Articles by Gary Rusak
Remember the Titans
Boaz Yakin
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Denzel Washington's infatuation with the "true" story continues this fall with the football flick "Remember the Titans." The movie is set i...
Gordon B. Ismor.
Contrapuntal Lines
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000
Contagiously quirky and energetically enthusiastic, the latest release from BC-based Gordon B. Ismor is the follow-up to his acerbic At Par...
Political Blockheads
Help! I'm Stalin... And I Can't Get Up
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000
If the political posture of Rage Against the Machine and the musical foolishness of They Might Be Giants met in a small garage recording st...
Templar
Under The Sun
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000
The result of some West Coast band shuffling, Templar is trying to make a name for itself with their first CD, Under The Sun. A curious mix...
Burdocks
Lips & Assholes
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000
The increasingly diverse and somewhat hard to categorise East Coast music scene has grown in popularity and confusion over the last few yea...
Teenbeaters
My Word, My Sky...
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000
This seven-song mini album from New York foursome the Teenbeaters is a slick, loud run at garage pop. The tunes seem only to hint at the hi...
Kurt Bordian
Novocaine
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000
Power pop is what BC native Kurt Bordian delivers on his solo album, Novocaine. The 15 songs that crowd on to the 60 minute album all clock...
Dexter Freebish
A Life of Saturdays
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000
A life of Saturdays would be an endless monotony of sleeping in and slacking. Dexter Freebish's album, Life of Saturdays, is in some ways t...
