Literally every time that someone on the internet mentions Back To The Future II, someone else has to complain that hoverboards aren't a reality. I think it's the law. But anonymous internet-folk are about to lose a crucial building block of their (non-existent) personality, if this hoverboard ad featuring Tony Hawk, Best Coast, Schoolboy Q and others is to be believed. Read More »
Anyone who has heard Bethany Cosentino wail on "No One Like You" knows that some of Best Coast's best tracks are best experienced on the tail-end of a bad break-up. It should come as no surprise, then, that she appreciates the work of fellow sad musician Drake and expects his Nothing Was The Same to have quite an impact on her new album. Read More »
Best Coast have often stridled the line between surf rock and '50s/60s piano ballads to great effect (see "No One Like You" off of their last full-length The Only Place) so it's no surprise they'd return to the sunshine-y crooning well on their latest EP Fade Away. The lead single is "I Don't Know How" is the perfect mix of sad shuffle and bright SoCal pop and the video illustrates this beautifully. Read More »
Metallica will have their Orion festival in 2013 at Detroit. Read More »