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Cartridge Heart is getting ready to release the 2025 edition of their yearly ‘Go Kick-Ass!’ compilation. Carefully-curated and region-spanning, the new installment is a massive double-disc set featuring all-new songs from 40 bands from southern Ontario plus one from Montreal and one from Australia. You can find the full tracklist below. Today, we are happy to premiere the song ‘Blood Drama’ by LYFE SK!LLZ, an eccentric, gritty, high-energy three-piece punk band from Kitchener that blends raw attitude with fast punk rock. 

“Blood Drama is a song about the anxiety that comes with food and its effect on one’s blood sugar,” says the band about the new song.

LYFE SK!LLZ debuted in early 2024 and have been popping up just about everywhere in southern Ontario ever since. Their self-released demo cassette sold out almost immediately, making their appearances on Go Kick-Ass! 2 and 3 the only way to get their music on physical media. They're hard at work on a full length for 2026.

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.

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

Disc Two

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