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[leatherpearlslace]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

EVEN BEST COAST ADMITS THAT A LOT OF THEIR EARLY SUBJECT MATTER HASN'T AGED ALL THAT WELL -- THE 2010 YEARS.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno of Los Angeles-based indie rock group BEST COAST, photographed in 2010, and in the same year as the release of their debut studio album, "Crazy for You." 📸: Roger Kisby.

ROLLING STONE: "What do you think of the image that became associated with the band after the record came out? Weed, cats, and California."

Cosentino: "I mean, on the one hand, I understand why it happened, because it was such a part of the aesthetic. I was also really outspoken at that time about smoking a lot of weed and loving my cat as much as I did and all that stuff."

On the other hand, imagine yourself at 22 getting famous — like out of nowhere, not expecting it to happen — and having this persona that you had at the age of 22 sticking with you. To this day people are like, “Cats and weed and California!” and I’m fucking 33 years old now."

To be completely honest with you, it did a bit of a number to me. In terms of my identity, I feel like I really thought that I had to be that person when, in reality, I don’t know that I really was that person. It was just kind of like a blip on the radar."

Bruno: "You never know when you make something what things people are going to latch on to from it. Smoking weed became one of the things — which is funny because I don’t even smoke weed."

ROLLING STONE: "I feel like 2010 was basically just all about weed and cats anyway. It was so different from now."

Cosentino: "That’s something I’ve been thinking a lot — realizing that this is coming up on a decade [since the debut]. Like, holy shit, it’s just so different — not just the politics and the environment but the way that music comes out and artists are discovered, the way that records are digested."

ROLLING STONE: "I feel like back then you had more room, too, to be sad about boys and smaller issues."

Cosentino: "Yeah, if I put this record out now, I probably would get people going, “What the hell is this? There’s more important shit to complain about.” This record came out at a time where you had more room to just marinate on this shady guy who won’t text you back."

-- ROLLING STONE, "Not Just Cats, Weed, and California: BEST COAST Talk "Crazy for You"" at 10," by Brenna Ehrlich, July 27, 2010

Source: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/best-coast-crazy-for-you-anniversary-interview-1029892.

[bandcampsnoop]

2/9/23.

Extra were a Los Angeles, California band based on the talents of Jim Mills. Mills had been a member of various bands leading up to Extra's run in the early 2000s.

"F R double E" was reissued on Joyful Noise Recording's White Label series in 2020. There is a sunny, California vibe that you might find on Curation Records today. But, here Extra sounds like an amazing combination of Grandaddy, The Beatles and Busman's Holiday.

Bobb Bruno (Best Coast) was the "curator" who chose this album for reissue. He said that "F R double E" "sounds like a lost gem from the heyday of vinyl". I'm guessing he means it could be a 1970s AOR release.

If you have VIP membership through Joyful Noise, you can pick this up in the "private stash". Or you can find copies on Discogs.

[greenlikethesea]

five songs you listen to - greenie gets personal edition

🎶✨ when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to. then send this ask or tag 10 of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)✨🎶

tagged by @tolkientrash! thank you!

i just did one of these, but i think that whenever i’m tagged, i’m gonna do one of these. i do listen to these songs on the regular, but these hold very specific memories for me. get ready! i like writing them, and you all seem to like them. maybe they’re self indulgent, but it’s been nice to share. I have a few tags to catch up on and I will get there!

1. Whiskey - Nicole Reynolds

when i was newly 19, i went to a house party that was also sort of a jam session, a few blocks away from my house. i brought my ukulele, inside my big coat because i didn’t have a case for it, even though i only knew a few chords. there was a girl there -- we’ll call her b -- that intrigued me, but i wasn’t sure why. my own feelings about girls were rich and complicated, having been burned by my ex-girlfriend in high school, but i wanted her to notice me. after a while of mingling, i ducked into a side room, where she was fiddling around on her guitar -- a far better player than i ever will be. she started playing this song, whiskey, a tune about loving someone despite their flaws. the tune is easy to discern, so i was able to pick up a harmony pretty quickly, and our eyes met. i figured it out -- i liked her. i wanted to know her the way nicole reynolds knew her lover.

2. Puzzle Pieces - Tiger Trap

as some of you know, i dated the same person on and off for seven years. we dated all throughout high school, took a break (where i dated b -- i’ve never cheated), and then resumed the summer between my sophomore and junior years of college. i went to his house in the guise of going to a hike, but that was a bullshit ruse -- i went over to have sex with him. and we did. and we laid together, me unsure of what had happened, because he always kept his feelings to his chest. but he got his ipod and put one earbud in each ear, and started to play this song. “whenever i played this song, i thought of you. it was your song.” he had never gotten over me. i was, at least for a time, his puzzle piece.

3. everyone blooms - The Front Bottoms

after I broke up with the person mentioned in 2, we attempted to maintain a friendship. this, predictably, did not go well, but a safe topic for us was always the music we had in common. when this album came out, we both discussed our favorite tracks and his happiness about the return to form (i had liked going grey, nut he hated it for being too poppy.) we both carefully avoided talking about this particular track, which felt too familiar for comfort. “sometimes we talk/it’s a total mistake/just the memories of us/feel so real, must be fake.” this, in turn with the music, dizzying and the sonic equivalent of banging your head on a wall after spinning in a circle, contributes to the crushing, quiet desperation of it being too late to change, but that’s okay. “wherever you are, don’t worry/you’re gonna be fine, fine, fine/everyone blooms in their own time”

4. So Unaware - Best Coast

the corniest thing about me, probably, is that I like to listen to music by California artists when I’m in California. best coast, to me, represents what SoCal is now — dreamy, lonely, vast, vacuous but for pockets where you find meaning. Bethany Cosentino is a lyricist who gets straight to the point, and her arrangement work with Bobb Bruno on this album is all structured around a descending arpeggio of a guitar riff. the primary lyrical theme is myopia, either on her part or the part of her departed lover. and man, there,s something about winding around mountains, 65 in a 40, with the exasperated plea, “I’ll never understand you, never understand you, never understand you now.”

5. West Coast - Coconut Records

alright, so I will own that this pick is me being sentimental and romantic. lyrically, this song is so subtly artful that you barely notice it on the first lesson. I’m a real fan of two things this song masters: a simple image being a stand-in for an evocative feeling (“I love you, standing all alone in a black coat” — small, stark, a pop of inky dark in east coast grey, singular in the eye of the beholder) and a chorus beginning and ending with the same line, with the meat of the sandwich changing the line from start to finish (“I miss you, I’m going back home to the west coast” — in the beginning, a simple statement of intent, but by the end, the narrator wishing his love would stop him).

Sorry, that was deeply personal and you did not ask for all that! But welcome to my brain!

Do not feel obligated at allllll — Tagging some of the usual suspects and a few newbies @friendship-switchblades @sparklyslug @serskets @gothbat99 @sea-heaux @dallae @xstevex-world @dodger-chan @leftofus @geddyqueer

[jeremythejirachi]

Best Coast To Go On Indefinite Hiatus, Frontwoman Announces Debut Solo Album

As one door closes, another opens. Best Coast announces indefinite hiatus and @BethanyCoast is going solo.

Indie darlings Best Coast are calling it a night for the time being. The Californian duo of front woman Bethany Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno broke the news Wednesday. In a statement posted by Pitchfork, Cosentino wrote, “My identity as a human being, and as an artist, has been so wrapped up in Best Coast for over a decade. The decision to pause the project indefinitely, and…

[mymelodic-chapel]

Mika Miko- 666 EP (Punk Rock) Released: June 6, 2006 [Post Present Medium] Producer(s): Bobb Bruno

[radiomaxmusic]

Thursday, September 7, 2023 7pm ET: Feature LP: Bethany Cosentino - Natural Disaster (2023)

Bethany Sharayah Cosentino (born November 3, 1986, in Los Angeles) is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known as one half of the indie rock duo Best Coast alongside Bobb Bruno. Cosentino also co-founded the hypnagogic pop band Pocahaunted in 2006, before leaving in 2010. She released her solo debut album, Natural Disaster, July 28, 2023. 1 Natural Disaster 3:382 Outta Time 3:553…

[eartapas]

Money Mark's remix of Imaad Wasif's "Mr. Fear, So Long" breathes fresh life into an already powerful song by boosting the drums and orchestration, resulting in a captivating and uplifting tune. The song's revamp highlights Imaad's strong songwriting abilities while adding a fresh dimension to the original. The original material was recorded with long-time colleague Bobb Bruno of Best Coast during the COVID lockdown and mixed by GRAMMY-nominated Lewis Pesacov, resulting in a clean and professional sound. "Mr. Fear, So Longsongwriting "'s is evocative of Lee Hazelwood, Leonard Cohen, and Nick Cave, with minute details evoking great thoughts and universality. Money Mark's chillwave remix transforms the song from a reflective, contemplative composition to a rhythmic banger, generating an interesting contrast between the original and the remix.

[leatherpearlslace]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THE RECORD THAT WE MADE – THE SOUND, THE AESTHETIC, EVERYTHING – WAS SONICALLY BASED OFF OF THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAD."

PIC(S) INFO: SXSW Music Festival -- Day 2: Spotlight on singer/guitarist/songwriter Bethany Cosentino of BEST COAST posing for a portrait backstage at Levi's Fader Fort as part of SXSW 2010 on March 18, 2010 in Austin, Texas, plus a shot of she and Bobb Bruno playing Fader Fort on the same date. 📸: Roger Kisby.

"The first BEST COAST record was recorded in two weeks. We worked with this producer Lewis Pesacov, who we knew in LA, and we recorded it in a studio space that was in a practice space in LA, which is now, I believe, being torn down to put high-rise apartments or some shit. But we literally made it in two weeks. We did not have a lot of money. We were not signed to a label. We just were like, “All right, we’re going to go in, we’re going to do this.”

Then we left for SXSW, and we were one of the big, hyped bands that year. The record that we made – the sound, the aesthetic, everything – was sonically based off of the resources that we had. Part of it was intentional because we were trying to replicate a sound that we liked, and we were huge fans of Phil Spector – Phil Spector’s music, not horrid Phil Spector [the person]. So when the record became as successful as it did, nobody expected that. None of us. I don’t even think our label expected that. I think Mexican Summer was, and they were such a good label, because they were boutique. It wasn’t like signing my life over to a major label that was going to do the thing that I worried about when I was 16."

-- STEREOGUM, "We’ve Got A File On You: Bethany Cosentino," by Rachel Brodsky, July 27, 2023

Sources: www.stereogum.com/2231105/bethany-cosentino-best-coast-solo-debut-album/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you, Flickr, & Rolling Stone.

[authoroftheaccident]

Mirror Sound: A Look into the People and Processes Behind Self-Recorded Music 

By Spencer Tweedy and Lawrence Azerrad, Foreword by Carrie Brownstein, Photographed by Daniel Topete.

“For the past few years, Lawrence Azerrad, Daniel Topete and I have been working on a book. I had been thinking about musicians who self-record, and how their music often has this special sound that seems like it can only come from an artist working in their own space. I’d been self-recording since high school and I love the process so much, but I hadn’t seen many stories about it (even while “making-of” things become more commonplace). So we started running around the country, interviewing and photographing artists who make records at home, on the road, in their bedrooms, in barns. The stories and photos of more than 25 artists are in this book, including Yuka Honda, Sharon Van Etten, Ty Segall, and Vagabon. I learned a lot about the art form I love most. And Daniel photographed them and their spaces beautifully!!!! It’s the book I wish I had had when I was learning to self-record.”

- Spencer Tweedy Mirror Sound is out October 20 and available for preorder now.

https://mirrorsoundbook.com/

[daikenkki]

[notthatgoodofedits]

Everything Has Changed // Best Coast

[vintagewarhol]

[darxstarr]

“Who am I to judge if you still see things in a different light?”

[rickchung]

Best Coast x Venue Nightclub.

Band members Bethany Costenino and Bobb Bruno.