Pup have shared their first new original songs of 2021, alongside announcing their 2022 US and Canadian tour dates. Listen to Waiting and Kill Something here.
Toronto punk heroes PUP—comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski—release their first new original songs of 2021 today, and announce their triumphant return to touring with a U.S. and Canadian run slated for 2022. Tickets will be available for pre-sale tomorrow courtesy of Spotify Fans First, as well as via a Seated fan club pre-sale, where $1 per pre-sale ticket will go towards the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, the dates follow the recent announcement that the band will be returning to the UK to play 2000trees in July.
The two new tracks, ‘Waiting’ and ‘Kill Something,’ were produced by GRAMMY-Award winner Peter Katis (Interpol, The National, Kurt Vile). ‘Waiting,’ which features fellow Canadian punk artist Kathryn McCaughey of NOBRO, is a riotous, joyful and ridiculously fun track that has everything you want from a PUP song, and more. Stefan explains why: “‘Waiting’ came about by smashing the heaviest riff Nestor could write with the simplest, most uplifting chorus I could write, just to see what would happen. The results were very quintessentially PUP, in that the song is a flurry of darkness and anger through the joyous lens of four guys just happy to be here, four guys who don’t take themselves seriously enough to make music that doesn’t feel like fun, regardless of the subject matter.”
‘Kill Something’ is about Stefan’s dog Moose, who loves to destroy his favorite things, and then is sad that those things are destroyed. We feel you, Moose.
PUP released Morbid Stuff in 2019 to critical acclaim, earning countless year-end nods from the likes of Pitchfork and NPR, their late-night debut on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the JUNO award for Alternative Album of The Year, the short list for the Polaris Music Prize, and sold-out shows across the globe. They then greeted 2020 with the aptly titled EP, This Place Sucks Ass, and the live album Live at The Electric Ballroom, the proceeds of which raised almost $30k for Critical Resistance + Breakaway Addiction Services in Toronto.
2022 Tour Dates:
Canada
7th February @ Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB #
8th February @ Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB #
10th February @ Big Four, Calgary, AB #
11th February @ Edmonton Convention Centre, Edmonton, AB #
14th February @ PNE Forum, Vancouver, BC #
# with Billy Talent & NOBRO
N. America
1st April @ Roxian Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA ^ *
2nd April @ Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH ^ *
3rd April @ Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL ^ *
5th April @ The Fillmore, Minneapolis, MN ^ *
9th April @ Capital Ballroom, Victoria, BC ^
10th April @ Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA ^
11th April @ Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR ^ +
16th April @ The Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ ^ +
24th April @ The Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO ^ +
27th April @ Granada Theater, Dallas, TX ^ +
28th April @ House of Blues, Houston, TX ^ +
29th April @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater, Austin, TX ^ +
1st May @ Shaky Knees Music Festival, Atlanta, GA
3rd May @ The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC ^ +
4th May @ The Ritz, Raleigh, NC ^ +
5th May @ The National, Richmond, VA ^ +
6th May @ Franklin Music Hall, Philadelphia, PA ^ +
7th May @ The Fillmore Silver Spring, Washington, DC ^ +
9th May @ Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ ^ +
10th May @ House of Blues, Boston, MA ^ +
11th May @ Terminal 5, New York, NY ^ +
13th May @ MTelus, Montreal, QC ^ +
14th May @ History, Toronto, ON ^ +
^ with support from Pinkshift
* with support from Cloud Nothings
+ with support from Sheer Mag
UK/EU
6th – 7th July @ 2000trees Festival, Cheltenham, UK
24th – 27th August @ Canela Party Festival – Málaga, Spain – Canela Party Festival
