RECORDED ACROSS ALL SIX SHOWS DURING PUP’S MEGACITY MADNESS TOUR IN TORONTO, THIS 13-TRACK ALBUM WILL BE AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON VINYL THROUGH THE BAND’S STORE AND INDIE RETAIL ON MARCH 13, 2026
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CANADIAN TOUR DATES CONTINUE THIS WEEK - REMAINING DATES BELOW
“Who Will Look After the Dogs? feels like a homecoming, not just due to this past summer’s ambitious Mega City Madness tour, but because sonically, the band is functioning as one robust organism. Pup is in sweaty peak form on this album, ripping through guitar riffs and thrashing drum beats built for thrashing bodies in the mosh pit.” - CBC Music, Best Albums of 2025
“The fifth album from Toronto-based rockers PUP is rife with angst and self-loathing. Who Will Look After the Dogs? is an album that is as emotional as it is conducive to sweaty mosh pit sing-alongs…” - Exclaim!, Best Albums of 2025
"...one of this country’s most beloved punk exports." - RANGE
"Sonically maximalist. Just big, bold, brash, aggressive, triumphant rock and roll at just the right time…" - NPR
"The Toronto group’s fifth album embraces self-improvement with dialed-back hooks and urgent introspection—offering a rare example of a pop-punk band learning to age with grace." - Pitchfork
"The raging Toronto pop-punks are one of the greatest rock acts of their generation" - Stereogum
"That ramshackle, uninhibited spirit is what makes Who Will Look After the Dogs? a refreshing return to the scrappy sound of PUP’s first record, where it was just a band in a room together playing the shit out of their instruments and not worrying about overdubs or anything else." - Paste
"it’s the loudest, rawest, most no-nonsense punk album they’ve released since their 2013 self-titled debut." - Brooklyn Vegan
"For all of their songs about how they’re all aimless screw-ups, PUP have proved themselves as one of their era’s most talented and consistent punk acts." - Under The Radar
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Toronto punk heroes PUP - comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski - are announcing a very special and very PUP live album, entitled Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings). Earlier this year, around the release of their latest album Who Will Look After The Dogs?, PUP hosted a special tour de Toronto, where they performed a series of six shows across the city with special guests like Jeff Rosenstock and NOBRO joining them each night. Megacity Madness began with a house show, and continued with each show at a venue “bigger than the last,” as they performed at clubs they came up playing over the last decade as a band.
While these intimate shows have come and gone, their memory will live on forever with Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings). Recorded across all six shows, this 13-track album will be available exclusively on vinyl through the band’s store and indie retail on March 13, 2026. Album tracklisting and artwork can be found below. The album will not be available on DSPs, but there is a very special doc series which, in typical PUP fashion, is stupidly titled Megacity Shorts: A Touronto Rockumentary Series. It is directed by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Clem Hoener, highlighting each of the six shows along the tour.
But wait! There’s more! We also have Megacity MegaZine. This is a massive 196-page visual zine created by photographers Bradley Golding and Vanessa Heins. The project, through photographs and essays, features chapters from each Megacity show while also tracing the band’s impact on the people and spaces they’ve played throughout their history.
Can’t get enough? Good. Check out the Megacity Madness website HERE, which has all of this info and more, including an interactive map of all of the venues and various other Toronto x PUP landmarks.
VISIT THE MEGACITY MADNESS WEBSITE HERE
“This week of shows was one of the best, most validating experiences we’ve ever had as a band,” says Stefan Babcock. “We never expected PUP to do anything aside from play a few basement shows. It really hit me hard on night 6, standing on stage with my best friends and realizing how lucky we are to get to do this for a living, to be from such a wonderfully supportive community, and most of all, to get to do this with all of our friends and family around. I’m relieved we decided to record all the shows and have our friends follow us around all week with cameras. If not for the mountain of evidence, I wouldn't believe any of it happened.”
PUP released their critically acclaimed new album Who Will Look After The Dogs? earlier this year to critical acclaim and numerous top 5 Billboard Chart positions across the U.S. and Canada. They have been on the road ever since, and somehow are not done! See below to find a show near you and get tickets HERE.
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Who Will Look After The Dogs?, PUP’s pummeling and cathartic fifth LP, is their most immediate, no-frills, and hard-hitting full-length yet. It was made in Los Angeles with producer John Congleton over the course of three weeks, and it’s the culmination of PUP’s past decade of constant touring and their palpable, livewire chemistry. The album evokes the lightning-in-a-bottle intensity of their self-titled debut (except they are much better at their instruments now), and finds our self-deprecating frontman Stefan Babcock at his most reflective, vulnerable and prolific. Over 12 tracks, Babcock excavates his life's relationships—romantic, with his bandmates, and most ruthlessly, his relationship to himself. There’s plenty of growth, but also plenty of unpredictable mayhem in the arrangements and an acerbic bite in the writing. And while PUP historically are at one another’s throats during the album process, this time they scrapped their tedious perfectionism and rediscovered the joy of making loud music together.
“Within days of announcing our last album, coincidentally titled The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND, my life unexpectedly imploded. I wrote the lyrics for 'Hallways' while all that was going on. It was a weird fucking week," says Babcock. "The title of our new record, Who Will Look After The Dogs?, is what I wrote at the top of the page, the very first thing written for this album. I think it’s devastating, but in a ‘holy shit this is overdramatic’ kinda way. At least in context of the line that comes before it. That’s what makes it funny to us. That overblown stuff we all say in our dark moments can be hilarious once you've cooled off a bit. I don’t know if anyone else thinks it’s funny, but sometimes you gotta laugh at yourself. It's the only way out of the abyss. Trust me.”
MEGACITY MADNESS (THE OFFICIAL LIVE RECORDINGS) ARTWORK //
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TRACKLISTING
1) Morbid Stuff (Live at the Flat Top / House Show)
2) Kids (Live at Sneaky Dee’s)
3) No Hope (Live at Sneaky Dee’s)
4) Dark Days (Live at Danforth Music Hall)
5) Free At Last (Live at Lee’s Palace)
6) Concrete (Live at Sneaky Dee’s)
7) Sleep In The Heat (Live at History)
8) See You At Your Funeral (Live at the Concert Hall)
9) Hallways (Live at Lee’s Palace)
10) Reservoir (Live at the Concert Hall)
11) Hunger For Death (live at the Flat Top + Danforth Music Hall)
12) If This Tour Doesn’t Kill You, I Will (Live at History)
13) DVP (Live at Lee’s Palace)
TOUR DATES
12/9 - Waterloo, ON - Maxwell’s Concerts & Events * [LOW TICKETS]
12/11 - London, ON - London Music Hall *
12/12 - Oshawa, ON - Bond|St Event Centre *
12/13 - Hamilton, ON - Bridgeworks *[SOLD OUT]
6/26 - 6/28 - Manchester, UK - Outbreak Fest
6/28 - London, UK - Crystal Palace Park ^
7/8 - 7/11 - Cheltenham, UK - Zootrees Festival
* with Snotty Nose Rez Kids
^ with The Offspring, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise & Destroy Boys