Young Governor – Where It's Quiet 10" Ben Cook's solo endeavor as Young Governor has always swung close to pop but his latest outing wraps up four tracks of pure cane sugar crunch that's an undeniable pop treat. Utilizing the bastard son of vinyl formats, the 10", Cook cleans the usual fuzzed edges of Young Guv's sound with the title track sounding like its ripped right from the soundtrack of any number of 90's indie movies. Pining and jangly, the cut is one of Ben's best yet. The rest of the EP takes [...]
Young Governor, the project from the prolific Ben Cook of Fucked Up and Marveling Darlings, will be releasing a new 10-inch EP titled Where It's Quiet . It's due out November 22, 2011 on 12XU . The label has posted the first song from the 10-inch (along with a pre-order for the vinyl release.
Toronto resident Ben Cook is a guy who is not satisfied with being in one band, nor in two nor three. Cook plays in Fucked Up , is a member of the Bitters but today we're taking a look at two singles of two of his other bands. Young Governor have just released via Portland's Dirtnap what could only be classified as future summer classic in Cindy's Gonna Save Me. It pushes all of my buttons with an infectious chorus and guitar solo that will have you [...]
Roommates è il progetto musicale che Ben Cook, chitarrista dei Fucked Up e in proprio come Young Governor, ha creato insieme al compagno di stanza Mark Fosco (dei Marvelous Darlings). I due hanno in programma di pubblicare quattro cassette per i tipi di Scotch Tapes, ciascuna in un'edizione limitata a 99 copie. La prima di queste quattro [...]
Nearly a year ago we wrote about Young Governor's 7-inch "Virginia Creeper." No joke, but a few spins of the Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook's solo tracks at our regular DJ sets, and the "Verr-gin-yaaaa" chorus is indelibly charbroiled into our medium rare craniums. These new tracks are a bit raunchier than that other 7-inch, coming a few steps closer to the unbridled rawness of his daddy b...
Dope new mixtape from Ben Cook aka Young Governor, featuring new and unreleased material from the Bitters, Marvelous Darlings, Young Governor, the Jonas Bros, and more. You can order a physical copy on cassette from Southpaw (limited ed. of 66), or download for free below courtesy of Young Guv's blog. Full tracklist here. mp3: Young Governor :: Guv Luv Mixtape Vol. 1 (32 mb) ****** click through for more...
There is still something to be said about releasing a great single, and I'm not just talking about the A side... The Great Pumpkin favorite 73s of 2009 10.) Slumberland 's Searching for the Now Vol. 5 (Liechtenstein split 73 w/ The Faintest Ideas) Liechtenstein might be the show that I'm most disappointed that I missed this year, and this 73 would have made my top ten for "This Must Be Heaven" alone. [mp3] [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Canada F---ed Up guitarist Ben 'Young Governor' Cook would like to set something straight -- contrary to reports swirling around the Internet, no one in his band has a bone to pick with Sonic Youth . Nor, did they ever record a track slagging the seminal art-rockers. "I'd just like to clarify that the majority of F---ed Up are huge Sonic Youth fans and the song we wrote is not about the band at all, it's more of [...]
Roommates is the latest project from the prolific Ben Cook (aka Young Governor of the Bitters/Fucked Up/Young Governor fame) and his roommate Mark Fosco of Marvelous Darlings. Their Wi cassingle is the first in a 4-part series that the band will release on a label from "north north ontario" called Scotch Tapes, in an extremely ltd. edition of 99, a few of which may still be available here (the... click through for more...
Virginia Creeper... YOUNG GOVERNOR provoque chez moi une fièvre du genre " Je viens d'écouter 6h de KDB, j'ai comme une énorme envie de baston ", une fièvre qui te rend inexorablement irritable, idiot, cogneur. Nouveau projet solo du Canadien Ben Cook ( Fucked Up, No Warning, Violent Minds, Marvelous Darling), Young Governor tape très fort avec son premier 73 sorti sur Plastic Idol . Synthèse parfaite de garage punk-"hardcore"et de nappes new-wave, les tracks de Young Governor font inexorablement penser à celles du Blood Vision de J. [...]
You know I never was a fan of Fucked Up. Think it had something to do with not growing up a hardcore kid and therefore not having any sense of nostalgia tied to the band but this release by Ben from FU serves up a healthy dose of garage punk that I can get down with. Young Governor - Virginia Creeper 7" With a pretty catchy outlook and some seriously scuzzed up guitar, this 7" from Young Governor has added itself nicely [...]
For those who have memories that span back to last year, it won't be hard to remember how much buzz the Canadian band Fucked Up got from their latest LP, the Chemistry of Common Life . Well, with fame comes side projects, and Fucked Up member Young Governor saw it was time to start releasing tracks under his own name. It's no surprise the Gov is still walking through the realms of punk music, but he displays a pretty strong pop sensibility in his solo stuff. There's definitely some Screeching Weasel or Teenage Head in there. [...]
Nothing out of the ordinary today, just another cycle of new lo-fi junk that I dish out almost everyday now. On a brighter note I finally got Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out today (thanks San Francisco's Nick Barber!). If anything that's what will confined the rest of my day. I'll start off from the blog which I'm getting most of my material from nowadays, Pop Tarts Suck Toasted . Today they had a highlight on Young Governor , which is admittingly really really good. Here's two single's off of Governor's (Ben Cook) Virginia Creeper [...]
Unemployment certainly has its perks. Namely that I get to sit home all day listening to music I never would have gotten to while holding down a job, all while collecting money from the government (I'm waiting for my check NY State!). The latest of my listens really fucking hooked me right from the time I hit play. It wasn't until after I finished listening to the two song 7" that I was able to put 2 and 2 together to figure out that this Young Governor was indeed the very same Young Governor that is a member of Fucked [...]
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