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! 

TICKETS

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.

ALL TICKETS HERE

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

Two shows this weekend + first tour of 2025 announced!

Friends!

We hope you're having a scenic late Autumn wherever you are. We've been home in Nashville for the past month finishing our brand-new album! Buick just wrapped the vocals this past week. Now the project is back in Kurt Ballou's hands and will be mixed by the end of the year! We truly can't wait to share it with you.

In the meantime, we're going to play some shows! Our last two events of 2024 are this weekend: Friday, December 6th at DRKMTTR in Nashville and Saturday, December 7th at Boggs Social & Supply in Atlanta! You coming?

Then, in early February, we're heading out for our first shows of 2025, all in North Carolina! Stoked to be hitting some cities we haven't played in a while—and some we've NEVER played (what's up, Winston-Salem?)!

Speaking of North Carolina, we're honored to have a track on this incredible, massive compilation, CAVERNS OF GOLD, released on November 1st! This project benefits Beloved Asheville, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing relief and long-term support for the community as the Western North Carolina region rebuilds from hurricane damage earlier this year. The compilation boasts a wide range of artists, from REM to us, and we were more than happy to contribute our track DESPERATELY SEEKING (Steve Albini Mix) to such an important and urgent cause. Please support it if you can!

That's it for now! We hope to see you at the shows! We've so appreciated your support and presence in our lives this year. Let's go out on a loud note!

In solidarity,

Buick & Jerry, FC

UPCOMING SHOWS:

💎12.06.24 - Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR

💎12.07.24 - Atlanta, GA @ Boggs Social & Supply

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💎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

October tour dates start Friday, 10/4!

Happy October!

We'll start playing some shows in just a few days, and we'd love to have you there! This month finds us in the Southwest, the West Coast, the Middle Left (is that a term?), and the Midwest, still supporting our album MASS which just turned one year old! We'll also be playing a little from the BILL album in honor of Steve Albini and our July release of his mixes of that project—plus some brand-new work! Join us!

Speaking of new work, we spent some of September in Salem, MA making our fourth LP with Kurt Ballou! Buick still has to sing the album, but the instrumental work has been recorded and we can't wait to share it with you before too long!

Last, to celebrate the second anniversary of her solo album Conversations with My Other Voice, Buick released the audio for her in-studio performance of Simply Said (Live at Sound Emporium). Enjoy!

That's it for today! We appreciate your continued support and will see some of you soon!

Buick & Jerry, FC

💎10.04 - Houston, TX @ Black Magic Social Club

💎10.05 - Arlington, TX @ Growl

💎10.06 - El Paso, TX @ Mona Bar of Modern Art

💎10.08 - Tucson, AZ @ Groundworks

💎10.09 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Dive Bar

💎10.10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Knucklehead Hollywood

💎10.12 - Santa Fe, NM @ Tumbleroot

💎10.13 - Laramie, WY @ Ruffed Up Duck Saloon

💎10.14 - Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge

💎10.16 - Kansas City, MO @ Union Library

💎10.18 - Fort Wayne, IN @ The Brass Rail

Tour dates start this week!

Hi, friends!
Our tour dates kick off this week, and we've added a few! We're stoked to be starting our Fall dates in Columbus OH this weekend (8/24) at Ace of Cups for the Blockout Bash festival; from there, we have a three-show run with our pals in Brother Wolf hitting Detroit (8/30), Chicago (8/31), and Grand Rapids (9/01). A few rad shows sprinkled throughout September, and then we're out for two straight weeks in October. Looking forward to all of it! Check the full list of dates below to see if we're coming anywhere near you!

Thanks for all the love around the release of BILL - The Steve Albini Mixes! If you missed it, Buick did a daily series on the individual songs from the album on our socials, with songwriting and recording memories, plus lots of great footage and imagery from working with Steve. Enjoy! If you missed her essay in New Noise Magazine, check it out here.

Also, we did an interview for Doomed Nation about what we're up to lately, what we're each listening to, and what qualifies as a "guilty pleasure" around here!

That's it for today! We appreciate your continued support and hope to see some of you on the road!
Buick & Jerry, FC

💎08.24 - Columbus, OH @ Blockout Bash / Ace of Cups

💎08.30 - Detroit, MI @ Lager House

💎08.31 - Chicago, IL @ Liar’s Club

💎09.01 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Turnstiles

💎09.07 - Youngstown, OH @ Pabstolutely 17 / Royal Oaks

💎09.21 - Louisville, KY @ Portal

💎10.04 - Houston, TX @ Black Magic Social Club

💎10.05 - Arlington, TX @ Growl

💎10.06 - El Paso, TX @ Mona Bar of Modern Art

💎10.08 - Tucson, AZ @ Groundworks

❤️‍🔥10.09 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Dive Bar

💎10.10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Knucklehead Hollywood

💎10.12 - Santa Fe, NM @ Tumbleroot

❤️‍🔥10.13 - Laramie, WY @ Ruffed Up Duck Saloon

💎10.14 - Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge

❤️‍🔥10.16 - Kansas City, MO @ Union Library

💎10.18 - Fort Wayne, IN @ The Brass Rail

❤️‍🔥 = new show!

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