CONCERT REVIEW: Best Coast @ Starlight Ballroom 2/1

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CONCERT REVIEW: Best Coast @ Starlight Ballroom 2/1

POSTED: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 8:00 PM

Filed Under: Music | Show concert photos

photo by Alyssa Grenning

A sticky sauna of body odor and beer bottle condensation. "I'm wearing sweatpants and high heels," laughed frontwoman Bethany Cosentino when Best Coast appeared on stage at the Starlight Ballroom, which had been transformed into a sticky sauna of body odor and beer bottle condensation. Kids were clad in racer backs and moth-bitten Misfits tees with the cumbersome sleeves hacked off. It felt like summer. With plenty of cutesy crazy/lazy/hazy rhymes, surf guitar licks and girl on drums action Best Coast transported the audience to a warmer state. Not so impressively their show sounded nearly identical to the studio recording, which meant no four minute long bass and drum battles, no accosting experimental feedback, and no on stage freakouts. The show did serve its purpose as an excuse to brave the ice and hear the songs you already love in a room full of other fans, all of them suspending disbelief and pretending to be close to some balmy shoreline where sweatpants and high heels just seem natural.

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