Blog: Buzz Bands

The new material from Best Coast — whose sophomore album "The Only Place" arrives May 15 — seems soaked in "woe-is-me" and "I-don't-know," but there was no lack of certitude Friday at Stubb's BBQ in Austin, where the L.A. quartet was second-billed at the annual SPIN party during South by Southwest. "Play the hits!" somebody called out halfway through the set. "Suck my dick," frontwoman Bethany Cosentino barked back in between pops of Jim Beam out of a bottle, noting that, after all, this was a day party at SXSW, [...]