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
Lawn Reconsider Baby Peace in the Valley
Micks Money Talks ST (EP)
Strange Advance Prisoner Worlds Away
Austra Lose It Feel it Break
Spoons Capitol Hill Stick Figure Neighbourhood
Barking Boys Cool It Down The Yes Girls
Tenants How Do You Sleep at Night? ST
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Faded Films East of the Asylum Faded Years
S.Q One Love Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)
Rational Youth No More and No Less Heredity
I, Braineater Davie Street I Here, Where You
Figures At Dawn Distance Through Darkness ST
Awake The Echoes Someone Normal Life
Martha And The Muffins Symptomatic Love Trance and Dance
45's Real Confused On the Beach
Handful of Snowdrops Second by Second (Bonus Track) Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Midnite News IV I Fear What I Might Hear
Glamorcult The Light We Will Hold A Price To Paris
Corsage Troubles ST
Glamorcult Mine is the Maiden Early Glamour
Breeding Ground Reflections (In a Coffee Cup) Tales of Adventure (EP)
Handful of Snowdrops A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Ohm & the Secret Sources You Know I Love You Space and Time
Reasons Take Me Back Reasonable Rock (EP)
Psyche Nocturnal Passenger Mystery Hotel
Hurt, The Local Belt Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)
Government Following You (Reprise) Electric Eye
Low Fun Words We Left Behind The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind
Figures At Dawn Falling ST
Presence, The Mechanoid Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)
B-Sides Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm) Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)
Billy Butt & The Brats No I Can't Say No Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No
Bündock Silhouette Société Anonyme
Rational Youth I Want To See the Light I Want to See the Light
Harcourt, James Queen Bee Emotional Blackmail
Eight Seconds Zoe Almacantar
I, Braineater 1980 More Artist, Poet, Thief
Absolute 9 Fence ST
Bunny & the Lakers Oops On Parade Numbers
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Body of Vagrant Waves I Fear What I Might Hear
Glamorcult Yes, See Has the Afterglow Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Zhivago, Johnny It Must be Love Microalbum
Inner Sanction I Cherish Dancematic-Automatic
Rational Youth Bang On Heredity
Hot Tip Friends Stop All Motion
Martha And The Muffins Hide and Seek Metro Music
Entrance System No Relative Imperfect Image
Martha And The Muffins Sinking Land Metro Music
Handful of Snowdrops Over My Head (4 Track Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Compilation Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay Music Industry Arts 1983
Spoons Dropped Dishes Stick Figure Neighbourhood
Bündock Never Trust Société Anonyme
Scissors Summer Girls ST
Bonus Boys Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time
Compilation Zro4 - Blood No Pedestrians
Images In Vogue So Careful (Extended Mix) So Careful (Extended Mix)
Conning Tower Indian Dancing Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under
Matheson, Andrew It Only Hurts When I Cry Monterey Shoes
Ear Candy Part of Me Self Defence
Contradance Trouble in the Darkness Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)
Government Zippers of Fire 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.
Compilation Steve Wood - It's Not That Easy Music Industry Arts 1983
Rational Youth Beware the Fly Cold War Nightlife
Thieves Screams I See Red
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
Stevens, Todd This Way! This Way! (picture sleeve)
39 Steps I'll Take the Blame All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
Perfect World Twist and Shove Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)
Russell, Benjamin Can You See Me? Madman
Within Gothic Towers Fanfare To Flight Within Gothic Towers
UJ3RK5 The Locator ST (EP)
Compilation The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X) Strange Pleasures EP
A Neon Rome Bsus5 A Neon Rome
Young, John Paul Is That Why? The Life of Ermie Scub
Family Plot Old Refrain Convictions
Hush Highway of Love Replay
Images In Vogue Holiday In The House
UJ3RK5 Locator Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Glamorcult Time Will Pass On By Shadows From The Past
Tower Bridge Perfection Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)
Inner Sanction Sparkle Shake Up - Fly Down
True Confessions 4th Base ST
Glamorcult My Lady Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Pukka Orchestra Your Secret is Safe With Me ST
Numbers Leave it to Me Add Up
Diodes Catwalker Action-Reaction
Family Plot Wings of Fate Convictions
Champagne, Lou System Silent Walking No Visible Means
Ohm & the Secret Sources I Hold the Key Exit From a Dream
Kinetic Ideals Touch Me (Now) Touch Me (Now)
B-Sides Invasion of the Money Snatchers Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious
Psyche Wink of an Eye Insomnia Theatre
Palace at 4 a.m. Young and Italian Untamed World
Bobby and Synthia Big Tits thirty-six hours (EP)
Men Without Hats Security (Everybody Feels Better With) Folk of the 80's (EP)
Diodes Everything I Am Action-Reaction
Oui People Talk Oui
Sebastian (Agnello) Stop Picking On America No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)
Darkroom Pressure San Paku

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