Lawrence Rothman

Lawrence Rothman, who was born in St. Louis, MO, is a singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. After a series of 4 EP’s Rothman’s debut album “The Book of Law” was released on October 13, 2017 via Downtown Records/Interscope. The album was produced by Lawrence Rothman and Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira), and featured contributions from Angel Olsen, Kim Gordon, Marissa Nadler, Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses, Nick Zinner, Charli XCX, Kristin Kontrol, among others. Rothman’s sophomore album “Good Morning, America” is to be released June 25, 2021. Guest include Lucinda Williams, Amanda Shires, Marissa Nader, Girlpool, Katie Pruitt, Caroline Rose, Mary Lattimore, and members of Thundercats Band. The album was produced by Rothman and recorded in Missouri, Tennesse and California during the summer of 2020. As a producer and songwriter, Lawrence has worked with Angel Olsen, Kali Uchis, Girl in Red, Alison Mosshart, Soccer Mommy, SASAMI, Marissa Nadler, Kim Gordon, Courtney Love, Cherry Glazzer, MNDR, Bleached and more. In 2010, Lawrence scored the feature film The Runaways, a biopic on the Joan Jett fronted female rock band The Runaways, starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. In 2017, Lawrence scored the News Emmy nominated New York Times “Great Performers” short film series starring Nicole Kidman, Timothy Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Jake Gyllenhaal and Daniel Kaluuya. In 2018, Lawrence scored a short film on the life of occult filmmaker Kenneth Anger for Gucci and Systems Magazine. Additionally, Lawrence has scored various short films for Mercedes, BMW, Levi’s, Alexander McQueen, TATE Modern, Barbican Centre, GUCCI and MAC Cosmetics. In 2020 Lawrence produced, wrote and music supervised the acclaimed “The Turning” soundtrack for Dreamworks Pictures. The female led soundtrack featured 12 original songs by various artist including Mitski, Alice Glass, Courtney Love, Kim Gordon, MUNA, Pale Waves and Cherry Glazzer. An avid writer Lawrence’s first novel “Postmortem Bliss” released in 2007 was turned into a short film for Turner Classics and directed by Floria Sigismondi. The book was based on their life growing up in the 90’s in the suburban midwest struggling with gender identity and addiction in a small conservative town. Rothman identified as gender fluid at young age. A collection of poetry titled “Not A Son” (and other spews) is to be released on Sept 18, 2021 on Apocrypha Press.