PUP, the excellent Canadian punk band (and one of our 40 favorite new bands of the year) had a bit of a surprise for their audience last week at the Halifax Pop Explosion Festival, when they started covering Fucked Up’s “Queen Of Hearts,” from their last album David Comes To Life (our #4 album of [...]

Around these parts, the New York streetwear company Mishka is mostly known for releasing really good rap mixtapes. But Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis, not exactly the most fashion-minded musician in the game, has been wearing their Keep Watch eyeball-logo T-shirts for a while now, possibly because he noticed that Fucked Up’s Damian Abr...

The British duo Fucked Up called their excellent most recent album Slow Focus, and their new video for the pounding, blaring, generally unrelenting “Brainfreeze” sure doesn’t bother too much with focus. The video might be a little easier to watch, though, if it were more unfocused. Andrew Hung, one half of the duo, ...

At their performance at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge this weekend, Fucked Up debuted the latest single in their Zodiac series. “Year Of The Dragon” is exactly the kind of sprawling hardcore anthem you’d expect from the Canadian band and is set to be released in April. When we talked to lead singer Damien Abraham...

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