Thursday, June 17, 2010
Cream Calendar Best Coast to Play Mercy Lounge, Sept. 12
Posted by Lance Conzett on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:43 PM
Prepare your skinny jeans and ironic T-shirts, Nashville. Current indie-rock "it girl" Bethany Cosentino, better known as Best Coast, is coming to Mercy Lounge on Sept. 12, with borderline-un-Googleable New Yorkers Cults.
If you haven't been keeping up with the blogosphere, or seemingly any episode of All Songs Considered featuring Carrie Brownstein, Best Coast is the latest benefactor/victim of the Pitchfork hype machine— benefactor because they've staged a marathon love-in for the slew of 7-inch records she put out last year; victim because when her record comes out next month, they'll probably give it a 3.3 for no good reason and move on.
Hipster brigade aside, Best Coast is actually pretty good if you're into lazy, lowest-of-the-lo-fi California garage pop. What I've heard from her upcoming debut Crazy For You relaxes on the "recorded on a boombox" aesthetic, but her songs are still chill summertime anthems about the beach. Seriously, if you love songs about beaches, this is the band for you. And if nothing else, "When I'm With You" is serious seasonal mixtape fodder.
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I don't get Best Coast at all. I liked it better when making a record sound really bad was something you did accidentally. Maybe I'm too old...or just old enough to know better.
Quite like Cults though, from what I've been able to hear.
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best coast is the real deal holyfield.
the only 'new' band i remember being this excited about is the walkmen.
bethany is def my 'it' girl. although word on the street is she is a total drunk lush.
andrew, seriously. listen to 'sun was high'. 'when i'm with you'. 'our deal'. the best pop songs in a long long long time. better than any of the other lofi 'pitchfork approved' hipster-trash stuff out there right now.
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