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 seventh episode, Ben interviews current BODEGA drummer Adam Shumski about his drum philosophy and details how a post-show fight was transformed into the song ‘Webster Hall’. Ben and Adam discuss the enduring influence of jazz, hearing Talking Heads in middle school, Squarepusher, Fugazi, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, American Idiot, jazz school, Vita and the wolf, The Lunar Year, meeting Dan Ryan, idiosyncratic stage plotting as a trope of indie rock, the ergonomics of stand-up drumming, Dehd, mallets vs. drum sticks, hard hitting jazz drummers, Elvin Jones, drum fills as timekeeping, The Beatles' ‘Come Together’, origins of music publishing, Bodega Bay’s band field trip seeing of Montreal at Webster Hall, and Adam’s mental evolution from craftsperson to artist.

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