New Wave Post Punk Wave

A sonic crash where style meets substance, and attitude meets atmosphere. This collection dives deep into Canada’s wave-driven underground—where angular guitars, icy synths, and restless energy redefined punk and reshaped pop. From the art-school edges of New Wave to the introspective shadows of Post-Wave and the raw pulse of Punk Wave, these tracks capture a scene in flux, bursting with invention and edge. Cool, quirky, and unapologetically bold—this is the sound of the future, past and present.

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

Mississauga, Ontario

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - I Fear What I Might Hear

Brooks → Rainier → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Zipper - Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls

Victoria, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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NEO A4 - ST

Edmonton, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Kinetic Ideals - Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Billy Butt & The Brats - Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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End, The - Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)

Bath, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Numbers - Add Up

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Golden Calgarians - New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

Nevermen - The Monitor LP

Toronto, Ontario

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Tabby K - Summertime b/w Wind Or Water

North York, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Strange Advance - Worlds Away

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

Tulpa - Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Golden Calgarians - Savage Love

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Rational Youth - Cold War Nightlife

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Rikki & The Rokkits - New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)

Calgary, Alberta

Micks - ST (EP)

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Chown, Avril - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Broken Tables - ST

Mississauga, Ontario

Bobby and Synthia - thirty-six hours (EP)

Toronto, Ontario

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Cottage Industry - The Winter's Tale

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Zhivago, Johnny - Microalbum

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Lawn - Peace in the Valley

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

45's - On the Beach

Toronto, Ontario

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Numbers - Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ohama - Julie is a TV Set - back side

Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer vinyl side 1

Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

Glamatron - Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence

Novels - I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam

Tau Ceti - So Far

Mettle, London Ontario

B.B. Gabor - Nyet Nyet Soviet b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)

Lawn - Peace in the Valley insert 01

Elan - Penticton Peaches (insert)

CHMR Chart March 2 1985

Music Scene Magazine

The Gas - Evacuate b/w Special This Week (Evacuate Mississauga picture sleeve)

Bunny & the Lakers - Numbers

Bunny & the Lakers Howrd Pope

Vital Sines - Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)

Pelicans - Pelicans b/w New Wave insert

CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

Kreemers - Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo

Allan Scarth of the Null Set

Tribal Earth - Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)

Modernettes - Gone..But Not Forgiven side 02

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Time Twins - Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)

Border - Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)

One Hand Clapping - Burlesque (picture sleeve)

L-R Peter Whittington, Angela Camp, Peter Molloy & Andy Camp

Regulators - What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)

Cannon Heath Down - Heart-Throb Companion

Cannon Heath Down

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Bell, John and the Strange Taking You Home in a Taxi Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Open Window Midnite News
Erect There Goes My Baby Consequence of Life
Drama Old Hollywood Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)
39 Steps Jump on the Death Train All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
Russell, Benjamin Broken-Hearted Lovers Pop Modern(e)
Bumpers I Watch You Go Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)
Diodes Edge of Darkness Action-Reaction
Mavety, Joe & the Mule Voices Like Thunder Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder
K A Thousand Years Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)
Handful of Snowdrops Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Don't Be Afraid Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Frigidaires Three Cool Cats Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)
Thieves I See Red I See Red
Cannon Heath Down Belly Through Heart-Throb Companion
Regulators That´s Right Nothing's Left What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)
Raven, David & the Escorts One Way Love David Raven And The Escorts
Edge, The Go Away Release the Circle
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Erect Weekend Consequence of Life
Zipper Slowtown Rats Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats
Palace at 4 a.m. The Man Who Never Sleeps Untamed World
Entrance System No Relative Imperfect Image
Vital Sines Erik the Generik Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)
Meadmore, Glen Just a Girl Chicken & Biscuits
Numbers Get Away Add Up
Glamorcult Would it be Over Would it be Over (picture sleeve)
Salty Seamen Neanderthal In The Groove At Last
Compilation Jennifer Cauley - In Every Dream Music Industry Arts 1983
Dandelions Funky Monday Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)
Rex Chainbelt Bruised & Beaten Foreign Movie
I, Braineater I Here Where You I Here, Where You
Glamorcult The Fight Is Over Shadows From The Past
Klō Mrs. Fong Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor
A Day in Paris Too Tired Prey
Diodes Burn Down Your Daddy's House Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981
Corsage Big Night Out (Single Mix) Big Night Out (EP)
Russell, Benjamin One Love Pop Modern(e)
Drama Jungle Chant Loneliness
Kinetic Ideals Life in Shadow Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways
Numbers Sunday Afternoon Add Up
Modernes Pickles Colors We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White
Cottage Industry Kulturkreise The Winter's Tale
Erect Human Beings Consequence of Life
Glamorcult Tropical Romance (Stone Version) The Stone Sessions
Glamorcult Shadows of Regret A Price To Paris
Living End (1) Blow ST
Deserters Protection ST
Oui Free from Body Oui
Clooz Leave Me Alone Leave Me Alone b/w You Can Do
Spoons Capitol Hill Stick Figure Neighbourhood
Compilation The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live) Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands
Government It Must be God-Downtown Electric Eye
Spoons Trade Winds Arias & Symphonies
Awake The Echoes Turn That Bloody Noise Down Normal Life
A Neon Rome Society Rag A Neon Rome
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Talking About Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Quasi Hands Keep Moving ST
Tau Ceti And I Wonder So Far
Raven, David & the Escorts Keep On Burning David Raven And The Escorts
Erect We Are Police We Are Police b/w The Colony
Psyche Eternal Mystery Hotel
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
B-Sides Emotions Red to Black
Pukka Orchestra Flies (as Big as Your Fist) ST
Extras Teddy Bit Parts
Men Without Hats Modern Dancing BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A
UJ3RK5 Naum Gabo Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Ceramic Hello Geometry The Absence of a Canary
Pukka Orchestra A Wonderful Time to be Young ST
Spoons Annita Stick Figure Neighbourhood
e The Fall The Levitation Syndrome
3rd Man In New Fast New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)
Images In Vogue Educated Man Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982
Martha And The Muffins Monotone Metro Music
Kinetic Ideals Maze of Ways Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways
Preison's Shade Don't Leave Me Alone Race Me Home (EP)
Golden Calgarians Vladivostok Rock Savage Love
Family Plot Swagger Convictions
Living End (1) The Procession ST
Moev Feline Frauline Zimmerkampf
Living End (1) Naive ST
Redlife Hope for Tomorrow Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round
Informer Hold It I Know You Know b/w Hold It
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
This Fear Lights of Capitals Darkness Shapes Imagination
Scene, The (2) Meet the Man Only in Paradise
Pukka Orchestra Cherry Beach Express ST
Figures At Dawn Falling ST
Handful of Snowdrops When Comes Daylight Land of the Damned
Age of Mirrors Crazy After Dark Screenplay
Kinetic Ideals In a Second A Personal View (EP)
Neon Indulgence With a Vengeance ST (EP)
Government Fumigators Electric Eye
Zhivago, Johnny New Things Microalbum
Dream Child Heaven Knows Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line
Handful of Snowdrops A Miracle Land of the Damned
Russell, Benjamin Rock It Pop Modern(e)
100 Flowers Pam 21st Guessing
Glamorcult After the Battle Early Glamour

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