Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino: An Angeleno in Austin

By Thursday afternoon, Bethany Cosentino of the band Best Coast had played so many shows at South by Southwest she was running out of clothes. For an outdoor concert at the Palm Door on 6th in a few hours, she was down to a Lucy Paris wool skirt and a Fleetwood Mac T-shirt. “I’m at the bottom of my suitcase,” she says. “This is what was there. Everything is, like, sweaty and smells like a barbecue because I’ve been wearing it around all week.” Best Coast has had one of their busier times at this year’s festival — nine performances that culminated Saturday afternoon. It’s all part of the run-up to the May release of the band’s third album, “California Nights,” which she describes as their boldest project yet. “If confidence is a way you can describe a sound of music, I would say that’s kind of what it is now. We’ve just sort of become the band that we’ve always wanted to be,” she says. Even by the standards of music festivals, Cosentino, 28, stands out in Austin, Tex., as the ultimate California girl, liberally peppering her conversation with “likes” ad nauseam and proudly showing off her various tattoos, including one that reads,

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