PUP & Jeff Rosenstock, A Cataclysmic Rapture Of Friendshipness Tour at Mission Ballroom

Concert Gallery

Oct 16

Jeff Rosenstock and PUP go way back: basement tours, shared shout-alongs, and a decade of mutual destruction. They’ve sung on each other’s records, crashed on each other’s couches, and survived at least one tour described as a “complete disaster.” This co-headline run? Fueled by years of friendship, the collab track “Get Dumber”, and the kind of unhinged energy you only get when two bands stop pretending they’re not already in the same gang. The two teamed up and graced Denver’s Mission Ballroom on 10/11/2025 on the last day of their “ A Cataclysmic Rapture of Friendshipness” Tour.

Jeff Rosenstock

The crown prince of punk’s anxious heart, Jeff Rosenstock writes songs like he’s sprinting from an existential panic attack straight into a sweaty basement show. Formerly the chaos conductor of Bomb the Music Industry!, Rosenstock’s solo work is a jagged, jubilant mess of lo-fi pop-punk, ska bursts, and scream-til-you-bleed honesty. His records “WORRY.”, “POST-”, and “HELLMODE” aren’t polished, they’re volcanic: exploding with guilt, hope, rage, and those weird feelings you can’t name but definitely scream about. He’s DIY to the bone, anti-corporate in spirit, and somehow always sounds like your best friend having a breakdown in the middle of a confetti cannon.

PUP

Toronto’s loudest therapy session. PUP (short for Pathetic Use of Potential) makes music for anyone who’s ever self-sabotaged and then laughed about it mid-panic attack. Their blend of melodic punk, mathy riffs, and bark-along choruses turns personal disaster into cathartic chaos. Frontman Stefan Babcock shreds his vocal cords screaming about failure, fear, and dead dogs (seriously—“Old Wounds”, anyone?). But beneath the wreckage is a band that cares—about craft, about community, and about giving you the loudest group hug you didn’t know you needed. Start with “The Dream Is Over”, and if you don’t feel something…check your pulse.