Best Coast

Bethany Cosentino

Best Coast quickly made - wait for it - waves last year, releasing a series of seven-inches and singles that charmed indiephiles with the combination of fuzzed-up, lower-than-lo-fi production and undeniable pop hooks. Best Coast was (and is) right at home at LA's famed noise/art-rock mecca The Smell, but Cosentino's key influences include the Beach Boys and Phil Spector's girl groups.

The anticipation for Best Coast's first full-length this year has been heightened by the fact that her latest release - the "When I'm With You"/"This Is Real" 7" on Black Iris - is her best by some margin... More

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I have to hand it to Amanda Palmer: the woman knows how to market the hell out of her music. As a big bonus, it's usually interesting music, too. I thought she had missed the mark with Evelyn Evelyn, the "world's only conjoined-twin singer-songwriter duo." Palmer and Jason Webley "discovered" the twins from - har har - Walla Walla on MySpace; one Evelyn sounds suspiciously like Amanda Palmer and the other sounds suspiciously like, oh, I don't know, a man. It seemed to be a case of a gimmick getting ahead of itself and obscuring the music- which is a lively and politely bawdy bit of retro ragtime, contemporized with words like "ho-bag"... More