The Oedipus Project
It’s coming on Christmas and we have a new Christmas song from L.A.’s Best Coast.
“Christmas and Everyday” was written for An American Girl Story – Maryellen 1955: Extraordinary Christmas, an upcoming Amazon Kids short film based on a character from the American Girl historical doll lineup.
Joyful power pop to put us in the mood.
One of our fave L.A. duos has a new album forthcoming.
California Nights is the title and the single from Best Coast.
Best Coast continues to create some of the best garage pop.
The songs by Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno are always refreshing and memorable.
The 7-song EP Fade Away will be out later this month.
All 7 are wonderful. Listen to two here: the first single “I Don’t Know How” and my current fave “Who Have I Become?”
“I Don’t Know How”
“Who Have I Become?”
Best Coast is Bethany Cosentino with musical partner Bobb Bruno.
The Only Place will be their 2nd album and songwriter Bethany once again embraces pop melodies that always remind me of summer as she did with “Boyfriend” from 2010’s Crazy for You and in 2011 with Adult Swim’s “Gone Again”.
“The Only Place” is also the first single and a free download.
I associate summer with Best Coast. Last year’s “Boyfriend” helped define the summer of 2010.
This year we have we have “Gone Again” featured here in June.
Now Bethany and company give us “How They Want Me to Be”, a new song that she says will probably be re-recorded and included on the second album. Free download as well.
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Plus, I’ve included the Drew Barrymore video for the song “Our Deal”.
Get More: MTV Supervideo, Music, Best Coast
Last year Best Coast gave us one of the songs of the summer with “Boyfriend”.
This West Coast trio evokes the best of the girl-group pop sound, and we now have a new song from Best Coast just in time for summer 2011.
“Gone Again” is a free download from Adult Swim.
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Bonnaroo, the four day music and arts festival, begins today in Manchester, Tennessee.
This is the tenth year and the lineup is stellar.
In celebration of Bonnaroo, RCRDLBL has released from their archives a free download of 24 bands performing this year including Arcade Fire, Florence and the Machine, Sleigh Bells, Best Coast, Iron & Wine, and the Black Angels among others.
Featured here is Twin Shadow, the nom de plume of George Lewis, Jr., who developed his chops in Boston before reinventing himself in Brooklyn.
“I Can’t Wait” is from his debut album Forget.
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The Oedipus Project weekly broadcast every Thursday at 5 pm eastern on CyberStation USA.
And on demand thereafter.
Manchester Orchestra
Richard Ashcroft
tUnE-yArDs
Vivian Girls
The Raveonettes
The Strokes
Best Coast
Cut Copy
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx
The xx
Twilight Singers
She Wants Revenge
Dropkick Murphys
The Dodos
The world of music is cyclical and goes into hiatus a few weeks before Christmas and into the new year. Slowly new music is released in January and gains momentum later in the winter flowing into the spring.
Bands that enthralled me last year included Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Avi Buffalo, Badly Drawn Boy, Beach House, Belle & Sebastian, Best Coast, Blonde Redhead, Delorean, The Drums, Dum Dum Girls, Eminem, Girl Talk, Glasser, Gorillaz, Janelle Monáe, Joanna Newsom, Karen Elson, Laura Marling, Lykke Li, Matt & Kim, Mumford & Sons, The National, No Age, Perfume Genius, Phoenix, School of Seven Bells, She & Him, Shearwater, Sleigh Bells, Stars, Titus Andronicus and Warpaint.
And The xx continued to give me great pleasure.
Here you will hear the best new music as it becomes available.
Next week we will have an exclusive Cure video.
Happy New Year indeed.
Among many musics, I also collect Christmas songs. For years I have hosted a live annual Christmas Eve show on the radio in Boston, commercial-free, and this year is no exception. This Christmas Eve, from 6:00 pm—Midnight, I will once again be on-the-air on WFNX (101.7 FM) and WFNX.com.
Every year I listen to hundreds of new Christmas songs and new cover versions of Christmas classics searching for a few gems. Most of these songs are derivative, dumb, downright dreadful or combination of all three. But there are always a few that rise above the drivel and should be heard.
This year I was presently surprised that Target has put together a Christmas compilation of new songs called The Christmas Gig and is giving it away for free on their website.
Listen now to “Got Something for You” performed by Best Coast and Wavves, two artists that we have featured individually here in the past and “Get Down for the Holidays” by Jenny O., a singer/songwriter from LA.
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“Got Something For You” by Best Coast and the Wavves
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“Get Down for the Holidays” by Jenny O.
The Los Angeles trio called Best Coast, fronted by singer/songwriter Bethany Cosentino, evokes the Girl pop sound of the 60’s. From their just released debut album Crazy For You, “Boyfriend” is available as a free download and is the Song of the Day.
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“Boyfriend” by Best Coast
