BILL - The Steve Albini Mixes OUT TODAY! Plus, Fall tour dates announced!

Hello, friends!
We're thrilled to share BILL - The Steve Albini Mixes with you today! These are Steve's original analog mixes of our second album, beautiful in their loud, singular glory. They're being released today to celebrate Steve's life and work on what would have been his 62nd birthday. We hope you love them!

New Noise premiered the album today and published a new essay by Buick about what made working with Steve so special. It's called "It Wasn't Just the Mics; It Was the Man. Why I Loved Making the BILL Album With Steve Albini." Enjoy!

🔊Buy physical media & high-quality downloads for this release here!

🔊Stream the album here!

🔊Watch the visualizer for OUTLIVE YOU (Steve Albini Mix) here!

🔊We're celebrating the release this Friday, July 26th at DRKMTTR in Nashville. Please join us! Get tickets here!

AND THEN: we're going on tour! Assorted dates throughout August, September, and October have just been announced! Check to see if we're hitting your city - we'd LOVE to see you!

We'd give anything for Steve to be here among us. But in his absence, we hope you'll celebrate his life and work by turning this music up. Way up. Thank you,  Steve! And thanks to all of you for being here with us, we appreciate you!
Buick & Jerry, FC

BILL - The Steve Albini Mixes
Produced by Steve Albini and Friendship Commanders
Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, Chicago IL
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, Portland OR

All songs by Buick Audra
(Buick Audra Music / BMI)

Buick Audra - guitar and vocals
Jerry Roe - drums, bass, and harmony vocals

Front cover photo by Zach Barocas, color edited by Buick Audra
Graphic design and layout by Buick Audra and Ric Simenson

OUTLIVE YOU (Steve Albini Mix) out today!

Happy July, pals!

We're happy to share OUTLIVE YOU (Steve Albini Mix) with you today, the only single we're releasing ahead of BILL - The Steve Albini Mixes, which will be out on July 22nd; it would have been Steve's 62nd birthday. OUTLIVE YOU was Steve's favorite song on the album. We think you can hear that in his terrific mix.

Jerry made a beautiful visualizer for the song which is bookended by some studio footage of Steve tracking OUTLIVE YOU. 

The folks at Treble kindly premiered the track today!

If you're new to us, here's the story of this record:
In late 2017, we set up shop at Electrical Audio in Chicago for a week to make our second album, BILL, with Steve Albini. The version we released on October 5th, 2018, was mixed by Jerry. But the original mixes were done by Steve himself. Like the recordings, those mixes are analog, performed live in the studio. We always planned on releasing the Albini mixes. Always. But we kept writing and releasing new work and the right moment never seemed to present itself. We didn’t imagine that Steve would ever pass. It was a joy to make this record with him, and his mixes are reflective of the loud, lovely time we all had together. They’re guitar-forward, angular, and dynamic. And now it’s time to share them. The album was written about complicated grief, but losing Steve has given way to clean, uncomplicated grief. So, this release feels different this time around. More loving. More pure. We offer this work up in celebration of his life and many legacies.

If you'd like to pre-order the album, you can do so here.
If you'd like to pre-save/pre-add it, you can do so here.

Last, we're playing a hometown show to celebrate the release of the full record on July 26th at DRKMTTR. Get tickets here!

Thanks for being here, we hope you love OUTLIVE YOU!
Buick & Jerry, FC

Opening for the Jesus Lizard tonight!

Friends!

We're thrilled to be supporting the legendary Jesus Lizard for their sold-out show at the Blue Room in Nashville tonight, June 6th! We'll see you ticket-holders there!

We had a fantastic time in Louisville a couple of weeks ago; huge thanks to everyone involved with the show and all who came out! We love that town and can't wait to return. Also, it felt so meaningful to start our set with "In the Afterthoughts" from the BILL album we made with Steve Albini, to send it up to him with gratitude. Thanks for the kind reception.

We have some bittersweet news to share soon, related to that album we made with Albini, but tonight, we rip with the best. No better way to live, in our opinion.

Thanks for being here, and we'll see some of you tonight!
Buick & Jerry, FC

Louisville tonight, Steve Albini forever

 Happy May, friends!

We're playing Portal in Louisville tonight, May 24th, with Whores. and Bad Wires! Come on out; we'd love to have you there.
Tickets HERE!

Speaking of tonight, we're playing a song from our second album BILL to honor our friend and collaborator, Steve Albini, who passed away earlier this month on the 7th. We've been reeling from the grief, and feel that playing loud music—especially music we tracked together—is the best way to honor who he was.

We had the pleasure of making BILL with Steve in late 2017. We spent a week with him at Electrical Audio hammering out thirteen songs to two-inch tape—an ambitious endeavor that he led handily. We had both loved his work as a musician and engineer for years and doing that project with him exceeded all hopes and expectations. Steve was a warm, funny, accommodating collaborator, one from whom we learned too much to list. Contrary to reputation, he earned every bit of the co-producer credit he has on that record; we were actually surprised by how involved he got. We loved and welcomed all contributions, of course.

Beneath the profound grief we know we share with countless people the world over, lives our gratitude for having had the experience at all. We could have only talked about it and never actually done it. But we did do it. We went. We made cool shit with a hero and legend who became a friend. And now we’ll miss him forever. We offer our love and condolences to all who lost him. If you haven't listened to his last album, To All Trains by his band Shellac, go do so immediately. It was released ten days after his death and is a stone-cold masterpiece.

We'll have more to say about making BILL with Steve in the coming months, but for now, we're off to Louisville!

Thank you for being here; we hope to see you tonight!
Buick & Jerry, FC

Shows this weekend + NPR podcast interview!

Friends!
We're out in the world again this weekend, playing shows in Youngstown OH and Pittsburgh PA!  We're at the wonderful Westside Bowl on Friday, April 5th, with ANTiSEEN, Pig Rides, and Muzzle; and then we're hitting the rad Squirrel Hill Sports Bar on Saturday, April 6th, with Fuzznaut, Mother Elizabeth Thorne, and Sundras! 7 PM doors both nights.
Tickets HERE!

In other news, Buick was interviewed by music journalist Jedd Beaudoin for his new podcast Into Music on NPR! The show's theme is mentorship, and Buick discussed two visual art instructors she had along the way, plus creative intimacy—what it is, and more importantly, what it is not. 
Listen HERE!

Buick was also a guest on the All Abandon podcast, a show by Jesse Van Rachnid of the Pittsburgh rock and metal scene! They talked about everything from writing MASS to favorite colors.
Listen HERE!

Last, April 5th is a Bandcamp Friday! We always appreciate your support, but especially on the days when Bandcamp waives its fees for artists! We're running low on MASS and its related merch, so grab it if you want it!

As always, thank you for being here; we hope to see you at the shows!
Buick & Jerry, FC

04.05 - Youngstown, OH - Westside Bowl 04.06 - Pittsburgh, PA - Squirrel Hill Sports Bar 05.24 - Louisville, KY - Portal at fifteenTWELVE

Spring dates start tomorrow, 3/21!

Hello!
Just a quick note to let you know we're playing some shows this Spring and the first is tomorrow, March 21st, at miniBar in Kansas City! We're thrilled to be returning to a venue we love, and to play with our pals in Heels again, as well as Orphans of Doom! Tickets HERE.

Also, a Louisville, KY show has been added! We're playing Portal with Whores and Bad Wires on May 24th; it should be a killer night! 

Thank you for being here; we hope to see you in the wild!
Buick & Jerry, FC

03.21 - Kansas City, MO - Minibar

04.05 - Youngstown, OH - Westside Bowl

04.06 - Pittsburgh, PA - Squirrel Hill Sports Bar

05.24 - Louisville, KY - Portal at fifteenTWELVE

Spring tour dates & our Chicago Music Exchange session!

Happy 2024, friends!

Here we go! After a brief but restful winter break, we're happy to be back making loud music. Here's our live session at the legendary Chicago Music Exchange to kick off the year! We had a killer time there, we're so grateful to be part of what they do—and proud to know that we're the loudest band they've ever recorded! Here are four songs from MASS!

Next up: we're playing some shows! Very soon! Thrilled to be returning to some of our favorite cities in March and April. We'll see you soon, pals in Kansas City, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh!

03.21 - Kansas City, MO - Minibar

04.05 - Youngstown, OH - Westside Bowl

04.06 - Pittsburgh, PA - Squirrel Hill Sports Bar

Here's a new interview as well as a rave review of MASS in The Whole Kameese; enjoy!

And last, in their mighty list published in January, Everything Is Noise named MASS as one of the Best Albums of 2023! So grateful.

May we all make noise and stand for justice and equity in this season and beyond. May we all be brave in the face of dominance and harm.

Thank you for being here; let's have a powerful year!
Buick & Jerry, FC