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  Hear Johnny Marr's Team-Ups With Best Coast, Tom Vek and More

  October 18, 2011 – Johnny Marr is collaborating with SoCal surf-poppers Best Coast, British songwriter/producer Tom Vek, Brooklyn all-girl keyboard trio Au Revoir Simone, and Nashville alt-rockers Mona on an interesting new project called "Ray-Ban Raw Sounds," which finds the ex-Smiths guitarist presenting the four up-and-coming bands with five different ideas or objects to inspire them to write a song. …
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  LISTEN: Best Coast Thank Fans With New Song

  August 4, 2011 – Attention Best Coast fans: Singer-guitarist Bethany Cosentino loves you. …
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  Watch Drew Barrymore's Best Coast Love Tragedy

  August 2, 2011 – Drew Barrymore's directing debut was the 2009 roller-derby flick Whip It starring Ellen Page, and now she's released her first music video, a star-studded treatment of Best Coast's "Our Deal." Watch below. Starring Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass), Donald Glover (Community), Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf), Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly), and Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development), the clip is like a condensed version ofWest Side Story. …
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  Best Coast + Barrymore, Buddy Holly Stream + More

  June 20, 2011 – Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino has tapped actress Drew Barrymore to direct the video for her Crazy for You track "Our Deal." The clip, part of the MTV Supervideo series that pairs celebrities with musicians, will also star Community star and budding rapper Donald Glover and Miranda Cosgrove from the popular Nickelodeon show iCarly. …
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  Best Photos from Bonnaroo 2011: Day 1

  June 10, 2011 –  …
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  My Favorite Things: Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino

  June 2, 2011 – This week: Bethany Cosentino, singer-guitarist for Los Angeles surf-pop outfit Best Coast, whose debut Crazy For You was named one of SPIN's Best Albums of 2010. Best Coast will play select dates this summer, including San Francisco's Outside Lands Fest. FAVORITE SONG: "'Don't Worry Baby' by the Beach Boys. A more classic song could not exist. …
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  Florence, Beady Eye Talk New Albums + More

  May 23, 2011 – On her follow-up to 2009's breakout debut Lungs, Florence + the Machine's Florence Welch may be going in a spookier direction: the British pop star says her new songs are inspired by ghosts and her late grandmother. "A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things," she says. "Things you can't touch: ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream... …
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  Anna Faris Reveals Her Favorite Music

  February 11, 2011 – Anna Faris, costar of this month's Take Me Home Tonight, on the soundtrack to her life. Name a song that you've listened to in the past 24 hours?Best Coast's "Boyfriend." Isn't [Bethany Cosentino] supposed to be the coolest person in the world right now? What's the first album you bought with your own money?Whitney Houston. My first concert was supposed to be Whitney in Seattle, but I was doing a play that night. …
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  Best Coast on Letterman, DJ Kool Herc Sick + More

  February 1, 2011 – Watch Best Coast performing a raucous version of "Each and Every Day" on Letterman below. Play DJ Kool Herc — one of the founding fathers of hip-hop and turntable pioneer — has been stricken with an undisclosed illness and will be undergoing emergency surgery without health insurance. DJ Premier has posted info on how to help Herc cover medical costs. …
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  Wavves, Best Coast Kick Off Tour in SoCal

  January 24, 2011 – Wavves and Best Coast kicked off their co-headlining tour on Friday night with an intimately raucous gig at San Diego's Soma, a dingy old theater converted into a 500-capacity, all-ages punk club. …
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