String Fever
“DO YOU KNOW,” Bethany Cosentino confesses, “when I was first asked about doing an interview for Guitar Player, I was like, ‘Don’t they know I’m a bad guitarist?’”
The frontwoman for the hard-rocking power-pop duo Best Coast lets out a laugh before admitting that she is her “harshest critic.” While Cosentino doesn’t play flashy lead licks or engage in over-the-top technical acrobatics on her instrument, she excels at something more engaging: writing and playing radiant, hook-filled guitar pop. For proof, one need look no further than Best Coast’s three studio albums — 2010’s , 2012’s and 2015’s — which are packed with some of the catchiest guitar-driven pop-rock of the past decade.
