TAG: Boyfriend

Jul20

Best Coast :: “Boyfriend” (Lindstrom Remix) (MP3)

A good remix can re-ignite excitement for a song that has long since passed sell-by date. “Boyfriend” was the killer lead track off of Best Coast‘s 2010 album Crazy For You, one of about three records we kept on repeat all of last year. But like most great pop confections, the album has fallen off the regular rotation. This remix by Swedish nu-disco don Lindstrøm reimagines the twee indie number as a serious ’70s epic tune with ABBA overtones so loud you can’t possibly ignore them.

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Oct18

Music Video: Best Coast, “Boyfriend” (Video)

The day I hear any Best Coast song being used for the waltz at a Quinceañera instead of Chayanne’s “Tiempo De Valz” I am going to squeal like the pig in the Geico commercial. This video directed by Taylor Cohen is really respectful to the Quinceañera traditions even complete with girl in braces but I’ve never seen one in a park, maybe it’s an L.A thing. Everyone here has them in banquet halls or hotels, I even went to one once at the Rosemont Convention center.

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Jul28

Best Coast – Crazy For You (Review)

Best Coast

Crazy For You

Released by Mexican Summer


At this point in talking about the blog world's influence, buzz can be a bad thing. Too often, bands are promenaded across the web, heralded in a way that makes everyone a name-dropping music connossieur, only to fade too fast. This is sad because most of these one-shot bands, in a nod to the pseudo-democracy of the Internet, are pretty deserving of recognition. And hopefully the same won't happen to the interwebs latest It Chick-led favourite, Best Coast. If there's one complaint about Crazy For You, the band's studio debut, ...
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