Tour Dates: Best Coast Goes Coast To Coast

A couple of  years back, many of us around HT headquarters fell in love with the hazy lo-fi sunshine pop sounds of Crazy For You, the debut album from Best Coast, which landed at number 24 on our top albums list for 2010. Fronted by Bethany Cosentino, the So-Cal-based band were at the forefront of the “chillwave” movement, whether they liked that distinction or not. On May 15, Best Coast will release their sophomore Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, of Montreal, Punch Brothers) produced effort The Only Place via Mexican Summer. The band will head to Austin for SXSW this week to drum up some advance press, playing a number of industry showcase parties, and will then head out for a lengthy world tour that kicks off with hometown gig at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 5, which will feature both JEFF The Brotherhood and Those Darlins holding down the opening slots.

If you’re not into a night with Best Coast’s brand of lo-fi pop, then maybe you’ll be interested in hitting on of these recently announced tours…

• Rusted Root: 20th Anniversary Tour (3/16 – 7/21)
• B.B. King: Spring North American Tour (3/17 – 5/29)
• Coheed & Cambria: Southeast Tour (4/29 – 5/18)
• Primus: U.S. Summer Tour (5/3 – 6/23)
• Ben Harper: West Coast Tour (6/30 – 7/5)
• Rhett Miller: U.S. Spring Tour (3/15 – 6/22)
• Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s: North American Tour (3/31 – 6/2)
• Blues Traveler, Barenaked Ladies, Big Head Todd & The Monster, Cracker: Last Summer On Earth Tour (7/6 – 8/19)