LAUNDRY DAY debuts USA TODAY Acoustic with ‘Damn Shame’
USA TODAY Acoustic launches with LAUNDRY DAY’s heartfelt performance of “Damn Shame.” Don’t miss this special moment.
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NEW YORK ‒ Laundry Day, the pop-rock band of four musicians who met at their Manhattan high school, revealed exclusively to USA TODAY that the group’s sixth studio album is coming this summer.
“We’re working on a ton of music right now,” vocalist Jude Ciulla-Lipkin says. “We’ve been putting out like a song a month, which has been incredible. We’re trying to make the album of the summer, so we’re excited.”
Laundry Day also includes vocalist/instrumentalist Sawyer Nunes, guitarist Henry Weingartner and bassist Henry Pearl. The group is the first act to perform on USA TODAY Acoustic, a new series that provides a stage for notable and rising talent across the USA TODAY Network. The band’s combination of boyish charm, big-city energy and catchy tunes has not only cultivated a following but also landed the group on several big stages. In recent years, Laundry Day has opened up for The 1975, Ed Sheeran, Teezo Touchdown and Clairo.
Ciulla-Lipkin immediately recalls an interaction with The 1975 as a seminal moment for the group.
“We were working on this EP (‘Light Up’) and we were like, ‘Can we play it for you guys?’ ” the singer recalls the 2019 interaction. The 1975 agreed and invited Laundry Day onto its tour bus, which is also outfitted with a studio. “They just loved it so much. Matty (Healy) was just like, ‘If you guys keep this up and lean into the “poppiness,” you guys are gonna be so big.’
“Hearing that from one of our heroes was pretty incredible.”
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Laundry Day’s latest music video is for the song “Damn Shame.” The group uses several props in the piece, including a vintage cover of The Journal News when the New York Yankees won the World Series in 2000. The Journal News is part of the USA TODAY Network.
There’s also a familiar voice at the start of the video: Big Time Rush star Kendall Schmidt.
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“(Schmidt) was one of the first celebrities to interact with our videos,” Ciulla-Lipkin says, noting the band “grew up on Big Time Rush.” “Then he just stayed around, like he would find other videos. I guess we were just in his algorithm.”
Schmidt is far from the only celebrity who interacts with the group online: through TikTok and Instagram, the group has racked up tens of millions of views while garnering co-signs from Drake, Olivia Rodrigo and the aforementioned Matty Healy.
“My favorite part of (the band) is the live show,” Pearl says. “When you’re in front of so many people and they’re singing back to you, that’s really fun.”
“Going viral on TikTok is pretty fun too,” Ciulla-Lipkin adds. “The dopamine from that is kind of unmatched.”
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