Bethany Cosentino

Bethany Sharayah Cosentino (born November 3, 1986, in Los Angeles) is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known as one half of the indie rock duo Best Coast alongside Bobb Bruno. Cosentino also cofounded the hypnagogic pop band Pocahaunted in 2006, before leaving in 2010. She released her solo debut album, Natural Disaster, in 2023.

Biography Early life and Pocahaunted Bethany Sharayah Cosentino was born on November 3, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. Her middle name was taken from the song of the same name by Amy Grant. Her father was a musician who toured with bands including War and Ambrosia, and her mother was an actor in commercials and a fashion designer. That music got significant attention online, with major record labels trying to sign her which she rejected. and attended a community college. The two issued over 25 releases in three years, Cosentino featured on the album in a duet with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo on the song "Go Away". On July 24, 2015, the band released a music video for "Go Away", directed by Brendan Walter and Greg Yagolnitzer, in which Cuomo plays a man trying to win back the affection of his ex-girlfriend played by Cosentino.

On May 14, 2018, Cosentino released a single, "Jerry (Maybe We Should Get Married)", which was a collaboration with songwriter Nick Lutsko and parody Twitter account @Seinfeld2000.

On February 11, 2021, Spotify launched the show Bandsplain with theme music composed by Cosentino and Jennifer Clavin of Bleached. On August 20, Third Eye Blind released "Again", a single from their album Our Bande Apart, which featured Cosentino.

On July 26, 2022, Cosentino sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Dodger Stadium to open a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Washington Nationals.

On May 3, 2023, the same day as announcing Best Coast's hiatus, Cosentino announced her debut solo album, Natural Disaster. The album was primarily produced by Butch Walker and recorded in his Nashville studio; The album was released by Concord Records on July 28, 2023. Turning away from Best Coast's sound, Cosentino instead made a pop rock, folk rock, and Americana record influenced by Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, and Jewel.

Other ventures On March 1, 2012, Cosentino announced her clothing line with Urban Outfitters, with the clothes going on sale in May. She was the second musician to collaborate with the company, after Kim Gordon launched her clothing line in 2009. Designed for the company's Urban Renewal vintage clothing brand, Cosentino's inspirations for the designs included the movies Clueless and The Craft, Stevie Nicks's "infamous witchy style", and her childhood in the San Fernando Valley, describing it overall as "if Stevie Nicks and Cher from Clueless had a baby and they took her to a séance."

On November 3, 2017, Billboard published an op-ed written by Cosentino about sexual assault in the entertainment industry, just a month after film producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in an article in the New York Times, launching the MeToo movement of sex crime and sexual harassment victims publicizing their experiences. In the piece, Cosentino called Weinstein "The Man With Power Who Abuses It", and discussed how men like that are "in colleges, at Halloween parties, at car washes, in grocery stores — they're everywhere."

On March 25, 2020, Cosentino debuted her weekly radio show Bethline, livestreamed on Best Coast's YouTube channel. The first episode's featured guest was Mannequin Pussy's Marisa Dabice.

Personal life Cosentino started dating Nathan Williams, the founder and lead vocalist of Wavves, when both were 17 years old.

In May 2022, Cosentino was one of over 150 artists that signed an open letter in The New York Times condemning the planned overturn of Roe v. Wade by the United States Supreme Court.

On June 23, 2023, Cosentino's boyfriend proposed to her in a parking lot of the Americana at Brand shopping mall in Glendale, California. On July 10, 2024, Cosentino announced she was pregnant with her first child. She married her husband on October 19 at her baby shower. Their daughter, Luna Wren Richter, was born December 14.

As of 2023, Cosentino lives in Glendale in a house built in the 1930s. Snacks appeared on the covers of Best Coast's debut album Crazy for You and Wavves's King of the Beach, and had a dedicated Twitter account. Cosentino also had another cat, a domestic shorthair named Chloe.

Cosentino got her first tattoo, the words "all you need is love" and a small heart on her wrist, at 16. Other tattoos include the words "Trust no one" on one finger, and "Let it go" on another on the opposite hand. "For a Moment" "Natural Disaster"

Guest appearances Year Artist Release Album 2010 Kid Cudi "All Summer" 2011 The Go! Team "Buy Nothing Day" Rolling Blackouts New Found Glory "Caught in the Act" Radiosurgery 2014 Weezer "Go Away" Wasted on the Dream 2021 Third Eye Blind "Again" Our Bande Apart