Best Music of 2015: #10: Best Coast - California Nights

There are six newcomers and four returnees to this year's top ten. Among the returnees are an old friend back for the first time in almost a decade and a solo artist making his fourth appearance (sixth if you count his former band).

Best Coast is the first of the six newcomers and also the first of three female-fronted acts in the top ten. The latter number is more than usual, but not unprecedented. The bigger deal is the positional ranking of the remaining two.

I haven't been to California in over a decade, but I could see myself spending some California nights sipping Ballast Point's Grapefruit Sculpin while enjoying Best Coast's brand of infectious indie pop.