Lake Street Dive is a multi-genre band that was founded in 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts. The band consists of Rachael Price (lead vocals), Mike “McDuck” Olson (trumpet, guitar), Bridget Kearney (upright bass), and Mike Calabrese (drums). They met while attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. The band was named after a street with many dive bars, in Olson’s hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band tours in both North America and Europe from their base in Brooklyn.

The band have been influenced by classic pop and swing era jazz. “We want it to sound like the Beatles and Motown had a party together,” says drummer Mike Calabrese. Critics describe their music as “Sounds Like: Llewyn Davis’s favorite pop group; Motown meets the Brill Building in jazzy, soulful, woulda-been Sixties chart toppers.

Lake Street Dive signed with Nonesuch Records in 2015 and released Side Pony in February 2016 with their new label.The album’s name is another of the band’s play on words. It refers to a hairstyle adopted by Kearney and is slang for “unexpectedly diverting the mind’s attention” or a playful pony.