Update: Our event with Lake Street Dive on Saturday, 7/13, is sold out! Thanks to all who participated in our preorder promotion.
We’re pumped to announce that we’ll be hosting Lake Street Dive for an intimate instore performance & album signing to. celebrate the release the upcoming album, Good Together, while they tour through Nashville this summer! The band will play a short set in the shop to be followed immediately by a Good Together album signing, before they head over to Ascend Amphitheater, where they’ll be headlining their Good Together Tour that evening.
Lake Street Dive have pushed the possibilities of pop music as a unifying force, not only through their eclectic sound—a boldly original cross-pollination of soul, folk, jazz, classic pop, and more—the five-piece’s all-embracing ethos has also made them a beloved live band known for building a potent connection among every crowd. In the making of their new album Good Together, vocalist Rachael Price, bassist/background vocalist Bridget Kearney, drummer/background vocalist Mike Calabrese, keyboardist/vocalist Akie Bermiss, and guitarist/background vocalist James Cornelison reinforced the deep sense of purpose behind their output, often turning their attention to the many factors driving us apart today (e.g., unchecked technological growth, culturally imposed isolation, the cult of relentless self-optimization). Born from a mindset they refer to as “joyful rebellion,” Good Together arrives as a body of work both gloriously defiant and primed to inspire unbridled dancing and ecstatic singing-along.
“There’s a lot to be angry about in the world right now, a lot of pain and rage and divisiveness, but it isn’t sustainable to constantly live in that anger—you need something else to keep you going,” says Calabrese. “Joy is a great way to sustain yourself, and we wanted to encourage everyone to stay aware of that. In a way this album is our way of saying, ‘Take your joy very seriously.’”
In keeping with that spirit of communal uplift, Lake Street Dive’s eighth full-length marks the first time they’ve ever worked together in the earliest and most vulnerable stages of songwriting. Back in early 2023, the band’s members met up at Calabrese’s home studio in Vermont and spent nearly a week generating new songs, catalyzing the process with the help of a 20-sided die (a holdover from the many Zoom-based Dungeons & Dragons matches held by Bermiss and Kearney during lockdown). “The captain of a particular song would roll the die, and the result would decide the chords, the meter, and the tempo for that song,” Kearney explains. “We’d take those elements and jam for a while, go our separate ways and come up with lyrics and melodies, then come back together and workshop everything. It ended up taking us to new places we never would’ve gotten to otherwise, in terms of things like harmony and tempo and groove.” Along with expanding their musical palette and expressive range, that highly collaborative approach helped the band reach a new level of intimacy. “In the past we’d written pieces of songs and shared them with each other and built them up from there, but we always had the space to listen and reflect in total privacy,” says Price. “At first it was terrifying to write together in the same room, but as soon as we got started it felt so fun. We very quickly realized, ‘Oh, we need to do this again and again.’”
To participate in our Lake Street Dive album signing, preorder a copy of Good Together on our website here or in the record store and you’ll receive a wristband for our event with your preorder pickup. Wristbands are required for the album signing line and guarantee entrance to our event. Due to time constraints and so all event attendees can participate, Lake Street Dive can sign up to two copies of Good Together per attendee during the signing portion of our event. (No personalizations are possible, due to our short window of time for this event). Each customer can order as many as four (4) total copies of the new album on vinyl and/or CD for a total of four wristbands—one wristband per album purchased—allowing for up to four people to participate per order placed. Each individual with a wristband can get as many as two total Lake Street Dive Good Together LPs or CDs signed. Wristbands are non-transferable and are required for participation in this event. (Wristbands are not required for those 12 & under if attending with a wristband-holding adult.)
Photos of the performance & signing may be taken from the audience and then the signing line but selfies and staged pics with the artist during the signing event are prohibited due to time constraints. Photos of Lake Street Dive are cool but not photos with Lake Street Dive.
Wristbands & preorders for this event will be distributed starting on Friday, June 21st, record release day, but Good Together may also be picked up at our event on July 13th (or at any point leading up to our event.) We encourage you to arrive to our performance & signing no earlier than one hour prior (11:30 AM) to event start time on July 13th. Everyone who receives a wristband will be able to go through the signing line once. After the performance, the signing line will form inside the store on our CD aisle and will wrap around the counter and outside the front entrance around our building starting at the Paramore Record Store Day mural. This is a rain or shine event which, if you chose to participate in the signing after the band’s short set, will involve standing in line. Please arrive with that in mind and consider bringing along a tote bag so you won't have to hold your album in your hand during the event & your time in line. If you need assistance or accommodations for the event, please reach out to us via email in advance of Friday, July 12th, so we can help.
IMPORTANT PARKING INFORMATION!
Our parking lot is shared with other rad businesses and it is a finite space, so parking is limited. Another parking option is the pay lot behind Tiger Bar, Elegy Coffee and Mickey's off Gallatin Road, two blocks down the street.
Please use EXTREME CAUTION if parking on the narrow neighborhood streets. Too many cars make these roads impassable and result in angry neighbors, the police calls, tickets and towing.
We don’t want to anger or disrespect any of our neighbors. If you block access to driveways, mail boxes, or park legally on both sides of a street , making it essentially impassable, you will be ticketed or towed.
Please consider carpooling, ride-sharing, walking, biking, scooting, roller skating, or taking the bus to attend this Grimey’s event.
Check out our complete parking notes here: https://www.grimeys.com/parking
