 | Thank you for visiting Lake Street Dive on the web! You can read all about us below, listen to our recordings, look at our photos and see where we'll be playing next! There was a very fine article written about Lake Street Dive in The Boston Phoenix recently. Check it out here. Lake Street Dive just played a great show at The Englert Theatre in Iowa City, IA with Loudon Wainwright III. Check out some video footage here. |  |
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"joyous blend of horn-driven Southern Soul, rugged jazz, twee-pop, and funky folk." -CD BABY
"a bold step towards a new musical amalgam..." -Ken Schaphorst
LAKE STREET DIVE IS A POP MUSIC PLAY-DATE. The ensemble derives inexhaustible energy from the joy of invention and creation together. Their exuberant live shows and carefully crafted studio albums share a blissful irreverence for convention and an undying devotion to melody, spontaneity and groove. The four friends first met and began playing together as students at Boston's New England Conservatory of music. Their first attempt at collaboration was to form a "free country band" that performed original country and western songs in an avant-garde style. This was a terrible idea. When they came to their senses, they discovered that their shared passion for the Motown and British invasion bands of the 60s and 70s could be used as a jumping off point for a much more palatable sound. The new, improved Lake Street Dive quickly became a popular fixture on the Boston music scene. In 2006, Lake Street Dive entered the national arena when bassist Bridget Kearney's "Sometimes When I'm Drunk and You're Wearing My Favorite Shirt" won a Grand Prize and Lennon Award in The John Lennon Songwriting Contest. The prize resulted in increased exposure for the band, a Midwestern tour and the creation of their first studio album, "in This Episode..." Since then, Lake Street Dive has continued to evolve and expand, performing in some of the East Coast's and Midwest's finest venues and festivals, adding shakers, tambourines and lush background vocals to their sound and sweater vests to their wardrobe. Their sophomore album, "Promises, Promises" was released in July 2008 on indie-label FYO Records.
NEWS 5/09: An article from the Boston Phoenix! : http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/78869-Modern-vintage/?rel=inf
NEWS 1/09: Lake Street Dive chosen as featured pick on CD BABY. Visit www.cdbaby.com on January 9th or http://cdbaby.com/picks after January 9th to read the review!
NEWS 10/08: We got stickers! They're really really cute and they'll be available at shows and on fyorecords.net for only $1.! Also, if you buy both CDs from fyorecords.net you get a free sticker!! Want to see a picture of the sticker? Click here! (it's just the part inside the oval)
NEWS 6/08: Recording, mixing and mastering for the new album "Promises, Promises" is complete! The album, to be released on fyo records, will be released in the Midwest in July and on the East Coast in September.
NEWS 5/09: An article from the Boston Phoenix! : http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/78869-Modern-vintage/?rel=inf
NEWS 1/09: Lake Street Dive chosen as featured pick on CD BABY. Visit www.cdbaby.com on January 9th or http://cdbaby.com/picks after January 9th to read the review!
NEWS 10/08: We got stickers! They're really really cute and they'll be available at shows and on fyorecords.net for only $1.! Also, if you buy both CDs from fyorecords.net you get a free sticker!! Want to see a picture of the sticker? Click here! (it's just the part inside the oval)
NEWS 6/08: Recording, mixing and mastering for the new album "Promises, Promises" is complete! The album, to be released on fyo records, will be released in the Midwest in July and on the East Coast in September.
NEWS 2/08: Summer East Coast and Midwest Tours in the works! LSD will be joining forces with Cuddle Magic for a ten day tour of the East Coast in June, and fronting a solo tour in July through the Mid-West. Please check the calendar for updates.
NEWS 2/08: YOUTUBE time! Here are a couple of new LSD related videos: firstly, a clip of Laura Cortese and Aoife O'Donovan covering LSD's "Sometimes When I'm Drunk..." on glockenspiel and voice at The Lizard Lounge: http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=f3_VZn_mSz4 Secondly, a groundbreakingly silly rendition of LSD covering their own "Wrong Decisions" as a male-female vocal duet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMRxkqu5M6Q&feature=related
NEWS 1/08: January Residency at Toad! Come see LSD every Tuesday night in January at Toad (except for the 1st, because we'll be out of town for New Year's and the 29th because Rachael has a gig in Cali. But hey, 3 out of 5 ain't bad...)
NEWS 12/07: "in this episode..." named #1 album of 2007 by Ken Rinehart of KCCK. Read more here: http://www.kcck.org/prod_picks.php#ken
NEWS 12/07: Recording has begun for our next album which will come out on fyo records (Cuddle Magic, Festival Youth Orchestra, etc.) We hope to complete the recording by February '08 and release in the summertime.
NEWS 6/07: McDuck wins band badminton tournament in Iowa City, IA