Best Coast’s new album has arrived, and I am happy to report that I am in stupid love with every song. The duo (Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno) smashed expectations on The Only Place, avoiding the sophomore slump and producing something beautiful. Their first album, Crazy For You, stole the hearts of everyone who took the time to listen, causing many sing-alongs among the happy hipsters of the world. We all know Bethany Cosentino has a beautiful voice; however, under the comforting...Read Full Story
The Best Coast frontwoman wears the selected hand-me-down jacket. Photo: Best Coast Facebook Page.
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Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast as well as a demeanour from her Urban Outfitters collection. Photo: Getty Images/Urban Outfitters’ Tumblr
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Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast and a look from her Urban Outfitters collection. Photo: Getty Images/Urban Outfitters’ Tumblr
Ever since we heard the news of Best Coast’s frontwoman Bethany Cosentino creating a capsule collection for Urban Outfitters, we’ve been DYING to know more. Since it’s for UO’s Urban Renewal line, there’s definitely going to be a slight vintage vibe to all her custom designed pieces, but… what inspired her collection? How did this whole thing go down? Why did Urban...Read Full Story
It wasn't too long ago that Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast was a normal 22-year old girl living in California, sorting through the emotional ups and downs of everyday life. The singer-songwriter/guitarist has since joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno and started banging out 60's surf rock-influenced numbers as Best Coast.…
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In the past, Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino delivered a fuzzy, lazy, lo-fidelity approach to surf rock that dealt with boys, cats, crushes and other light topics. Cosentino doesn't want to be seen as a lightweight songwriter on Best Coast's ...
Two years ago, when couch-surfing Californian Bethany Cosentino released “Crazy for You” — the reverb-drenched debut of Best Coast, her band with guitarist ... She is getting serious with a new sophomore CD “The Only Place,” produced by the ...
Best Coast’s sophomore album, The Only Place, is set for release tomorrow, but singer Bethany Cosentino has another project launching this week as well. The fashionable frontwoman has teamed with Urban Outfitters to create her own line of ...
The tour will be the band's first shows as a four piece, with Best Coast's core members Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno now set to be joined by Rafe Mandel and Brett Mielke.
Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino has revealed her forthcoming Urban Outfitters clothing line is inspired by Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks. The range, which is her first, is due to be available to buy in May of this year. She told Pitchfork: "Stevie Nicks has ...
I want babies to be created to this music. I want people to have their yoghurt while listening to this record. Consentino was talking to the newspaper to promote the release of Best Coast's new album 'The Only Place', which is out tomorrow (May 14).
In 2010 Bethany Cosentino won over the ears of well, damn near everyone and their mother, with her band Best Coast’s debut, Crazy For You—without really trying. It was an album that was as endearing in its candor as it was in its simple and summery pop constructions. Simply put: Cosentino was far from reinventing the verse-chorus-verse, but she did manage to give by-the-numbers fuzz pop a welcome jolt....
On Best Coast’s 2010 debut, “Crazy for You,” Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno made perfectly fizzy California guitar-pop, catchy as all get-out. Even when Cosentino pined for an elusive boyfriend, it felt almost uplifting, in part because ...
Who would have thought that one of the summer’s most bummer albums would come from Best Coast? When Bethany Cosentino’s beach-pop band emerged with 2010’s “Crazy For You,” the only thing keeping her from being the year’s most bright-eyed newcomer was that her eyes were too bloodshot from smoking so much weed. Cosentino’s formula was supremely simple — fuzzy guitars, tales of slacker romance — and the results were sometimes frustratingly naive...