Last night,
Lake Street Dive performed the song “Same Old News” from their new album
In support of
Obviously, the band is set to perform around the U.S this summer, including headlining performances at New York City’s SummerStage, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival and Denver’s legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre. In addition, the group will livestream their performances at Beak & Skiff Orchards in upstate New York on June 5 and 6 as well as their two-night runs at New Haven’s Westville Music Bowl on June 10 and 11. Fans can purchase access to the livestreams HERE. See below for the full tour schedule.
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit stripped-down sets, an intimate setting just a different space.
Lake Street Dive filmed its Tiny Desk (home) concert where the band is most at home: on stage at the biggest little venue in NYC, Pete s Candy Store. All five band members managed to squeeze onto a stage no larger than the actual Tiny Desk to shine a spotlight on the Save Our Stages Act. Congress passed the $15 billion grant program last December as part of the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill. In the middle of the home concert, bassist Bridget Kearny recalls driving to the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn for a gig at Pete s, then driving back to Boston the very same night, long before they ever sold out Radio City Music Hall on the other side of the East River.
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Lake Street Dive performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.
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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit stripped-down sets, an intimate setting just a different space.
Lake Street Dive filmed its Tiny Desk (home) concert where the band is most at home: on stage at the “biggest little venue in NYC,” Pete’s Candy Store. All five band members managed to squeeze onto a stage no larger than the actual Tiny Desk to shine a spotlight on the Save Our Stages Act. Congress passed the $15 billion grant program last December as part of the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill. In the middle of the home concert,
Mike “McDuck” Olson from Lake Street Dive talks about the group’s devotion to the hook, shy collaborative style, and the spark that new bandmate Akie Bermiss brought to the songwriting process for new album
Obviously. The group also performs three songs from the new album live from Bunker Studio in Brooklyn, NY.
Patrick Coman2021-04-22T10:32:46-04:00April 21st, 2021|In-Studios|
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We re so glad a Marquee Live at Home show let us welcome our friends
Lake Street Dive back to the WFUV airwaves. Rachael Price, Mike McDuck Olson, Bridget Kearney, Mike Calabrese and Akie Bermiss came us to us from The Bunker Studio in Brooklyn with a batch of new songs to play, as well as a couple of sentimental favorites to boot.
As the band told me in a mid-set chat, the new Lake Street Dive album,
Obviously, was recorded just barely pre-pandemic, and almost a year later, this live session was one of the quintet s first performances back together again in the same room. So even though connecting with the band via Zoom is anything but same old, they could share the great Rachael and Akie duet, Same Old News, the powerful, Bridget-penned Being A Woman and more, with that signature interplay and energy.