Lake Street Dive

The group was formed in 2004 as a "free country band"; they intended to play country music in an improvised, avant-garde style.{{cite web |title=Lake Street Dive |url=http://www.signaturesounds.com/lake-street-dive.html |publisher=signaturesounds.com |access-date=September 16, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915114200/http://www.signaturesounds.com/lake-street-dive.html |archive-date=September 15, 2015 }} This concept was abandoned in favor of something that "actually sounded good", according to Mike Olson.{{cite web|url=https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2016/09/12-new-old-soul-acts-you-need-to-hear-right-now/|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20160909175538/https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2016/09/12-new-old-soul-acts-you-need-to-hear-right-now/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 9, 2016|title=14 'New Old Soul' Acts You Need to Hear Right Now|publisher=American Blues Scene|access-date=June 26, 2017}} The band's name was inspired by the Bryant Lake Bowl, a frequent hang out in the band's early years, located on Lake Street in Minneapolis.{{Cite web |last=Tribune |first=Jon Bream Star |title=Lake Street Dive singer will bring her 'quieter' band to Minneapolis |url=https://www.startribune.com/lake-street-dive-rachael-price-rachael-vilray-mcduck-minneapolis-dakota-new-england-conservatory/600343110/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=Star Tribune|date=13 February 2024 }}

In 2005, band member Bridget Kearney won the Jazz Category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest with the band's performance of her song "Sometimes When I'm Drunk and You're Wearing My Favorite Shirt."{{Cite web|url=https://jlsc.com/winners/2005b/lennon_awards.php|title=John Lennon Songwriting Contest|website=Jlsc.com|access-date=13 March 2021}} Using their prize ($1,000 cash and 1,000 CDs produced by Disc Makers) Lake Street Dive released their debut album In This Episode... in 2006. The band released their next album Promises, Promises in 2008. The full-length concert film and live album Live at the Lizard Lounge was recorded in 2010 and released in 2011. Initially, the band caught visibility by posting a funked-up viral video cover of The Jackson 5's I Want You Back. {{Cite web |date=2014-02-18 |title=Lake Street Dive, Rachael Price Bring Bad Self Portraits Into Focus |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lake-street-dive-rachael_b_4805813 |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}

In the early years, Lake Street Dive juggled their tours with other commitments.{{Cite web|title=Lake Street Dive Biography, Discography, Chart History|url=https://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=15313|access-date=2021-02-28|website=Top40-Charts.com|language=en}} Between their first brief performance in a Des Moines, Iowa rock club in 2007 and their May 2011 appearance at The Berkeley Cafe in Raleigh, North Carolina, they performed around 100 times in 24 states.{{cite web |title=Lake Street Dive On Tour |url=http://www.lakestreetdive.com/tour.html |publisher=lakestreetdive.com |access-date=September 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215180822/http://www.lakestreetdive.com/tour.html |archive-date=December 15, 2013 }} In September and October 2011 they traveled to 13 states and played in 22 venues.

File:Lake Street Dive live 2017 (cropped).jpg, Mike Calabrese, and Bridget Kearney at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, Brooklyn NY 2017.]]

Lake Street Dive released their first Signature Sounds Recordings album, Lake Street Dive, in November 2010. They credit Jim Olsen, president of Signature Sound, as being the band's dad "because of all the support he gave us when we were so infantile."{{Cite web|url=http://www.elmoremagazine.com/2014/11/features/lake-street-dive-and-father-jim|title=Lake Street Dive and Father Jim|date=25 November 2014|website=Elmore Magazine|access-date=13 March 2021}}

By 2012, the four-piece band decided to make a firm commitment as a group and to tour. Bridget Kearney left her other band, Joy Kills Sorrow, to concentrate on Lake Street Dive.[http://bluegrasstoday.com/bridget-kearney-exits-joy-kills-sorrow/ "Kearney announcement"] John Lawless, 'Bridget Kearney exits Joy Kills Sorrow' Bluegrass Today, September 4, 2012, Mike Calabrese also left his other band, Girls, Guns, and Glory (now known as Ward Hayden and The Outliers), to focus on Lake Street Dive. They went into the studio{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/greatnorthsoundsociety/|title=Great North Sound Society|publisher=Facebook|access-date=13 March 2021}} to record the album Fun Machine and some singles in November 2012.

Lead singer Rachael Price was still under contract with another label, Claire Vision. This prevented them from releasing the album recorded in the fall of 2012 featuring Price.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} In late 2013, an agreement was reached, and Lake Street Dive announced the release of their album Bad Self Portraits in February 2014.Wall Street Journal, 22 Aug 2013 [https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324165204579026661243487586 "A Breakout Band Waits to Take Off"]

In 2013 and 2014, they played over 300 gigs in over 175 different cities, spread between 43 states and eight countries.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bandsintown.com/|title=Bandsintown | Live Music, Concert Tickets, Tour Dates & Live Streams|website=Bandsintown.com|access-date=13 March 2021}} Their Bad Self Portraits tour sold out in 40 venues at the start of 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bandsintown.com/a/274349-lake-street-dive?came_from=251|title=Lake Street Dive|website=Bandsintown.com|access-date=13 March 2021}}

On YouTube, their Jackson 5 cover of "I Want You Back" on a street corner has received more than 6 million views.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPwRdVg5Ug|title=Lake Street Dive Plays "I Want You Back" On a Boston Sidewalk|access-date=2019-04-21|date=2012-05-17|publisher=YouTube}} Its viral success helped promote the band's visibility and popularity. Their performance at the 2013 FreshGrass Festival{{Citation|last=FreshGrass Festival|title=FreshGrass Presents... LAKE STREET DIVE|date=2014-02-18|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5w0qid5C9A |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/E5w0qid5C9A |archive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|access-date=2017-12-04}}{{cbignore}} was filmed and directed by noted Brooklyn audio/visual collective Mason Jar Music. In December 2013, T Bone Burnett asked them to perform on the Another Day, Another Time show at The Town Hall featuring music from and inspired by the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis. Lake Street Dive has appeared on many television shows: The Colbert Report,{{cite web|url=http://www.cc.com/video-clips/cjdkxj/the-colbert-report-lake-street-dive|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914011623/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/cjdkxj/the-colbert-report-lake-street-dive|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 14, 2015|title=Colbert Report 5 February 2014|date=2014-02-05|access-date=2019-04-21|publisher=Comedy Central}} The Late Show with David Letterman,{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCHiB1IymBQ |title=David Letterman 21 February 2014 |website=YouTube |access-date=25 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209183355/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCHiB1IymBQ |archive-date=9 February 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} Conan, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ellentv.com/artists/lake-street-dive/ |title=Ellen DeGeneres Show 18 March 2014 |access-date=20 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421082131/http://www.ellentv.com/artists/lake-street-dive/ |archive-date=21 April 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}} {{citation needed span|date=March 2021|They are also frequent guests on the public radio variety show Live From Here.}}

The band has uploaded numerous videos, including their annual, humorous Halloween covers.{{cite web |title=Love Shack cover – Lake Street Dive | date=31 October 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=19&v=Alg4eBa5hGU |publisher=Lake Street Dive|access-date=September 15, 2015}}

The band made some significant changes in their operations in 2015. In the winter of that year, they started work with Dave Cobb on a new record/CD in Nashville, signed with Nonesuch Records in November, and prepared for the release of the new album. In 2015, they performed at only 98 venues. However, they toured Australia and New Zealand in March, then picked up their usual pace until December.{{cite web |title=Lake Street Dive Tour Dates |url=http://www.lakestreetdive.com/#!tour/cjg9 |publisher=lakestreetdive.com |access-date=September 15, 2015}} Their traditional Halloween video was Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEiWN44L3M|title=Bohemian Rhapsody - Lake Street Dive|date=30 October 2015 |publisher=YouTube}}

Lake Street Dive signed with Nonesuch Records in 2015 and released Side Pony in February 2016 with their new label.Nonesuch Journal, 12 November 2015, [http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/lake-street-dive-nonesuch-debut-side-pony-february-19-tour-2015-11-12 Nonesuch Journal] The album's name refers to a hairstyle adopted by Kearney and is slang for "unexpectedly diverting the mind's attention." The band made 183 appearances in 2017 and 2018, including tours through North America, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia.{{cite web |title=Lake Street Dive Tour Dates |url=http://www.lakestreetdive.com/#!tour/cjg9 |publisher=lakestreetdive.com|access-date= January 1, 2019}} Members claimed that creating this song was "out of their comfort zone." They consistently mix genres within their music, and with Side Pony they added another element to the mix- disco.{{Cite web |last=Romberg |first=Rebekah |date=2017-04-14 |title=Lake Street Dive Uncovers Inspiration In An Unlikely Place |url=https://www.cpr.org/podcast-episode/lake-street-dive-uncovers-inspiration-in-an-unlikely-place/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Colorado Public Radio |language=en}} When they decided to implement disco into their repertoire, they decided to shy away from the stereotypical dance floor and disco ball thing. Instead, they blended different elements of disco music to their songs and mixed it with their go-to genres.{{Cite web|date=2016-02-15 |title=The Cream of Four Crops: A Conversation with Lake Street Dive's Mike "McDuck" Olson |url=https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/the-cream-of-four-crops-a-conversation-with-lake-street-dives-mike-mcduck-olson/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=The Bluegrass Situation |language=en-US}}

The band released their second album with Nonesuch, Free Yourself Up in May 2018. Kearney says, "This album is based in the realities in our time which have inevitably become part of everyone's daily life. It's something you think about and obsess over—and write songs about. Free Yourself Up is about empowering yourself, emboldening yourself, no matter what's going wrong."{{cite web|url=http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/lake-street-dive-new-album-free-yourself-out-now-2018-05-04|title=Lake Street Dive's New Album, "Free Yourself Up," Out Now; Band Shares "Good Kisser" Video|date=2018-05-24|access-date=2019-04-21|website=nonesuch.com}} In November 2018, they released Freak Yourself Out, a five-song EP of songs written but not recorded for Free Yourself Up.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/lake-street-dives-freak-yourself-out-vinyl-10-now-nonesuch-store-2018-12-07|title=Lake Street Dive's "Freak Yourself Out" Vinyl 10" Now in the Nonesuch Store – Nonesuch Records|website=Nonesuch Records Official Website|date=7 December 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-01-02}}

The band wrote the theme song for Somebody Feed Phil with the show's creator Philip Rosenthal and recorded the song.{{Cite web|last=Grobar|first=Matt|date=2019-08-15|title=Phil Rosenthal Discusses His Journey Around The World With 'Somebody Feed Phil' & What To Expect From Future Seasons|url=https://deadline.com/2019/08/somebody-feed-phil-phil-rosenthal-emmys-netflix-interview-1202660903/|access-date=2022-12-03|website=Deadline|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031160903/https://deadline.com/2019/08/somebody-feed-phil-phil-rosenthal-emmys-netflix-interview-1202660903/|url-status=live}} The song was nominated for an Emmy award for original main title theme music.{{cite web |title=Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music - 2018 |url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2018/outstanding-original-main-title-theme-music|access-date=2022-12-03}}

On May 10, 2021, trumpeter and guitarist Mike "McDuck" Olson announced he would be leaving Lake Street Dive after 16 years of performing with the band.{{cite web |title=Mike 'McDuck' Olson Departs Lake Street Dive |url=https://www.jambase.com/article/lake-street-dive-mike-olson-departure |website=JamBase |access-date=10 May 2021}}

The band participated at the Newport Folk Festival in July 2021.{{Cite web |title=Newport Folk Festival stage schedule 2021 |url=https://newportfolk.org/2021-schedule/ |access-date=2021-09-21 |website=newportfolk.org}}

In September 2022, the band released "Fun Machine: The Sequel" through Fantasy Records. Collectively, the band described the EP in this way, "Imagine you walk into your favorite local dive bar and Lake Street Dive is on stage, doing our regular weekly gig for $5 a head. These are the songs we’d be covering there and how we’d be playing them. Some deep cuts, some sentimental favorites, and some (hopefully) epic crowd pleasers.".{{cite web |url=https://fantasyrecordings.com/releases/fun-machine-the-sequel/|title=Fun Machine: The Sequel}}

"Good Together" was released in June 2024.{{Cite web |last=Santos |first=Raniel |date=2024-06-24 |title=Review: Lake Street Dive sound "Good Together" on new album |url=https://dailytitan.com/lifestyle/review-lake-street-dive-sound-good-together-on-new-album/article_e9a96f46-3009-11ef-b6b7-eb95d57255af.html |access-date=February 13, 2025 |website=Daily Titan |language=en |archive-date=2024-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109150434/https://dailytitan.com/lifestyle/review-lake-street-dive-sound-good-together-on-new-album/article_e9a96f46-3009-11ef-b6b7-eb95d57255af.html |url-status=live }} The album was nominated for the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.{{Cite web |last1=Ruggieri |first1=Melissa |last2=McClellan |first2=Jennifer |date=November 8, 2024 |title=2025 Grammy nominations live updates: Beyoncé leads the way |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/11/08/grammy-nominations-2025-live-updates/76071876007/ |access-date=February 13, 2025 |website=USA Today |language=en-US}}

File:Rachael Price, Akie Bermiss, and James Cornelison – Lake Street Dive.png

All the band members were singing and/or playing musical instruments by the time they were in third grade. Most had some classical music training growing up, and their parents were musicians. Each had migrated to jazz by the time they met. However, the band says they were influenced by the music their parents were playing at home. This ranged from classic jazz to '60s soul to rock and roll.{{cite interview| publisher=The Living Room|title=Artist-Rachael Price|location=New York, New York |date=2008}}{{cite interview| website=Perfectsnotes.blogspot.com |first = Bradley|last = Carter| title=Interview with Bridget Kearney of Lake Street Dive | date= 2013}}

The band members profess to love the entire Beatles discography. Kearney wrote "Hello? Goodbye!" and the band plays "Don't Make Me Hold Your Hand," both referencing Beatles tunes. Olson says he was inspired by Paul McCartney's love/vice lyrical concept in "Got to Get You into My Life" when he wrote "You Go Down Smooth."

The band's traditional Halloween specials and covers on the EP release Fun Machine{{Citation|title=Fun Machine Ep|date=2014-05-06|url=https://www.amazon.com/Fun-Machine-Lake-Street-Dive/dp/B008A3LZUS|publisher=Imports|access-date=2017-12-04}} give an idea of the genres that influence them. These range from songs by the Mamas and the Papas,{{Citation|last=Lake Street Dive|title=Lake Street Dive Plays "Dedicated To The One I Love." HAPPY HALLOWEEN!|date=2012-10-30|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTPwziETx8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/IdTPwziETx8 |archive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|access-date=2017-12-04}}{{cbignore}} ABBA, the Drifters, Fleetwood Mac, Hall & Oates, Queen, Jackson 5 and Paul McCartney.

The band has been influenced by classic pop and swing-era jazz. "We want it to sound like the Beatles and Motown had a party together," says drummer Mike Calabrese.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/04/lake-street-dive-beatles-motown-boston-jackson-5|title=Lake Street Dive: 'We aim to sound like the Beatles and Motown had a party'|last=John|first=Emma|date=2014-05-03|work=The Observer|access-date=2017-12-04|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}} Critics describe their music as "Sounds Like: Llewyn Davis's favorite pop group; Motown meets the Brill Building in jazzy, soulful, woulda-been Sixties chart toppers."{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/10-new-artists-you-need-to-know-january-2014-20140124/lake-street-dive-0466021|title=Lake Street Dive|date=January 24, 2014|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=2017-12-04}}

Price has said that the band's performances are influenced by the audience in front of them. "We are translating [crowd energy] on stage, trying to figure out what kind of energy to put out to the crowds. For the first time, we feel we can mold the energy of a room."{{Cite web|url=https://www.publicradioeast.org/post/after-years-performing-lake-street-dive-reaps-sold-out-shows|title=After Years Of Performing, Lake Street Dive Reaps Sold-Out Shows|website=Publicradioeast.org|date=7 July 2014|access-date=13 March 2021}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/07/07/328522745/lake-street-dive-and-the-chemistry-of-harmony|title=Lake Street Dive And The Chemistry Of Harmony|date=July 7, 2014|work=NPR.org|access-date=2017-12-04|language=en}}

Current

• Rachael Price – lead vocals, ukulele, guitar (2004–present)
• Bridget Kearney – acoustic bass, electric bass, piano, vocals (2004–present)
• Mike Calabrese – drums, organ, vocals (2004–present)
• Akie Bermiss – keyboards, organ, vocals (2017–present)
• James Cornelison – guitar, vocals (2021–present){{Cite web|url=https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/lake-street-dive-central-park-summerstage-08-24-21-photos/|title=Lake Street Dive 'Obviously' Entrances New York's SummerStage in Central Park [Photos/Videos]|date=25 August 2021}}

Former members

• Mike "McDuck" Olson – trumpet, guitar, piano, organ, vocals (2004–2021)

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