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DESCRIPTION:Lake Street Dive have pushed the possibilities of pop music as 
 a\nunifying force\, not only through their eclectic sound — a boldly\nor
 iginal cross-pollination of soul\, folk\, jazz\, classic pop\, and\nmore
 —the five-piece’s all-embracing ethos has also made them a\nbeloved li
 ve band known for building a potent connection among every\ncrowd. In the 
 making of their new album Good Together\, vocalist\nRachael Price\, bassis
 t/background vocalist Bridget Kearney\,\ndrummer/background vocalist Mike 
 Calabrese\, keyboardist/vocalist Akie\nBermiss\, and guitarist/background 
 vocalist James Cornelison reinforced\nthe deep sense of purpose behind the
 ir output\, often turning their\nattention to the many factors driving us 
 apart today (e.g.\, unchecked\ntechnological growth\, culturally imposed i
 solation\, the cult of\nrelentless self-optimization). Born from a mindset
  they refer to as\n“joyful rebellion\,” Good Together arrives as a bod
 y of work both\ngloriously defiant and primed to inspire unbridled dancing
  and\necstatic singing-along. “There’s a lot to be angry about in the\
 nworld right now\, a lot of pain and rage and divisiveness\, but it\nisn
 ’t sustainable to constantly live in that anger — you need\nsomething 
 else to keep you going\,” says Calabrese. “Joy is a great\nway to sust
 ain yourself\, and we wanted to encourage everyone to stay\naware of that.
  In a way\, this album is our way of saying\, ‘Take your\njoy very serio
 usly.’ ” In keeping with that spirit of communal\nuplift\, Lake Street
  Dive’s eighth full-length marks the first time\nthey’ve ever worked t
 ogether in the earliest and most vulnerable\nstages of songwriting. Back i
 n early 2023\, the band’s members met up\nat Calabrese’s home studio i
 n Vermont and spent nearly a week\ngenerating new songs\, catalyzing the p
 rocess with the help of a\n20-sided die (a holdover from the many Zoom-bas
 ed Dungeons & Dragons\nmatches held by Bermiss and Kearney during lockdown
 ). “The captain\nof a particular song would roll the die\, and the resul
 t would decide\nthe chords\, the meter\, and the tempo for that song\,” 
 Kearney\nexplains. “We’d take those elements and jam for a while\, go 
 our\nseparate ways and come up with lyrics and melodies\, then come back\n
 together and workshop everything. It ended up taking us to new places\nwe 
 never would’ve gotten to otherwise\, in terms of things like\nharmony an
 d tempo and groove.” Along with expanding their musical\npalette and exp
 ressive range\, that highly collaborative approach\nhelped the band reach 
 a new level of intimacy. “In the past\, we’d\nwritten pieces of songs 
 and shared them with each other and built them\nup from there\, but we alw
 ays had the space to listen and reflect in\ntotal privacy\,” says Price.
  “At first\, it was terrifying to write\ntogether in the same room\, but
  as soon as we got started it felt so\nfun. We very quickly realized\, ‘
 Oh\, we need to do this again and\nagain.’” The follow-up to Obviously
  — a 2021 LP acclaimed by the\nlikes of Rolling Stone\, who noted that 
 “(a)t a moment when pop\nstrives for lo-fi\, solitary-world intimacy\, t
 he jazz-pop-whatever band\nrefuse to think small” — Good Together find
 s Lake Street Dive\nworking again with Grammy-winning producer Mike Elizon
 do (Fiona Apple\,\nSheryl Crow\, Gary Clark Jr.) and recording at his Phan
 tom Studios in\nTennessee. With its sonic landscape encompassing everythin
 g from R&B\nto funk to Brazilian pop\, the album opens on the radiant synt
 h of its\ntitle track: an exultant duet between Bermiss and Price that aro
 se\nfrom a happy accident. “‘Good Together’ came from a dice roll\nw
 here I was captain\, but when I went to go work on the production I\ncut i
 t up wrong and ended up with a very weird time signature\,”\nBermiss rec
 alls. “It somehow worked anyway\, and Bridget came up with\nthe narrativ
 e of two people from dubious backgrounds and trying to\nstart over togethe
 r.” One of several tracks featuring the horn\nsection from Brooklyn-base
 d jazz band Huntertones\, the result is a\nleft-of-center love song celebr
 ating the thrill of defying expectation\nand following your heart’s desi
 re. Next\, on “Dance with a\nStranger\,” Lake Street Dive once again p
 rove their undeniable gift\nfor crafting feel-good songs with an illuminat
 ing message. “I went\non a solo writing retreat in Kingston\, New York\,
  and ended up\nattending a square dance at a VFW hall\,” says Kearney in
  discussing\nthe song’s origins. “It was a group of people from all ge
 nerations\nand all walks of life\, all there dancing together\, which made
  me\nthink\, ‘What if we could write a song that helped to create that\n
 kind of connection at our shows?’” Lit up in lush grooves\,\nglistenin
 g textures\, and exuberant gang vocals calling out instruction\n(“Left\,
  right\, front\, side/Find somebody new and then/Take them by\nthe hand an
 d/Say you understand”)\, “Dance with a Stranger”\nultimately achieve
 s the singular feat of inducing a carefree euphoria\nwhile gently fosterin
 g empathy. Although much of Good Together emerged\nfrom Lake Street Dive
 ’s incisive observation of the outside world\,\nmany songs mine inspirat
 ion from the intricacies of their own lives.\nTo that end\, “Walking Uph
 ill” took shape as Price thumbed through\nher journal from seven years e
 arlier\, then transformed a series of\nunderlined passages into a gripping
  meditation on the work of\nself-repair. “It’s about the idea of toil 
 turning into something\nbeautiful\, so we wanted it to sound intense and g
 ritty but with some\ncatharsis at the end\,” notes Price\, whose vocals 
 shift into\nexquisitely raw abandon in the track’s final moments. Origin
 ated by\nCalabrese\, the luminous and summery “Seats at the Bar” puts 
 a\nsweetly playful twist on the classic love song\, unfolding in\ntropicá
 lia-esque rhythms and the breezy but elegant percussion of\nguest musician
  Abe Rounds (Andrew Bird\, Blake Mills\, Emily King).\n“When my wife and
  I first met she was in the wine industry\, and\nsometimes I’d visit res
 taurants with her and we’d end up staying\nfor dinner and sitting at the
  bar\,” says Calabrese. “It was fun to\nwrite a love song about buckin
 g trends in our own little way — sort\nof like\, ‘Enjoy your fancy tab
 le with your fancy tablecloth\; we’ll\nbe over here eating french fries 
 and having a good time together.’\n” And on “Twenty-Five\,” Price 
 delivers a stark and lovely ballad\nsteeped in tender reminiscence of a lo
 ng-ago romance\, her voice\naccompanied only by Bermiss’ gorgeously unde
 rstated performance on\npiano. “It’s about a great love that was never
  meant to last\, but\nyou still end up carrying it with you for the rest o
 f your life\,”\nsays Kearney. “I thought that was a beautiful sentimen
 t\, but it also\nties into the theme of the album and the whole question o
 f\, ‘How can\nwe as a species continue to love one another\, in spite of
  all the\nchallenges we face?’” All throughout Good Together\, Lake St
 reet\nDive reveal the immense expanse of their musicality and expressive\n
 imagination. On “Better Not Tell You\,” for instance\, the band\nprese
 nts a ’70s-funk-inspired dance track Bermiss originally penned\nfrom the
  perspective of the three witches in Macbeth\, while “Far\nGone” serve
 s up a bouncy piece of psych-rock exploring what Price\nsums up as “this
  existential crisis where we’re all realizing\nwe’re addicted to techn
 ology before we even got a chance to take a\nstep back from it.” Closing
  out the album with the dreamlike\ngrandeur of “Set Sail (Prometheus & E
 ros)” — a Bermiss-Price\nduet featuring a spellbinding string arrangem
 ent from Rob Moose (The\nNational\, St. Vincent\, Bon Iver) — Lake Stree
 t Dive also endlessly\ntap into the palpable camaraderie that’s fueled t
 he band since they\nformed in Boston back in 2004. Lake Street Dive contin
 ues to fully\nembody the effusive sense of togetherness and mutual care em
 braced\nthroughout Good Together. “At this point\, our tastes in music d
 iffer\nmore than they ever have\, but we’re still able to bring all thos
 e\ninfluences together with a real love and respect for the diversity\nwit
 hin the band\,” says Price. “I think the main thing that’s\nkept us 
 going over the years is that very strong foundation of\nfriendship — eve
 ryone has a voice\, everyone gets heard\, and we’re\nall really careful 
 about looking out for each other’s happiness.”\nVenue: Freeman Arts Pa
 vilion.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Lake Street Dive have pushed the possibilities
  of pop music as a unifying force\, not only through their eclectic sound 
 — a boldly original cross-pollination of soul\, folk\, jazz\, classic po
 p\, and more—the five-piece’s all-embracing ethos has also made them a
  beloved live band known for building a potent connection among every crow
 d. In the making of their new album Good Together\, vocalist Rachael Price
 \, bassist/background vocalist Bridget Kearney\, drummer/background vocali
 st Mike Calabrese\, keyboardist/vocalist Akie Bermiss\, and guitarist/back
 ground vocalist James Cornelison reinforced the deep sense of purpose behi
 nd their output\, often turning their attention to the many factors drivin
 g us apart today (e.g.\, unchecked technological growth\, culturally impos
 ed isolation\, the cult of relentless self-optimization). Born from a mind
 set they refer to as “joyful rebellion\,” Good Together arrives as a b
 ody of work both gloriously defiant and primed to inspire unbridled dancin
 g and ecstatic singing-along. “There’s a lot to be angry about in the 
 world right now\, a lot of pain and rage and divisiveness\, but it isn’t
  sustainable to constantly live in that anger — you need something else 
 to keep you going\,” says Calabrese. “Joy is a great way to sustain yo
 urself\, and we wanted to encourage everyone to stay aware of that. In a w
 ay\, this album is our way of saying\, ‘Take your joy very seriously.’
  ” In keeping with that spirit of communal uplift\, Lake Street Dive’s
  eighth full-length marks the first time they’ve ever worked together in
  the earliest and most vulnerable stages of songwriting. Back in early 202
 3\, the band’s members met up at Calabrese’s home studio in Vermont an
 d spent nearly a week generating new songs\, catalyzing the process with t
 he help of a 20-sided die (a holdover from the many Zoom-based Dungeons & 
 Dragons matches held by Bermiss and Kearney during lockdown). “The capta
 in of a particular song would roll the die\, and the result would decide t
 he chords\, the meter\, and the tempo for that song\,” Kearney explains.
  “We’d take those elements and jam for a while\, go our separate ways 
 and come up with lyrics and melodies\, then come back together and worksho
 p everything. It ended up taking us to new places we never would’ve gott
 en to otherwise\, in terms of things like harmony and tempo and groove.”
  Along with expanding their musical palette and expressive range\, that hi
 ghly collaborative approach helped the band reach a new level of intimacy.
  “In the past\, we’d written pieces of songs and shared them with each
  other and built them up from there\, but we always had the space to liste
 n and reflect in total privacy\,” says Price. “At first\, it was terri
 fying to write together in the same room\, but as soon as we got started i
 t felt so fun. We very quickly realized\, ‘Oh\, we need to do this again
  and again.’” The follow-up to Obviously — a 2021 LP acclaimed by th
 e likes of Rolling Stone\, who noted that “(a)t a moment when pop strive
 s for lo-fi\, solitary-world intimacy\, the jazz-pop-whatever band refuse 
 to think small” — Good Together finds Lake Street Dive working again w
 ith Grammy-winning producer Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple\, Sheryl Crow\, Gar
 y Clark Jr.) and recording at his Phantom Studios in Tennessee. With its s
 onic landscape encompassing everything from R&B to funk to Brazilian pop\,
  the album opens on the radiant synth of its title track: an exultant duet
  between Bermiss and Price that arose from a happy accident. “‘Good To
 gether’ came from a dice roll where I was captain\, but when I went to g
 o work on the production I cut it up wrong and ended up with a very weird 
 time signature\,” Bermiss recalls. “It somehow worked anyway\, and Bri
 dget came up with the narrative of two people from dubious backgrounds and
  trying to start over together.” One of several tracks featuring the hor
 n section from Brooklyn-based jazz band Huntertones\, the result is a left
 -of-center love song celebrating the thrill of defying expectation and fol
 lowing your heart’s desire. Next\, on “Dance with a Stranger\,” Lake
  Street Dive once again prove their undeniable gift for crafting feel-good
  songs with an illuminating message. “I went on a solo writing retreat i
 n Kingston\, New York\, and ended up attending a square dance at a VFW hal
 l\,” says Kearney in discussing the song’s origins. “It was a group 
 of people from all generations and all walks of life\, all there dancing t
 ogether\, which made me think\, ‘What if we could write a song that help
 ed to create that kind of connection at our shows?’” Lit up in lush gr
 ooves\, glistening textures\, and exuberant gang vocals calling out instru
 ction (“Left\, right\, front\, side/Find somebody new and then/Take them
  by the hand and/Say you understand”)\, “Dance with a Stranger” ulti
 mately achieves the singular feat of inducing a carefree euphoria while ge
 ntly fostering empathy. Although much of Good Together emerged from Lake S
 treet Dive’s incisive observation of the outside world\, many songs mine
  inspiration from the intricacies of their own lives. To that end\, “Wal
 king Uphill” took shape as Price thumbed through her journal from seven 
 years earlier\, then transformed a series of underlined passages into a gr
 ipping meditation on the work of self-repair. “It’s about the idea of 
 toil turning into something beautiful\, so we wanted it to sound intense a
 nd gritty but with some catharsis at the end\,” notes Price\, whose voca
 ls shift into exquisitely raw abandon in the track’s final moments. Orig
 inated by Calabrese\, the luminous and summery “Seats at the Bar” puts
  a sweetly playful twist on the classic love song\, unfolding in tropicál
 ia-esque rhythms and the breezy but elegant percussion of guest musician A
 be Rounds (Andrew Bird\, Blake Mills\, Emily King). “When my wife and I 
 first met she was in the wine industry\, and sometimes I’d visit restaur
 ants with her and we’d end up staying for dinner and sitting at the bar\
 ,” says Calabrese. “It was fun to write a love song about bucking tren
 ds in our own little way — sort of like\, ‘Enjoy your fancy table with
  your fancy tablecloth\; we’ll be over here eating french fries and havi
 ng a good time together.’ ” And on “Twenty-Five\,” Price delivers 
 a stark and lovely ballad steeped in tender reminiscence of a long-ago rom
 ance\, her voice accompanied only by Bermiss’ gorgeously understated per
 formance on piano. “It’s about a great love that was never meant to la
 st\, but you still end up carrying it with you for the rest of your life\,
 ” says Kearney. “I thought that was a beautiful sentiment\, but it als
 o ties into the theme of the album and the whole question of\, ‘How can 
 we as a species continue to love one another\, in spite of all the challen
 ges we face?’” All throughout Good Together\, Lake Street Dive reveal 
 the immense expanse of their musicality and expressive imagination. On “
 Better Not Tell You\,” for instance\, the band presents a ’70s-funk-in
 spired dance track Bermiss originally penned from the perspective of the t
 hree witches in Macbeth\, while “Far Gone” serves up a bouncy piece of
  psych-rock exploring what Price sums up as “this existential crisis whe
 re we’re all realizing we’re addicted to technology before we even got
  a chance to take a step back from it.” Closing out the album with the d
 reamlike grandeur of “Set Sail (Prometheus & Eros)” — a Bermiss-Pric
 e duet featuring a spellbinding string arrangement from Rob Moose (The Nat
 ional\, St. Vincent\, Bon Iver) — Lake Street Dive also endlessly tap in
 to the palpable camaraderie that’s fueled the band since they formed in 
 Boston back in 2004. Lake Street Dive continues to fully embody the effusi
 ve sense of togetherness and mutual care embraced throughout Good Together
 . “At this point\, our tastes in music differ more than they ever have\,
  but we’re still able to bring all those influences together with a real
  love and respect for the diversity within the band\,” says Price. “I 
 think the main thing that’s kept us going over the years is that very st
 rong foundation of friendship — everyone has a voice\, everyone gets hea
 rd\, and we’re all really careful about looking out for each other’s h
 appiness.” Venue: Freeman Arts Pavilion.
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