Record label London Records Members Andrew Rodriguez | Albums Bring Yourself Up | |
Labels Vibra Cobra, London Records, Brobdingnagian Records Past members Andrew Rodriguez
Sam Goldberg
Kim Temple
Bruce Lynn
Leslie Feist
Gavin Maguire
Andy Lloyd
Paul Aucoin
Jason Kent
Jeremy Little
Kieran Adams
Jeff Heisholt
Robbie Grunwald Genres Alternative rock, Psychedelic pop Nominations Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year | ||
Bodega were a Canadian alternative rock band in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They are best known for their debut album Bring Yourself Up, which was a Juno Award nominee for Best Alternative Album at the Juno Awards of 1999.
Originally formed in Montreal in 1996 by Andrew Rodriguez and Sam Goldberg, the duo recruited drummer Kim Temple and moved to Toronto to record Bring Yourself Up, which was released in 1997 on independent label Vibra Cobra Records. The band then signed to London Records, which remixed and rereleased Bring Yourself Up internationally in 1998. Following that label's acquisition by Universal Music Group later the same year, however, the band were left largely unpromoted in the upheaval; they were offered the opportunity to move to Sire Records, but declined.
The band released its second and final album, Without a Plan, in 2001 on the independent Brobdingnagian Records. The album was produced by Dave Fridmann. Goldberg and Temple then left the band, and Rodriguez carried on with a rotating lineup of musicians, including Leslie Feist as a guitarist in some live performances.
Rodriguez subsequently opted to retire the band name, releasing Here Comes the Light in 2007 as a solo album rather than a third Bodega album.