Two shows this weekend: IL & WI! Thank you for one year of BEAR!

Hi, friends!

We're down to our last few shows of the year! Tomorrow, October 16th, we're playing Loose Cobra in Tolono, IL for the first time—and it also happens to be Jerry's birthday! Come and celebrate with us. And then Saturday, October 17th, we're hitting Wisconsin Doomed & Stoned! Please note that there's been a venue change for that festival; it's now at the Razz By: Maldano's. Last, we're doing Wendigo Doom Fest in Knoxville on Halloween! Three fun events to wrap up what has been a truly epic year for us.

GET TICKETS HERE

Speaking of the year, October 10th marked one year of BEAR being in the world! It's been an incredible, high-impact, emotional season of sharing that body of work with you all.

The word “BEAR” means several things: to carry, to apply pressure, to witness, to birth, to assume, to support, and last—but never least—there is the beast. The songs on this album exist as a tapestry of all definitions and applications, an exploration of outsiderness and belonging, a study in opposites. This project exists as our most ambitious to date, as we aimed to represent both weight and lightness on the tracks, devastation and elevation in the sounds, and color and contrast in the visuals. We’re so proud of what we created. Thank you for receiving it! 

Buick has been working on one more piece related to the album, and we'll be sure to share about it here when it's ready. For now, we extend our sincere gratitude to all who have told us you connect with the work. Please enjoy a few of the Polaroids from the tracking sessions for BEAR at GodCity below!

We have about two dozen of the album-themed shirts left after the Westward tour we just did (thanks for coming out and buying merch). If you want one, grab it at these shows before they disappear for good!

We see you, we appreciate you, and we hope to connect with you at the shows!

Buick Audra & Jerry Roe, 

Friendship Commanders

OCTOBER TOUR DATES

🌿10/16 - Tolono, IL @ Loose Cobra

🌿10/17 - Green Bay, WI - Wisconsin Doomed & Stoned

🌿10/31 - Knoxville, TN @ Wendigo Doom Fest

Our Fall tour dates begin today 9/17!

Friends!

Our Fall tour dates are upon us, kicking off tonight, September 17th, in Kansas City! You coming?

The first string of shows is with our Magnetic Eye Records label mates, Witch Ripper, including our appearance at RippleFest Texas on Sunday, the 20th! For those who have inquired, our set time is 8 PM that day. That whole event will rip. Beyond those co-headlining dates, we have four West Coast shows on our own!

Later in the season, we've added a show in Tolono, IL on October 16th, and then we're at Doomed & Stoned Festival in Green Bay on October 17th, and Wendigo Doom Fest in Knoxville on Halloween! Check below for the complete list!

GET TICKETS HERE

We're coming up on the first anniversary of BEAR being in the world, and we'll have much to say at that October milestone, but for now, thank you for listening! The album-themed shirts that we have left will be at the upcoming shows and won't be reprinted. Grab what we have left if you see your size!

You're the best, see you on the road!

Buick Audra & Jerry Roe, 

Friendship Commanders

FALL TOUR DATES

🌿09/17 - Kansas City, MO @ Sk8Bar+

🌿09/18 - Little Rock, AR @ Vino's+

🌿09/19 - New Orleans, LA @ Siberia+

🌿09/20 - Austin, TX @ Ripple Fest Texas+

🌿09/22 - Denver, Co @ Hi-Dive+

🌿09/23 - Cody, WY @ The Colonel+

🌿09/24 - Missoula, MT @ Monk's Bar+

🌿09/25 - Spokane, WA @ The Chameleon+

🌿09/26 - Portland, OR @ HIgh Water Mark

🌿09/30 - Reno, NV @ Midnight Coffee

🌿10/01 - Albany, CA - Ivy Room

🌿10/02 - Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records Roadhouse

🌿10/16 - Tolono, IL @ Loose Cobra

🌿10/17 - Green Bay, WI - Wisconsin Doomed & Stoned

🌿10/31 - Knoxville, TN @ Wendigo Doom Fest

+with Witch Ripper

August run begins tomorrow 8/7 + our Sept-Oct tour dates have been announced!

Hey, all!

Hope your summer has been kind so far! Our eight-show run with Crop begins tomorrow, August 7th, and we're very much looking forward to seeing some new and familiar faces in the Midwest and Northeast!

We've just announced a September tour with our label mates, Witch Ripper, which will take us to the Western parts of the country, some of which we'll continue to explore past our co-headlining dates with them! We're looking forward to hitting Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and Portland on our own. 

And then later in the season, we have some festival appearances! You'll be able to catch us at Wisconsin Doomed & Stoned Festival in Green Bay on October 17th, and then at Wendigo Doom Fest in Knoxville on Halloween!

GET TICKETS HERE

In other news, the first Bandcamp Friday in a while is tomorrow, so check out what we have in our shop post-Europe; we'd be happy to send you some wares! We're running low on BEAR vinyl, and so is the label; if you want a first pressing copy on the green marble, grab one before the record gets pressed in a second colorway! Also, we each have solo offerings worth checking out!

ORDER FC MERCH HERE

ORDER BUICK AUDRA MERCH HERE

ORDER JERRY ROE MERCH HERE

Thank you for making our year such a great one!
Buick Audra & Jerry Roe, 
Friendship Commanders

SUMMER-FALL TOUR DATES

🌿08/07 - Lexington, KY @ Green Lantern*

🌿08/08 - Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Tavern*

🌿08/09 - Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl*

🌿08/10 - Ithaca, NY @ Angry Mom Records*

🌿08/12 - Braintree, MA @ Widowmaker Brewing*

🌿08/13 - Easthampton, MA @ The Heavy Culture Cooperative*

🌿08/14 - Swarthmore, PA @ Warehouse3*

🌿08/15 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Squirrel Hill Sports Bar*

🌿09/17 - Kansas City, MO @ Sk8Bar+

🌿09/18 - Little Rock, AR @ Vino's+

🌿09/19 - New Orleans, LA @ Siberia+

🌿09/20 - Austin, TX @ Ripple Fest Texas+

🌿09/22 - Denver, Co @ Hi-Dive+

🌿09/23 - Cody, WY @ The Colonel+

🌿09/24 - Missoula, MT @ Monk's Bar+

🌿09/25 - Spokane, WA @ The Chameleon+

🌿09/26 - Portland, OR @ HIgh Water Mark

🌿10/01 - Albany, CA - Ivy Room

🌿10/02 - Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records Roadhouse

🌿10/17 - Green Bay, WI - Wisconsin Doomed & Stoned

🌿10/31 - Knoxville, TN @ Wendigo Doom Fest

*with Crop

+with Witch Ripper

Summer shows start this weekend 7/18 in Louisville, KY!

Friends!

Summer is upon us, and so is our first show of the season! We're heading up the road to Louisville, KY this coming Saturday, July 18th, for Mag Bar Music Fest! We're very much looking forward to throwing down with some friends and fellow heavy rockers. The music starts at 3:15 PM, and we play second-to-last, at 8:30 PM!

Then, on August 7th, we'll kick off our eight-show run with Crop, hitting cities throughout the Midwest, South, and East Coast! Should be a great time. Special note that these will be our only Northeastern stops of 2026.

All dates and corresponding tickets here!

In very summery news, all vinyl orders placed with us during July will include a copy of our second album, BILL! We made that record with our late pal Steve Albini, whose birthday was July 22nd; we like to honor him and our collaboration this time of year. Offer excludes standalone copies of BEAR, as those ship from Magnetic Eye Records and not us, but BEAR bundles are fair game!

Order wares here!

Yesterday marked ONE YEAR of KEEPING SCORE and MELT being in the world! Those two songs, put forth as a dual single, kicked off our release season for BEAR! What a wild year it's been. Thank you for listening! We're stoked to have connected with so many of you, and hope it continues on. If you haven't watched the videos for those tracks yet, enjoy! We had a blast making them.

We hope you're having a great season so far, and we'll see some of you soon!

Buick Audra & Jerry Roe, 
Friendship Commanders

SUMMER TOUR DATES

🌿07/18 - Louisville, KY @ Mag Bar Music Fest

🌿08/07 - Lexington, KY @ Green Lantern

🌿08/08 - Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Tavern

🌿08/09 - Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl

🌿08/10 - Ithaca, NY @ Angry Mom Records

🌿08/12 - Braintree, MA @ Widowmaker Brewing

🌿08/13 - Easthampton, MA @ The Heavy Culture Cooperative

🌿08/14 - Swarthmore, PA @ Warehouse3

🌿08/15 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Squirrel Hill Sports Bar

🌿09/20 - Austin, TX @ Ripple Fest Texas

Summer tour dates & festivals!

Pals!

We're home from Europe and mostly recovered from the tour, travel, and jet lag; we're certainly upright enough to tell you that we had a powerful time over those three and a half weeks! We ended up playing nineteen shows in twenty-three days, across six countries. We gave our very first encore in France, and did seven total on the run. An honor! We also debuted DRIPPING SILVER in a live setting and played it at fifteen of the shows. We ate incredible vegan fare, saw actual castles, met countless people, and in our estimation, had some of our best performances. Huge thanks to all who contributed to the tour's success!

Our Summer tour dates have been announced, many of which are with our friends, Crop! We're hitting Mag Bar Music Fest in Louisville on July 18th with them and many other comrades, and then we're co-headlining an eight-show run together in August! Excited to hit some cities we've somehow never played before. And then we're doing the Magnetic Eye Records showcase at Ripple Fest Texas in Austin on September 20th! Individual line-ups for both festivals have been released, and our dates rip pretty hard, if we do say so ourselves.

All dates and corresponding tickets here.

We're so grateful to have you here with us, and we hope to see as many of you as possible on the road this Summer!

Buick Audra & Jerry Roe, 
Friendship Commanders

SUMMER TOUR DATES

🌿07/18 - Louisville, KY @ Mag Bar Music Fest

🌿08/07 - Lexington, KY @ Green Lantern

🌿08/08 - Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Tavern

🌿08/09 - Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl

🌿08/10 - Ithaca, NY @ Angry Mom Records

🌿08/12 - Braintree, MA @ Widowmaker Brewing

🌿08/13 - Easthampton, MA @ The Heavy Culture Cooperative

🌿08/14 - Swarthmore, PA @ Warehouse3

🌿08/15 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Squirrel Hill Sports Bar

🌿09/20 - Austin, TX @ Ripple Fest Texas

Our first EU tour starts THIS FRIDAY, May 15th!

Friends!

It's finally here! Our first ever European tour begins this Friday night and lasts through June 6th! We fly tomorrow! We're beyond excited to play these eighteen shows across six countries, to meet people we've been communicating with for years in some cases, and to share the new album we're so proud of! Speaking of the music, in addition to our current set, we're thrilled to be debuting one of the songs from BEAR in a live setting on this tour, as well as performing some requests from our past catalog! Should be a great time.

All dates and corresponding tickets here.

We've just created a channel within our Instagram account where we'll be sharing exclusive content from the road; join us over there! And here's a gorgeous write-up about us from RIFF RIOT out of Slovakia ahead of our show in Bratislava on May 25th!

That's really it! Mostly, we're just excited and can't wait to meet all of you! 

See you soon!

Buick Audra & Jerry Roe, 
Friendship Commanders

EUROPEAN SPRING TOUR DATES

🌿15/05 - Coevorden, Netherlands @ Highlander Pub

🌿16/05 - Coevorden, Netherlands @ MFC

🌿17/05 - Lichtervelde, Belgium @ PrintbaAr

🌿19/05 - Barberaz, France @ Le Brin de Zinc

🌿20/05 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Ponyhof

🌿21/05 - Siegen, Germany @ Vortex

🌿22/05 - Augsburg, Germany @ Yolo Toast

🌿23/05 - Cottbus, Germany @ Galerie Fango

🌿24/05 - Nürnberg, Germany @ Zentralcafé Kaya

🌿25/05 - Bratislava, Slovakia @ Koncerty na Garážach

🌿27/05 - Radebeul, Germany @ Barnyard Club

🌿28/05 - Münster, Germany @ Rare Guitar

🌿29/05 - Hagen, Germany @ Werkhof Hohenlimburg

🌿30/05 - Asendorf, Germany @ Kulturhaus B.O.

🌿01/06 - Hanover, Germany @ Béi Chéz Heinz

🌿02/06 - Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang

🌿03/06 - Hildesheim, Germany @ Club VEB

🌿06/06 - Esch-Alzette, Luxembourg @ MK Bar

Our European tour starts in 3 weeks!

Hello, friends!

We are, at this moment, three weeks out from the first show of our upcoming European tour, which is also a first! Since we last wrote to you, several new dates have been added, including that inaugural event in Mayen, Germany! We're now playing eighteen shows across six countries, and we truly CAN'T WAIT. If we're coming anywhere near you from May 15th to June 6th, please join us at the shows! It's been a years-long goal to do this; unreal that it's almost here!

All dates and corresponding tickets here.

In other live news, we're thrilled to announce that we're playing Ripple Fest Texas in September; another first! Details to come, but we know our event is September 20th, so mark your calendars!

The next Bandcamp Friday is one week away, on May 1st! If you desire our singular wares (t-shirts, signed vinyl, handwritten lyrics, books, embroidered patches, and cyanotypes), grab them before we leave for Europe! We won't have all of that with us. We'll only have copies of BEAR and special t-shirts printed in Germany for that tour! Everything is new; everything is exciting. We're grateful.

See you soon!
Buick Audra & Jerry Roe, 
Friendship Commanders

EUROPEAN SPRING TOUR DATES

🌿15/05 - Coevorden, Netherlands @ Highlander Pub

🌿16/05 - Coevorden, Netherlands @ MFC

🌿17/05 - Lichtervelde, Belgium @ PrintbaAr

🌿19/05 - Barberaz, France @ Le Brin de Zinc

🌿20/05 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Ponyhof

🌿21/05 - Siegen, Germany @ Vortex

🌿22/05 - Augsburg, Germany @ Yolo Toast

🌿23/05 - Cottbus, Germany @ Galerie Fango

🌿24/05 - Nürnberg, Germany @ Zentralcafé Kaya

🌿25/05 - Bratislava, Slovakia @ Koncerty na Garážach

🌿27/05 - Radebeul, Germany @ Barnyard Club

🌿28/05 - Münster, Germany @ Rare Guitar

🌿29/05 - Hagen, Germany @ Werkhof Hohenlimburg

🌿30/05 - Asendorf, Germany @ Kulturhaus B.O.

🌿01/06 - Hanover, Germany @ Béi Chéz Heinz

🌿02/06 - Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang

🌿03/06 - Hildesheim, Germany @ Club VEB

🌿06/06 - Esch-Alzette, Luxembourg @ MK Bar