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Best Coast and Wavves Ready Split 7"

After breaking out during a busy 2010, lo-fi rockers Best Coast and Wavves have wasted no time gearing up for another busy year in 2011. A few weeks back, Best Coast frontwoman Bethany Cosentino announced plans for the joint Summer is Forever tour with her boyfriend Nathan Williams’ band Wavves. But the collaborative summer celebrations do not stop there; the two bands will be putting out a split single in conjunction with the trek....  read more

Watch the Video for Best Coast's "Boyfriend"

Taylor Cohen is the director of this new clip from from Crazy For You....  read more

CMJ 2010 Preview: Robert Lester Folsom

Authentic, vintage soul-soaks Robert Lester Folsom of Jacksonville, Fla. did the whole rock star thing. He worked in a record store, played a few shows and even recorded a full-length called Music and Dreams in a professional studio in Atlanta. But then he, like so many greats before him, retired his dreams when he had a family and secured a “real job” painting houses....  read more

Best Coast: Crazy for You

Listen to Best Coast’s Crazy for You. — Summer lovin’ Best Coast’s Bethany Cosantino digs the simple pleasures: California summers, her cat, Snacks, and love. She really digs love. That penchant for simplicity bounces all over Best Coast’s debut, Crazy For You. After a string of sunny but sludgy EPs, Crazy features 13 tracks in 30 minutes. It’s the tightest, brightest music Cosantino and sole bandmate Bobb Bruno have pumped out yet. These tunes approach love and longing like a teenage diary entry (“I wish he was my boyfriend / I’d love him to the very end” pines Cosantino in...  read more

Listen to Best Coast's Debut Album, Crazy for You

We’ve been following beachy, fuzzy, lo-fi-y duo Best Coast for some time, and now, everyone and their rock-loving mothers can listen to the band’s debut LP, Crazy For You. Urban Outfitters is currently streaming what they call the “album of the summer” on their blog....  read more

Mexican Summer record club features Dungen, more

Following in the footsteps of Sub Pop, Merge and many others...  read more