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 final episode of the season, Ben chats w/ Bodega Bay drummer Aiko Masubuchi about ’N.A.S.S.’, the violent song Bodega Bay used to close most of their sets. The duo also discuss Aiko’s unique sticking of the motorik beat, Sonic Youth’s use of prepared guitar, and the impossibility of re-creating the charming naiveté of first recordings. The episode ends with Ben pondering the nostalgia-obsessed state of postmodern pop culture, Charli XCX’s Brat, and the song ‘Realism’.

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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 21st episode, Ben chats with filmmaker and Bodega Bay member Joe Wakeman about ‘Cultural Consumer IV’ and his other songwriting contributions to Bodega Bay. The duo also discuss the B Bay outtake of ‘Brancusi Brainwash Birds’ featuring Joe’s keyboards, of Montreal’s progressive pop, Bowie and Bolan’s only collaboration, ‘Notoriety’, Wes Anderson, Courtney Barnett, the song Joe initially wrote for Endless Scroll (Toyzanne’s ‘Maps’), Acrylic Gesso, and the time Bodega Bay staged a rock opera.

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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 20th episode, Ben and BODEGA bassist Adam See discuss the song ‘Adaptation of the Truth about Marie’ and the existential romance novel it’s based on, Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s ‘The Truth about Marie.’ The duo also discuss the philosophical implications of first and third person narration, Andre Bazin, Goldeneye for Nintendo 64, Roger Corman’s ‘The Raven’, Godard’s ‘Contempt’, Ben’s first film ‘Annunciation’, R.E.M., and the concept of adaptation itself.

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