Best Coast is an American
rock duo formed in
Los Angeles,
California in 2009. The band consists of songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Bethany Cosentino and guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno. Cosentino, a former child actress, began writing music as a teenager and was formerly a member of the experimentalist
drone group
Pocahaunted. After a brief tenure at college in
New York City, Cosentino returned to the West Coast and began recording
lo-fi demos with Bruno, whom she met in the Los Angeles music scene.