PUP Announce Upcoming EP & Livestream and Share New Single “Rot”
In the futuristic land of livestream concerts, Toronto punk mainstays PUP are jumping into the virtual reality reality on October 23rd as a celebration of their upcoming EP This Place Sucks Ass. The four-piece continued to turn heads with 2019’s Morbid Stuff, the band’s third full-length, and followed up with the equally charged and morbidly fun single “Anaphylaxis and throwback punk cover of Grandaddy’s “A.M. 180”.
About the upcoming livestream, the band share, “What can you expect from the livestream? Like most regular PUP shows, it’ll probably be a bit of a trainwreck, which is really all part of the magic. We don’t know if it’ll be any good, but we do promise it will be weird and different from any livestream you’ve ever seen. It’s being directed by our pal (and 5th member of PUP) Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, who has also directed almost all of our music videos. It will be fun and unhinged and entirely unprofessional. Am I selling it? I think I’m selling it.”
To help fluff up the anticipation, PUP have shared their new single “Rot”, a rambunctious tune that didn’t make the cut onto Morbid Stuff, but the band felt needed a place to live – along with the other five tracks from the new EP.
In familiar PUP fashion, brash guitar riffs clear a path for lead singer Stefan Babcock’s coarse vocals to sing/shout his negativity into the world with an upside down appeal.
Listen to “Rot” below and get tickets for the livestream/pre-order This Place Sucks Ass HERE.
