Everyday Should Be Laundry Day
By CLARA SCHOLL
Photographer KANE OCEAN
Stylist KARALYN HOSIER
Some bands get famous airing their dirty laundry. Laundry Day isn’t one of them. The four best friends develop perfectly imperfect harmonies while having the time of their lives.
Laundry Day has carved out their very own niche. Raw emotion and boyish confidence coexist in the band's flamboyant fashion and unapologetic love songs, from the stage to the screen. On a sunny afternoon in Manhattan's Lower East Side, the four boys sing for an iPhone camera in matching oversized fluorescent hoodies, low-slung baggy jeans, and beat-up, unlaced sneakers. One takes the vocal lead while the other three lean hard into breathy “yeah”s and “woah”s. They stroll towards the camera, snapping their fingers in unison. I can’t tell if it’s a joke. Then, as their harmony reaches a crescendo, their voices become one and the real magic happens. This is Laundry Day.
While they may have built their following on playful Instagram reels, Laundry Day has since produced six studio albums. By the time they graduated high school, they had ditched enough classes to open for the 1975 and Clairo across North America and Europe. This past March, they kicked off their headlining tour across the United States celebrating their latest record, Earworm (2025). With over 450,000 followers across social media, they've riffed their way into the hearts of young people across the country.
“Romance is the foundation of songwriting.”
The group—which includes vocalists Jude Ciulla Lipkin and Sawyer Nunes, guitarist Henry Weingartner, and bassist Henry Pearl (HP)—has been friends for over a decade after meeting at Beacon High School in New York. Jude, who naturally gravitates towards center stage, grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. So did HP, who smiles beneath a mustache, dressed in candy-colored pants and a Laundry Day tee. Henry, consistently wearing his trademark Yankees cap and black-framed glasses, was raised in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens. And Sawyer, who spent his early childhood in New Orleans before moving to New York, layers a red t-shirt beneath an open dress shirt and a grey zip-up hoodie.
Long before internet fame, 14-year-old Jude wrote songs for his girlfriend to celebrate their three-month anniversary. He asked Sawyer to help him record, and the group was born.
“In a few months it’ll be ten years since we met, and we still get the urge to record a voice memo when a melody comes into our heads,” Jude says. “It's pretty special.”
“We’re 23,” says HP. “And we're at our best when we’re in, what do they call it?”
“Flow state,” Henry chimes in.
Laundry Day believes in themselves and each other just as much as they believe in their musical ability. They really aren’t afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves.
“The band is its own long-term relationship.”
“I started writing songs about crushes I had when I was 6 years old,” Jude says. “The Beatles did it too. Look at footage of Paul McCartney in the studio when he’s playing the piano and singing, 'Oh! Darling.' Romance is the foundation of songwriting."
“We write about our love as friends,” Sawyer adds. “The band is its own long-term relationship.”
Laundry Day never stops smiling, laughing, and singing in harmony. They lay their emotions bare without a hint of self-consciousness.
“If I didn’t have the music department at Beacon, it would have been easier to fuck around more,” Sawyer says. “We were 17 years old and sad about relationships that were ending. But we had a creative space as our outlet rather than something depressing or isolating. Jude and I were both musical theater nerds.”
“That’ll humble you,” Jude adds.
“[Laundry Day] was a world we created where we had all the right things to say,” HP states. “We could be suave and cool in a way that we didn’t yet feel in our physical selves. I was relentlessly teased in high school for being in the band.”
“We were four Holden Caulfields,” Henry laughs.
“Also,” Jude remarks, “We haven’t been perfectly genuine. We’ve done stuff the industry would have wanted us to do.”
“The world’s evolving. We’re going to do our best to lead by example.”
“We need to inspire everyone, but especially young guys, to be part of their communities, connect in the real world,” Sawyer says. “I benefit from having the band. It gives me a lot of purpose.”
“We love what we love. In high school, it was nerdy that we loved making music," HP confesses. “The nomenclature language of ‘being cringe’ takes away genuine experiences of making new friends and working hard at something that you're passionate about."
They don’t shy away from politics, either. “Conservative ideologies are based on fear of moving forward,” Jude states with conviction. “The world’s evolving. We’re going to do our best to lead by example. We have a lot of fans who aren’t men and appre- ciate that. We are excited about a future where we live in a world led by women.”
“That’s right,” Henry agrees. “We have no tolerance for people who are leading with hate. We are going to continue to lead with love. We are always looking at our music through a lens of inclusivity.”
All four boys live in the Lower East Side or Brooklyn. I ask why they think men in New York are notoriously noncommittal. “We’re the wrong people to ask about that,” Sawyer laughs. The four of them are in long-term, committed relationships.
“It's important to get inspired offline.”
“It seems like a lot of men really suck, so I feel for the women more than the men,” Jude sympathizes. “But I think the expectation of what [a relationship] is supposed to feel like is skewed. You get that initial spark, but a lot of people want [intense] emotions that you can't feel until you're at least a few months in.”
He goes on, explaining how, “Gen-Z doesn’t realize it’s normal to fight or that there are struggles. Being in a partnership isn't so different from being in a friendship. Sometimes you go through something, but you keep going. People ought to be more patient.”
“You’ve got to say how you feel,” adds Sawyer. “It doesn't make you a bad or mean person to say, ‘This doesn't work for me.’"
“A lot of guys fumble the bag though,” Jude laughs. “Don’t fuck it up.”
History is littered with great albums that come from broken contracts–Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, and Nirvana to name a few. In 2023, Laundry Day was dropped by their major label, Warner Records, just as their fifth member stepped away from the band. In 2025, they signed with R&R.
“To this day, our tour manager is a kid who went to Fordham [University] who started his own company,” Sawyer says. “[After getting dropped] we wanted to be as independent and self-sufficient as possible until we couldn’t handle the workload."
“The mysterious angst thing has its place, but we know that’s not us.”
Sawyer has been inspired by Flea's memoir, Acid for the Children (2019), and Anthony Bourdain's, Kitchen Confidentiality (2000). HP just finished Anthony Kiedis’s biography, Scar Tissue (2004). “I’m definitely inspired by the [Red Hot] Chili Peppers,” he adds.
“We get into fashion, too,” Jude says. “It might not look like it, but we do.”
“Color is our signature,” Sawyer explains. “We don’t want to be the band where you show up to our shows wearing all black, trying to be cool. The mysterious angst thing has its place, but we know that’s not us. Be loud, be expressive, and encourage friendship. Our other signature is New York…and four boys singing harmonies.”
“It's important to get inspired offline—have a night out and enjoy each other's company,” said Henry. “Everything in moderation.”
“The algorithm will keep you excited, but how many times have you logged off and been like, ‘I don't even know what I just watched,’” Jude jokes. “If I’m going to be on my phone, I try to watch something that educates and inspires me. As much as I love looking at LeBron memes.”
Currently, Laundry Day is between legs of their tour around the United States and the United Kingdom. Jude often dives into the crowds during the shows, dancing among their fans. And after each set, the band meets their devotees, autographing CDs and T-shirts.
“Ironically, we actually have bad signatures,” Jude confesses.
“They’re terrible,” Henry confirms.
Talent JUDE CIULLA LIPKIN, SAWYER NUNES, HENRY PEARL, and HENRY WEINGARTNER.
Hair and Makeup Artist STEVIE BARBIERI.
Stylist Assistant CARTER BRIGHT.
Band Creative Director GABE STERN.
Band Creative SATCHEL SHURE.
Producer JANE LEWIS.
Production Assistant SERENA CLINCH.
Intern GUS RALSTON.
Special Thanks JEREMIE EGIAZARIAN and ROBERTO HIDALGO.