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Cannons Blast at the Troubadour: Having just performed at the Forum on KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas bill, Cannons are now fully warmed up for this Troubadour show. Michelle Joy and the boys massaged the crowd through an eight song set that was simultaneously hypnotic and energizing,” we wrote of that Forum show. “‘Hurricane’ and ‘Bright Lights’ were highlights, but there were no lowlights.”

Their latest album is Heartbeat Highway and, on its release, Joy said, “The highway of life starts and ends with the most beautiful music in the world, a heartbeat. It’s a rhythm so strong the only right thing to do is to follow it wherever it may lead.” Truer words have never been spoken.

We spoke to them back in April, when Joy said, “The mission since the beginning has just been to make music that we like to listen to, that we enjoy. Always keep it coming from the right place, and to grow together doing this project. Ryan (Clapham, guitar) and Paul (Davis, bass) grew up together, on the same street, and have been making music together for a very long time. So they had this special connection. But they realized that they couldn’t sing, so they looked for a singer; they found me on Craigslist of all places back then, and we wrote our first couple of songs without ever meeting.”

“This is our environment that we’ve been writing in, and I feel like you can hear it in our sound,” she said of L.A. “A lot of people say our music is great to drive to at night, through the city. Long drives. I think a lot of the lyrics also paint a picture of Los Angeles. The energy of the city exists in our music. Since the guys have lived here their entire lives, I do feel like even in the production and everything, it seeps in.”

Valida also performs.

Cannons Blast at the Troubadour: The event takes place at 7 p.m. on Friday, December 22 at the Troubadour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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