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On tour
Yes
Followers
178,014
Category
Punk Rock
Concerts
Jul
11
AREA 506 Waterfront Container Village
Saint John
Tickets
Jul
14
Sneaky Dee's
Toronto
Tickets
Jul
15
Lee's Palace
Toronto
Tickets
Jul
17
The Concert Hall
Toronto
Tickets
Jul
18
The Danforth Music Hall
Toronto
Tickets
Jul
19
HISTORY
Toronto
Tickets
Aug
05
The Tuning Fork
Auckland
Tickets
Aug
06
San Fran
Wellington
Tickets
Aug
08
The Princess Theatre
Woolloongabba
Tickets
Aug
09
Metro Theatre
Sydney
Tickets
Aug
10
Northcote Theatre
Northcote
Tickets
Aug
12
Hindley Street Music Hall
Adelaide
Tickets
Aug
14
Magnet House Night Club
Perth
Tickets
Sep
03
Palace Theatre
Saint Paul
Tickets
Sep
04
The Sylvee
Madison
Tickets
Sep
05
The Salt Shed
Chicago
Tickets
Sep
06
Russell Industrial Center
Detroit
Tickets
Sep
08
Stage AE
Pittsburgh
Tickets
Sep
09
KEMBA Live!
Columbus
Tickets
Sep
10
Agora Theater & Ballroom
Cleveland
Tickets
Sep
12
The Anthem
Washington
Tickets
Sep
13
Brooklyn Paramount
Brooklyn
Tickets
Sep
14
Brooklyn Paramount
Brooklyn
Tickets
Sep
15
Roadrunner
Boston
Tickets
Sep
17
The Fillmore Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Tickets
Sep
18
The National
Richmond
Tickets
Sep
19
The Ritz
Raleigh
Tickets
Sep
20
The Fillmore Charlotte
Charlotte
Tickets
Sep
22
The Eastern
Atlanta
Tickets
Sep
24
White Oak Music Hall
Houston
Tickets
Sep
25
House of Blues Dallas
Dallas
Tickets
Sep
26
Paper Tiger
San Antonio
Tickets
Sep
27
Radio/East
Austin
Tickets
Sep
30
The Van Buren
Phoenix
Tickets
Oct
01
The Sound
Del Mar
Tickets
Oct
02
Hollywood Palladium
Los Angeles
Tickets
Oct
03
Ace Of Spades
Sacramento
Tickets
Oct
04
Fox Theater
Oakland
Tickets
Oct
06
McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
Portland
Tickets
Oct
07
Showbox SoDo
Seattle
Tickets
Oct
08
Treefort Music Hall
Boise
Tickets
Oct
09
The Complex
Salt Lake City
Tickets
Oct
11
Mission Ballroom
Denver
Tickets
Nov
24
The Pearl
Vancouver
Tickets
Nov
25
Commodore Ballroom
Vancouver
Tickets
Nov
26
Commodore Ballroom
Vancouver
Tickets
Nov
28
Midway
Edmonton
Tickets
Nov
29
MacEwan Hall Concerts
Calgary
Tickets
Dec
01
Coors Event Centre
Saskatoon
Tickets
Dec
02
Burton Cummings Theatre
Winnipeg
Tickets
Dec
03
Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
Thunder Bay
Tickets
Dec
05
MTELUS
Montreal
Tickets
Dec
06
Bronson Centre
Ottawa
Tickets
Dec
07
Bronson Centre
Ottawa
Tickets
Dec
09
Maxwell’s Concerts and Events
Waterloo
Tickets
Dec
11
London Music Hall
London
Tickets
Dec
12
BOND|ST Event Centre
Oshawa
Tickets
Dec
13
Bridgeworks
Hamilton
Tickets
About PUP
It seems significant that there were bats in the mansion’s attic, although how significant it seems will have something to do with how you feel and what you know about PUP. None of it is a metaphor, and also all of it is.
The mansion, for its part, is very real—it is a sprawling residence-slash-studio in Connecticut’s most dispiriting mid-sized city where the producer Peter Katis has helped acts like The National and Interpol and Frightened Rabbit and Kurt Vile make records. There are gold records on the walls and warrens of strange new rooms that the band members discovered seemingly daily; the roof leaks when it rains, and the bats reclaim the attic after dark. PUP singer Stefan Babcock recorded all his vocals in the living room, at night. “The other guys were just trying to live their lives,” he said, “and Nestor and I would be down there screaming into microphones while they were watching TV in the next room.” Babcock remembered Katis telling him that the bats “go away” during the daytime hours. “I was like, ‘no, they’re sleeping,’” Babcock said. “They don’t go anywhere, there’s nowhere for them to go.’”
The band spent five weeks there in the summer of 2021, recording and mixing the typically furious and anthemic songs that would become their fourth album, THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND. The band—Babcock, bassist Nestor Chumak, drummer Zack Mykula, and guitarist Steve Sladkowski—more or less never left. “There were some days that were really great, like magical, everything worked and then we’d go to the kitchen and make a great meal,” Sladkowski said, “and then there were days when you’re like ‘I can’t remember the last time I’ve been outside.’” Circumstances—a global pandemic, still happening, not much fun to talk about and won’t be addressed further here—made cultivating a healthy, communal vibe more difficult, but the band powered through by having friends like Sarah from Illuminati Hotties, Kathryn from NOBRO, Mel from Casper Skulls, and Erik from Remo Drive pitch in. When the band got comfortable in its strange new home, the (figurative) walls came down. “As the weeks passed, we seemed less and less rational, objective, and sane,” Babcock says. “You can hear the band start to fall off the cliff, and because of that, I think this record is our truest and most genuine to date. There is nothing more PUP than a slow and inevitable descent into self-destruction.”
Every PUP record arrives with an implied “contents under pressure” warning; the tension between the band’s instinct for the melodic and its gift for chaos propels the songs forward while making them also seem close to flying apart in a horrifying spray of tears and gore. To listen to PUP enough is to spend parts of every day mentally echoing some hilariously self-lacerating, utterly undeniable choruses; you will find yourself thinking “this is the mosh part” at moments when you would otherwise be tearing yourself apart. It is one thing to feel, as Babcock sings on THE UNRAVELING’s “Totally Fine,” “like I’m slowly dying/and if I’m being real I don’t even mind,” but it is another, very different thing to find yourself shouting along with those words. There’s a tension here, too. “There’s only so many times you can write a song about how much you hate yourself before you write a song about how fucking good you are at hating yourself,” Babcock says. “It’s funny that we’ve provided for ourselves by being fuck-ups and writing songs about being fuck-ups. We’ve been fuck-ups forever, and now we’ve got a responsibility, to others and to ourselves, to fuck up in a productive manner.”
That’s not any easier than it sounds, but also the volatility is the thing; all that tension is always just barely held in place by the band’s craft. It couldn’t be anything but uneasy, but THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND is the sound of a band that is not just comfortable with but in command of that chaos.
We are back in the mansion, now, albeit the metaphorical one. PUP is objectively a very successful band. They won a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year for 2019’s Morbid Stuff and have been nominated for the Polaris Prize and many nice things have been said about them in the places that people say nice things about bands; because they are PUP, "nice things" in this case means Pitchfork saying that they “turn self-loathing and self-deprecation into a sort of superpower.” Fans happily sing the coruscating words of their songs aloud in sold-out venues all around the world; they did a version of arguably the harshest song on 2019’s Morbid Stuff for a 2020 CBC Kids Christmas special in which they replaced the lyric “embrace the calamity” with “embrace the festivities”; they have performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers, and played at major festivals like Lollapalooza, Boston Calling, Shaky Knees, and Riot Fest. A mansion is a place where such a band might go to record an ambitious fourth album. That success doesn’t haunt THE UNRAVELING, although it does make it funnier; the “Four Chords” piano ballad threaded through the album tells the tale of a contentious quarterly meeting of PUP’s “board of directors” going selfishly awry. There is a long history of Mansion Albums; sometimes it works out well and sometimes it works out less well and more often than would seem plausible a Jaguar convertible winds up at the bottom of a swimming pool.
PUP is not really that kind of band, though, and THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND is not that kind of record. It is still very much a PUP album, but relocating from the literal basement where they wrote Morbid Stuff to the janky manse in which they put together its follow-up afforded the band space to grow, and to make not just the next PUP record but the most PUP record. “This is a band that, until this record, out of some weird fucked up sense of misguided pride or idiocy, felt that we should never use any instruments aside from drums, bass, and guitars,” Babcock says. “We quickly came to realize that the instrumentation isn’t what makes PUP songs PUP. It’s the songs themselves, finding this balance between heavy and melodic, dark and fun, pushing the limits of our writing chops and musicianship in a way that makes us laugh and also want to smash shit. So this record starts with the stupidest piano ballad of all time. And there are synths. And there are horns. And there are some 808s and trap hi-hats. And some other weird shit that we haven’t done before.”
There is no faking that, which of course makes it all much harder to do. In the best PUP songs, the whole process is not just visible but thrilling—the anguish and doubt that drives the songs is nurtured, over a few loud minutes, into something first legible and then somehow empowering. There are a lot of these songs on THE UNRAVELING. The alternately plaintive and anthemic “Matilda” is a classic galloping PUP shout-along recrimination-fest that sounds bigger than previous entries in this robust subgenre without losing any of the signature acid. “Waiting” is pure paint-stripping heat, topped by some legitimately towering choruses. “Robot Writes A Love Song” dissolves into a wash of nervous synthesizer before becoming what is surely the most emotional song ever written from the perspective of a computer being overwhelmed unto death by actual human emotions. “I wanted to write about the horrible state of the world, but through a very specific and personal lens,” Babcock says. “It’s a lot of me trying to articulate my own coping with existential dread, hopelessness, and what I’ve called ‘Grim Reaping’—which is to me, the idea that we are all reaping what we sow, and right now we’re sowing some pretty fucked up shit.”
THE UNRAVELING is not a departure from what got PUP here, really; for all the new breadth, this is still very much the fourth album by the band that has spun songs about The Bad Decisions Lifestyle into scrappy art. The hooks are as bright and barbed as always; the poison threaded through every song is no less potent. But a fourth album should be different from the first, or even the third, and THE UNRAVELING is. “I don’t know that we set out to do new stuff,” Mykula says, of a record on which the band does a great deal of new stuff. “It’s just a band trying to sound as much like themselves as possible. Every record you make, you get closer to that.”
THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND is that next step—not towards perfection, or even towards some more perfect version of writing songs about fucking up, but just in the direction of its choice. It’s a product of this endless awful broader moment, but also very much a step forward into that uncertainty. “The whole album process really brought us closer together, even as things unraveled,” Babcock says. “It’s hands down my favorite PUP record, and I don’t think it could’ve been made under any other circumstances.” It’s the sound of a band learning how to share the mansion with the bats.
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Genres
Punk Rock
Band members
Stefan - vox, Stefan Babcock, guitar
Zack - drums, Nestor Chumak, bvox
Steve - guitar, bvox, Steve Sladkowski, Zack Mykula, bvox
Nestor - bass
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What fans are saying
Nate
Fans in Saint John Wanted a Punk Rock sound on the last day of 506 fest we got it Pup 🐶 Brought out that energy from the Pits to the stage definitely keeping my eyes peeled for future shows there energy is unmatched
AREA 506 Waterfront Container Village
Saint John, NB
Aug 05, 2024
Dyl
Best pup performance I’ve ever seen but the venue was so crowded there was no room to mosh! Security was very kind and the man who cradled me from the crowdsurf is a personal hero of mine now.
The Fillmore
Silver Spring, MD
May 08, 2022
elijah
Genuinely life changing performance! the energy was electric and the fans were probably among some of the nicest and most respectful I've encountered in philly venues. they put on one hell of a show!
Franklin Music Hall
Philadelphia, PA
Jun 27, 2024
Stephanie
Fan-fucking-tasting! The openers (looking at you OBGMs), the crowd, and PUP had such great energy. Fete is always my go-to, and I’m so glad they hosted! Also, thank you Fete for letting us mosh!
Fete Music Hall
Providence, RI
Sep 25, 2022
Chayanne
I was so happy they came to town I was planning a trip to Toronto just so I could take my lil sister she had an amazing time can wait for next time ❤️🤟
Ogden Theatre
Denver, CO
Apr 25, 2022
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PUP Tour Cities
Vancouver, BC
Austin, TX
Saint Paul, MN
Toronto, ON
Edmonton, AB
Oakland, CA
Washington, DC
Boston, MA
London, ON
Hamilton, ON
Del Mar, CA
Montreal, QC
Brooklyn, NY
Cleveland, OH
Pittsburgh, PA
Auckland, New Zealand
Richmond, VA
Seattle, WA
Saint John, NB
Madison, WI
Winnipeg, MB
Columbus, OH
Detroit, MI
Adelaide, Australia
Atlanta, GA
Saskatoon, SK
Denver, CO
Chicago, IL
Phoenix, AZ
Dallas, TX
Boise, ID
Los Angeles, CA
Thunder Bay, ON
Waterloo, ON
Ottawa, ON
Portland, OR
Salt Lake City, UT
Charlotte, NC
Houston, TX
Sacramento, CA
Oshawa, ON
Perth, Australia
Sydney, Australia
San Antonio, TX
Raleigh, NC
Philadelphia, PA
Calgary, AB
Wellington, New Zealand
Frequently Asked Questions About PUP
Concerts & Tour Date Information
Is PUP on tour?
Yes, PUP is currently on tour. If you’re interested in attending an upcoming
PUP concert, make sure to grab your tickets in advance. The PUP tour
is scheduled for 58 dates across 48 cities. Get
information on all upcoming tour dates and tickets for 2025-2026 with Hypebot.
How many upcoming tour dates is PUP scheduled to play?
PUP is scheduled to play 58 shows between 2025-2026. Buy
concert tickets to a nearby show through Hypebot.
When does the PUP tour start?
PUP’s tour starts Jul 11, 2025 and ends on Dec 13, 2025.
They will play 48 cities; their most recent concert was held in
Saint John at AREA 506 Waterfront Container Village and their next upcoming concert
will be in Austin at Radio/East.
What venues is PUP performing at?
As part of the PUP tour, PUP is scheduled to play across the following
venues and cities:
2025 Tour Dates:
Jul 11 - Saint John,
NB @ AREA 506 Waterfront Container Village
Jul 14 - Toronto,
ON @ Sneaky Dee's
Jul 15 - Toronto,
ON @ Lee's Palace
Jul 17 - Toronto,
ON @ The Concert Hall
Jul 18 - Toronto,
ON @ The Danforth Music Hall
Jul 19 - Toronto,
ON @ HISTORY
Aug 05 - Auckland,
Auckland @ The Tuning Fork
Aug 06 - Wellington,
NZ @ San Fran
Aug 08 - Woolloongabba,
QLD @ The Princess Theatre
Aug 09 - Sydney,
Nsw @ Metro Theatre
Aug 10 - Northcote,
VIC @ Northcote Theatre
Aug 12 - Adelaide,
SA @ Hindley Street Music Hall
Aug 14 - Perth,
WA @ Magnet House Night Club
Sep 03 - Saint Paul,
MN @ Palace Theatre
Sep 04 - Madison,
WI @ The Sylvee
Sep 05 - Chicago,
IL @ The Salt Shed
Sep 06 - Detroit,
MI @ Russell Industrial Center
Sep 08 - Pittsburgh,
PA @ Stage AE
Sep 09 - Columbus,
OH @ KEMBA Live!
Sep 10 - Cleveland,
OH @ Agora Theater & Ballroom
Sep 12 - Washington,
DC @ The Anthem
Sep 13 - Brooklyn,
NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
Sep 14 - Brooklyn,
NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
Sep 15 - Boston,
MA @ Roadrunner
Sep 17 - Philadelphia,
PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia
Sep 18 - Richmond,
VA @ The National
Sep 19 - Raleigh,
NC @ The Ritz
Sep 20 - Charlotte,
NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
Sep 22 - Atlanta,
GA @ The Eastern
Sep 24 - Houston,
TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Sep 25 - Dallas,
TX @ House of Blues Dallas
Sep 26 - San Antonio,
TX @ Paper Tiger
Sep 27 - Austin,
TX @ Radio/East
Sep 30 - Phoenix,
AZ @ The Van Buren
Oct 01 - Del Mar,
CA @ The Sound
Oct 02 - Los Angeles,
CA @ Hollywood Palladium
Oct 03 - Sacramento,
CA @ Ace Of Spades
Oct 04 - Oakland,
CA @ Fox Theater
Oct 06 - Portland,
OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
Oct 07 - Seattle,
WA @ Showbox SoDo
Oct 08 - Boise,
ID @ Treefort Music Hall
Oct 09 - Salt Lake City,
UT @ The Complex
Oct 11 - Denver,
CO @ Mission Ballroom
Nov 24 - Vancouver,
BC @ The Pearl
Nov 25 - Vancouver,
BC @ Commodore Ballroom
Nov 26 - Vancouver,
BC @ Commodore Ballroom
Nov 28 - Edmonton,
AB @ Midway
Nov 29 - Calgary,
AB @ MacEwan Hall Concerts
Dec 01 - Saskatoon,
SK @ Coors Event Centre
Dec 02 - Winnipeg,
MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
Dec 03 - Thunder Bay,
ON @ Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
Dec 05 - Montreal,
QC @ MTELUS
Dec 06 - Ottawa,
ON @ Bronson Centre
Dec 07 - Ottawa,
ON @ Bronson Centre
Dec 09 - Waterloo,
ON @ Maxwell’s Concerts and Events
Dec 11 - London,
ON @ London Music Hall
Dec 12 - Oshawa,
ON @ BOND|ST Event Centre
Dec 13 - Hamilton,
ON @ Bridgeworks