LAAND Presents: Good luck at the White Schoolhouse

Good Luck is a treasure of the late-2000s DIY era. They spent their early career making perfect records (2008’s Into Lake Griffy and 2011’s Without Hesitation) and playing most of their shows in basements and in venues that no longer exist. All the while, they approached their band with adventure, optimism and sincerity and without any of the pretense and music-industry baggage that can suck the life from a band. Instead, they were jumping in dumpsters and getting ice cream after the show: building an on-the-ground community of lifelong friends and fans. It seemed like they were everyone’s favorite band, and that’s why in 2024 when they started hinting at a comeback, people were fucking psyched.

They’ve since gone on to release a gem of a new record, 2025’s Big Dreams Mister, and have done some sporadic touring in the year since. We’re thrilled that they’re able to squeeze in a Lawrence show during an off-day amidst a week-long midwest tour opening for Jeff Rosenstock.

Of the band, Jeff writes:

Their new record Big Dreams, Mister (the title of which should be read in the voice of an early 20th-century newsie) is their first in fourteen years, and it fucking rips. It exists in the rarified air of Superchunk’s fantastic post-hibernation record Majesty Shredding and not those “why would they do this?” reunion records of beloved bands whomst shall go unnamed. It is equal parts highly-concentrated effort, pressure-free creativity and the thirst to settle unfinished business after the band stopped making music together in 2012. Except not as dramatic as all that.

[…] Listening to Big Dreams, Mister feels like breathing clean air, like feeling love in a world of hate or any number of hyperbolic tropes music writers would bestow upon some rando to try and sell you some bullshit, but it’s for real this time. The songs have an adventurous excitement to them. The band goes hard as chord progressions occasionally spiral up and down unpredictably and while teetering on the edge of chaos, they lock into some big bouncy hook, moving like one organism, the magic alchemy of years past as alive as ever. Ginger and Matt tackle parenthood, depression, and the general confusion of existence with gut-punch lyrics outlined by an optimism that doesn’t feel saccharine and much-needed encouragement that feels earned.

Local openers TBD.

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Monday, July 13, 2026
$15
Doors at 7:00, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

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