The Polaris Music Prize honors the best album out of Canada and this year hip-hop is most heavily represented with Shad, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, and Haviah Mighty all getting a nod. The list also includes Toronto punk favorites PUP, electronic producer Marie Davidson, and funk-punk ensemble FET.NAT. Full shortlist of 10 albums looks like […]

"'Morbid Stuff' just still sounds like friends having fun and making catchy, cathartic punk anthems for teens and almost-adults alike" - Exclaim reviews the new PUP album. Sputnik Music loved it even more: "It’s a complete thrill from front to back that manages to retain the band’s whacky nature while making some inspiring progressions forward. […]

Sharing the chords and lyrics to their new single ‘Free At Last’ a good few weeks before anyone had heard it, Canadian punks PUP challenged their followers to cover the song in whatever style they saw fit. Completely unaware of how the ‘real’ track would go, fans were left entirely to their own devices. They […]