11 New Songs Out Today
Listen to new songs by Taylor Hawkins/Chrissie Hynde, Brooke Candy/Rico Nasty, The Orielles, John Moreland, Black Tusk, Bill Ward's Day of Errors, and more.
Ben Cook
Bill’s Indie Basement (8/2): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week: reviews of new albums by Ty Segall, Possible Humans and Young Guv, and new singles from Kelley Stoltz and Spinning Coin.
Young Guv (Ben from Fucked Up) released new 7″ – watch the “It Could Be Me” video
When not making blistering punk with Fucked Up, guitarist Ben Cook crafts ultra-catchy guitar pop as Young Guv. There's a new Young Guv single out today...
Elliott Vincent Jones releasing debut EP (listen to “In Madrid”), playing shows with Mac D…
Toronto's Elliott Vincent Jones makes blissed-out synthpop that owes a little to the genre's early-'80s heyday, but also has a distinct breezy, balearic streak running though it...
Toronto duo Ice Cream releasing debut LP produced by Ben of Fucked Up (listen to “Receiver…
Toronto's Carlyn Bezic and Amanda Crist formed Ice Cream a couple years ago, making what they call "molecular pop" that is not unlike the minimal, sub-zero funk of early-'80s postpunk/synthwave. You may have seen them on tour with U.S. Girls in 2014 and the duo are set to release their deb…
Murphy’s Law playing Jimmy Gestapo’s 50th birthday show; Build and Destroy streaming new E…
Murphy's Law frontman Jimmy Gestapo turns 50 this year, and he and the band are celebrating with a hometown show on August 12 at Bowery Electric with Drunken Rampage, Caught In A Trap and
No Warning (Ben Cook’s pre-Fucked Up band) playing first North American show in a decade i…
As you may know, before Ben Cook (aka Young Governor) joined Fucked Up in 2007, he fronted the late '90s - mid '00s hardcore band No Warning...
Toronto band Actual Water ready ‘Call 4 Fun’ (watch a video)
Toronto's Actual Water have been around in one form or another since the late '00s, centered around Gary Pooni and Anthony Nemet. Currently a four-piece that includes "Marvelous" Mark Fosco, the band make smart (smartass) powerpop, the kind Canadian bands seem to do so well...
Marvelous Mark (ex Marvelous Darlings) releasing solo single (stream a track)
Marvelous Mark spent the latter half of the '00s as part of Toronto's Marvelous Darlings who mixed punk and powerpop garage and also featured Fucked Up's Ben Cook...
Toronto’s Ell V Gore releasing EP on new label from Fucked Up’s Ben Cook (stream it)
Did you know that beautiful and clean Toronto has a late night sex party underworld? Apparently it does and at the forefront of this debauchery -- at least according to the press release -- is 24-year-old and party-thower, Ell V...