Upchuck will release their debut album I’m Nice Now on October 3, via Domino Records. Ahead of the album’s arrival, the band have shared new single “New Case.” The track is accompanied by a Claymation video by the animator Cissi Efraimsson. Upchuck’s headlining tour kicked off this week I’m Nice Now includes previous singles “Tired,” “Plastic,” “Forgotten Token,” and “Un Momento.”

As KT puts it, there’s never been a moment when she didn’t have rage. As the singer of Upchuck, the Georgia punk band whose music is as sharp as a scythe, KT has felt fierce energy inside her well before she had the band as an outlet through which to channel it. As a Black woman in America, rage has been the tint on the window through which she’s had to view the world. The experience of listening to Upchuck – KT plus drummer/vocalist Chris Salgado, guitarists Mikey Durham and Hoff, and bassist Ausar Ward – is to feel a distillation of that existence, all of its pain, sorrow, anger, and fear translated through raw punk music.

I’m Nice Now was recorded at Sonic Ranch Studio, a residential studio in the desert in Texas, with Ty Segall as producer. The band was influenced heavily by the Stooges and, after becoming so tight from the road, recorded live to tape. There are minimal overdubs. They kept it going until they got it as right as it needed to be. Also adding vocals on the spot was the band’s drummer Chris, who the band encouraged to write lyrics in his native Spanish and duet with KT on a couple songs, something he’d not done before on an album. He aimed to blend the sound of the cumbia music he was raised on.

Upchuck 2025 Tour Dates

10/1: Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
10/2: The Underground (Nile) – Mesa, AZ
10/3: The Whistle Stop – San Diego, CA
10/4: Sardine – San Pedro, CA
10/5: The Echo – Los Angeles, CA
10/6: Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA
10/8: Star Theater – Portland, OR
10/9: Black Lodge – Seattle, WA
10/10: Shrine Social Club Basement – Boise, ID
10/11: The DLC at Quarters – Salt Lake City, UT
10/13: Moe’s Original BBQ & Bowl – Denver, CO
10/15: Subterranean – Chicago, IL
10/16: Third Man Records – Detroit, MI
10/17: Bottlerocket Social Hall – Pittsburgh, PA
10/18: Elsewhere (Zone One) – Brooklyn, NY
10/20: Foto Club – Philadelphia, PA
10/21: DC9 – Washington, DC
10/22: Static Age – Asheville, NC
10/31: Goat Farm – Atlanta, GA
11/4: Hare & Hounds – Birmingham, UK
11/5: Pitchfork Festival @ Village Underground – London, UK
11/6: Wharf Chambers – Leeds, UK
11/7: Mutations Festival – Brighton, UK
11/8: Simple Things Festival – Bristol, UK
11/9: YES – Manchester, UK
11/11: Brussels Botanique – Brussels, BE
11/12: Point Ephemere – Paris, FR
11/13: Skate Cafe – Amsterdam, NL
11/14: Hafenklang – Hamburg, DE
11/15: Copenhagen Loppen – Copenhagen, DK
11/16: Berghain Kantine – Berlin, DE
11/18: Bumann & Sohn – Cologne, DE
11/19: Bad Bon – Dudingen, CH

Pre-order I’m Nice Now by Upchuck HERE