Bethany Cosentino: Natural Disaster review – a bright, engaging solo debut
The Best Coast singer-songwriter explores subjects close to home on this well-wrought, country-tinged pop-rock record
June 2020
'No downside': Johnny Marr, Best Coast and Jason Isbell on how sobriety improves music
Rock’n’roll is equated with excess – but for many musicians, addiction to drugs or alcohol can stifle their art. Three of them explain how getting sober sent their creativity skyrocketing
February 2020
Best Coast: Always Tomorrow review – former slackers knuckle down in style
The duo show why they’ve outlasted their beach-bum peers with a delightful study of reinvention and contentment
August 2019
The music essay
Chillwave: a momentary microgenre that ushered in the age of nostalgia
In a summer riven by financial meltdown, a niche trend for lo-fi retro pop couldn’t have seemed more trivial. Yet it was the first sign of a generation fleeing to the past to escape a bleak future
April 2016
Best Coast say Chris Brown is 'perpetuating rape culture'
Bethany Cosentino has hit out at the lyrics of the R&B singer’s single Back to Sleep, along with the press and management who have supported it
October 2015
New band of the week
New band of the week: Moving Panoramas (No 75)
An indie trio from Texas whose gently affecting guitar pop belies the horrific series of events that led to its creation
May 2015
Henry Rollins, Bethany Cosentino and more sign up to new kids TV comedy
Best Coast: California Nights review – an impressive Sunshine State soundtrack
April 2015
Listen up
Five albums to try this week: Blur, Bill Fay and more
Best Coast: California Nights review – LA teen rock demands attention
July 2012
Music blog
Fleetwood Mac: magic you just can't cover
Most of the artists on a new Fleetwood Mac tribute compilation are a million miles away from capturing the band's pure emotion
June 2012
How I wrote ...
Best Coast: Only Place live session - video
New music
New music: Best Coast – Rhiannon
Best Coast – review
Fleetwood Mac celebrated by indie stars on new compilation
May 2012
Best Coast: The Only Place – review
Bethany Constantino has ditched her lo-fi sound for something brighter, but her bored-and-lazy slacker shtick is getting, well, boring, writes Jude Rogers
Best Coast: The Only Place – review
The Californian duo's second album works well – until they dabble in introspection, writes Phil Mongredien
Best Coast are back and this time they mean business
New album The Only Place is an honest, personal reflection of how the duo's lives changed after Crazy For You
March 2012
The populist
Populist: Items of interest this week
From animated Abed to The Avengers reimagined as Friends
February 2012
Live music booking now
Live music booking now
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