Lake Street Dive: Bad Self Portraits

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Lake Street Dive, a Brooklyn-based four-piece emerging from the jazzy enclaves of New England College of Music, was originally conceived as a pop side-project. With an unusual lineup including vocalist Rachael Price, upright bassist Bridget Kearney, trumpet/guitar player Mike Olson and drummer Mike Calabrese, the band was named after a street of dive bars in Minneapolis. And Lake Street Dive first gained a reputation for that same kind of relentless energy that a band needs to hold a rowdy bar crowd’s attention. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always translate on Bad Self Portraits like it does on the band’s 2011 live album, Live at the Lizard Lounge.