Lake Street Dive is an American multi-genre band that was formed in 2004 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

"[6] Using their prize ($1,000 cash and 1,000 CDs produced by Disc Makers) Lake Street Dive released their debut album In This Episode... in 2006.

They credit Jim Olsen, president of Signature Sound, as being the band's dad "because of all the support he gave us when we were so infantile.

Bridget Kearney left her other band, Joy Kills Sorrow, to concentrate on Lake Street Dive.

[10] Mike Calabrese also left his other band, Girls, Guns, and Glory (now known as Ward Hayden and The Outliers), to focus on Lake Street Dive.

[citation needed] In late 2013, an agreement was reached, and Lake Street Dive announced the release of their album Bad Self Portraits in February 2014.

In December 2013, T Bone Burnett asked them to perform on the Another Day, Another Time show at The Town Hall featuring music from and inspired by the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis.

In the winter of that year, they started work with Dave Cobb on a new record/CD in Nashville, signed with Nonesuch Records in November, and prepared for the release of the new album.

[22] Lake Street Dive signed with Nonesuch Records in 2015 and released Side Pony in February 2016 with their new label.

The band made 183 appearances in 2017 and 2018, including tours through North America, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia.

[28] On May 10, 2021, trumpeter and guitarist Mike "McDuck" Olson announced he would be leaving Lake Street Dive after 16 years of performing with the band.

The band's traditional Halloween specials and covers on the EP release Fun Machine[36] give an idea of the genres that influence them.

These range from songs by the Mamas and the Papas,[37] ABBA, the Drifters, Fleetwood Mac, Hall & Oates, Queen, Jackson 5 and Paul McCartney.

[38] 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.