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Lake Street Dive
The Wind Creek Event Center — Bethlehem, PA
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About Lake Street Dive

Lake Street Dive is a Boston-based funk and soul band that somehow keeps getting better instead of calcifying into nostalgia. They started in the mid-2000s as a street busking group, which explains why their sound has this infectious, go-anywhere energy that doesn't care about genre lanes. Their 2013 album Bad Self Portraits introduced them to a wider audience, but it was 2015's Side Pony that made them unavoidable—tracks like 'Good as Hell' became the kind of song people who don't normally listen to funk actually sought out. Ssinger Rachael Price has a voice that can shift from breathy and intimate to absolutely commanding without breaking a sweat. The band treats every song like it's a negotiation with the listener, building grooves instead of just playing them, making arrangements that breathe and shift. They're serious musicians who refuse to sound serious about it.

Shows feel like a really good party where the musicians somehow have more fun than the audience, which is impossible but they manage it anyway. Price commands the stage without trying. Crowds move without being told to.

Known for Good as Hell, It Happened to Me, Bad Self Portraits, Side Pony, What Would a Wise Man Do

Lake Street Dive + New York

Lake Street Dive brought their particular brand of funk-soul precision to Wellmont Theater on May 14, 2025, moving through a setlist that balanced their sharper material with deeper cuts. They opened with "Good Together" and spent the evening weaving between the intricate rhythms of "Hush Money" and the looser grooves of "Party on the Roof." The band proved their range across the night—hitting the clever wordplay of "Bad Self Portraits" before closing out the main set with "Good Kisser," one of those songs that lands differently live, where you can feel the tightness in the rhythm section and the ease in Rachael Smith's delivery.

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Live Music in New York

New York's live music scene still revolves around its jazz and soul legacy, even as the city's tastes have fragmented across a hundred subgenres. Lake Street Dive fits somewhere in that continuum—they've got the musicianship and groove that New York respects, but they're pop-friendly enough to reach beyond the jazz club circuit. The city tends to reward bands that take their instruments seriously without taking themselves too seriously.

New York road trip to see Lake Street Dive?

Stay in the Upper West Side near Central Park—quieter than Midtown, better restaurants, and close enough to everywhere that matters. Dinner at Balthazar in SoHo if you want classic New York energy, or Gramercy Tavern if you prefer something less scene-y. Spend your afternoon at the Met or catching live music at Blue Note or The Basement—both venues where you'll see the players who influenced Mars's sound. Walk through Washington Square Park, grab a coffee, remember why New York mattered to music in the first place.

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