Lake Street Dive

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Lake Street Dive
Lake Street Dive from left: Mike Calabrese, Rachael Price, Bridget Kearney and Mike "McDuck" Olson at the 2013 Albino Skunk Music Festival
Lake Street Dive

from left: Mike Calabrese, Rachael Price, Bridget Kearney and Mike "McDuck" Olson at the 2013 Albino Skunk Music Festival

General information
origin United States
founding 2004
Website www.lakestreetdive.com
Current occupation
singing
 Rachael Price
Trumpet, guitar, vocals
 Mike Olson
Drums, vocals
 Mike Calabrese
Bass, vocals
 Bridget Kearney
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Fun Machine (EP)
  US 187 02/22/2014 (1 week)
Bad Self Portraits
  US 18th 03/08/2014 (8 weeks)
Side bangs
  US 29 03/12/2016 (2 weeks)
Free Yourself Up
  US 8th May 19, 2018 (2 weeks)

Lake Street Dive is an American indie jazz, pop and soul band that was formed in 2004 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston , where Rachael Price (vocals), Mike "McDuck" Olson (trumpet, guitar) , Bridget Kearney (double bass) and Mike Calabrese (drums) studied. The band was named after a main shopping street in Olson's hometown Minneapolis and the local "Dives" (pubs with a stage).

Concept and story

The addition to the name also emphasizes the current character of the band: Catchy, minimalist soul jazz music for a (apparently) small audience, which is characterized by virtuosity as well as originality and humor. In fact, the original plan of the quartet around founder Mike Olson was to put together an avant-garde country band. However, in the interplay of the jazz-trained members, who were inspired by classic pop and rock history, something crystallized that hardly shows any country influences. "We are now a pop band that is heavily oriented towards soul and rock," Olson is quoted as saying. But that's not supposed to be a real definition of the band that keeps the option open for future development. "We play what we would like to hear ourselves," says Bridget Kearney, bassist and songwriter for the quartet.

The band, which defends itself against a genre definition, creates an independent sound with little technical effort, which is based entirely on individual skills and shared musicality. Mike Calabrese: “We want to sound like Motown and the Beatles are celebrating a party” and “(...) try to write catchy tunes that make people dance”.

Kearney won an award in the jazz category of the 2005 John Lennon Songwriting Contest . The award enabled the band to record their first self-published CD In This Episode in 2006 . After signing with Signature Sounds Records , the album Lake Street Dive was released in 2011 .

In May 2012, the EP Fun Machine was released , which except for Rachael Price's Clear a Space cover versions (including George Michaels Faith , Paul McCartney's Let me roll it ) in the band's typical sound. A tweet by Kevin Bacon , who drew attention to the Youtube clip for I Want You Back (Original Jackson Five ) produced by Greg Liszt , caused considerable publicity . In September Bridget Kearney announced that she was leaving Joy Kills Sorrow in order to focus primarily on Lake Street Dive.

In 2013 an extensive US tour with over 150 gigs followed and an invitation to T-Bone Burnett's Another Day, Another Time concert (a promotional event for Inside Llewyn Davis of the Coen Brothers in September of that year). Lake Street Dive performed in Germany for the first time in late autumn.

Bad Self Portraits was published in February 2014 . The release was delayed by the singer's contract with Claire Vision Productions , a label in which Tom Price, Rachel's father, is involved. The album only contains the band members' own compositions; Kearney contributed five, Calabrese and Olson three each of the songs. In May 2014 Lake Street Dive were again on German stages as part of a European tour.

Lake Street Dive 2017 at Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival with Akie Bermiss on keyboards

In 2015 the band switched to Nonesuch Records . In February 2016, the album Side Pony, produced by Dave Cobb in Nashville, was released . In April of that year, Lake Street Dive was a guest in five German cities.

Free yourself up was released in May 2018 . The album was again produced in Nashville, this time by Dan Knobler. Seven of the ten songs were penned by Bridget Kearney or Kearney and Olsen, three more were contributed by Calabrese and Olsen.

The band's headquarters are now in Brooklyn .

Members

The band members are former jazz students who are graduates of the New England Conservatory in Boston.

  • Mike Olson: is from Minneapolis, plays trumpet, guitar and piano; Composition and background vocals
  • Rachael Price: comes from Tennessee, trained jazz singer (solo album: The good Hours (2008) produced by Tom Price)
  • Bridget Kearney: originally from Iowa, best known as the bassist and composer for Joy Kills Sorrow; Composition and background vocals. Her solo debut album Won't Let You Down was released in March 2017 .
  • Mike Calabrese: originally from Philadelphia, plays drums; Composition, vocals and background vocals

Trivia

The band regularly publishes greeting videos on their YouTube channel on Halloween with cover versions of their musical influences from pop music ( The Mamas and the Papas , ABBA , Fleetwood Mac ).

Discography

  • 2006: In this episode
  • 2007: Promises, Promises (Fyo)
  • 2011: Lake Street Dive (Signature Sounds)
  • 2012: Fun Machine (EP) (Signature Sounds)
  • 2014: Bad Self Portraits (Signature Sounds)
  • 2016: Side Pony (Nonesuch)
  • 2018: Free Yourself Up (Nonesuch)
  • 2018: Freak Yourself Out (Nonesuch)

Concert videos

  • 2010: Live at the Lizard Lounge

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US chart history
  2. Jump up : We were ready for luck : Interview with Michael Calabrese, drummer from Lake Street Dive. By Daniel Nagel for regioactive.de, April 26, 2014 (accessed May 1, 2014)
  3. ↑ https://lakestreetdivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/lake-street-dive “Now we're a pop band, leaning very heavily on soul and rock, with hook-y writing, which I never expected,” he concludes. "If I could travel through time, I'd go back six years and play the new record for my younger self, just to assure him that the awkward, new-band phase doesn't last forever."
  4. ↑ Lake Street Dive: We aim to sound like the Beatles and Motown had a party . Emma John in The Observer , May 4, 2014 (accessed May 24, 2014)
  5. ↑ Lake Street Dive: On A Rocketship to Fame , Emma John for pastemagazin, May 6, 2014 (accessed May 24, 2014)
  6. ↑ http://jlsc.com/winners/2005b/lennon_awards.php
  7. ↑ https://twitter.com/lakestreetdive/status/254777272584769536 Retweet from LSD on October 6, 2012
  8. ↑ The clip Lake Street Dive Plays "I Want You Back" On a Boston Sidewalk was posted on Youtube on May 17, 2012 and has since been viewed (April 2014) over 1.7 million times.
  9. ↑ Bridget Kearney exits Joy Kills Sorrow , Bluegrass today, September 4, 2012 (accessed April 6, 2014)
  10. ↑ http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/concert-film-another-day-another-time-celebrating-music-inside-llewyn-davis-itunes-2014-03-13
  11. ↑ http://www.bandsintown.com/LakeStreetDive/past_events?page=3 Tour plan autumn-winter 2013 on Bandsintown.com
  12. ↑ See Lake Street Dive on Allmusic.com
  13. ↑ Lake Street Dive with a new album and tour in May 2014 , February 12, 2014 by Uta Bretsch (accessed April 6, 2014)
  14. ↑ Concert reports and photos from the performance on May 16, 2014 in Cologne: Lake Street Dive - jazzy and sexy in the Kulturkirche in Cologne , musicheadquarter.de, May 19, 2014 (accessed on May 24, 2014) and Blown Away , Ullrich Maurer gaesteliste.de (accessed on May 24, 2014)
  15. ^ Nonesuch Journal, October 14, 2015 (accessed October 20, 2015)
  16. ↑ Lake Street Dive: Searching for the Unexpected Chord , Geoffrey Himes for pastemagazine, February 16, 2016 (accessed February 20, 2016)
  17. ↑ Lake Street Dive are coming to Germany for five concerts in April 2016 ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), regioactive.de, November 24, 2015
  18. ↑ Reviews of Free yourself up on metacritic.com (accessed May 11, 2018)
  19. ↑ Review on intro.de , Elisabeth Haefs on intro.de , May 8, 2018 (accessed May 11, 2018)
  20. ↑ Review and song list on allmusic.com (accessed on May 11, 2018)
  21. ↑ Bridget Kearney: Won't Let You Down - Album Review , Sounds & Books, March 22, 2017, (accessed May 19, 2017)