tracks is featured in the video below.

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Last spring, a great musician and producer, Dan Achen, sadly passed away. Dan produced some great records in his time, including City and Colour’s acclaimed record Bring Me Your Love, and The Coppertone’s Hidden Dreams.

Recently I was approached by my friend Amanda Zelina (The Coppertone), who was looking to pay tribute to Dan in the form of a video. Amanda and Dallas Green of City and Colour came together to pay their respects to their friend and producer, and we recorded a cover of Mississippi Fred McDowell’s “When I Lay My Burden Down.”

This is truly an incredible song and it was really amazing to be involved in this event.

—Adrian Vieni

Dallas Green (a.k.a. City and Colour) won the Juno for Songwriter of the Year at the 2009 Juno Awards in Vancouver. The three songs nominated (Waiting…, Sleeping Sickness and The Girl) are from Green’s 2008 album, Bring Me Your Love. Bring Me Your Love was recorded, produced and mixed by Dan Achen at Catherine North Studios.

Nominations for the 2009 Juno Awards have been announced. Dallas Green/City & Colour have been nominated for the following awards:

• Artist of the Year — City & Colour
• Songwriter of the Year — Dallas Green for Waiting…, Sleeping Sickness and The Girl

The Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA) has anounced its Gold and Platinum records for May 2008. We’re happy to hear that City & Colour’s Bring Me Your Love has gone Gold in Canada. Bring Me Your Love was produced by Dan Achen and recorded and mixed at Catherine North in late 2007. The album was released February 14, 2008 in Canada.

In Graham Rockingham’s February 19, Hamilton Spectator feature Green’s on fire with City and Colour, too, Dallas Green describes how he chose to use Catherine North to record his latest album, Bring Me Your Love.

[Dallas] Green met Dan Achen, owner of Hamilton’s Catherine North Studio, at a music-industry function three years ago in Toronto. Achen’s business card had a photo of the interior of the old church. It shows a high, curved ceiling with lots of room for sound to gather.

Green, who’s on tour almost constantly, never found time to pay the studio a visit, but the picture stayed with him.

“I kept it in my wallet all those years, and after writing these songs I knew what I wanted: A more open concept,” Green said in an interview. “So I called up Dan (at Catherine North), and here we are.”

Read the entire story here.

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