PUP will release the live album, Megacity Madness, on March 13th. They’ve also released a 6-part documentary which can be watched below.
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 & 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. “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.”