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
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) The Drum Ohama aka The White Album
Spoons Dropped Dishes Stick Figure Neighbourhood
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Gaslit Squares Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile
Blue Peter Cloak and Dagger Test Patterns For Living
Hot Tip Teach Me Something Stop All Motion
Matheson, Andrew It Only Hurts When I Cry Monterey Shoes
Breeding Ground Reunion Reunion // Slaughter
Extras Jealous Girl Bit Parts
Darkroom Leave it to Heaven San Paku
Iko Gonado Tropic Synthesis 83
Demars Les télé-têtes Les Tele-Tetes
Drama Come On Over Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)
Pukka Orchestra Spies of the Heart ST
Scenics O Boy Underneath the Door
Land of Giants Fire With Fire Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks
Scenics Garthuson New Part In Town
Utopiate Actions or Misguidance You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance
e Prime Cuts Prime Cuts
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) And Without a Word Ohama aka The White Album
Modernettes No Tears Gone..But Not Forgiven
Mettle All You Wanted ST
B-Sides B-Side Shuffle Red to Black
Spunker (aka Neotone) Don't Look Now Spunker
Popular Front Puppet Doomsday Army b/w Puppet
Doppler Bros. Leaving Home Totally Impractical
Spoons Be Alone Tonight Bridges Over Borders
Age of Mirrors Columbus Discovers America Screenplay
Glamorcult A Farewell to Arms Would it be Over (picture sleeve)
Psyche Wink of an Eye Insomnia Theatre
Diodes Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017) Rarities
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) Drugs Ohama aka The White Album
Diodes Time of Your Life (1978 Previously Unreleased) Rarities
Pukka Orchestra Weekend (Come Alive!) The Palace Of Memeory
Psyche Misery's Return The Influence
End, The Just Another Dream Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)
Cannon Heath Down Safe As Milk Heart-Throb Companion
Cardboard Brains Caesar Drives a Fast Car Live At The Edge
Lawn Peace in the Valley Peace in the Valley
Drastic Measures Maniacs in Cadillacs ST
Handful of Snowdrops In the Eye of the Storm Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
Martha And The Muffins Be Blase Trance and Dance
Extras Mega Media Myth The Road to Zambando
Edge, The Play the Game Release the Circle
Vis-A-Vis I am the Night Heart and Soul
Modern Minds All Day & All of the Night Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Lawn Over the Top Peace in the Valley
Handful of Snowdrops Over My Head (4 Track Home Demo) Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)
Eight Seconds Moving Day Big Houses
NEO A4 Time for Me Now ST
Austra The Beast Feel it Break
Glamatron Passport (Instrumental) Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence
Glamorcult Theories of Modern Affection A Price To Paris
Government Fumigators Electric Eye
Oui Free from Body Oui
Palace at 4 a.m. Palace at 4 A.M. Untamed World
39 Steps Hit It Up All Kinds of Shit '85-'87
Russell, Benjamin Take Me As You Find Me Madman
Young, John Paul Surrender to the Void The Life of Ermie Scub
Cardboard Brains Is That Why? Live At The Edge
A Day in Paris jUsT tHe sAmE Rhymes On Vinyl
Scenics I Killed Marx Underneath the Door
Age of Mirrors Civilian of Discipline Mirage
Second Thoughts Integrity Integrity b/w Wound Up
UJ3RK5 Reason Sleeps Tonight Live From The Commodore Ballroom
Instructions OK ST
Glamatron Facial Saviour Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence
Hush Dancing in East Berlin Replay
Edge, The Release the Circle Release the Circle
Start In Passion Hey You
Decade of Dreams Tra la la Wild Colloquial
Vis-A-Vis Prison of Eyes Heart and Soul
Scenics Bubbles Underneath the Door
Images In Vogue Foreign Affairs Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982
Decade of Dreams A Conversation With Myself Wild Colloquial
Corsage Troubles ST
Tenants Look the Other Way ST
Nasty Habits Playing in the Danger Zone Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)
Rikki & The Rokkits New Wave New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)
Barking Boys Cool It Down The Yes Girls
Harcourt, James Emotional Blackmail Emotional Blackmail
Age of Mirrors Don't Let Your Love Slip Away Screenplay
Age of Mirrors Orange Blossom Special Mirage
Eight Seconds Zoe Almacantar
Images In Vogue Welcome to Sorrow Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982
Friendly Fire Beverly Blue Junior Senility EP
Living End Death at an Early Age Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride
Awake The Echoes Someone Normal Life
Men Without Hats Utter Space Folk of the 80's (EP)
Handful of Snowdrops Hush Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition
Spoons No Electrons Arias & Symphonies
Play, The Whispers in the Air Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air
Spoons Smiling in Winter Arias & Symphonies
Rational Youth Sorry Heredity
Low Fun The New Dictator The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind
Mr. Science Popeshat Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs
Compilation The Sharks - Get Off the Radio No Pedestrians
Modern Minds The Fear Begins Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97
Strange Advance Hold On to the Nite Worlds Away
Matthews, Scott Navigation Boats in Rivers
Braineaters Johnny Planet X

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