Go Kick-Ass! 3

Go Kick-Ass! is Cartridge Heart’s carefully-curated, region-spanning, annual compilation. The 2025 edition is a massive double-disc set. It features all-new songs from 40 bands from southern Ontario plus one from Montreal and one from Australia.

The lineup features (deep breath) AAWKS, Alert The Audience, Among Legends, beauregard., Big Evil, Bilious, Bloody Blue Darlings, Forty Seven Teeth, Frank Dux, Glass Planets, Glitch Kingdom, Hellaphant, Kevin Murphy’s Murder, Last Drag, Lip Crunch, Lovers, Lucid Smog Disorder, LYFE SK!LLZ, Mackenzie King, The McBains, The Mendozaz, The Mightabins, Mip Power Trio, Motion Sickness, Nothing Serious, Old Mountain Low, Papa Reuben, Pioneer Anomaly, Rhinosaur, Sega Saturn The Console, Set To Go!, Sixteen Scandals, The Slimetones, Snacks?, Starship Experience, Streets To Ourselves, The Supervoids, Sweet Baby T, Terrible and the Horribles, Three Impotent Males, Volatile Youth and Whine Problem.

Great care was taken in putting this collection together. Bands were solicited to submit unreleased material. Some are premiering singles ahead of their fall releases, some have unearthed material from the vault and some have sent in brand new tracks recorded exclusively for Go Kick-Ass! 3.

Go Kick-Ass! 3 comes from a love for physical media, an appreciation of the art of preparing mix CDs and years of being entrenched in independent music.

Release day is September 12 with release shows planned over the weekend in Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Newmarket, Niagara Falls, Oshawa, Tillsonburg and Toronto.

Release Weekend

Friday, September 12

Saturday, September 13

Sunday, September 14

Track Listing

Disc One

1. Motion Sickness – Burn It Down
2. Last Drag – Short Turn To Fame
3. The Mendozaz – Shotgun Shells and Serenades
4. Glitch Kingdom – Final Destination
5. Set To Go! – Back To Square One
6. Frank Dux – Welcome To Terror Lake
7. Snacks? – Decay
8. Forty Seven Teeth – Shitty Excuse
9. LYFE SK!LLZ – Blood Drama
10. Big Evil – Those Punk Kids Will Buy Anything… Just Not This
11. Sega Saturn The Console – Waste of Breath
12. The McBains – Go Away
13. Lucid Smog Disorder – I’m Freaking Out
14. Streets To Ourselves – MNAA
15. Nothing Serious – Say Something
16. Lip Crunch – U.F.O. (Unidentified Female Obsession)
17. Bilious – Out of Hash
18. The Mightabins – Green Shoots
19. Hellaphant – Good Grief
20. beauregard. – Mal de Vivre
21. Three Impotent Males – Pavlovian Response

Disc Two

1. Mip Power Trio – Press Rewind
2. Terrible and the Horribles – Margaret’s Bleeding
3. Sixteen Scandals – Constellation Prize
4. Whine Problem – Dance, Doll
5. Among Legends – Polar Vortex
6. Sweet Baby T – Emperor’s New Jeans
7. Kevin Murphy’s Murder – In Our Places
8. Alert The Audience – We’ll Do It Live!!!
9. Bloody Blue Darlings – Vampire Hair
10. The Slimetones – Slime City Video Store
11. Volatile Youth – Kerouac on Holiday
12. Starship Experience – Tuesday Afternoon Sitting on a Park Bench
13. Old Mountain Low – Only Details
14. The Supervoids – Drink & Dance
15. Papa Reuben – This Time
16. Mackenzie King – You or Me
17. Rhinosaur – The Dreth
18. Glass Planets – Take or Break
19. Pioneer Anomaly – Why Are You Still Here
20. Lovers – Nukaloompa
21. AAWKS – Wretched Witch