Lawrence

A family firm, incorporated in 2013

Lawrence began in New York City in 2013 as a vehicle for two siblings who had already spent childhood around a working creative business. Their father, Marc Lawrence, is a screenwriter and director whose credits include Miss Congeniality; Gracie Lawrence, born 16 March 1997, made her Broadway debut at twelve in the 2009 revival of Brighton Beach Memoirs. She finished at the Dalton School in 2015, started at Brown University, then left to put the band first.

What started as a two-sibling songwriting unit grew into an eight-piece by recruiting friends from childhood and college rather than hiring players. The current line-up pairs Clyde Lawrence on lead vocals and keyboards and Gracie Lawrence on lead vocals with Sam Askin on drums, Michael Karsh on bass, Jonny Koh on guitar, and a three-man horn section of Sumner Becker on alto saxophone, Jordan Cohen on tenor and baritone, and Marc Langer on trumpet. Cohen also runs the tour as the band's tour manager, which matters later.

That structure explains the sound more than any genre label does: two very different lead voices trading verses over a keyboard-driven rhythm section, with horn arrangements written to be played by the same eight people every night rather than subcontracted to session musicians.

Four albums, then an alternate version that went to the Grammys

The studio run is steady rather than prolific: Breakfast in 2016, Living Room in 2018, Hotel TV in 2021 and Family Business, the fourth album, on 21 June 2024. That record came out on Jon Bellion's Beautiful Mind Records with Bellion co-producing, and was preceded by the singles "i'm confident that i'm insecure", "23", "Guy I Used To Be" and the title track. Its opening song, "Whatcha Want", climbed to No. 37 on the US Top 40 chart in October 2024 and carried the band onto The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

The more interesting development was a side project. In October 2024 the band released an "acoustic-ish" set — single-take recordings of Family Business material cut with an extended cast of friends and family alongside the core eight. The format was not a stripped-back apology for the arrangements; it was a showcase for them. One of those recordings, "Something In The Water (acoustic-ish)", was nominated for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals at the 68th Grammy Awards, credited to Clyde, Gracie and their brother Linus Lawrence. The ceremony took place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on 1 February 2026. The band did not win, but the nomination was the first in a category judged purely on craft rather than sales.

The touring behind Family Business was the band's largest to that point. By late October 2024 the North American leg was selling out rooms including the Bluestone in Columbus, the Fillmore in Detroit, HISTORY in Toronto and the Beanfield Theatre in Montreal, and the band has since sold out Radio City Music Hall and played Coachella and Bonnaroo.

The band that argued about ticket fees in public

On 24 January 2023 Clyde Lawrence sat in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee as the only artist called to testify at its hearing on Ticketmaster and Live Nation, with Jordan Cohen beside him in his tour-manager capacity. His argument was arithmetic rather than outrage: that Live Nation can act simultaneously as promoter, venue operator and ticketing company, and that while the band splits a show's profits with the promoter under an agreed ratio, the fees added on top of the advertised price are kept in full by the ticketing arm. He put a number on it — roughly six dollars of a thirty-dollar ticket reaching the band, and nothing at all from the twelve dollars in fees stacked on top.

The position was not new. The Lawrence song "False Alarms" contains the line "Live Nation's a monopoly". What changed after January 2023 was that the testimony circulated widely enough to make the band a reference point in the ticketing debate rather than a complainant in it.

The Staycation events the band now runs read as a practical answer to that testimony: tickets advertised at an all-in price with taxes and fees included, so the number on the page is the number paid. Single-day general admission for the floor was listed at $54.50 in Brooklyn and $49.50 in Los Angeles, with three-day floor passes at $139.50 and $120 respectively.

Two Broadway jobs in fourteen months

Gracie Lawrence's other career accelerated sharply in 2025. She opened as Connie Francis in Just in Time at Circle in the Square Theatre on 23 April 2025, a performance that brought a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical and a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album. She also joined the third season of The Sex Lives of College Girls as a series regular.

Then the whole band took a Broadway residency. All Out: Comedy About Ambition, written by Simon Rich and directed by Alex Timbers, opened at the Nederlander Theatre on 12 December 2025 and ran to 8 March 2026 — eighty minutes, no interval, with a rotating cast of guest readers delivering Rich's short stories. The first week drew Jon Stewart, Abbi Jacobson, Eric Andre and Ike Barinholtz. Lawrence played in-house band, performing original songs between the readings under psychedelic projections that borrowed from 1960s concert staging.

Critical reaction separated the two halves. Writing for New York Theater on 17 December 2025, Jonathan Mandell called the evening "sufficiently entertaining" at the $45 lottery price while judging the story selection "a grab-bag" and the production "not ambitious theater". The band came out of it better than the script: reviewers repeatedly identified the music as the strongest element, with the staged readings closer to an interruption than a frame. A twelve-week run as a house band is also, in practice, twelve weeks of paid rehearsal in front of an audience.

Office Party and the state of play in November 2026

The current record is a collaboration project rather than a conventional album. "Rain Check", featuring Quin WXII, arrived in spring 2026 as the first single from an EP called Office Party, on which each track pairs the band with a different guest. "Feel Like That", featuring JP Saxe, followed at midnight on 7 August 2026 through 10K Projects and Atlantic Records — a label move away from Beautiful Mind. The EP is due later in 2026. The band has also recorded an acoustic reworking with Jonathan Groff, drawing on the Broadway connection both parties made in 2025.

On the road, 2026 has mixed support slots with self-promoted events: the band toured as special guests on Charlie Puth's Whatever's Clever World Tour before turning to Staycation: Coast-to-Coast, its own three-plus-three-night festival. The Brooklyn half ran at Brooklyn Paramount on 29, 30 and 31 October 2026. The Los Angeles half is at The Novo on 12, 13 and 14 November 2026, and those three dates are the next tickets available.

What the Staycation nights actually look like

Each Staycation night carries its own theme, its own pair of openers and, by design, an almost entirely non-repeating set, so that a three-night pass covers most of the catalogue plus a large volume of covers. Night one is Movie Night, night two is 60s & 70s, night three is Murder Mystery, built around a whodunit narrative threaded through the concert — in Brooklyn that landed on Halloween.

The Brooklyn opener on 29 October gives the clearest picture of the format. The band came on behind a parody of the Nicole Kidman AMC Theatres advertisement and the 20th Century Fox fanfare, then worked through film material spanning The Wizard of Oz, Risky Business, Toy Story, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, High School Musical and The Greatest Showman, with a medley of the Star Wars, Simpsons and SportsCenter themes. Jeff Ross and Paul Rudd appeared to introduce the Risky Business cover; the trumpeter Jon Lampley, the opener aron!, Shoshana Bean and Robbie Wulfsohn all played parts, Bean on "I Will Always Love You". Originals including "Family Business", "Whatcha Want" and "Don't Lose Sight" anchored the night, and a new song, "Eventually", had its first public airing.

The Halloween closer leaned on the band's own material — "Whatcha Want", "Casualty", "Wake Up", a "Death of Me"/"Funeral" sequence, "Guy I Used to Be", "Alibi", "So It Goes", "Rain Check", "Hip Replacement", "Guilty All Along" — threaded with covers chosen to fit the murder plot, among them "Only the Good Die Young", "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "Toxic". Across the three Brooklyn nights, setlist.fm logs an average of 22 songs per show.

The Los Angeles nights follow the same three themes with different support: Family Company and Lindsey Lomis on 12 November, Jacob Jeffries and Oh He Dead on 13 November, and Rozzi with Still Grounded on 14 November. Surprise guests are promised on all three, and VIP tiers add a pre-show acoustic set with songs held back from the main performance, soundcheck access and a Q&A.