Ben Cook

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This week: reviews of new albums by Ty Segall, Possible Humans and Young Guv, and new singles from Kelley Stoltz and Spinning Coin.

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...

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'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 debut album Love, Ice Cream on June 3 via Bad Actors (the label run by Fucked Up's Ben Cook)... Read Mo

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

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'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 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...

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...