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Best Coast Announce Tour


Photo by David Black

Best Coast is set to hit the road in support of their new album The Only Place which will be released May 15th on Mexican Summer. The Only Place is produced by Jon Brion(Kanye West, Fiona Apple).  Bethany Cosentino once again handles the songwriting and rhythm guitar duties & multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno mans lead guitar, bass and drums on this album. There is a Columbus date 7/23 @ the Newport Music Hall.

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2012 SXSW Recap: Real Rap Vacation

Tired as fuck, I walked out of the “Killer Mike R.A.P. Music Showcase” Wednesday. After getting outside, I wondered why DJ Detox was bullshitting and not outside.  I walked back inside and he was making small talk with the GZA.

When I found the GZA and Detox, a small crowd had also found the GZA.
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Wavves/Best Coast/Fanfarlo @ Hype Hotel Tonight @ SXSW 2012

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MP3: WAVVES: Hybrid Moments

Hype Hotel presented by Taco Bell’s Feed the Beat Program has Best Coast and Wavvess performing  tonight.

Best Coast @ 11. Wavves @ 12.

Maybe go see my friend Amos’ssssss band Fanfarlo at the Hype Hotel @ 10 as well?

Best Coast on KCRW (Watch/Listen/Download)


photo by RE Barbash

Over on KCRW, you can watch, listen, or download a 44 minute set from Best Coast.

Robert Duffy’s Favorite Albums of 2010

I had a foolish idea. In previous years, staff members of the site have posted their individual lists, writing about their favorite music of the year. This year I proposed the idea of keeping that tradition but also trying to pull together an official “Donewaiting.com’s Favorite Albums of 2010” list. Using some fancy math I figured we could come up with some sort of list. I mean, just about every publication does it so how hard could it be? Right…?

The biggest complaint I get about the site from people is that the music coverage is all over the place, in more ways than one. One week there’s nothing but Wilco or Times New Viking, the next week it’s all about hip hop. But while this is something some people find distracting, personally I love it. I love being surprised as to what the writers have posted on the site as much as you do. Sure, maybe we could spell check more or when we embed photos more than 1500 pixels wide for no good reason it calls for a heavy load time, but that’s just how we roll. As a famous man once told me, “My typos are a lifestyle choice.”

So after getting a few submissions from the staff, I realized that there was no good way to put all the lists together into one cohesive thing. Seriously, how do you compare Kriegshog to Kanye West? We’re still going to keep them separated because quite frankly each writer comes from such a unique perspective I can’t rank them in any way. So this is the beginning of the list parade. Hope you discover something new, or are maybe reminded about a record you meant to check out but forgot about.

So that brings us to my list, I guess. I typically keep a running list once it gets closer to the end of the year of what I really loved, and then I go to my iTunes and Last.fm libraries to see what I listened to the most…. to see, what the fuck did I even listen to this year in general? I’m getting old.

If I was being honest to myself and to you, the stuff I listened to the most this year was not music but comedy podcasts. WTF with Marc Maron twice a week, Comedy Death Ray, Ricky Gervais, etc etc. And as for live shows, I’ve seen Eugene Mirman perform more times than any other band this year… It helps that he does a somewhat weekly show in my neighborhood, but you see where I’m going with this. Maybe I should be writing for The Laugh Button.

But, music! I still love music. This blog is turning eight years old in a few weeks, I must still love music… Right?????????? Am I writing this list to talk myself into the fact that I still love music? I don’t know. No, I do love music. CANT WAIT TO SEE THE DECEMBERISTS ON MY BIRTHDAY NEXT MONTH… But seriously, I have slowed down a bit on musical discovery and have circled the wagons on albums that I really love… The idea of retaining lyrics, song titles and even melody is a novelty post-MP3 but I would love to start remembering the names of songs without having to use the Shazam iPhone App. The hard drive in my brain is getting full, and I need to make some decisions on how I approach music. If you try hard, you CAN listen to albums during your day to day that haven’t officially been released yet. (That sentence would have confused a lot more people even just three years ago).

2010 was a goddamned great year for music. Here’s my list.


#10 Grinderman, Grinderman 2
Watch: Worm Tamer

If I were 10% of the man that Nick Cave is, I would be a total badass. Right now I’m at about 0.0004 Cave, but I keep hoping that I can pull it off one day.


#9 Sharon Van Etten, Epic
MP3: Love More

This album lives up to its one word title. Simple, raw, and powerful, the record may only be 7 songs but you will hit replay till it bleeds. Continue reading

Photos: Best Coast, Male Bonding in Columbus

Best Coast, Male Bonding
The Summit I Columbus, OH
Sept. 22, 2010


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Tonight in Columbus: Strapping Fieldhands, Best Coast/Male Bonding, Margot

Not too shabby for a Wednesday night, eh? Feel free to add any other noteworthy shows in the comments. Deets:

Strapping Fieldhands w/ Necropolis, Guinea Worms and The Ferals – Cafe Bourbon St., 2216 Summit St. (see video above)

Best Coast, Male Bonding w/ Tin Armor – The Summit, 2210 Summit St., $14 (This one will likely sell out by 8pm, so get on the ball early if you didn’t buy tix yet.)

Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s, The Lonely Forest, Cameron McGill & What Army – Circus, 1227 N. High Street, $12 (feat. hometown hero Erik Kang)

Video: Best Coast – “When I’m With You”

Mexican Summer x Gorilla vs. Bear: SXSW 2010

We’re teaming up with the great Mexican Summer this year to bring you a day & night, official/unofficial blowout in Austin on Friday, March 19. Starring Washed Out, Memory Tapes, Real Estate, Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, jj, and many more. Details coming soon…

MP3s and more over on Gorilla.

Best Coast: Sun Was High (So Was I) Acoustic

Get past all the corporate sponsorship in the beginning and here’s Best Coast doing an acoustic version of Sun Was High (So Was I)