Lake Street Dive "Side Pony" 2026 02 06 Exactly as the title suggests COLOR:RANDOM COLOR Exactly as the title suggests We had just finished a 2 hour show with 4 encores and the studio engineer asked if we wanted to lay down some tracks Lake Street Dive's Nonesuch Records debut album The four band members drummer Michael Calabrese bassist Bridget Kearney singer Rachael Price and guitarist trumpeter Michael 'McDuck' Olson worked with Nashvillebased producer Dave Cobb Sturgill Simpson Chris Stapleton Secret Sisters on the record 'Side Pony' takes its name from a song on the record that refers to a whimsical hairstyle but it also serves as a metaphor for Lake Street Dive's philosophy and personality as a band Cobb's working method was to keep the recording fast and loose as liveinthestudio as possible and to embrace the unorthodox This provided Lake Street Dive with a welcome challenge an opportunity to experiment with sound and arrangements and to collaborate on songwriting in a way the band had never attempted before The members of Lake Street Dive met in 2004 as students at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music Though they were all studying jazz their work together was informed by their love of classic pop particularly from the '60s including the Beatles the Supremes Dusty Springfield and the Beach Boys For several years the group was a parttime proposition but in 2012 Lake Street Dive became a fulltime combo after a YouTube video of the quartet acoustically performing the Jackson Five's 'I Want You Back' on a suburban Boston street corner went viral Producer T Bone Burnett soon invited them to perform at a concert he curated at New York City's Town Hall The band's performance of 'You Go Down Smooth' was a crowd and critical favorite with Rolling Stone calling the band 'unexpected showstoppers' LP Heavyweight 140 gram highperformance vinyl with download card