Bandcamp Friday today & we have new offerings for you!🌿

Friends!

Today is the last Bandcamp Friday of the year and we've added some new things for the occasion, like handwritten lyrics to the songs from BEAR, rendered by Buick Audra! Available bundled with vinyl or as standalone offerings. We've also added our remaining shirts to the vinyl bundles! You sold us out of the CD bundles and album cover shirts (thank you!), but if you're looking for LPs, logo t-shirts, lyrics, and pins, we've got you covered! We'll even gift wrap items for you if you request it at the time of purchase. Just shoot us a note! 

FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS ALBUMS & MERCH

We're still reeling from the incredible time we had on tour these past couple months. The November leg was such a powerful stretch for us, thank you for making it so!

With massive appreciation and warm holiday wishes!

Buick Audra & Jerry Roe,

Friendship Commanders

DEAD & DISCARDED GIRLS video & essay out today!🌿

Dear friends,
Today, we bring you the seventh video from our new album, BEAR: DEAD & DISCARDED GIRLS. This is the closing track on the record; part brutal observation, part wish for something better. Buick wrote the song months after learning about the death of Reena Virk, a fourteen-year-old Canadian girl who was killed by her peers in 1997. The story didn't leave Buick's mind, so she put it in this song along with her own adolescent experiences with violence, rejection, and displacement. The video is premiering at Metal Epidemic, and Buick has also written an essay for Atwood Magazine, expanding on the subject matter. 

We have chosen to release this work today, November 14th, because it is the anniversary of Reena's death. We offer this up with respect, care, and mindfulness.

The video, directed, shot, and edited by Jerry Roe, is a meditation on loss, remembrance, and being engulfed by water. We hope the music, imagery, and message all connect with you.

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We also have two new interviews to share with you today! We discussed all things BEAR and beyond with Bob and Frizz of the Rhythm on the Rocks Podcast, out this week! In addition, Buick is this week's guest on the Pursuing the Muse Podcast, on which she talked with Tom Compton about releasing her solo album ADULT CHILD as well as BEAR in 2025, among other things related to her creative process! Enjoy both!

We're out here on the road, enjoying every minute of this tour! Our remaining 2025 dates take us through several cities in California, the Pacific Northwest, and a final show in Laramie! Check our upcoming stops and we'll see you soon!

We hope you love DEAD & DISCARDED GIRLS. Please know how much we appreciate your time, attention, and presence here.

All our best,

Buick Audra & Jerry Roe,

Friendship Commanders

Southwest & West Coast tour dates start this week!🌿

Happy November, pals!

Huge thanks for all the love around BEAR over these last four weeks, and for coming out to the October shows! We had a blast. We're currently on the road again, starting this new run in Austin tomorrow, November 7th! We're out until the 23rd, covering all kinds of ground in between! Check our dates and we'll see you at a loud rock venue near you.

We have one more video to share with you next week, a special one. We'll be back in touch when it's out, but for now, we can't wait to play the songs from BEAR for you!

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If you want more BEAR fare in your life, here's a print interview we did for Scummy Water Tower, and an audio interview on the Heavy Desert Podcast!

Thank you again for making this such a great release season for this new body of work. We appreciate you!

See you soon,

Buick Audra & Jerry Roe,

Friendship Commanders

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

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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

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