FALL TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 11 WITH STOPS THROUGHOUT CANADA
ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM, MORBID STUFF, OUT NOW VIA LITTLE DIPPER / UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA
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"Morbid Stuff just still sounds like friends having fun and making catchy, cathartic punk anthems for teens and almost-adults alike — offering a brief, but much needed respite from the hell that is everyday life...their strongest album to date." - Exclaim! (9/10)
"These guys are heroes." - NPR Music's Robin Hilton
"If you're gonna start a record, you might as well do it right. I just cannot get enough of this record. I think it's one of my favorite records of the year. Easily...musically it's explosive. It is huge." - NPR Music's New Music Friday Podcast
"'Morbid Stuff' is the angriest PUP has ever sounded. But it’s not a cry for help. It’s a cry of freedom, the sound of a band realizing that anger is liberating..." - Pitchfork (7.9)
"Morbid Stuff [is] another collection of explosively catchy anthem/tantrums...[PUP] still sound about as vibrant and youthful as a rock band can. It’s invigorating. It’s harrowing. It rules. Fuck with it." - Stereogum
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Hot on the heels of the release of their critically acclaimed new album, Morbid Stuff, on Little Dipper/Universal Music Canada, Toronto’s PUP are thrilled to announce a massive North American tour for this fall. Charly Bliss will support throughout Canada this October, while Illuminati Hotties will support on a handful of America dates.
Tickets go on sale next Friday, April 19 at 10am local venue time. The band also has an exclusive ticket pre-sale starting Tuesday, April 16 at 10am local time; $1 from every ticket sold in the pre-sale goes to The Trevor Project, who focus on suicide prevenion within the LBGTQ community.
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Formed in Toronto five years ago, PUP – comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladowski -- quickly became favorites of the punk scene with their first two, critically-beloved albums, winning accolades everywhere from the New York Times to Pitchfork, from NPR and Rolling Stone, and more. Now, with Morbid Stuff, PUP have grown up and doubled down on everything that made you love their first two records. It’s gang’s-all-here vocals, guitarmonies, and lyrics about death. Lots of them. Fitting to their ethos, their new album takes the dichotomy of fun and emotional wreckage in their songs and teeters between gleeful chaos and bleak oblivion while wielding some of the best choruses the band has ever written. It’s the most insightful, sweetest, funniest, sickest, angriest, saddest and most inescapably desperate collection of songs they’ve recorded to date. If their self-titled record was the fuse and The Dream Is Over was the bomb going off, Morbid Stuff is your family sifting through the rubble, only to find you giggling while you bleed to death.
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MORE PRAISE FOR PUP + MORBID STUFF
"Along with the band’s songwriting, Babcock’s point of view has sharpened further and grown even more candid, grappling with his own depression and repurposing the band’s most crippling doubts into addictive hooks." - Vulture
"With 'Morbid Stuff,' the Toronto band made the best album of their career." - Noisey
""PUP’s third album Morbid Stuff is by far their best yet, and already one of the best punk albums of the year." - Brooklyn Vegan
"The beauty of PUP is that the band writes confident, catchy punk songs that are fueled, almost exclusively, by anxiety and indecision. On ['Morbid Stuff'], PUP offers up a new batch of songs that all play like stadium-punk anthems, but Stefan Babcock is still singing about every stupid thing he’s ever said or done. " - The A.V. Club
"['Morbid Stuff' is] the year’s catchiest, darkest, and overall best punk album" - Uproxx
"A refreshing, sarcastic antidote to fighting misery with the usual greetings card-meets-motivational poster sentiment, ‘Morbid Stuff’ secures PUP’s position at the top of the present-day punk rock pile." - NME (4/5)
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MORBID STUFF TOURPOCALYPSE
ALL NEW FALL TOUR DATES:
Sep 11 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall ^
Sep 12 - New York, NY - Terminal 5 ^
Sep 13 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live! ^
Sep 14 - Richmond, VA - The National ^
Sep 16 - Jacksonville, FL - 1904 Music Hall ^
Sep 17 - Tampa, FL - The Orpheum ^
Sep 18 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room ^
Sep 19 - Orlando, FL - The Beacham ^
Sep 21 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse ^
Sep 22 - Birmingham, AL – Saturn ^
Sep 23 - Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom ^
Sep 24 - St. Louis, MO - Delmar Hall ^
Sep 26 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room @ Old National Centre ^
Sep 27 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall ^
Sep 28 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall ^
Sep 29 - Grand Rapids, MI - Elevation at the Intersection ^
Oct 7 - Victoria, BC - Capital Ballroom +
Oct 9 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre +
Oct 11 - Calgary, AB - MacEwan Hall +
Oct 13 - Saskatoon, SK - Amigos Cantina +
Oct 14 - Winnipeg, MB - The Garrick Centre +
Oct 17 - Kingston, ON - The Ale House +
Oct 23 - Quebec City, QC - Imperial Bell
Oct 25 - Halifax, NS - The Marquee Ballroom (Halifax)
Oct 26 - St. John's, NL - Club One
Nov 6 - Amsterdam, NE - Melkweg Oz
Nov 7 - Cologne, DE - Luxor
Nov 9 - Copenhagen, DK - Loppen
Nov 10 - Hamburg, DE - Knust
Nov 11 - Berlin, DE - Bi Nuu
Nov 13 - Vienna, AT - Chelsea
Nov 14 - Munich, DE - Backstage Halle
Nov 15 - Milan, IT - Ohibo
Nov 18 - Paris, FR - Trabendo
Nov 21 - London, UK - Electric Ballroom
Nov 22 - Bristol, UK - SWX
Nov 23 - Birmingham, UK - Academy 2
Nov 25 - Leeds, UK - Stylus
Nov 26 - Glasgow, UK - The Garage
Nov 28 - Newcastle, UK - The Riverside
Nov 29 - Manchester, UK - Manchester Academy 2
Nov 30 - Southampton, UK - The Loft
^ with support from Illuminati Hotties
+ with support from Charly Bliss
CURRENT TOUR DATES:
4/11/19 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club % ! **SOLD OUT**
4/12/19 - Glasgow, UK @ Cathouse % ! **SOLD OUT**
4/14/19 - Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire ! **SOLD OUT**
4/15/19 - Dunkirk, FR @ Les 4Ecluses !
4/16/19 - Brussels, BE @ AB Club ! **SOLD OUT**
4/18/19 - Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia ! **SOLD OUT**
4/19/19 - Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang ! **SOLD OUT**
4/20/19 - Cologne, DE @ MTC Club ! **SOLD OUT**
4/21/19 - Amsterdam, NE @ Upstairs @ Paradiso ! **SOLD OUT**
4/25/19 - Boston, MA @ Royale # ^ **SOLD OUT**
4/26/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel # ^ **SOLD OUT**
4/29/19 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer # ^ **SOLD OUT**
4/30/19 - Pittsburgh, PA @ REX Theater $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/1/19 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/3/19 - Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom $ ^
5/4/19 - Chicago, IL @ Metro $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/5/19 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/6/19 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater $
5/8/19 - Dallas, TX @ Trees $ ^
5/9/19 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk $ ^
5/10/19 - Houston, TX @ Rockefeller's $ ^
5/11/19 - New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks $ ^
5/13/19 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/14/19 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle $ ^
5/15/19 - Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle $ ^
5/17/19 - Washington, DC @ The Black Cat $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/18/19 - Boston, MA @ Royale $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/19/19 - Sainte-Therese, QC @ Santa Teresa Festival
5/21/19 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom $ ^
5/22/19 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts $ ^
5/23/19 - Chicago, IL @ Metro $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/7/19 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall # **SOLD OUT**
6/8/19 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall # **SOLD OUT**
6/19/19 - San Diego, CA @ The Irenic + ^
6/20/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom + ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/21/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom + ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/22/19 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore + ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/24/19 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom + ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/25/19 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox + ^
6/27/19 - Boise, ID @ The Olympic + ^
6/28/19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue + ^
6/29/19 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre + ^
7/1/19 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf + ^
7/2/19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom + ^
7/3/19 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory + ^
7/6/19 Ottawa, ON @ RBC Bluesfest
7/21/19 - Toronto, ON @ RBC Echo Beach ~
8/9/19 - Tolmin, SI @ Punk Rock Holiday
8/14/19 - Bellaria-Igea Marina, IT @ Bay Fest
8/16/19 - 8/18/19 - Grosspösna, DE @ Highfield Festival
8/17/19 - Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop
8/20/19 - Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade Bristol
8/21/19 - Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade Nottingham **SOLD OUT**
8/23/19 - Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
8/24/19 - Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
# - with support from Diet Cig
^ - with support from Ratboys
! - with support from Milk Teeth
% - with support from Gender Roles
$ - with support from Casper Skulls
+ - with support from Beach Bunny
~ - with support from Twin Peaks & Charly Bliss
& - with support from BRASS
= - with support from Pkew Pkew Pkew
? - with support from The Drew Thomson Foundation
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