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14 September 2011 9:40 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

By Zachary Swickey

I was more than a bit surprised when I heard Dallas Green’s subdued, piano-driven cover of his own post-hardcore outfit Alexisonfire’s “Happiness by the Kilowatt.” Despite my affinity for the band (and all things loud at the time), I much preferred Green’s melancholic rendition, which was undeniably moving. It’s not the most common thing to see a tattooed punk rocker bearing his soul with an acoustic guitar, but the toned down sensibilities of Green’s alter-ego, City & Colour, harkens back to the singer-songwriter days of Bob Dylan.

Dallas Green had been the guitarist and back-up vocalist of post-hardcore act Alexisonfire since 2001 but needed a creative outlet for the acoustic fare he'd been writing on the side since the young age of 14. Green soon began releasing a few songs for download online under the moniker City & Colour (the letter “u” gets a lot more »

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