Video: Hotbox at Ace Hotel: Best Coast - "Sun Was High (So Was I)"

Best Coast stopped by The Fader and Levi's Hotbox during CMJ Marathon last year and perfomed what was her best known son at the time 'Sun Was High (So Was I)'. This version features her playing with Bob Bruno in a cramped space and we can hear her vocals... Click the link to read more

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by Andrew Frisicano Mika Miko @ their almost-last performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest L.A. punk band Mika Miko announced in October that their set at Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest (on November 8th) would be one of their last, but that they were in process of scheduling an official "last show" for their hometown at The Smell . They've booked three shows there for December 30th, December 31st and January 1st [...]

I know this was on Pitchfork today so it isn't much of a "find" per se, and I blogged about a track by Best Coast a few months ago after hearing it on Gorilla vs. Bear. When I heard "Sun Was High (So Was I)," I thought it was a one-time deal, but after hearing "When I'm With You" I am hooked. I don't know what it is about these lazy pop melodies over that pleasant fuzz, but I love these songs. Bethany Cosentino's voice is really what it comes down to. To be honest, I typically don't care for [...]

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Lo! In an effort to make the cyberwave you're currently surfing all the more comfortable and convenient, we've taken to compiling the video footage from our bathroom at the Levi's®/FADER Fort in one glorious post. Updated daily until we run out of tape, you'll find a host of bathroom performance bits as experienced at the Ace Hotel during CMJ week in New York. Most of them are PG-13, few are destined to be collector's items, all are worth checking out anyway. Best Coast Miles Benjamin Anthony [...]

One of the things that separates Best Coast from the barrage of other lo-fi acts out there, is that even under all of the reverb, distortion and fuzz, you can still hear Bethany Cosentino's songwriting. That's even more evident in these two clips from The Tripwire where Best Coast performed two songs in a bathroom, next to a tub full of beer. Really, the absence of all of Cosentino's sonic scuzz only makes her talent more obvious. [ Twitter/Best Coast ]

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)