Posts Tagged ‘Best Coast’
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Easily one of our most anticipated records of the year, after several listens Crazy For You lives up to the hype. Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno make it sound so easy on their debut LP, blending 60′s girl-group harmonies with 90′s alt-rock riffs. Cosentino’s simple lyrics, which occasionally border on silly, offer an earnest yet self-assured perspective on yearning and heartache.
Best Coast – “When I’m With You”
Buy at Mexican Summer
Menomena – Mines
The exact opposite of the Best Coast record. A challenging but ultimately rewarding listen, Mines finds the Portland experimental-rockers at their most ambitious. The record is littered with inventive production and masterful musicianship, particularly on the sprawling, Weekend Mixed “TAOS” and the slow burning “Tithe.”
Buy at Barsuk
Futurebirds – Hampton’s Lullaby
This is what alt-country in 2010 should sound like, an eclectic mix of pedal steel, indie pop melodies, and four-part harmonies.
Buy at Amazon via Autumn Tone
Seu Jorge and Almaz – S/T
No Bowie covers, but this time around we get the Brazilian singer/actor’s take on classics from Michael Jackson and Kraftwerk, among others. This is Jorge’s first album with his newly formed band, Almaz.
Seu Jorge and Almaz – “Everybody Loves The Sunshine”
Buy at Now Again
Jaill – That’s How We Burn
Genuine rock n’ rollers from Milwaukee release their sure-to-be-breakout LP, their first on Sub Pop.
Buy at Sub Pop
Miniature Tigers – Fortress
This Arizona/Brooklyn quartet’s second album features production from Chris Chu of The Morning Benders and Neon Indian, who produced the XMU favorite and lead single, “Gold Skull.”
Miniature Tigers – “Gold Skull”
Miniature Tigers – “Bullfighter Jacket”
Buy at Modern Art Records
Weekend Mix – 7.2.10
For those that don’t know, we recently partnered with The Fayetteville Flyer, which is a great local site that highlights news, art, and culture in our hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas. For now, we are contributing our Weekend Mixes to the Flyer, and will hopefully be collaborating more in the future. Since this is a music blog, I should also note that the Flyer editors are in a pretty great band called The Good Fear that you should all check out.
After taking a week off to give you the Best Singles of 2010*, we’re back with ten of the best tracks from the past week, plus a few we can’t stop listening to.
Right Click – Save As to Download.
Singles:
The Thermals – “I Don’t Believe You”
Dax Riggs – “No One Will Be A Stranger”
Wild Nothing – “Your Rabbit Feet”
Chromeo – “Don’t Turn The Lights On”
The Kills – “Pale Blue Eyes” (Velvet Underground Cover)
Frankie Rose & The Outs – “Little Brown Haired Girls”
Vermillion Sands – “Miss My Gun”
The Morning Benders – “Stitches” (Yours Truly Session)
The Mix: For Extended Listening
First I’ve heard Bethany live and she sounds pretty good. Count this another uptick in our Best Coast love.
(via Fader)
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Best Coast’s debut LP, Crazy For You, now has a cover and tracklist. It drops July 27, via apparent Tale of The Tape obsession Mexican Summer. I haven’t envisioned any scenario in which this album is bad.
Crazy For You Tracklist
01 Boyfriend
02 Crazy for You
03 The End
04 Goodbye
05 Summer Mood
06 Our Deal
07 I Want To
08 When the Sun Don’t Shine
09 Bratty B
10 Honey
11 Happy
12 Each and Everyday
Bonus Track: When I’m With You
Jay Electronica – “The Ghost of Christopher Wallace”
Ratatat – “Party With Children”
Nocando – “Hurry Up and Wait Remix”
Wolf Parade – “What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had To Go This Way)”
Las Robertas – “Street Feelings”
Best Coast – “Our Deal” (Stream)
Pairing the budding indie darling that is Beth Cosentino with video games is quite the head scratcher, but Best Coast’s new track, “Our Deal,” premiered on the Bright Falls web series earlier this week. The fantastic new track will also appear on Best Coast’s upcoming debut LP, which I didn’t need to be any more excited for.
Listen:
Best Coast – “Our Deal”
We’re finally getting a video for one of our favorites songs of the last six months, and it doesn’t disappoint. Set in sunny Venice Beach, we get cameos from Ronald McDonald(sorta), In-N-Out Burger, and obviously a cat. What else could we ask for? Can’t wait for that LP.
(Via bestycoastyy)
SXSW Retrospective – Day 5
SXSW added Film and Interactive conferences to the yearly festival in 1994, attracting the best and brightest in web technology and filmmaking. The interactive portion focuses on emerging technologies, and features panels on everything from video games to social media. In fact, Twitter was the main attraction at SXSW 2007, winning a SXSW web award and gaining three times the users that it had the week before the festival. The big winners this year include the unicorn and rainbows service Cornify, Gowalla, and knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha.
Many filmmakers avoid the pressure of a Hollywood or New York premiere, instead opting to present their films at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival. It has grown tremendously since its inception, and is a rare festival where big studio features might be preceded by a micro-budget indie. Previous screenings include The Aristocrats, V for Vendetta, Knocked Up, and The Hurt Locker. 2010′s big winners were Tiny Furniture and Brotherhood, while the SNL spin-off MacGruber has been getting some surprisingly decent reviews since premeiring in Austin on Monday.
Just about every indie band you could imagine is playing or has played sets this week in Austin, as well as some big names like Nas, The Walkmen, and Broken Social Scene. As I’ve mentioned previously, SXSW is a tastemaking festival that can really put a band on the map, and we are expecting to hear big things from some of our favorite new bands like Best Coast, Local Natives, Sleigh Bells, Surfer Blood, and Gwar.
