The prophetic Indie-rock singer/musician/writer Bethany Cosentino from the rock duo Best Coast joins Laura and Johnnie on the first Zoom recording of the quarantine to discuss their new album "Always Tomorrow." Bethany reveals the impact of her own fight for sobriety on her music, and she shares what it was really like behind-the-scenes with band partner Bobb Bruno during the Best Coast 2020 tour to promote their new album. She and Laura also discuss the origins of the #MeToo movement in the Alternative and Indie music worlds, and Bethany explains what it was like for her to be thrust into the spotlight for her outspoken words about a certain publicist. In this episode, you’ll also meet Bethany’s Insta-famous cat Mr. Snacks and her YouTube sensation Ms. Josie the dog.
Highlights of what we discussed on this episode include:
- LAW/JR:
- Discuss the Stylecaster article “I’m Quarantined with My Ex-boyfriend During Coronavirus”
- Written By: Ashley Britton
- Published: April 5, 2020
- Summary: NY couple must quarantine together after they break up, and figure out how to get over one another.
- Included in article are a list of Do’s & Don’ts
- Discuss the Stylecaster article “I’m Quarantined with My Ex-boyfriend During Coronavirus”
- Bethany’s Early Life (from IMDB, Wikipedia & The NY Times)
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- Born in LA 11/3/1986
- Cosentino, a former child actress, began writing music as a teenager and was formerly a member of the experimentalist dronegroup Pocahaunted.
- Cosentino had been around the Los Angeles music scene from a young age, and had been involved in talent competitions, musicals, audition tapes, and commercials
- She began writing music at age 15, inspired by Joni Mitchell, Joan Baezand Bob Dylan, as well Weezer and Blink-182. Cosentino began uploading her music to MySpace under the name "Bethany Sharayah".[3][4]
- After a brief tenure at college in New York City, Cosentino returned to the West Coast and began recording lo-fidemos with guitarists and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, whom she met in the Los Angeles music scene when she was 17.
- Best Coast
- Best Coast was formed in 2009 by Bethany Cosentino (born November 3, 1986) and Bobb Bruno in Los Angeles, California.
- They’ve released 4 studio albums + 1 kids album called Best Kids
- Latest album = Always Tomorrow (Release January 2020)
- Best Coast's Rise to Fame
- Their first single “Boyfriend” from their debut album “Crazy For You” in 2010 entered Billboard 200 at 36; from there touring and performing at festivals helped them to gain popularity.
- Notable tours include:
- The Go Go’s (2016)
- Paramore (2017)
- Other Cool Career Stuff
- June 2018 - Best Coast released their first album targeted to children called Best Kids.
- Besides covers like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", it also contains originals such as the lead single "Cats & Dogs".[22]
- May 2019 - Best Coast becomes the house band on TV series What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage.[23]
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- About collaborating with Bobb Bruno (from The New York Times)
- The producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Paramore, M83), an early “Always Tomorrow” collaborator, described the duo’s unique working relationship as an “easy coexistence.”
- “It’s almost like Bethany and Bobb are two halves of one person” in the studio, he said in a phone interview.
- He explained that the pair’s goals for the new album were to avoid rehashing the past, and to “honor their influences without it ever seeming pastiche or too on the nose.
Play Everything Has Changed from Best Coast YouTube
- On her “seemingly divine powers” and the song “Everything Has Changed” (from The New York Times)
- She wrote the song “Boyfriend” before the guy in question took on that role.
- She released a track with the lyric “What a year this day has been”in 2012, well before our 24/7 news hellscape took hold.
- She spoke out about sexual misconduct in the music industry in 2016, a year before #MeToo took off.
- And she wrote a new song called “Everything Has Changed” about quitting drinking and finding happiness 14 months before she took action.
- IG = @Best_Coast
- Bethline = call (205) 736-3201 or email askbethline@gmail.com
- About collaborating with Bobb Bruno (from The New York Times)
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