“If you give me another chance, I’m probably gonna fuck it up anyway” — now that’s some admirable self-knowledge. The Toronto punk boys in Pup are veterans by now, going strong on their fifth album Who Will Look After the Dogs? Twelve years past their frantic, funny debut, they still …
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Pup and Jeff Rosenstock are hoping the second time is the charm as they prepare to embark on the co-headlining Pup + Jeff Rosenstock Present: A Cataclysmic Rapture of Friendshipness tour. Their first time on the road together, back in 2015, was marred by broken down vans, band member injuries, …
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Toronto punk act Pup will return in 2025 with their new album Who Will Look After the Dogs?, their first LP in three years. Ahead of the album’s release on May 2, the foursome have shared the first single “Hallways,” which singer Stefan Babcock penned in the immediate aftermath of …
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Charly Bliss and PUP bring emo magic to the holidays with “It’s Christmas and I Fucking Miss You.” “Deck the halls, the snowflakes fall/But I’m not feeling glad at all,” Charly Bliss’ Eva Hendricks announces, singing into a hairbrush in the shower with a Santa hat. “It’s Christmas and I …
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“I have been grappling with a lot of negative emotions for many years,” PUP singer-guitarist Stefan Babcock says. “I deal with depression a lot. Writing songs has just been a way for me to kind of explore what was going on in my own brain.” Babcock got to know himself …
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