We spent an undue amount of time in 2010 rocking out to Bethany Cosentino’s instant-retro-indie debut album as Best Coast, mostly because it reminded us equal parts 1990s Riot Grrl heyday, ’70s Runaways punk mischief, and ’60s Shangri-La’s pop perfection. Early today, the band announced via Facebook that the second Best Coast album would be produced by multi-instrumental one-man-band-slash-film-composer, producer genius Jon Brion. …MORE
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Words cannot describe the performance that I witnessed this past Saturday night in midtown Manhattan — and it was all thanks to one tiny opening act with bizarre hair and a voice too big for any earthly venue to contain. To be fair, Of Montreal had an interesting set (to say the least). But while I appreciate the imagination behind gun-toting cyborg goldfish costumes and evil skeleton-men; I can’t really get down with the androgynous, super-poppy art-rock fusion thing. The set-opening performance of their new single, “Coquet Coquette,” was probably their strongest offering; and fortunately, before completely exhausting my memory card, I was able to capture the aforementioned fish-robots that accompanied it, as well as Janelle’s set-ending, crowd-infiltrating performance of “Come Alive (War of the Roses).” I could give a complete run-down of the entire set-list and detail every little …
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