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
Psyche The Dark Pool The Influence
Kaméléon Insomnuit ST
Ohm & the Secret Sources Killer Punk Space and Time
Mobile Clones Abrasive Air Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)
Nevermen Real Life The Monitor LP
Psyche Psychic Vampire Insomnia Theatre
Images In Vogue One Way Heart In The House
Modern Minds It's Gone Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Melinite When You Turn Again Push The Button And Run!
e Power Blackout The Levitation Syndrome
Extras Don’t Put Me On Hold The Road to Zambando
Champagne, Lou System Selling So Sweet No Visible Means
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) I Tie My Shoes Ohama aka The White Album
Numbers Leave it to Me Add Up
Tenants What's In It For Me? ST
Wrestlers Dance of the Drunk ST
Corsage St. John's Wood (demo) Big Night Out (EP)
Extras The Watcher The Watcher (EP)
Modern Minds Wasted Lives Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Handful of Snowdrops As Thought Outside but Looking In (Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Scenics One Comes Closer Underneath the Door
Front, The The Hard Line Gina's at a Party
Strange Advance Prisoner Worlds Away
Drastic Measures Prelude ST
Vis-A-Vis Dance With Me Heart and Soul
Harcourt, James Moment of Madness Emotional Blackmail
Spoons Quiet World Talkback
Design Sayonara (remix) No Turning Back
Scene, The (2) Egos Trip Only in Paradise
Glamorcult Forever Strangers Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)
Kinetic Ideals Together A Personal View (EP)
Handful of Snowdrops Voices in the Night Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
Modernettes Red Nails View From The Bottom (EP)
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Handful of Snowdrops White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Klō Break the Floor Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor
Friendly Fire Complete Control Junior Senility EP
Matheson, Andrew Johnny Lets Run Monterey Shoes
Bündock Season for Love Société Anonyme
S.Q One Love Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)
Bündock Forbidden Zone Société Anonyme
Scenics In the Summer Underneath the Door
Neurons Midnight Meetings Midnight Meetings b/w New Location
Compilation Don Bregg - Hypnotized Music Industry Arts 1983
Drama God Is a Machine Loneliness
Glamorcult Live for Today Would it be Over (picture sleeve)
Compilation The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Fast Mix) Strange Pleasures EP
100 Flowers Darkness 21st Guessing
Chown, Avril Losin’ Sight American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight
100 Flowers He and She 21st Guessing
Térapi Lève-toi! Primale
Images In Vogue Call it Love In The House
Matheson, Andrew Eyes of Harlem Monterey Shoes
Thieves Police Squad I See Red
Modern Minds All Day & All of the Night Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Villains Lovers Go Crazy
Compilation The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live) Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands
Velveteens Tired of the Beat Tall House (EP)
British Properties Niag'ra Falls Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls
Melinite Who Needs Foreplay? Push The Button And Run!
Gas, The Special This Week Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)
Cannon Heath Down Julia Rainbow Heart-Throb Companion
I, Braineater Waste I Here, Where You
B-Sides Emotions Red to Black
UJ3RK5 Eisenhower & the Hippies ST (EP)
Scenics I Have You Underneath the Door
Corsage She's Become a Memory ST
Kings Run Shoes Running Are Here
Living End (1) All Mine ST
B-Sides She's a Raver Red to Black
Scene, The (2) Meet the Man Only in Paradise
Bündock Tied for Time Société Anonyme
Figures At Dawn In from the Cold ST
Villains You Are (All These Things to Me) Go Crazy
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Handful of Snowdrops Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Eight Seconds Kiss You (When It's Dangerous) Almacantar
Modernes Pickles Colors We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White
Handful of Snowdrops Immortals (1985) Mort en direct
B-Sides No Can Do Red to Black
IQ Sixth World Burn Me b/w Sixth World
Melinite Trouble in Section 17 Push The Button And Run!
Glamorcult Shadows of Regret A Price To Paris
Escalators Strange Girl ST
Barking Boys Here She Comes The Yes Girls
Russell, Benjamin Pop Modern(e) Pop Modern(e)
Demars Le fou sur l'île Les Tele-Tetes
Vital Sines Erik the Generik Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)
Start Gotta Have Love Hey You
Einstein Truck-Stop Girls Sex and Science
Pale Blue Ruin Ruin b/w Therapy
Deserters A.W.O.L. ST
Inner Sanction Direction Perfection Dancematic-Automatic
Evans, Chris & The Quarts Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme) Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)
Class Info Out of Line Come For Me b/w Out of Line
Government Flat Tire 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.
Broken Tables Image of You ST
Breeding Ground Wintergarden Wintergarden (EP)
Strange Advance Automatic Sighs Worlds Away
Pale Blue Therapy Ruin b/w Therapy

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