ATM : BODEGA AT THIS MOMENT

BODEGA AT THIS MOMENT is a podcast curated by Ben Hozie of the NYC band BODEGA, interviewing musicians about their creative history, philosophy, and process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this very special episode, Ben chats w/ head of Bella Union records and Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde. The duo discuss the Cocteau Twins unique writing process, learning bass from the Sex Pistols, a disastrous gig opening for Metallica, rejecting Brian Eno and David Lynch, Cocteau Twins relationship to shoegaze, the origins of Bella Union, discovering Fleet Foxes on Myspace, and the pitfalls of the modern album cycle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode, Ben talks w/ Mancunian saxophonist and poet Alabaster Deplume about the philosophy and process behind Alabaster’s new LP ‘A Blade Because a Blade is Whole’. The duo also discuss Alabaster’s relationship to new British jazz, improvisation as a way of life, TOOL, Julmud’s ‘Tuqoos’, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s destructive radical honesty, Nietzsche’s eternal return, writing lyrics in intoxicated isolation, ‘Buy it’, and Alabaster’s experiences in Palestine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BODEGA AT THIS MOMENT is a podcast curated by Ben Hozie of the NYC band BODEGA, interviewing musicians about their creative history, philosophy, and process.

In this episode Ben chats with Kyle Crew of the NYC art punk band Consumables. They discuss the thematics and stories behind Consumables’s new LP ‘Infinite Games’ (produced by Ben) including Kyle’s father’s LA punk pedagogy, the influence of Parquet Court’s ‘Life Up Gold’, post punk vs. the blues, tribulations of collaboration, and a six month stint in Arkansas jail.
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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 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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