Canadian punk rock
The first punk rock bands in
History
Early Toronto punk bands included
Two of the biggest early punk shows in Toronto were The Last Pogo at the Horseshoe tavern in 1978, featuring Teenage Head, the Viletones, the Scenics, the Cardboard Brains, the Secrets, the Mods, and the Ugly, and the Rock Against Radiation concert July 19, 1980, at Nathan Phillips Square, featuring DOA, Stark Naked and the Fleshtones, the Viletones, the Forgotten Rebels, plus Joe College (promoter of the show) and the Rulers.
Canadian hardcore punk also originated in the early 1980s. D.O.A. are known as the first Canadian hardcore band, and with the release of their album Hardcore '81 they set the standards for the style of music.[1][2] That album title is considered to be the origin of the term hardcore punk.[3]
The punk tradition has carried on in Canada right up to modern bands like Fucked Up, The Salads, Alexisonfire, PUP, Cancer Bats.
Notable record labels
- Cargo Records
- Deranged Records
- Fringe Product
- G7 Welcoming Committee Records
- The Great American Steak Religion
- Insurgence Records
- Mayday Records
- Mint Records
- Og Records
- Psyche Industry Records
- Raw Energy Records
- Smallman Records
- Stomp Records
- Sonic Unyon
- Sudden Death Records
- Quintessence Records
- Union Label Group
Notable events
The Rock Against Radiation concert on July 19, 1980, at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto was considered a seminal event in the Canadian punk scene, as it brought together bands from the Toronto and the Vancouver punk scenes on the same stage for the first time. Featured bands included DOA, Stark Naked and the Fleshtones, the Demics, the Viletones, Joe College and the Rulers, plus the Forgotten Rebels (from Hamilton).
See also
References
- ^ Toronto Music Scene - Interview with Joey Shithead Archived December 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gauntlet - American Hardcore Archived March 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Spin Magazine". Spin.com. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
External links
- Stark Naked and The Fleshtones
- Canuckistan Music (Reviews of 1970s and 1980s punk records in Canada)
- Records of Vancouver Punk Rock Collection are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books