Bethany Cosentino

The Top 10 Memorial Day Weekend Concerts in L.A.

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, May 24 Boris ECHOPLEX Japanese experimental rockers Boris have spent their entire 15-year career making sure that their fans are unable to predict what will come next from the band. One album could consist of thrashi ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Tuesday, September 4 Krzysztof Urbanski conducts "Three Russian Masters" HOLLYWOOD BOWL The classical canon today is both questioned for its relevance and pounced upon eagerly by a new generation of composers, performers and conductors of prodigious technical and scholarly gifts. The young firebran ... More >>

Music Picks: FYF Festival, Jillinda Palmer, Gaslamp Killer

L.A. Weekly Web Awards 2012: We've Got Some Finalists!

We asked for your help finding the best and brightest online in Los Angeles, and you delivered. After combing through thousands of nominations for the L.A. Weekly Web Awards 2012, we're happy to announce our finalists. But we can't do all of this ourselves. We've got a panel of judges to help us pi ... More >>

Best Coast - The Wiltern - 5/18/12

See also: The Branding of Best Coast: The Duo Partners With Urban Outfitters, Inspires Internet Wrath Best Coast, Jeff the Brotherhood, Abe Vigoda The Wiltern 5/18/12 Better than: listening to The Only Place on a "My First Turntable" from Urban Outfitters. Last night I was officially converted t ... More >>

Music Picks: Too $hort, Best Coast, Brad Mehldau Trio

Also, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Simon Stokes, Sonnymoon, and others

Lewis Pesacov: Don't Hate Him Because His Life Is Amazing

See also: The Alchemy of Fool's Gold: The self-titled debut album by a polyglot L.A. 10-piece: Hebrew vocals and West African rhythms? Lewis Pesacov is living the dream. Not only has he learned to make a career out of being a musician, but he's learned to separate his personal projects from his wor ... More >>

Best Coast on Designing Clothes for Urban Outfitters, and Other Subjects

See also: *The Branding of Best Coast *Our Best Coast cover story from 2010 Our music feature this week focuses on indie-pop duo Best Coast. They're a band with a lot of fans and a lot of critics -- some of whom don't approve of their increasingly-symbiotic relationship with Urban Outfitters, and ... More >>

The Branding of Best Coast

The Duo's Singer Bethany Cosentino Partners With Urban Outfitters, Inspires Internet Wrath

Wanda Jackson/Best Coast - Club Nokia - Dec 31 2011

Daniel KohnWanda Jackson​See also: Wanda Jackson On How Jack White Convinced Her To Do Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good" Wanda Jackson/Best Coast Club Nokia 12/31/11 Legendary rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson has experienced a career renaissance in the past 12 months, as summed up by the ... More >>

10 Best New Year's Eve Events in Los Angeles

Flickr/ Bayasaa​ New Year's is upon us soon, and with that, the angsty debate about what to do in order to make it the most epic night of both the last and the new year begins (no pressure attached, of course). In order to take some of the stress out of planning the big party, here are LA Wee ... More >>

Zola Jesus, LA Vampires, Xanopticon - Echoplex - October 31, 2011

ian Cohen​See also: *Zola Jesus Brings Her Unsettled and Prickly Vision to L.A. *Amanda Brown of LA Vampires: Raw Foodist, Colossal In Kiev Zola Jesus, LA Vampires, Xanopticon Echoplex October 31, 2011 Better than... Seeing MC 900 Ft. Jesus on Columbus Day. Gotta admit, perhaps the greates ... More >>

Bleached - Los Globos - October 4, 2011

See also: "Make No Mistake: Bleached Are Punk as Fuck" Bleached Los Globos October 4, 2011 Better than ... girly boy bands. Walking into a venue as Madonna's "Borderline" plays should officially be considered an auspicious start to a concert. If that's followed by Olivia Newton John's "Magic" an ... More >>

Touching Amy

Wavves of Pleasure: Indie Poster Boy Nathan Williams Makes Time For Recreation

Pooneh GhanaNathan Williams​See also: Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty The decor of the Eagle Rock home Nathan Williams shares with his girlfriend, Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, looks kind of like how his music sounds: fun, a little gr ... More >>

Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty

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Thundercat Emerges With His Debut, Co-produced by Flying Lotus

LA Vampires - Dem Passwords - 8/3/11

Ethan Higbee LA Vampires​LA Vampires Dem Passwords art gallery 8/3/11 Better than...Um, wine? LA Vampires is the latest project from Amanda Brown, who was formerly in Pocahaunted with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino. She performed last night with her husband Britt Brown and Nick Malkin, the t ... More >>

Best Coast's Pre-Carmageddon Jam at the Getty's "Saturdays Off The 405"

Lina LecaroCoasting off the 405.​Hype is a hard thing to overcome. Whether we're talking bands or freeway closures, it usually means a letdown. Last Saturday, one of L.A.'s most hyped bands (at least by media, here included) Best Coast, played a free show preceding an upcoming event nearby th ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Best Coast, Cops and the Cheesecake Factory at Make Music Pasadena

Sam BlochBest Coast, Assembled Multitudes​ STORY BY SAM BLOCH At the dawn of the Napster age, sociologist Tia DeMora wrote eloquently of the relationship between commerce and pop music. "Consumption behavior can be understood as a kind of dance," she wrote. And in a retail environment, it's ... More >>

Most Adorable California Girl Fashions at the Best Coast Show @ The Music Box

Timothy NorrisBethany Cosentino​ [For more photos from Thursday's show see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Best Coast and Wavves Co-Headlining Tour Comes to The Music Box".] Eagle Rock resident and Best Coast's lead singer Bethany Cosentino has been deemed by both mainstream press and indie hipst ... More >>

Top 10 Bands That Should Have Broken Up Instead of the White Stripes

10 Bands Who Should Break Up

Pussy Galore!: Top 10 Cat-Themed Music Videos of All Time (Featuring Best Coast's Newest)

Top 10 Kitty Videos

Time Machine: See What Ten LA Musicians (and Betty White!) Will Look Like 20 Years From Now

LA is famous for a lot of things, but perhaps nothing says Hollywood magic quite like the ubiquitous, desperate quest to stay young forever and ever and ever. Think you're above it? Live east of Alameda for a 2 years and you'll be staring emptily into every mirror you see, desperately trying to perf ... More >>

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We Cast the "L.A. Music Scene 2011" Biopic!: Which Top 10 Relevant Actors and Actresses Should Play These 10 Relevant L.A. Musicians?

10 Actors to Play Musicians in L.A.'s Music Scene

Rick Moranis Joins Weezer and Best Coast On Stage?

Rick Moranis Joins Weezer and Best Coast On Stage?

Live Review: Weezer's Memorable Take On "The Blue Album" Plus Giddiest Hits at Gibson Amphitheatre

Lina LecaroWeezer bring back a vintage design on the drum kit.​Obviously, Weezer really took the "Memories" theme of their current tour to heart. The band's two nights at the Gibson Amphitheatre this weekend not only featured giddy "greatest hits" sets followed by full track-by-track rendition ... More >>

This weekend: Best Coast, Stars, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Fistful of Mercy, Mayer Hawthorne, Junip, Pennywise, Ghostface Killah

Best Coast​"I went from being a college dropout to being NME's top-four cool list," Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino tells the Weekly's own Gustavo Turner in last week's cover story. "It's just bizarre the way life kind of turns and changes sometimes." Yeah, we'd say so. The L.A. trio's modest ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Jo Williams, Usher, Masaki Batoh, Procol Harum

Also, Dustin Wong, Greg Dulli, Ghostface Killah

The L.A. Weekly Interview: Best Coast

A few songs about her crazy, lazy, hazy L.A. world turned Bethany Cosentino into a global icon of cool. Yeah, she's as surprised as you are

The LA Weekly Interview with Best Coast: Bethany Cosentino on Why She Had to Leave Brooklyn, How She Is (and Isn't) Like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Being Only Slightly Less Cool than Kanye, and Joan Didion (Yes, Joan Didion)

Sean TeegardenLA Weekly cover girl: Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino​ Alright--we gave you the sneak peek a couple of days ago, and now here it is. The LA Weekly Interview: Best Coast (read the whole thing here). It is a profile of rising star Bethany Cosentino that we're sure is gonna challeng ... More >>

Prediction: This Kid is Gonna Be The Coolest Music Star of 2017

Timothy NorrisThis kid will rule us all​ We don't know who this kid is. We don't even known if he plays any music. But you know what? He's gonna be the Coolest Music Star of 2017 (way above this year's darling and LA Weekly cover girl, Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino). Wanna know why?

Exclusive: Wanna Know the Name of the Upcoming Best Coast/Weezer Song Collaboration? (Sneak Peak of This Week's LA Weekly Interview with Bethany Cosentino)

Sean TeagardenBest Coast's Bethany Cosentino meets her own teen idol, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo​Well, we've been keeping the details of our next big LA Weekly interview under wraps for a while, but we can now tell you that this Thursday, when you pick up your customary copy of LA's best alt-weekly ... More >>

Best Coast Releases New Video for Hipster Runoff's Carles to Make Fun Of

Boo-yah!​We've said it before: every time Best Coast does something we get a certain tingle just waiting to see what her/their nemesis, the mysterious Carles from the Hipster Runoff buzzblog, will say about it. Best Coast seems like a band genetically engineered for Carles to mock, and his un ... More >>

East Meets West: Jersey Shore's Snooki Tours with Best Coast, Parties with Wavves

This just in: Last night via Twitter, Best Coast's So. Cal surf-pop queen Bethany Cosentino revealed that the band has an unexpected fan (stalker, more like it) in Jersey Shore, erm, icon Snooki, a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi. Unlikely, sure, but it's hard to argue with the evidence: photos of Snooki with ... More >>

What Records Did LA Buzzband Best Coast Get at Amoeba?

LA buzzband Best Coast bring their buzz to Amoeba and choose buzzworthy alt-artifacts​Best Coast is a buzzworthy LA buzzband featuring Bethany Cosentino, who sometimes is referred to as "Best Coast" in the same way Carlos Santana from the band Santana is often referred to as Santana. Bobb Bru ... More >>

The Best of FYF Fest: Best Fashions, Surprising Bands to Watch, Biggest Bummers (oh, and Ariel Pink: Still Crazy)

Timothy NorrisThere's a thin line between hipster and furry, wethink​[See also Timothy Norris' slideshow "FYF Fest 2010 with The Rapture, Dead Man's Bones, Panda Bear and More".] Given that I refuse to pair a word as lovely as "summer" near detractors such as cruel "end" or the gentler "fade, ... More >>

Wavves: All Hail King Skinny Shitster

Does frontman Nathan Williams speak for the loser in us all?

Best Coast Extends Headlining Tour, Offers Free 'Boyfriend' MP3

Best Coast Extends Headlining Tour, Offers Free 'Boyfriend' MP3

Watch: Best Coast Meets Kid Cudi Meets Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij in 'All Summer'

Kid Cudi​File this one under: "Shilling for shoes." A couple of weeks ago we hipped you to the pending Converse-sponsored collaboration between L.A.'s rising surf-pop princess Bethany Cosentino, a.k.a. Best Coast, Cleveland rapper Kid Cudi and New York's Rostam Batmanglij, who sometimes perfo ... More >>

Best Coast Is Best California Band of 2010 (According to Bostonians)

Drew Tewksbury​A few years ago, The Phoenix, Boston's leading alt-weekly, came up with a neat annual music future: they surveyed the US state-by-state and had their music critics pick the best "new" band from each state. The first year they did this, 2008, they also picked the best group and s ... More >>

Best Coast Announces Details of Debut Album,'Crazy for You'

Best Coast Announces Details of Debut Album,'Crazy for You'

Best Coast Covers Wavves at Primavera Festival

Drew TewksburyBest Coast's Bethany Cosentino​Pitchfork reports that during Best Coast's appearance at the amazingly well-booked Primavera festival in Spain, the LA band covered Wavves' "So Bored." The performance was apparently a cheeky reference to last year's infamous onstage meltdown at th ... More >>

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Talks Surfer Blood, Upcoming Album, Seinfeld and Cats

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Talks Surfer Blood Encounters, Upcoming Album, Seinfeld and Cats

Video: Best Coast's Bethany C. Hates Sleeping Alone, Dates Famous Clown

Best Coast has just released their new video for single "When I'm With You." It features Bethany Cosentino (just christened "adorable lo-fi princess" by Spin) cavorting around with Ronald McDonald and pouting that she "hates sleeping alone" (awwwww.....). If you like the Go-Go's, you'll like it. (A ... More >>

Last Word on SXSW: Drew Tewksbury's Top 3 Picks (LA Band, Coming Soon, Wild Card)

Last Word on SXSW: Drew Tewksbury's Top 3 Picks (LA Band, Coming Soon, Wild Card)

Rumor Mill: Does Upcoming New Best Coast Video Feature Famous Spokesclown?

​We hear that Best Coast is about to drop a new video where Bethany Cosentino's boyfriend is played by a famous spokesclown for a fast-food chain. Apparently, they engage in typical dating behavior (riding a bicycle for two, walks on the beach, etc). Cosentino spoke to WCS's Drew Tewskesbury ... More >>

5 Questions: Best Coast @ SXSW

5 Questions with... Best Coast

INCHES reviews Best Coast, Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Lustmord, Bipolar Bear (MP3s)

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>