Bodega released a new song called “City Is Taken” which will appear on their third LP Our brand can be a year of life – Will be released on April 12 on Chrysalis. Following last month's “Tarkovski”, the track comes paired with a video directed by Luca Balser. Check it out below.
“‘City Is Taken’ is a song about my experience moving to New York City in 2010,” the band’s Nikki Belfiglio said in a statement. “I came to see myself and my artistic role models as a force of improvement caught in the invisible web of profiteering that follows artists wherever they go. My visual presence became an unwitting symbol of destruction; the antithesis of everything I sought to create.
Ben Hosie added of the video: “It starts in front of what was Goodbye Blue Monday, where I played my first show in the city in 2009. The camera frames key DIY locations in BODEGA's history like Party Expo and the Palisades (where the launch party for the original 'Our Brand' was held) “It Could Be Your Life” in 2015), Silent Barn II, Sunnyvale (where the “Endless Scroll” release party was held…) Shea Stadium, Death by Audio, 285 Kent, Glasslands, Monster Island, Aviv and Cake Shop as well as some Classic punk spots from before our time like Mercer Arts Center, Palladium, Tier 3, Mudd Club, and Max's Kansas City – the track references Patti Smith's recent adage that young artists in New York City should “pack[their]bags and move to Detroit .
