Best Coast scraps tour due to COVID-19

Best Coast is canceling its upcoming tour in support of its “Always Tomorrow” album due to COVID19 concerns.

The tour was set to kick off today at the Catalyst Club in Santa Cruz, California. The Socal indie-pop group — consisting of singer-songwriter-guitarist Bethany Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno — was scheduled to hit August Hall in San Francisco as well as such cities as Chicago, Toronto, Seattle and Los Angeles.

“We are devastated to announce that our upcoming Finally Tomorrow tour is unfortunately canceled,” the band posted on Twitter. “It was an incredibly difficult decision to make, but one that we ultimately felt was right.

“The last two years have been so difficult for us as a band (and the entire world) — and we appreciate your support through it all.”

This is the second time that COVID-19 has interrupted Best Coast’s tour plans in support of “Always Tomorrow,” which is the group’s first full-length album of new material in five years. The first instance occurred while the group was on tour in March 2020, just a month after “Always Tomorrow” was released, as the pandemic quickly brought the live music industry to a standstill.

“Our last show was in Chicago (on March 11, 2020). It was about two weeks into a monthlong tour,” Cosentino told this newspaper in December. “We had obviously been hearing a lot about COVID. But I think when you are on tour you exist in such a bubble of just what’s going on in the tour landscape. We were all kind of like, ‘OK, like I guess we’ll see what will happen with this.’ I fully didn’t think that the world was truly about to shut down. I did not see that coming whatsoever.”

Hopefully, the band will be able to make up these dates at some point.