{"id":43538,"date":"2025-07-25T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=43538"},"modified":"2025-07-19T07:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:41:45","slug":"piss-take-their-easy-listening-fury-global-with-massive-international-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=43538","title":{"rendered":"PISS take their ‘easy listening’ fury global with massive international tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Don\u2019t let the name\u2014or the sly \u201ceasy listening\u201d tagline on their Instagram\u2014fool you. Vancouver\u2019s PISS are anything but gentle. The four-piece punk\/art collective have announced a six-week international tour that\u2019ll see them tear through Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Europe this fall, bringing their raw, genre-obliterating performances to a series of clubs, festivals, and unsuspecting audiences across two continents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve caught them live, you already know what\u2019s coming. Their sets feel less like shows and more like controlled detonations\u2014tense, cathartic, and emotionally blistering. \u201cA pack of open nerves\u201d is how RANGE described them after a Sled Island set that had people crying in the crowd. When they played with Lambrini Girls, Exclaim! called out their ability to completely shift the atmosphere from note one. It’s art. It’s punk. It’s chaos, turned surgical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fronted by Taylor Zantingh, whose lyricism cuts deep into themes of gender violence, predation, and systemic cruelty, PISS fuse noise, poetry, performance art, sound collage, and razor-edged punk into a live experience that feels as cerebral as it is bodily. Zantingh’s presence is gripping\u2014sometimes vulnerable, sometimes furious, but always intensely real. Backed by the surgical chaos of Tyler Paterson (guitar), Gavin Moya (bass), and Garreth Roberts (drums), the band brings a sound that\u2019s both precise and guttural, equal parts philosophy and feral energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that \u201ceasy listening\u201d joke? It\u2019s not just irony\u2014it\u2019s a statement. PISS challenge the idea that loud, angry music can\u2019t also carry layered, nuanced thought. They\u2019re pulling from everywhere\u2014German anarcho-feminist militants, Freud, film, literature, even their own audience members. It\u2019s punk, yes. But not as you know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite only having a few demos up on Bandcamp, PISS have already built a passionate community around them. And now, with a team behind them and a growing list of festival bookings, they\u2019re taking it worldwide. The tour kicks off in Vancouver this July with a string of West Coast U.S. dates before hitting POP Montreal, Project Nowhere in Toronto, and then crossing the Atlantic for a U.K.\/EU run that includes The Windmill, Twisterella, SWN, Left of the Dial, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catch them while you can. Or miss one of the most exciting, confrontational, and deeply human punk acts currently stomping across stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PISS LIVE DATES \u2013 2025<\/strong>

August 21 \u2013 Vancouver, BC \u2013 Hollywood Theatre (w\/ Bratmobile)
September 13 \u2013 Seattle, WA \u2013 Barboza (w\/ Omni)
September 15 \u2013 Portland, OR \u2013 Polaris Hall (w\/ Omni)
September 17 \u2013 San Francisco, CA \u2013 Kilowatt (w\/ Omni)
September 18 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA \u2013 Zebulon (w\/ Omni)
September 25 \u2013 Montreal, QC \u2013 POP Montreal
September 26 \u2013 Montreal, QC \u2013 POP Montreal
September 29 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA \u2013 Ortlieb\u2019s Lounge
September 30 \u2013 Queens, NYC \u2013 Trans-Pecos
October 3 \u2013 Toronto, ON \u2013 Baby G (Project Nowhere)
October 8 \u2013 London, U.K. \u2013 Strongrooms
October 9 \u2013 London, U.K. \u2013 The Windmill
October 11 \u2013 Middlesbrough, U.K. \u2013 Twisterella Festival
October 16 \u2013 Cardiff, WA \u2013 SWN Festival
October 17 \u2013 Norwich, U.K. \u2013 Wild Paths Festival (Store Church)
October 18 \u2013 Birmingham, U.K. \u2013 Future Days Festival
October 22 \u2013 Gent, BE \u2013 Big Next Festival
October 23 \u2013 Rotterdam, NL \u2013 Left of the Dial Festival
October 24 \u2013 Rotterdam, NL \u2013 Left of the Dial Festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep an eye on their\u00a0Bandcamp<\/a>\u00a0for more (or just to remind yourself how much noise can be packed into a demo). This fall, PISS is bringing the storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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