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
Red Herring Maturity Taste Tests
Awake The Echoes You're More Trouble Than You' re Worth Normal Life
Vis-A-Vis I am the Night Heart and Soul
Golden Calgarians Savage Love Savage Love
Rational Youth Close to Nature Cold War Nightlife
Glamorcult Tropical Romance (Stone Version) The Stone Sessions
UJ3RK5 Booty Dread ST (EP)
True Confessions 4th Base ST
Land of Giants I Got You Babe Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks
Champagne, Lou System Propaganda Frustration No Visible Means
Lawn Jet Pack Peace in the Valley
Plugs Sending An S.O.S. Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today
UJ3RK5 The Departure Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Glamorcult Carry the Water Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Demars Les enfants dans la lune Les Tele-Tetes
Catherine Operating System Operating System b/w Operating System
e Reaction Reaction b/w Coincidence
Norda Snakes And Ladders West Over Seas
Vital Sines Ice Statue Collage
Glamorcult Interlude Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude
Glamorcult Holding Onto Yesterday Shadows From The Past
I, Braineater Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6) I Here, Where You
Images In Vogue Welcome to Sorrow Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982
Images In Vogue She's a Garden Educated Man
K A Thousand Years Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)
Psyche Uncivilized Mystery Hotel
Micks I Want to be With You ST (EP)
Breeding Ground Tales of Adventure Tales of Adventure (EP)
Drastic Measures T.N.T. ST
Modern Minds Love to Me Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Don't Be Afraid Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Spoons Annita Stick Figure Neighbourhood
Scissors All This And More ST
Handful of Snowdrops S.G.B.P. (2nd Lineup Rehearsal Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Rational Youth Le meilleur des mondes Cold War Nightlife
Cannon Heath Down Belly Through Heart-Throb Companion
A Neon Rome The Magical Summer of '85 New Heroin
Scenics O Boy Underneath the Door
Images In Vogue Educated Man Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982
Channel Five How Could We Know ST (EP)
Conning Tower Looking Up From Under Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under
Lutz, John T. Street Corner Sally Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally
Erect There Goes My Baby Consequence of Life
NEO A4 One's Enough ST
Rarefaction All the Broken Seams Ordinary Man
100 Flowers We're Waiting 21st Guessing
Bobby and Synthia Big Tits thirty-six hours (EP)
Compilation Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay Music Industry Arts 1983
Diodes Tennis Again (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only) Rarities
NEO A4 Desire The Warmer Side of You
Tenants I Love Romance ST
Martha And The Muffins Sinking Land Metro Music
I, Braineater Waste I Here, Where You
Handful of Snowdrops Messengers (8 Track Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Degrees of Freedom The Sound of a Jealous Heart China
Kinetic Ideals No Exit Reason (EP)
Handful of Snowdrops Face to Face (Interim Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Drama As I Breathe On The T.T.C. Loneliness
Perfect World Have a Good Look Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)
Salty Seamen Lime Green Blues In The Groove At Last
A Day in Paris jUsT tHe sAmE Rhymes On Vinyl
Handful of Snowdrops The Ghost of a Song Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
Front, The The Hard Line Gina's at a Party
Bunny & the Lakers Oops On Parade Numbers
Glamorcult Crestfallen A Price To Paris
NEO A4 Standing ST
Faded Films East of the Asylum Faded Years
100 Flowers The Naught 21st Guessing
Compilation True Confessions - Fourth Base No Pedestrians
Images In Vogue For Germans Pre-release
Rational Youth Sorry Heredity
Age of Mirrors Glass and Crystal Lives Screenplay
Streetcar Named Desire Life Begins Life Begins
Deserters Protection ST
Glamorcult Live For Today Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Velveteens Flies Tall House (EP)
Men Without Hats Antarctica Folk of the 80's (EP)
Men Without Hats Security (Everybody Feels Better With) Folk of the 80's (EP)
Contradance Trouble in the Darkness Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)
Hot Tip Stop All Motion Stop All Motion
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Of Whales I Fear What I Might Hear
Martha And The Muffins Am I On? Trance and Dance
One Hand Clapping Angry Weather Burlesque (picture sleeve)
Friendly Fire Complete Control Junior Senility EP
Scenics Bubbles Underneath the Door
Mannequin Depressives I Don't Get You Girls Are Evil
NEO A4 Rescue Me ST
Bündock Cowboy Société Anonyme
39 Steps City of Vice [alternate] All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
Champagne, Lou System Do Something No Visible Means
Direktive 17 You’re Only Dreaming ST (EP)
Strange Advance One Chance in a Million Worlds Away
Within Gothic Towers Will I Hope To Love Within Gothic Towers
Lunasam Redhead Redhead
Erect The Tube Consequence of Life
Instructions The Factory ST
Rambow, Philip The Manison on the Hill Jungle Law
Deserters A.W.O.L. ST
Extras Aqua Velva Man Bit Parts
Home Grown Up the Wall Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You

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