{"id":27502,"date":"2025-11-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27502"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:21:23","slug":"montreals-stomp-records-marks-30-years-of-worldwide-punk-influence-with-celebration-dates-across-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27502","title":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s Stomp Records Marks 30 Years of Worldwide Punk Influence with Celebration Dates Across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thirty years ago, Stomp Records kicked off in Montreal with a simple mission: to give Canada\u2019s independent punk and ska bands a home, a voice, and a way to reach beyond their own city limits. It was an ambitious idea for a couple of musicians with no business plan and even less money, a plan that should\u2019ve crashed harder than a tour van on bald tires in a prairie blizzard. Instead, it helped ignite a national movement and built one of Canada\u2019s longest-running and most influential independent labels. From day one, Stomp Records wasn\u2019t just releasing records, it was building culture. In the pre-internet era, Canadian punk and ska scenes were thriving in isolation, each city a bubble. Stomp burst those bubbles, uniting bands from coast to coast, creating touring circuits, and turning hometown heroes into cross-country road warriors. \u201cThis label is built on community, creativity, and helping each other get our shot,\u201d says Stomp co-founder Matt Collyer. \u201cWe\u2019re still here because the fans show up, the bands work their asses off, and we love every minute of doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, Stomp helped define the next wave of Canadian punk and ska, not by chasing trends but by championing artists with grit, conviction, and personality. They supported small scenes through compilation series (The All-Skanadian Club<\/em>) and got in the van with bands \u2014 literally and figuratively \u2014 helping develop careers from the bar circuit to international festival stages. As trends shifted and the music industry free-fell into the Napster era, most indie labels folded. Stomp didn\u2019t. They embraced digital early, built a full-service ecosystem of booking, management, and publicity, and widened their sonic scope to reflect the beautifully messy realities of underground music. Punk, ska, rockabilly, hardcore, folk-punk, skate-punk, bagpipes, brass, blood, sweat. if it had guts and a pulse of rebellion, Stomp gave it a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That fearless curation brought countless Canadian subcultural staples into the world: The Real McKenzies, Wine Lips, The Dreadnoughts, The Flatliners, The Creepshow, The Anti-Queens, Brutal Youth, Belvedere, Bedouin Soundclash, Raygun Cowboys, PKEW PKEW PKEW, The Sainte-Catherines, Down By Law, Snuff\u2026 and many more who continue to fill rooms and make noise worldwide. It has never been a smooth ride. Along the way there have been industry collapses, floods, robberies, broken bones, car jackings, even literal Nazi attacks. Somehow, through all of that, a few Juno nominations, a win, and accidental gold and platinum plaques still ended up on their walls.\u201cThe odds were stacked against us from day one,\u201d says long-time Stomp partner Mike Magee. \u201cLuckily Stomp Records didn\u2019t, and still doesn\u2019t, give one single flying f*ck about the odds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Order\u00a0Stomp Records\u2019 Music and Merchandise<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Three decades in, the mission hasn\u2019t changed: artists first, community always, and a stubborn refusal to water anything down. And the stats speak for themselves: nearly 300 releases with distribution in over 190 countries, artists who\u2019ve earned Juno recognition, and alumni who have gone on to perform in Simple Plan, Walk Off The Earth, Kings of Leon, The Stills, Patrick Watson and Broken Social Scene among a long list of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To celebrate surviving 30 wild years, and because they love any excuse for a loud night out, they\u2019re celebrating with a nationwide run of absolute blowout shows. A toast to every late-night drive, every curb-side gear load, every sweaty pit, and every fan who ever found belonging in the chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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30TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 21 – Vancouver – The Rickshaw Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Real McKenzies, The Planet Smashers, Raygun Cowboys<\/em> – Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 11 – Toronto – Lee\u2019s Palace<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dreadnoughts, The Creepshow, The Filthy Radicals<\/em> – Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 13 – Ottawa – Overflow Brewing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dreadnoughts, The Creepshow, The Filthy Radicals<\/em> – Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MONTREAL – DOWNTOWN VENUES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 10th @ Turbo Haus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capable, Doghouse Rose<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dec 11th @ Turbo Haus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dig It Up, Brutal Youth, Crossdog<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FR: https:\/\/lepointdevente.com\/billets\/stp251211001<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EN: https:\/\/thepointofsale.com\/tickets\/stp251211001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 12th @ Foufs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dreadnoughts, The Creepshow<\/em>, <\/strong>PKEW PKEW PKEW, K-Man and the 45\u2019s, The Penske File, The Fake Friends, Boids, The Filthy Radicals<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FR: https:\/\/lepointdevente.com\/billets\/stp250923001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EN: https:\/\/thepointofsale.com\/tickets\/stp250923001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 13th @ Club Soda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Planet Smashers, The Flatliners, Wine Lips, The Anti-Queens, Crash Ton Rocks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FR: https:\/\/lepointdevente.com\/billets\/stp251213001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EN: https:\/\/thepointofsale.com\/tickets\/stp251213001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STOMP RECORDS ONLINE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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