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 fourth episode, Ben interviews BODEGA lead guitar player Dan Ryan who shares his process behind his solo in the single ‘Tarkovski.’ Dan treats Ben to guitar playing throughout the episode as the pair chat about Dan’s musical roots, his earliest bands, modern jazz, music school, prog rock, the forest of music theory, the guitar solos on 'Broken Equipment', 2000’s emo-core, Stravinsky, Bach, Super City, Prince, The Temptations, St. Vincent, DIY recording, Kevin Shields, live improvisation, and filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.

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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 third episode, Ben chats with filmmaker and Bodega Bay member Joe Wakeman about Bodega Bay’s Brechtian approach to composition and performance. Ben and Joe also talk about Jean Luc Godard, of Montreal, AC/DC, Modest Mouse, performance as confrontation, Andy Warhol, irony in music, the SXSW boycott, ‘selling out’, Joe’s 2015 film ‘They Read by Night’, Toyzanne, The Beatles, and the first Bodega Bay song ‘Your Brand Could be Our Life (Rock and Roll Corporation).’

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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.

In this episode Ben chats with Nikki Belfiglio, the other lead vocalist of BODEGA, about joining Bodega Bay and writing her first ever song, ‘G.N.D. Deity.’ Ben also learns about Nikki’s early journey as an artist including discovering photography, dropping out of art school, and moving to NYC. Ben and Nikki also talk about growing up near Woodstock, DIY filmmaking, of Montreal, sampling, Bikini Kill, Milk Dick, sex work, sex in art, dragging femme, PVT CHAT, the first BODEGA recording, and ‘scenius’ vs. ‘genius’.

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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.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.