PUP SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “CONCRETE” FROM LATEST ALBUM, WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THE DOGS? RELEASE ALBUM B-SIDE, “IF THIS IS IT”
WATCH / SHARE “CONCRETE” HERE
LISTEN / SHARE “IF THIS IS IT”
BUY / STREAM “CONCRETE” & “IF THIS IS IT”
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“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
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Toronto punk heroes PUP - comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski - released Who Will Look After The Dogs? last year to critical acclaim, and have been on the road ever since. Today they are giving some shine to Dogs-track “Concrete” with a surreal and captivating new music video – an entirely handmade, analog stop-motion video which features 2,300 frames of animation by artists, with every frame a different page from a magazine. To make it, director Sterling Larose filmed the band performing and broke it down into over 1000+ frames to send to thirteen different designers and animators. The artists returned the frames as magazine covers, tabloids, fake ads, zines, etc. – all by hand, no AI anywhere - and the results were printed and filmed frame-by-frame in stop-motion. This video took almost a year to finish due to the extremely ambitious nature of the concept, coupled with a constant stream of technical mishaps and issues, but alas! It has arrived. Alongside this feat of a music video, PUP is sharing a brand new song entitled “If This Is It,” which was recorded during Who Will Look After The Dogs? sessions.
“About a year ago, on our way to Australia, we decided to stop over in Vancouver, visit our pal Sterling, and shoot a video for ‘Concrete,’ one of our favourite songs off the last record,” says Stefan Babcock. “His concept was mental and ambitious. We did the shoot, and waited for the final product. It didn't come. Months passed and it seemed like it had disappeared into some technical abyss never to be seen again. Many days I searched the blackhole of my jetlagged memory and wondered if we'd ever even shot the thing. And then a year later, seemingly out of thin air, Sterling (and the video) surfaced. And we love it to death. It took Sterling and 13 designers and animators hundreds and hundreds of hours, physically creating thousands of individual frames, photographing them, animating. We’re fully aware that releasing a video for a song that’s already been out a year is a stupid thing to do. But we don’t care. At this point, we’re in an incredibly lucky position with PUP to mostly do whatever we want with this band, and for us, it was completely worth the wait. The video was made with no AI - just immense care, patience, and endless frustration on the part of the artists. We're proud to be a part of Sterling's vision and this mammoth project. I hope you like it as much as we do.”
WATCH / SHARE “CONCRETE” HERE
BUY / STREAM “CONCRETE” & “IF THIS IS IT”
PUP released their critically acclaimed new album Who Will Look After The Dogs? last 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! Notably, they will headline FEST in Gainesville, Florida and will have a massive hometown show on August 23. A co-headline with Jimmy Eat World at RBC Amphitheater, PUP will be playing The Dream is Over in its entirety to celebrate the album’s 10th anniversary. See below to find a show near you and get tickets HERE.
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.”
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TOUR DATES
June 27 - Manchester, UK - Outbreak Fest
June 28 - London, UK - Crystal Palace Park $
June 30 - Paris, FR - Point Ephemere
July 2 - Werchter, BE - Rock Werchter
July 4 - London, UK - Signature Brew Blackhorse Road &
July 5 - Sheffield, UK - Foundry &
July 6 - Brighton, UK - Chalk &
July 8 & 9 - Cheltenham, UK - 2000trees Festival
August 23 - Toronto, ON - RBC Amphitheater %
September 19 - Chicago, IL - Riot Fest
October 4 - Santa Ana, CA - Neverender Festival
October 19 - Wilmington, DE - The Queen +
October 20 - Virginia Beach, VA - Elevation 27 +
October 21 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel +
October 23-25 - Gainesville, FL - FEST
October 26 - Birmingham, AL - The Saturn +
October 27 - Indianapolis, IN - Hi-Fi Annex +
October 28 - Louisville, KY - Mercury Ballroom +
October 29 - Nashville, TN - Eastside Bowl +
^ support from Gob
$ with The Offspring, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Billy Talent, Destroy Boys
& support from Gen and The Degenerates
% Co-headline with Jimmy Eat World, support from Ratboys
+ support from NOBRO and PONY
MORE PRAISE FOR WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THE DOGS?
"Is there any band more consistent than PUP these days? Since the mid-2010s, the Toronto rockers have been totally reliable in offering up gang vocals, abject nihilism, and self-deprecation in spades—and their fifth LP is no different." - The Ringer
"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
"Who Will Look After the Dogs? is PUP at their very best and most energetic... Its songs are wonderfully unhinged, perfectly unpredictable, and mix dark humor with darker pathos in typically PUPian style." - FLOOD
"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
