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
Start Stereo Hey You
A Neon Rome The Prayer New Heroin
Secret Act Heaven My Neighbourhood
Spoons South American Vacation Arias & Symphonies
Glamorcult Would It Be Over Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Lonely Heart Dance Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Front, The Simple Dreams Gina's at a Party
Modern Minds It's Gone Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Erect Don't Put Me Down Consequence of Life
B-Sides State of Emergency Red to Black
Tyro A Little More Time A Little More Time (EP)
I, Braineater Funtime Artist, Poet, Thief
45's She's In Love On the Beach
Spice Just a Little Bit Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit
Handful of Snowdrops Alice in Wonderland (1992) Mort en direct
39 Steps Priscilla All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
Instructions OK ST
UJ3RK5 Reason Sleeps Tonight Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Images In Vogue Call it Love In The House
This Fear Look Along The Edge Darkness Shapes Imagination
Home Grown Thoughts of You Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You
Erect The Tube Consequence of Life
Fictions Jersey Shore ST
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Champagne, Lou System Silent Walking No Visible Means
A Neon Rome The Magical Summer of '85 New Heroin
Demars Les télé-têtes Les Tele-Tetes
Annabelle's Room Hopscotch ST
Erect Lay Down and Die Consequence of Life
NEO A4 Rescue Me ST
Degrees of Freedom August is an Angel China
Ohm & the Secret Sources City of the Shadow Space and Time
Cannon Heath Down ma-de-moi-selle Heart-Throb Companion
Kaméléon Microcosme ST
Barking Boys High Life - Low Life The Yes Girls
Rarefaction All the Broken Seams Ordinary Man
Moral Lepers Beryl Bean Turn to Stone
Bell, John and the Strange Melissa Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa
Big Dog Cantina 99 Change Hands
Rikki & The Rokkits New Wave New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)
Villains Laylow Go Crazy
Diodes Heat or the Beat Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981
Darkroom San Paku San Paku
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Martha And The Muffins Saigon Metro Music
Broken Tables Image of You ST
Golden Calgarians Savage Love Savage Love
Matheson, Andrew Tender is the Night Monterey Shoes
True Confessions Modern Girl ST
Modernes Pickles Colors We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White
Diodes Action Re-action Action-Reaction
Spoons On the Beach Bridges Over Borders
Breeding Ground Reflections (In a Coffee Cup) Tales of Adventure (EP)
S.Q Alone at Night Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)
Glamorcult Loneliness (Instrumental) Early Glamour
Cardboard Brains Is That Why? Live At The Edge
Instructions Learn from Computers ST
BAMFF The Uncanny The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis
Villains Boogie Man Go Crazy
Psyche Thundershowers Unveiling The Secret
Austra Shoot the Water Feel it Break
Handful of Snowdrops Spiral Dive (2nd Lineup Demo) Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)
Images In Vogue Awaken Me In The House
Iko Elevator 83
Compilation L'Etranger - Light in the Morning (live) Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands
Diodes Hot Sands Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Midnite News Midnite News
Living End (1) Naive ST
Eight Seconds Call and a Cry Almacantar
UJ3RK5 Hands of Orlac Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Martha And The Muffins Cheesies and Gum Metro Music
Strange Advance One Chance in a Million Worlds Away
Handful of Snowdrops Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix) Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
Kaméléon Les chats balerines (1981) Groupe électro​-​pop
Rational Youth Just a Sound in the Night Cold War Nightlife
Glamorcult Time Will Pass On By Shadows From The Past
Spoons Clever Bridges Over Borders
Scenics I'm Sad New Part In Town
Teasers Love Me Like You Did Last Night Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You
Velveteens Love as a Rule Tall House (EP)
Scissors Nadine ST
Glamorcult Manhattan Sunrise Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994
Martha And The Muffins Three Hundred Years - Chemistry This Is The Ice Age
Champagne, Lou System Do Something No Visible Means
Kaméléon Pique-nique (1981) Groupe électro​-​pop
Champagne, Lou System Selling So Sweet No Visible Means
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Midnite News II Midnite News
Figures At Dawn Bridges Burning ST
Entrance System Tower Talk Imperfect Image
Austra Spellwork Feel it Break
Modernettes New Society Gone..But Not Forgiven
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Preison's Shade Race Me Home Race Me Home (EP)
Martha And The Muffins Jets Seem Slower in London's Skies This Is The Ice Age
Gabor, BB Hunger, Poverty and Misery Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)
Age of Mirrors Still Life in Radio Screenplay
Family Plot Stag Party Convictions
Scenics In the Summer New Part In Town
One Hand Clapping Bad Pianos Burlesque (picture sleeve)
Trespassing Bean Rays Eclipse ST (EP) (picture sleeve)

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