[1] Prior to launching Raw Energy, Boyce was a staff writer for RPM.

[1] The label subsequently released King Apparatus' full-length debut album in 1990; after selling over 5,000 copies of the album in just a handful of record stores in downtown Toronto, the label secured a national distribution deal with A&M Records.

Canadian artists who released Raw Energy albums included King Apparatus, King Cobb Steelie, Dinner Is Ruined, Random Killing, Trunk, Marilyn's Vitamins, Five Knuckle Chuckle, Three Impotent Males, Throbbin‘ Hoods, Out of Hand, Cut Off, Double Standard, DNS, and Sectorseven.

Raw Energy also released product from two U.S. acts, The Toasters and Rosie O'Shea.

Raw Energy played on this to release a series of "On the Road" compilations, featuring unsigned and emerging Canadian punk, hardcore and alternative rock bands du jour.