Your Cannons

Cloud Nothings Show - SOLD OUT

2012-02-28T12:45:00.001-08:00

Our show this Saturday (03/03) with Cloud Nothings at Bottom of the Hill just sold out! We cant wait, its going to be a great night. Sorry if you didnt get your tix. If you got lucky, see you there...

Little Gold Dress - Radio Valencia Interview Online

2012-02-10T11:20:00.000-08:00

Four fifths of Your Cannons were on the radio last night talking shit about Jesus Jones and tranvestite swedish toddlers, and Rick, the DJ, played a bunch of our songs. The show is now available to stream HERE.

For those of you befuddled by the reference, here are Jesus Jones, and some hats...

Andrew x

Show at the Hemlock - Friday, February 10th

2012-02-08T14:58:00.000-08:00

Radio Interview

2012-02-07T08:11:00.000-08:00

A great man once sang, "I went to the radio interview, I ended up alone at the microphone".

Hopefully that wont be the case on Thursday (Feb 9th) when we will be interviewed by Rick from Radio Valencia ahead of our Hemlock show on Friday.

He'll be talking to us and playing some of our songs, hopefully including a track from the new album, if we get it mixed in time. See you on the air, folks.

Working on the LP, booking some shows...

2012-01-30T07:44:00.000-08:00

Getting busy. We've been spending some good time at Studio SQ in the mission, and our space at Lennon Studios in SOMA recording our first LP. We've also confirmed a bunch of SF gigs, the first at the the Hemlock in February, and then with the fantastic Cloud Nothings at the Bottom of the Hill on March 3rd. In the meantime EP 2 is still streamable for free over at our Bandcamp page. See you soon.

Your Cannons on Spotify

2011-07-19T10:18:00.000-07:00

EP2 is streamable on Spotify so if you have an account, put us in a playlist. If you don't have one already, you can sign up for a free account HERE.

Here's a link to our EP - Your Cannons – EP 2

- Chris

Cafe Du Nord Pictures

2011-07-13T19:01:00.000-07:00

Here's a few pictures from our Cafe Du Nord Show on July 8th.

Thanks to Abraham Arriola for the photographs

Show Flyer - Cafe Du Nord - 07/08/2011

2011-06-29T16:41:00.000-07:00

I found this website that helps you knock together a simple flyer. It's pretty useful, but as it's template based I can't help but feel like I'm cheating, so probably won't use it again.

- Chris

Brought to you by: www.band-flyers.com

Your Cannons play new songs at a bar near you! (if you live in San Francisco).

2011-06-09T14:42:00.000-07:00

Hello! We have the spent the last six months holed up in Lennon Studios working on new songs, and we are hatching plans to record them. We are also very excited to be gigging again. We'll be at The Elbo Room in The Mission, on July 6th, and at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco on Friday July 8th with Tracing Figures. Hope you can make it! The ever important facebook event page is... here.

Thanks to Drew for setting up this new blog/site.

Andrew x

SF Chronicle Blog "Off-The-Record" from Tony DuShane

2011-03-10T09:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/offtherecord/detail?entry_id=70919

Your Cannons - A Must For Break-ups

If you have just broken up with your significant other and you're putting together a break-up mix, which I'm sure you do if you're reading here with the rest of us, the local band Your Cannons is a definite must include on that mix.

In fact, they make me want to have a girlfriend, so I can break up with her and just cry my eyes out while listening to their song High Noon on repeat.

Groovy fuzzed out guitars, in a slow melodic way is what Your Cannons do best. Well, and they break your heart, with a tenderness that puts the pieces back together.

Your Cannons perform at Kimo's on August 31st. $5. 9 p.m.

But wait, there's more. Check out this great video filmed in San Francisco and play the I Know Where That Is game...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Iu3DUSaKI

Posted By: Tony DuShane (Email)
August 28 2010 at 08:38 PM

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/offtherecord/detail?entry_id=70919#ixzz1GDX5i8Fj

EP2 Review from The Boy Kicked Out At The World

2011-03-09T13:03:00.000-08:00

UK Blog The Boy Kicked Out At The World reviews EP2...

Two EP’s into a promising career and Your Cannons are exploring a dark terrain combining distortion and vivid soundscapes in equal measure. While EP2 may not immediately catch the listener’s attention in the same way as High Noon from the Dust Bowl EP the band have certainly made giant steps forward in style and song construction.

While comparisons to shoegaze are obvious in the deep set vocals, distortion and reverb, it is perhaps the spirit of Neil Young that most shines through, especially on EP opener and stand out track 18. It draws the listener into a world that feels both expansive and claustrophobic; it’s dark, brooding and fragile.

Filthy Lustre continues this path; it still has many of the strengths of 18 but sounds a little more forced. It has the feel of the band exploring their sound rather than pushing forward; which makes Siberia even more of a gem. The gentle intro with soft drum rolls before Andrew Chamings delivers his most confidant vocals on the EP; then we have things broken down midway through to allow the strength of Your Cannons soundscape style to sweep through the song. The EP closes with Sparks, a more traditionally sculpted song but one that suggests that Your Cannons have plenty more for the future.

Band Bio + iTunes and Bandcamp links

2011-03-09T13:01:00.000-08:00

Bio:
Your Cannons are a rock band from San Francisco. Influenced by other rock bands, the books they‘ve read, and what their parents taught them as children, their songs are built around a dynamic three guitar attack, tight rhythms, layered with vocal melody, and heavy with distortion and effects.

Your Cannons formed in San Francisco in late 2008, and started playing around the Bay Area in early 2009.

Your Cannons are truly multicultural, with members from England, Sweden, and the USA, but bridged their xenophobia with a mutual love of early Verve and Mogwai, and a desire to craft guitar music that was intricate, powerful and emotive.

Your Cannons’ music has been described as having, "an otherworldly sound, like, a slow-motion mosh in a room filled with red strobe lights."

Your Cannons released their debut recording, the Dust Bowl EP, through iTunes and Amazon, to some critical acclaim, and followed with "EP 2" in August 2010.

Your Cannons are rapidly building loyal following through regular shows in and around the Bay Area, as well as recent shows in SoCal, but would step over their own mothers to tour nationally with another band they admire and respect.

Your Cannons won The Deli SF website ‘Band of The Month’ award in December 2009, but only because they got their parents, aunties, uncles and grandmas to vote for them.

Your Cannons are represented by New York agency DeepFreeze Music for TV and Film licensing.

Your Cannons are:

Andrew Chamings - Vocals, Guitar
Jeff Knutson - Drums
Chris Trewin - Guitar
Brendan Henrie - Bass
Daniel Hemmingsson - Guitar

For bookings, or just someone to talk to, please email yourcannons@gmail.com

'Dust Bowl EP,' & 'EP 2' both available on iTunes and BandCamp.

Great Review: Music With An Exclamation Point

2009-10-25T18:00:00.000-07:00

Here's a great review for the Dust Bowl EP from the blog Music With an Exclamation Point

"It feels like a slow-motion mosh in a room filled with red strobe lights."

The five members of Your Cannons live and play in San Francisco, but they all moved recently from various far-flung places around the world. Chris (Guitar) and Andrew (Guitar/Vox) are from Oxford, Daniel (Guitar) is from Stockholm, Jeff (Drums) is from Colorado and Brendan (Bass) is from the Bay Area. They started out in 2008 and recorded EP Dust Bowl in early 2009. Andrew tells me, “We recorded the EP over a 12 hour, midnight to noon session, attempting to record everything as live as possible.”

The EP certainly has a music-at-midnight feel that suits Your Cannons down to the

Your Cannons

ground – it feels like a slow-motion mosh in a room filled with red strobe lights. The EP is only three tracks long but the musicians are clearly accomplished and the songwriting has a pathway, a goal, if you like, that’s easy to pick up on and listen to. I make a point of mentioning “High Noon”, a melodic, ‘whirly’ track with some great vocal trims – my favourite on the EP. The title track “Dust Bowl” is dreamy and dark, with hints of distortion, like a good cocktail. Nothing massively groundbreaking, but good to listen to. And “Only A Mile” sees a short-shift up into more indie-rock territory, some FX-y, hooky cool.

Musically? Very sound indeed, if you’ll pardon the pun. Lyrically? Yeah, pretty good. It takes a good range of soundscapes too, from the minimalist guitar/beats to full pedals, distortion and all the trimmings and trappings. All in all? I like this a lot, especially for a debut EP. There are some production gaps, and obviously room for sound development, but you can’t expect everything all at once. For now, you should all come and join me in the red strobe room.

8/10