ATM : BODEGA AT THIS MOMENT

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For this very special episode, Ben gets a play-by-play history of one of his favorite NYC bands, the legendary Milk Dick. Ben interviews Milk Dick’s leader Mike Delaney about growing up in the Bronx, working at CBGB’s, playing music w/ Juan Wauters, shitgaze and the Fall, the Hospitals, the Velvets, playing punk quiet, meeting Bodega Bay, and Mike’s use of yearning, memory, comedy, sex, hard drugs, and damage in his songwriting. The guys also discuss Mike's profound emotional connection to his ex-bandmates Meg and Brian and dissect the process behind the three Milk Dick LPs and the Milk Dick song BODEGA covered on their new EP, ‘Cry When Yr Young’. 

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For the first episode dedicated to the new BODEGA EP Brand on the Run, Ben interviews sometimes live BODEGA bassist and engineer/mixer Tim Race about recording ‘Myrtle Parade'. Ben and Tim also discuss Tim’s band Big Bliss, ‘butt rock’, covering Joy Division and Interpol, the BK DIY venue Aviv, sobriety in the music scene, the claps on ‘Genius of Love’, the origins of Earthquaker pedals and The Party of Helicopters, the NYC post punk class of 2018, Bodega Bay's version(s) of Endless Scroll, the spontaneous birth of 'Proof of Life', and the song Tim wrote to understand his dad’s PTSD as a Vietnam vet.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For this jam-packed episode, Ben interviews BODEGA bass player and philosopher Adam See about the history of gentrification in NYC and its relationship to colonialism, structural racism, red-lining, corporate misuse of eminent domain, Patti Smith, punk, and the track ‘City is Taken’. The pair also discuss Adam’s music history and his passionate commitment to veganism/animal liberation.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For the 13th episode, Ben interviews saxophonist and frequent Bodega Bay collaborator Kate Mohanty about her musical history and contribution to the original Bodega Bay album and ‘Cultural Consumer II’. The pair also discuss Kate’s fascination with/ Coltrane and the Velvets, her time in Parlor Walls, Ben’s experiments w/ deconstructive mixes, and the psychology behind free improvisation.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For the 12th episode, Ben and drummer Brendan Mehan dissect the story and repertoire of the band they formed in 2012 right before Bodega Bay, Big Fur. The pair analyze several of their recordings and the song Ben wrote for Big Fur that later became a Bodega Bay (and BODEGA) staple, ‘Cultural Consumer’. Other topics include the psychology and artistry of on-stage meltdowns, borrowing from The Pixies, and Brendan’s experience working in the branding side of the music industry.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.In this mini episode, Ben muses alone in a French motel on the origins of the track that became Bodega Bay’s manifesto: ‘Born Into by What Consumes’. He also discusses Bodega Bay’s critique of ‘naturalism’, Jean Renoir’s defense of hammy acting, and his brief time in a Pink Floyd tribute band.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For the tenth episode, Ben interviews one-time Bodega Bay drummer and scholar Richard Vagnino about the band he started that shared members w/ Bodega Bay, Perfect Teeth. The pair also discuss the girl troubles that inspired their songs ‘Memphis’ and ‘Protean’ plus Jeff Tweedy’s theory of genre misuse in the studio, the psychology of karaoke, and the construction of self as a curated adaptive process.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.In the ninth episode, Ben interviews Bodega Bay bass player Tom Miller about his musical life and his contribution to the track ‘Set the Controls for the Heart of the Drum.’ Topics discussed include Tom’s classical childhood, Animal Collective, hair metal and indie hedonism, Steve Hanley and The Fall, repetition as an aesthetic strategy, authenticity, Pink Flag and Pink Floyd, ‘Ode to Drum’, DIY yuppies, swing and iambic pentameter, and the utopia of having a dedicated creative friend circle.