Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast has gotten a lot of flak for her song lyrics, as heard on her bands debut, this years Crazy For You. The songs are all fuzzy layers of reverbing guitars, evoking a drugged-out California haze (not all that different from the music of Cosentinos boyfriend, Nathan Williams of Wavves), and theyre simply and straightforwardly about boys, drugs, and occasionally Cosentinos cat, Snacks, who appears on the album cover. But Crazy For You conveys all the bliss and wistfulness of being a young female, and theres something endearing about Best Coasts girlish songs and innocent lines like, When Im with you I have fun, and I wish he was my boyfriend/ Id love him til the very end. Theyre not overly profound, but sometimes, life really is that simple. With Sonny & the Sunsets, The Calligraphers. ERIN K. THOMPSON
Sat., Oct. 30, 8 p.m., 2010