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On Thursday night at the Bowery Ballroom, Lake Street Dive took the stage under a haze of smoke that made the place feel like an old-time jazz lounge.
It was an atmosphere befitting the group’s retro sensibility. Built around a guitar, drums, upright bass, and a powerhouse lead vocalist (with a dash of trumpet for flavor), the Boston quartet performed a mélange of folk, jazz, and rockabilly that wouldn’t be out of a place in a Buddy Holly biopic.
Yet for all of their rootsy underpinnings, the group write songs with an indie pop flair that is very much of the moment.
