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LAKE STREET DIVE W/ MISS TESS
LAKE STREET DIVE
"How is it that something so unlikely can also be so infectious, so naturally exhilarating? Pulling in familiar elements and irreverently scrambling and recombining them, Lake Street Dive are at once jazz-schooled, DIY-motivated, and classically pop obsessed. Beginning with catchy songs that are by turns openhearted and wryly inquisitive, this northeastern quartet proceeds to inject them with an irresistible blend of abandon and precision. Composed of drummer Mike Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, vocalist Rachael Price, and trumpet-wielding guitarist Mike "McDuck" Olson, Lake Street Dive encompasses a myriad of possibilities within its members' collective experiences, and the resultant music is a vivid, largely acoustic, groove-driven strain of indie-pop. Lake Street Dive makes the most of pop music virtues: solid, evocative song craft; propulsive grooves; and Price's disarming, forthright vocals. However, it's a personal strain of pop that is refracted through the band members' rich backgrounds: a sinewy Motown bass line is reborn with woody heft on Kearney's upright, Calabrese's drumming mixes timekeeping with more adventurous jazz-inflected outbursts, McDuck's nimble trumpet is an unexpectedly warm counterpoint to Price's singing. It all makes for a sound with familiar roots, but with a slant that is entirely their own."
www.lakestreetdive.com
MISS TESS & THE TALKBACKS
The singular quality that has probably posed a marketing nightmare is also what makes Miss Tess such a pleasure. Her versatility is a rejoinder to how we expect to put musicians into neat little boxes according to genre.
With Miss Tess, who lived in Boston for five years before uprooting to New York City in 2000, the adjectives are constantly in flux. Once you've definitively decided she's a rhythmic jazz singer, she'll throw in a western swing tune and follow it with a honky-tonk dance number.
"Sweet Talk," her latest album with her band, which she recently rechristened the Talkbacks, is an unabashed reminder that there's nothing wrong with casting a wide net. It features her usual hodgepodge of styles and eras, sounding like a neon jukebox loaded with 50 years of popular music.
"Adeline" has a New Orleans beat, complete with second-line exuberance, while noirish 1950s twang emerges on "This Affair." On "Save Me St. Peter," she splits the difference between torch and twang, and the spirit of Les Paul lives on in the jaunty "Everybody's Darling."
Local musician Zachariah Hickman (who continues his winning streak after his beautiful work on Rose Cousins's recent "We Have Made a Spark") produced the album, which is Miss Tess's first for Signature Sounds, a label out of Northampton. He and Miss Tess keep the focus on her nimble vocals and resonant guitar work.
They save the best for last, a lover's lament whose languid opening line feels rather enticing: "I don't want to set the world on fire/I just want to start a little flame in your heart." James Reed - BOSTON GLOBE Sept. 30, 2012
www.misstessmusic.com
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LocationQueen Bee's Art & Cultural Center (View)
3925 Ohio Street
San Diego, CA 92104
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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