PUP has never been a band that goes unnoticed. Each Canadian tour functions as a shared party, group therapy and, above all, an opportunity to remember that punk can be emotional, chaotic and deeply communal. Now, the band turns that energy into tangible history: a live album, a six-episode documentary and a 196-page zine.
The triple release, entitled Megacity Madness, is a love letter to their city (Toronto), to their audience and to the beautiful rarity of having turned a basement band into a global family. More than archival material, it is a collective gesture: punk is not nostalgia, it is shared memory.
Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings) – vinyl only, devotees only
The live album compiles recordings from the six consecutive shows PUP played in Toronto during the Who Will Look After The Dogs? tour. A tour that left no small venues in its wake: it began in basements and ended in the city’s historic halls, as if they were rewriting their own story to the rhythm of each audience jump.
Featured Tracklist:
- “Morbid Stuff” from a house show.
- “Kids” and “No Hope” from Sneaky Dee’s.
- “Sleep in the Heat” in History
- “If This Tour Doesn’t Kill You, I Will” from History
Exclusive vinyl. No streaming. Only for those who want the object, the memory and the rite.
📅 Available March 13, 2026.
🏪 Through its website and indie stores.
Six-episode documentary featuring punk, community and happy exhaustion.
Directed by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Clem Hoener, the documentary traces the six nights of the tour through close-up, sweaty, almost domestic cameras. An honest celebration of chaos, exhaustion and friendship.
Vocalist Stefan Babcock sums it up with a sincerity that is pure PUP:
“We never expected to come out of basements. If we hadn’t recorded this, you wouldn’t believe it happened.”
It’s not posturing. It is the confession of a band that knows that their success is not born from marketing but from something rarer and more fragile: a community that embraces them from below.
Megacity MegaZine 196 pages of madness, memories and punk love
The zine that accompanies the release is a huge archive: unpublished photos, handwritten texts, tour anecdotes, chaotic illustrations and testimonials from guests, including Jeff Rosenstock and Nobro. It’s printed memory. Printable punk. An object that honors DIY with emotional luxury.
For a band that has always flirted with humor, tragedy, and sentimental mischief, this zine is almost an intimate tour diary. Like looking inside PUP’s brain, but in color.
Why PUP transcends punk… without ever leaving it behind
PUP is, perhaps, one of the last great examples of emotional punk without pose. They prove that a show is not a show: it’s a massive therapy where everybody sings as if their life was at stake.
That’s why Megacity Madness is not a souvenir. It’s a statement:
📌 punk lives when we archive it to remember it together.
