It would be remiss of me not to mention some local music. And I'm also friends with the guys in the band. And live with the drummer. And have recently taken over managing their web site, which I'll keep in the list of Links from now on.
I would expect that most people reading this (i.e. both of you) will not have heard these guys before. They've got kind of a Headstones flavour to them (if you know who that is . . . as a side note, I first saw the Headstones live a couple months ago, and they are excellent: they play all the fan favourites, and Hugh Dillon spits and flicks his cigarette butts into the crowd just like you would hope). They haven't been playing much lately, but are recording a second, shorter cd at the moment. I'm sure you'll hear more about that here in the months to come. For now, there are a couple sample songs on the web site.
Posted by warcode at September 13, 2002 01:52 PMPlease compare and contrast with Widemouth Mason.
Posted by: Theodore on September 16, 2002 03:13 PMYes, I forgot to point out that, while Stonemason is from Saskatoon and has a name that ends in "mason", they are in fact not Wide Mouth Mason. On of the more notable difference would be that Wide Mouth Mason is a fairly popular Canadian band (not Barenaked Ladies famous, but they have national recognition), while Stonemason is known to a number of people around Saskatchewan, most of them in Saskatoon (though they have a big following in Outlook).
As for sound, Stonemason is a bit heavier (I assume that if you've heard Wide Mouth Mason then you've heard Headstones, which are probably closest), though I'm not sure what the new cd will sound like.