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 unique episode, Ben goes all the way back to the BODEGA source and interviews the woman he started Bodega Bay with back in 2013: film producer, activist, and drummer Aiko Masubuchi. The pair discuss the formation of the band, early influences, the original lineup(s), the concept of the band, the importance of politics for Bay, Taiko drumming, ‘Set the Controls for the Heart of the Drum’, Eminem in Tokyo, Bodega Bay’s zine, Kathleen Hanna, poetics vs. analytics, no-fi, gain vs. compression, stand-up drums, The Beets, Ikue Mori and DNA, the pros and cons of poptimism, My Bloody Valentine, Captured Tracks, the quantification of culture, and the urgency of protest for Palestine.

The episode also features an in-depth discussion of the track ‘Stain Gaze,’ which is a simultaneous critique and celebration of shoegaze.

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