In 1992, he founded the Alliance Music Workshop musician's cooperative at Vox Populi, an independent performance gallery in Philadelphia.[4] The Alliance Music Workshop provided an alternative space for music with an emphasis on improvisation and international styles. Some of the more notable performers he booked at the AMW include Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Joe Morris, Khan Jamal, Rob Brown, Marc Ribot, Rufus Harley, Tani Tabbal, and Square Roots (later The Roots). In 1997, he assisted Scott Black with the Frank Lloyd Wright Unity Temple Restoration Fund concert series in Oak Park, IL.
In July 2006, he engineered the return of the Philadelphia post-punk band Bunnydrums with original members David Goerk and Frank Marr, adding guitarist Howard Harrison (of Martin Bisi) and drummer Michael Mongiello to the lineup.[5][6][7]
In 2008, he founded witchtrialZ! with Jeremy Klotz, of Sensory Fix, and David Finzimer.[8] After the final performance of witchtrialZ!, opening for Reeves Gabrels,[9][10] with guitarist Howard Harrison and drummer Adrian Burka substituting for the original members of witchtrialZ!, Laurick formed the band yeah clementines with Harrison and Burka.[11] In 2011, yeah clementines released the EP "Aquarelles", and in 2012 released the LP "Candela".
He recorded with Virgin of the Birds on their album Winter Seeds on Scotland's Song, By Toad label. "Horfes Turn'd Jockies," produced by Laurick and released on The China Sea Recordings Concern on March 15, 2013, is a free compilation of independent artists covering songs by songwriters who inspire and inform their work. His last album, "Tourbillons," was released October 8, 2013.[16]