Vancouver’s PISS — and yes, the name is intentional, confrontational, and completely on-brand — have just announced they’ve signed to Sub Pop for the world, with Paper Bag Records handling Canada. Alongside the signing news comes a sprawling international tour that kicks off May 2 at Sound City Festival in Liverpool and doesn’t wrap until November 5 at Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavik. That’s a lot of European floors about to get destroyed.
If you haven’t encountered PISS yet, here’s the quick brief: they’re a noisy, genre-bending 4-piece out of Vancouver whose music sits somewhere between hardcore, art-rock, and experimental poetry. Vocalist and poet Taylor Zantingh shouts, growls, and shrieks her way through tracks that unpack body image, codependency, and the very real violence of enculturated gender norms — pulling in audio samples from feminist activist Andrea Dworkin along the way. The band even captions their videos for accessibility. These are people who have genuinely thought about what they’re doing and why.
Post-Trash called them “a lightning bolt.” DIY noted how the group fuses spoken word, visual art, and experimental performance into something that “blurs the lines between wildly complex interpersonal and political themes, with a beautifully human feel to it.” The Line of Best Fit put it plainly after catching them live: “It is like nothing I have ever seen before… a sound that’s entirely new and stunningly raw.” That’s a lot of glowing co-signs before a debut record has even dropped.
And that debut — whenever it comes — is going to land on one of the most storied indie labels in the game. Sub Pop has a knack for this kind of thing.
The band is: Taylor Zantingh (vocals — also a poet and teacher), Tyler Paterson (guitar — filmmaker), Gavin Moya (bass), and Garreth Roberts (drums). They perform a live set that functions as much as performance art as a punk show, pulling from literary giants, philosophers, psychoanalysts, filmmakers, painters, activists, and even members of a German anarcho-feminist militant group. It’s a lot — in the best possible way.
Watch PISS perform live under Oak Street Bridge below, then scroll down for all the tour dates. Catch them while the rooms are still small.
PISS — 2026 Tour Dates
May 2 — Liverpool, UK — Sound City Festival
May 3 — Leeds, UK — Gold Sounds Festival
May 6 — Glasgow, UK — Hug and Pint
May 7 — Manchester, UK — Yes (Basement)
May 9 — Wrexham, UK — FOCUS Wales Festival
May 11 — London, UK — Lexington
May 14 — Brighton, UK — The Great Escape Festival
May 16 — Amsterdam, NL — London Calling Festival
May 17 — Brussels, BE — Les Nuits Botanique Festival
May 19 — Paris, FR — Le Klub
May 20 — Rennes, FR — Antipode
May 23 — Bristol, UK — Dot to Dot Festival
May 24 — Nottingham, UK — Dot to Dot Festival
July 30 — Happy Valley, OR — Pickathon
August 1 — Sackville, NB — Sappyfest
August 28 — Eindhoven, NL — Hit The City Festival
September 4 — Brighton, UK — Brighton Psych Fest
September 6 — Salisbury, UK — End of the Road Festival
November 5 — Reykjavik, IS — Iceland Airwaves
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