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

news clip sheet 3

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
Front, The Underworld Underworld
Einstein A Brighter Tomorrow Sex and Science
Red Herring Taste Tests Taste Tests
Kings Love Store Are Here
Conning Tower Looking Up From Under Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under
Clooz Leave Me Alone Leave Me Alone b/w You Can Do
Absolute 9 We're Waiting ST
Bryanton, Rob Havin' Some Fun Tonight Alcohol And Other Drugs
Russell, Benjamin Video Freak Pop Modern(e)
Handful of Snowdrops Land of the Damned Land of the Damned
Blueprints I Fell Down Stare 01
Bumpers Media Music Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)
UJ3RK5 The Locator ST (EP)
Erect Lay Down and Die Consequence of Life
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell Pumpin' For Jill Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)
Images In Vogue Travel Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982
Rex Chainbelt Test Tube Baby Foreign Movie
Champagne, Lou System Propaganda Frustration No Visible Means
Awake The Echoes The Best Thing Normal Life
Streetcar Named Desire Someday Your Ship Will Come (Dance Mix) Life Begins
Scissors Summer Girls ST
Compilation Rent Boys Inc. - Fetish (live) Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands
Images In Vogue Flashing Black Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982
I, Braineater Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6) I Here, Where You
Extras Cult Kids Bit Parts
Tau Ceti Radiation Radiation b/w Bathed in Dark Light
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Tyro Strong Willed Woman A Little More Time (EP)
B-Sides Emotions Red to Black
Psyche The Sundial The Influence
Glamorcult Pins & Needles A Price To Paris
British Properties Niag'ra Falls Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls
Scene, The (2) I Am Only in Paradise
Handful of Snowdrops From One Place to Another (1990) Mort en direct
Rational Youth I Want To See the Light I Want to See the Light
Scenics This Day New Part In Town
Kings Partyitis Are Here
Chown, Avril Losin’ Sight American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight
Scenics I'm Hurt Underneath the Door
Reasons The Fall Reasonable Rock (EP)
Norda Snakes And Ladders West Over Seas
Psyche Thundershowers Unveiling The Secret
Champagne, Lou System Selling So Sweet No Visible Means
NEO A4 If it Was You ST
A Day in Paris déjà vu Rhymes On Vinyl
Eight Seconds Where's Bula Almacantar
Rational Youth Beware the Fly Cold War Nightlife
Spoons Stop Talkback
Low Fun Words We Left Behind The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind
Age of Mirrors Still Life in Radio Screenplay
Diodes Roses and Thorns Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981
Compilation Tammie Chicorli - A Special Day Music Industry Arts 1983
Tower Bridge Perfection Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)
Blue Peter Living in the Eighties Test Patterns For Living
Bündock Stand Still Société Anonyme
Rambow, Philip The Manison on the Hill Jungle Law
Images In Vogue Breaking Up Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982
Martha And The Muffins Jets Seem Slower in London's Skies This Is The Ice Age
Martha And The Muffins World Without Borders Danseparc
Demars Les cosmétiques cosmiques Les Tele-Tetes
Fictions Do it With the Lights On ST
Design No Turning Back (remix) No Turning Back
Vis-A-Vis I am the Night Heart and Soul
Martha And The Muffins Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing Danseparc
Nasty Habits Playing in the Danger Zone Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)
Compilation Bongo Fury - Alaska Shuffle Toronto Calling
Psyche Prisoner to Desire Unveiling The Secret
Degrees of Freedom In This Room China
Pale Blue Ruin Ruin b/w Therapy
Glamorcult Would it be Over Would it be Over (picture sleeve)
Erect The Colony We Are Police b/w The Colony
Ohm & the Secret Sources Upcoming Storm Space and Time
Compilation L'Etranger - Light in the Morning (live) Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands
Presence, The Blown Away Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins About Insomnia Trance and Dance
Pukka Orchestra Spies of the Heart ST
Government Paranoid Downtown Funk Pt. 2 How Many Fingers?
Drastic Measures The Teddy Bear's Picnic ST
Villains Go Crazy Go Crazy
Handful of Snowdrops Face to Face (Interim Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Térapi Breadus Fongus Primale
Handful of Snowdrops Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Handful of Snowdrops A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Glamorcult Forever Strangers Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)
Russell, Benjamin Pop Modern(e) Pop Modern(e)
Russell, Benjamin One Love Pop Modern(e)
Ohm & the Secret Sources I Hold the Key Exit From a Dream
Bündock El Salvador (The Beat of) Société Anonyme
Erect We Are Police We Are Police b/w The Colony
Popular Front (1) Forty Days This is the Rubicon
Rave Revues Self Inflicted Wounds Voices
Tulpa Mystical Dreams Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)
Sebastian (Agnello) Stop Picking On America No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)
Voice I Am the Walrus Anno Di Voce
Glamorcult Would It Be Over Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Entrance System Ahohoo Imperfect Image
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Glamorcult Start The Revolution The Stone Sessions
UJ3RK5 Eisenhower and the Hippies Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Carbon Unit The Marsh The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)

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