Our new album BEAR is out today!🌿

It's here, friends!

We're beyond thrilled to share our fourth album, BEAR, with you today! A project about belonging, being an outsider, and embracing the margins. It’s yours now, and we hope you love it as much as we do! 

We co-produced it with our friend Kurt Ballou, who also recorded the instrumental performances and mixed the project! Vocals were recorded by Buick Audra, and additional engineering was done by Jerry Roe. Zack Weeks assisted at GodCity, and Brad Boatright mastered. A bear. We're so proud.

We made a video for the newest single, DRAIN, which you can watch here!

If you're interested in any of the press surrounding BEAR, we were just featured in SPIN, and here's a conversation we had with Jedd Beaudoin for his NPR / KMUW podcast, Into Music!

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We're currently on the road supporting the new record! We started in Kansas City last night and we're on our way to Tulsa for tonight's show! Our full updated tour schedule is below; we can't wait to see all of you!

We hope BEAR finds you where you are, and that it makes you feel like you belong somewhere, because you do. You belong with us!

WITH GRATITUDE,
Buick Audra & Jerry Roe,
Friendship Commanders

FOUND single & video out today! Shows this weekend, & more Fall tour dates added!🌿

 Happy September, friends!

We're proud to share FOUND with you today, the newest single from our forthcoming album, BEAR! FOUND is a song about finding oneself, one's art, and the art of others—and also discovering true sense of belonging within those places. It's a song about hope on an album that also asks some heavy questions. It reminds us: when unsure, make work.

The video was directed and edited by Jerry Roe, and shot by Jarad Clement and Jerry Roe with additional footage contributed by Buick Audra and Travis Nicholson. It features some of our favorite spaces where art grows and thrives. Read more about it in the premiere over at CVLT Nation!

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STREAM X / MIDHEAVEN

STREAM KEEPING SCORE / MELT

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Our first shows of the season are tomorrow 9/19 in Pittsburgh PA, and Saturday 9/20  in Youngstown OH! We'll be playing some of the songs from BEAR in front of audiences for the first time - wish us luck! We're also thrilled to share some of the new additions to the Fall touring schedule; are we coming to a city near you? Check the dates below!

BEAR will be here in just three weeks! Unreal, and yet entirely real! If you haven't snagged a copy of the album on transparent green/black marble vinyl, do so before they sell out! We also added a bundle that's exclusive to Bandcamp, with our classic black and white logo shirt by request! Enjoy!

It's almost here, friends. We hope you love FOUND as much as we do!

With gratitude and appreciation,

Buick & Jerry, FC

MIDHEAVEN video premiering today! Fall tour dates announced!🌿

Happy end of Summer, friends!

Today we bring you two pieces of good news! The first, is the release of the official video for MIDHEAVEN, the second half of the dual single we dropped two weeks ago, X / MIDHEAVEN! It's premiering in Metal Injection today! The video was directed and edited by Jerry Roe, and shot by Craig Hill and Jerry Roe. We're especially proud of the single shot performance in the instrumental bridge! This is truly as close as we get to playing sports, pals. Musically, this is one of our heaviest songs to date.

MIDHEAVEN gets into this idea of being born under a certain set of stars, and whether or not it has anything to do with who we are—and questions those who claim to know the answer. The song is part of the larger conversation around belonging, identity, and influence contained within the tracks of our new album BEAR, coming October 10th on Magnetic Eye Records! Last Summer, seemingly everywhere Buick Audra turned, modern astrologers were predicting doom for the month of August. And so, she wrote a song about what it might be like to blame all things on the sky, both internally and externally. MIDHEAVEN is that song!

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WATCH X VIDEO
STREAM X / MIDHEAVEN
STREAM KEEPING SCORE / MELT
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The second piece of great news is that we're going on tour! Of course we are. We're so happy to be able to share this first batch of dates supporting the new record! The two September shows will see us playing select songs from it before it's out! Hope to see many of you out there!

We're now six weeks out from the release of BEAR, and while we can't wait for you to hear the whole thing, we're so enjoying sharing pieces of it with you along the way. Thank you for being here for all of it! Enjoy the video for MIDHEAVEN!

Buick & Jerry, FC

X / MIDHEAVEN dual single out today! New video for X also premiering!🌿

Hey, friends!
We hope you're doing well!

First, we want to thank everyone who has already pre-ordered our forthcoming album, BEAR, coming October 10th on Magnetic Eye Records! Also, thanks to all who have listened to, watched, shared, and interacted with us about the first two singles, KEEPING SCORE and MELT! So glad the new work is connecting.

We're back today with another dual single, X / MIDHEAVEN! In the tradition of the first tracks released from the project, we're giving you some sugar and salt together with this new pair. The album has two sides, and these songs firmly represent each of them. Buick Audra wrote X fewer than six weeks after our friend and collaborator Steve Albini passed; she wrote it while grieving and also observing the lost generation grieve in the singular ways they do. It is a loving nod to Gen X and their genius contributions to art and culture. The video for X, directed and edited by Jerry Roe, is also premiering today alongside the two tracks; all can be found in this great piece in Everything Is Noise! And that camera Buick is shooting in the second verse? Steve's.

At the other end of the spectrum, MIDHEAVEN explores the idea of nature vs. nurture, and whether one can attribute personality and behavioral traits to astrological placements. BEAR is an album about belonging, and these tracks offer different lenses through which to view the subject; one is a more intimate perspective while the other goes wide. We hope you love them both!

If you haven't yet pre-ordered a beautiful green/black marbled vinyl copy of BEAR, we've added a new set of merch offerings! There's now a black and white album cover shirt as well as a bundle including that shirt design - both are limited edition. Grab them while they still exist!

If you'd like to read a thoughtful interview with us about the album and KEEPING SCORE / MELT, there's a brand-new one in Mundane Magazine! So grateful to be asked about the new work.

It's a big time, friends. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. We hope the new songs make you feel known, bold, and brave.  Enjoy!
Buick & Jerry, FC

WATCH X VIDEO
STREAM X / MIDHEAVEN
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KEEPING SCORE / MELT dual single out today! BEAR album coming in October!

FRIENDS.

First, hello! We're so happy to be here with you all. Hope you're okay. Better than okay! Second, we have so much to tell you! Allow us to start at the beginning.

We've signed a multiple-album deal with Magnetic Eye Records! Truly! We're so happy about it, glad to be among such a cool heavy music community, and absolutely thrilled to have a good home for our forthcoming album!

Speaking of which, BEAR will be released on October 10th through Magnetic Eye! It's an album about the ever-elusive idea of belonging—where it occurs, and where it absolutely does not. BEAR was co-produced by us—Buick Audra (guitars, vocals) and Jerry Roe (drums, bass)—along with our longtime collaborator, Kurt Ballou. Pre-orders just went live!

The first dual single, KEEPING SCORE / MELT, is out everywhere today, along with dynamic videos! The video for MELT premiered in Decibel Magazine last week, and KEEPING SCORE is live today!

One last thing! Buick's solo album ADULT CHILD has been out for one full month now, and her solo electric tour dates start tomorrow, July 16th! Check her dates to see if she's coming anywhere near you!

We appreciate you more than you know, and we hope you love the new work!
Buick & Jerry, FC

LEGALIZE LEX this weekend (4/19) + new music from Buick Audra!

Hey friends!

Hope the season is treating you well so far! We've been working on getting our new album to you (it's coming!), but there's still a little bit left to nail down before we can do so. What we're going to do in the immediate future is play LEGALIZE LEX tomorrow (April 19th) in Lexington, KY! We've been looking forward to this festival for months. Tons of great bands, should be a killer time. We spoke with Tom Robbins from the And Now The Band podcast about the event; check out our conversation! Here's the schedule for tomorrow! 

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Also, Buick has started releasing singles from her forthcoming album, ADULT CHILD, out June 13th! The first single QUESTIONS FOR THE GODS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR was released on March 21st, and the second single YELLOW is out today! Buick wrote and produced the album, she and Justin Francis recorded it, Kurt Ballou mixed it, and Brad Boatright mastered it! It's a concept record about identity, estrangement, and trying to outrun one's lineage. Check out the new songs and pre-order the album!

That's all for now, but we should have some details about the new music soon. We appreciate you being here. See some of you this weekend!

Buick & Jerry, FC

New year, new music on the way! First, some shows + a benefit compilation!

Happy 2025, friends!

How are you? We're okay! We're inching into this new year, trying to be of service when and where we can, and preparing to make a whole lot of noise.  We have a new album on the way! It's big and bold and gets into the idea of belonging (What is it? Where do we find it?). We can't wait to share it with you, and in time, we will! First, we're going to play some shows!

Our first dates of the year are all in North Carolina in early February! We're looking forward to playing some familiar and new places with our pals in Bluething. Join us if we're coming anywhere near you! We're also thrilled to announce that we're hitting the beloved LEGALIZE LEX festival in Lexington KY on April 19th! Should be a loud, fuzzy time.

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We've had California on our minds for weeks now. We send our love to everyone dealing with displacement and loss related to the fires. We're so happy to have been able to contribute a track to this compilation, LOVE LOS ANGELES: A Charity Compilation in Aid of the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires Benefiting the Mutual Aid LA Network, which is out today, January 24th! This project was put together by Hit the North Records and is exclusively available on Bandcamp. You can hear our song OF THE WE (Steve Albini Mix) alongside some powerful other music. Please support it if you can!

We're so grateful you're here! As always, we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community, with immigrants, with Indigenous communities, with all seeking reproductive freedom, with survivors, with disabled people, with Black, Brown, Asian, and all POC. We're afraid of what's to come, too, but we will not obey in advance. We will also not look away. We love you, we're with you. You are safe with us. Now and forever.

In solidarity,
Buick & Jerry, FC

UPCOMING SHOWS

💎02.05.25 - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor

💎02.06.25 - Greensboro, NC @ Flat Iron

💎02.07.25 - Winston-Salem, NC @ Hoots Beer Co.

💎02.08.25 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506

💎02.09.25 - Raleigh, NC @ Slim's

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💎04.19.25 - Lexington, KY @ Al's Bar / LEGALIZE LEX