Rusty is a Canadian alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band formed in 1994 in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario, Canada. The band earned a 1996 Juno Award

Juno Awards of 1996

The Juno Awards of 1996, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 10 March 1996 in Hamilton, Ontario at a ceremony in the Copps Coliseum...

 nomination in the category Best Alternative Album for Fluke.

History

Following the breakup of the band One Free Fall, vocalist Ken MacNeil and bassist Jim Moore continued working together, hooking up with former Doughboys

Doughboys (band)

Doughboys were a Canadian alternative rock band that were active in the late 1980s and early/mid 1990s. The band was renowned for its musical blend of punk and pop-style melodies.-Early Years:...

 member Scott McCullough (guitar) and Mitch Perkins (drums) to record the EP

Extended play

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 Wake Me in 1994. A video for the song Wake Me would become a minor hit on MuchMusic

MuchMusic

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. Released on Handsome Boy Records

Handsome Boy Records

Handsome Boy Records was a Canadian independent record label in the 1990s. Handsome Boy was distributed by BMG Music in Canada and did deals with other labels internationally including Atlantic Records....

, the EP was popular on Canadian campus radio

Campus radio

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, and led to a major label distribution deal with BMG Records for their full length album Fluke in 1995.

Led by the hit single "Misogyny", which featured a video consisting of clips from Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:...

's film Hustler White

Hustler White

Hustler White is a 1996 film by Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro, a satiric black sex comedy about gay hustlers and their customers in Santa Monica, California. It stars Tony Ward and LaBruce in an addition to the Queer Cinema canon, which is also an homage to classic Hollywood cinema...

 as well as Canadian singer Danko Jones

Danko Jones

Danko Jones is a Canadian rock band from Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Danko Jones and JC...

, Fluke was the band's commercial breakthrough, also spawning the single "California", and earning a Juno Award

Juno Award

The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...

 nomination for Best Alternative Album. The album was produced by Chris Wardman

Chris Wardman

Chris Wardman is a Canadian music producer, musician and songwriter. Wardman was a founding member of Blue Peter, and was their lead guitarist and main contributing songwriter. Wardman was also a member of Breeding Ground in the late 1980s. Wardman has been actively producing albums for many...

, who also played guitar on the track "Groovy Dead".

In 1996, the band contributed a cover of "Let's Break Robert Out of Jail" to the compilation album A Tribute to Hard Core Logo

A Tribute to Hard Core Logo

A Tribute to Hard Core Logo is a 1996 album, which was released as an unofficial soundtrack to Bruce McDonald's film Hard Core Logo.The film is a mockumentary about the reunion tour of a fictional Canadian punk rock band, Hard Core Logo...

. Also in 1996 the song "Punk" was included on soundtrack to Chris Farley's

Chris Farley

Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley was an American comedian and actor. Farley was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995....

 movie Black Sheep.

The band's followup album, Sophomoric, was released in 1997, including the singles "Empty Cell" and "Oh No Joe". Perkins left the band that year and was replaced by John Lalley. Perkins left the group due to creative differences and released an electronic album independently with Andrew Massey under the name "Blu Pernu".

In 1998, Rusty released Out of Their Heads. The band broke up two years later, playing their final show on November 25, 2000.

In April 2011, Chart

Chart (magazine)

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 magazine reported that Rusty would be re-uniting for the 2011 NXNE festival.

Albums

• Fluke (1995)
• Sophomoric (1997)
• Scratches and Needles: A Tribute to the Nils – 1 song Scratches and Needles (1998)
• Out of Their Heads (1998)

Singles

Year	Single	Chart peaks			Album
		CAN RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...	CAN Alt Canadian rock/alternative chart The Canadian rock/alternative chart was first published on June 11, 1995 by RPM magazine under the name Alternative 30. The song which held the number-one spot on this first chart was "More Human than Human" by White Zombie...	MM Countdown
1995	"Misogyny"	—	3	22	Fluke
1996	"California"	—	12	—
1997	"Empty Cell"	24	—	12	Sophomoric
1998	"Memories"	—	—	20	Out Of Their Heads
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

External links

• Rusty at Jam!'s Canadian Pop Encyclopedia