Best Coast

Crazy for You

Best Coast formed in Los Angeles in 2009 around Bethany Cosentino, born November 3, 1986, and Bobb Bruno, born May 10, 1973. Before it, Cosentino co-founded the drone group Pocahaunted with Amanda Brown, with Bruno producing their cassettes on Not Not Fun. Early singles and cassettes included "Sun Was High (So Was I)", "When I'm with You" (November 24, 2009) and Make You Mine. Crazy for You (July 27, 2010, Mexican Summer) was produced by Lewis Pesacov at Mexican Radio Studios in Echo Park; the stated aim was Ramones guitar tone, Beatles percussion and Phil Spector vocals. It reached 36 on the Billboard 200, with about 108,000 US copies sold, and Pitchfork ranked it 39th of 2010.

The Only Place (May 15, 2012) was recorded at Capitol Studio B with Jon Brion and reached 24 in the US; Fade Away (October 22, 2013) and California Nights (May 5, 2015, Harvest, US 53) were made with Wally Gagel at Wax Ltd. Best Kids (June 2018) is a children's album and Always Tomorrow (February 21, 2020, Concord) followed. They toured with the Pixies in early 2014, Wavves and Cherry Glazerr in 2016, and supported Paramore in September 2017, and in May 2019 were the house band of What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage. The touring line-up included Ali Koehler, Brady Miller, Brett Mielke and Joseph Bautista.

On May 3, 2023 Cosentino announced an indefinite hiatus and a solo album, Natural Disaster, released July 28, 2023 on Concord; she told Stereogum that her identity had been so wrapped up in Best Coast for over a decade. Bruno became the bassist of Nothing. JamBase lists the last show as The Ford in Los Angeles on August 13, 2022.