Tour starts tomorrow, 2/18 + here's a new video for IMPERFECT!

Friends!
Our first tour of the year starts tomorrow, February 18th, in Houston! We truly can't wait to see everyone. 

All dates and corresponding tickets here.

Also, the brand-new one-take video for IMPERFECT is out everywhere, shot at LCY Media in Birmingham, AL! We had a blast doing this. The song is a favorite of both of ours from the new album, BEAR. It's about mistaking foes for friends and sometimes catching it a little too late. Enjoy!

All dates are below, you rule, and we'll see you so soon!
Buick Audra & Jerry Roe, 
Friendship Commanders

SOUTHEASTERN U.S. & BEYOND EARLY SPRING TOUR DATES

🌿02/18 - Houston, TX  @ Black Magic Social Club

🌿02/19 - Baton Rouge, LA @ Mid City Ballroom

🌿02/20 - New Orleans, LA @ Siberia 

🌿02/21 - Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box

🌿02/22 - Gainesville, FL @ The Atlantic

🌿02/24 - Tampa, FL @ Deviant Libation

🌿02/25 - Miami, FL @ Las Rosas 

🌿02/26 - Orlando, FL @ Will's Pub

🌿02/27 - Jacksonville, FL @ Hard Love 

🌿02/28 - Savannah, GA @ Totally Awesome Bar

🌿03/01 - Athens, GA @ The World Famous 

🌿03/03 - Atlanta, GA @ Boggs Social

🌿03/04 - Asheville, NC @ The Odd 

🌿03/05 - Richmond, VA @ Cobra Cabana 

🌿03/06 - Durham, NC @ Pinhook

🌿03/07 - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor

🌿03/08 - Chattanooga, TN @ JJ's Bohemia

🌿04/04 - Nashville, TN @ TN Brew Works*

🌿04/10 - Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s Music Joint*

*No Temptress

EUROPEAN SPRING TOUR DATES

🌿16/05 - Coevorden, Netherlands @ MFC

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

🌿23/05 - Cottbus, Germany @ Galerie Fango

🌿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.

🌿02/06 - Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang

🌿03/06 - Hildesheim, Germany @ Club VEB

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

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!

ORDER BEAR
STREAM BEAR
TOUR DATES & TICKETS

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!

ORDER BEAR
STREAM BEAR
WATCH DRAIN VIDEO

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!

WATCH FOUND VIDEO

STREAM FOUND

STREAM X / MIDHEAVEN

STREAM KEEPING SCORE / MELT

PRE-ORDER BEAR

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!

WATCH MIDHEAVEN VIDEO
WATCH X VIDEO
STREAM X / MIDHEAVEN
STREAM KEEPING SCORE / MELT
PRE-ORDER BEAR

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
PRE-ORDER BEAR

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! 

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

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

Thank you for 2023! Let's rip it in 2024✨

Friends!

We can't thank you enough for this incredible year. We're so grateful for the response to MASS, for the attendance at the shows, and for the support you've shown us throughout 2023! Our last show of the year was our album release party at DRKMTTR here in Nashville—and wow, what a way to bring MASS home! Thanks to all who were there!

In current MASS news, BLUE was included on Weedian's awesome new compilation, Trip to Tennessee! We're stoked to be there alongside so many of our friends and peers across the state!

To our great surprise, a second glowing (and thorough!) review of MASS was recently published by Everything Is Noise, by an entirely different writer. At the end, he writes:

"There are no gimmicks here to bait you into listening – it stands firmly on the merits of excellent songwriting and boisterously enjoyable performances from a hugely talented duo. It’s an added bonus that when you drill deeper into the melodic rock of Friendship Commanders, you find a richness and relatability in the messages of MASS. Perhaps you’ll even find that it’s something to bolster you in your own times of turmoil: as Helen Keller once said, ‘Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.’"

Buick had a long conversation with fellow musician Mike Bankhead about songwriting, her guitar rigs, and a few other topics for his podcast, You Could Be My Aramis. The episode is now available wherever you get your podcasts!

And last, we're so honored that MASS was named one of Cvlt Nation's Top Ten Alt Rock albums of 2023! Some of you may remember that the MASS release process started there, as they premiered the first single, BLUE, back in March. It's so meaningful to us to be included in their end-of-year roundup!

In the new year, we'll continue to bring the new album to the U.S. and possibly beyond (stay tuned!). Also, we have some new work that you'll be hearing soon enough! But for now, please know that we love you and appreciate your continued presence in our lives. We wish you all the very best in 2024.

As always, if you're inside a container you don't know how to break, you will!
With gratitude,
Buick & Jerry, FC

💎MASS💎 is out today & tour starts tomorrow!

Friends!

Today is the day! Our brand new album, MASS, is out everywhere, at last! We're incredibly proud of this work and hope it fills your hearts with loud, fuzzy melodies. We recorded the project in Salem, Massachusetts with Kurt Ballou, who also acted as co-producer. Best time ever. 

MASS is an autobiographical concept record about memory, language, and the state of Massachusetts. I (Buick Audra) was moved to the Boston area several times as a younger person, and my experiences there still contribute to how I move through the world today. My memories of that time and place were buried for years, but following the death of my friend Marc Orleans, I began to recover them and wrote this body of work. Jerry Roe and I brought the songs to life together. The album examines friendship, belonging, and finally putting words to what was once confusing. We hope the themes and songs resonate! 

I also wrote an accompanying memoir, MASS: Essays on Memory, Language, & the State of Massachusetts. The book expands on the stories told within the music. We recommend consuming them together for maximum impact!

ORDER THE ALBUM & BOOK HERE
STREAM THE ALBUM HERE

Our tour dates supporting MASS start tomorrow, September 30th—a day earlier than the last time we wrote! We're kicking things off in Knoxville and then we're out for six whole weeks! The Nashville album release show is at the very end of everything, on December 8th, at beloved DRKMTTR. Check our dates to see if we're coming to your town! We haven't been to the West Coast since before the pandemic, so we hope to see as many new and familiar faces as possible!

GET TICKETS HERE

09.30 - Knoxville, TN @ Brickyard
10.01 - Gainesville, GA @ Blackstrap Rock Hall
10.05 - Asheville, NC @ The Odd
10.06 - Raleigh, NC @ Ruby Deluxe
10.07 - Richmond, VA @ Get Tight Lounge
10.08 - Charleston, SC @ Tin Roof
10.11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Century
10.12 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Squirrel Hill Sports Bar
10.13 - Baltimore, MD @ The Undercroft
10.14 - West Akron, OH @ Buzzbin
10.15 - Kalamazoo, MI @ The Run Off
10.20 - Catskill, NY @ The Avalon Lounge
10.21 - Allston, MA @ O’Brien’s
10.23 - Detroit, MI @ The Old Miami
10.25 - Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s
11.01 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The DLC
11.02 - Reno, NV @ Alturas Bar
11.03 - Portland, OR @ Azoth Space
11.05 - Seattle, WA @ Funhouse
11.08 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
11.09 - Petaluma, CA @ The Big Easy
11.10 - Long Beach, CA @ Supply & Demand
11.11 - Palmdale, CA @ Transplants Brewing Co.
11.12 - San Diego, CA @ Til-Two Club
11.14 - Santa Fe, NM @ Tumbleroot
11.15 - Tempe, AZ @ Yucca Tap Room
11.17 - Houston, TX @ Kickback Bar
11.25 - Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl
12.08 - Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR

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Jerry made a new lyric video for the sixth track on the album, WE WERE HERE! It's a beautiful collage of ALL of our videos so far, a fitting approach for the song.

We're grateful to have received some glowing press around the new album, including this epic write-up/interview in Everything Is Noise, and this great feature in The Nashville Scene!

Thank you so much for being here, for being part of what we do, and for listening. We offer you MASS, the best thing we've ever done, and we hope you love it!

If you don't yet have the language for what you want to say, you will,
Buick & Jerry, FC

✨STILL LIFE✨ is out today & fall tour dates have been added!

Hello, friends!
We're elated to share the newest single from our forthcoming album MASS today! It's called STILL LIFE, and it's the fifth chapter of the story. The video, directed and edited by Jerry, is premiering at Thoughts Words Action today! The full album will be here on September 29th (pre-order here).

STILL LIFE is a composite of words and sentiments Buick heard in response to voicing her concerns at different points throughout her time in Massachusetts. Writing this song felt like a fever dream for her. The video's frenetic energy mirrors the feelings of being gaslighted, and of being told to metabolize injuries large and small. We hope the song and visuals move you!

We had an amazing time on the August tour; can't wait to head back out! There are some brand-new tour dates for the fall tour supporting MASS; check them out and get tickets here! 

10.01 - Gainesville, GA @ Blackstrap Rock Hall
10.05 - Asheville, NC @ The Odd
10.06 - Raleigh, NC @ Ruby Deluxe
10.07 - Richmond, VA @ Get Tight Lounge
10.08 - Charleston, SC @ Tin Roof
10.11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Century
10.12 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Squirrel Hill Sports Bar
10.13 - Baltimore, MD @ The Undercroft
10.14 - West Akron, OH @ Buzzbin
10.15 - Kalamazoo, MI @ The Run Off
10.20 - Catskill, NY @ The Avalon Lounge
10.21 - Allston, MA @ O’Brien’s
10.23 - Detroit, MI @ The Old Miami
10.25 - Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s
11.01 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The DLC
11.02 - Reno, NV @ Alturas Bar
11.03 - Portland, OR @ Azoth Space
11.04 - Vancouver, BC @ Black Lab
11.05 - Seattle, WA @ Funhouse
11.08 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
11.10 - Long Beach, CA @ Supply & Demand
11.11 - Palmdale, CA @ Transplants Brewing Co.
11.12 - San Diego, CA @ Til-Two Club
11.14 - Santa Fe, NM @ Tumbleroot
11.15 - Tempe, AZ @ Yucca Tap Room
11.17 - Houston, TX @ Kickback Bar
11.25 - Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl

MASS IS THREE WEEKS AWAYYYYYY! Grab the vinyl and accompanying memoir before they sell out! We love you, we appreciate you, and we're more than ready to share this album with you. The countdown is on! Here is some advance praise for MASS from Jedd Beaudoin of NPR / KMUW:

The LP’s lyrics amount to a soul-searching exploration of isolation, friendship and self-determination that is supported by music that alternates between the cathartic weight of doom metal and the familiarity and resolve of pop music.

The unlikely combination results in a record emotionally rewarding and deeply memorable. (An arresting spoken word track that closes out the collection is worth the journey alone.)

The next time you hear from us, the record will be here. Can't wait.

Yours in autonomy and loud riffs,
Buick & Jerry, FC

🩸VAMPIRE🩸 is out & our fall tour dates have been announced!

Hello, friends!

We're thrilled to share VAMPIRE with you today, the fourth chapter of our forthcoming album MASS (out September 29th)! The video premiered in Decibel yesterday! VAMPIRE is the sludge R&B song in 7 you didn't know you needed, a boundary song about the kind of person who tries to take on your whole identity and then lashes out when you don't let them. About the song, Buick says:

“There was a season at the end of my time in Boston where I was being turned into The Problem by someone who wanted to control me and couldn’t; it was a moment where I could have played small and gone along with what she wanted, as I had once done. But I didn’t. I played big. I kept what was mine instead of giving it away—which included parts of my identity. And while the result was a scorched earth reality that impacts my sense of self to this day, it also ended the whole thing. I learned a valuable lesson in that season: don’t fuel the narcissists. Keep your power for yourself. It’s what they hate. And if they’re going to drag your character out in front of everyone you know, you might as well burn it all down for the warmth.”

The story is told in more detail in Buick's essay collection we're publishing alongside the album. Pre-order both here!

Our summer and fall tour dates are coming up fast! We head out for a week of shows on August 19th, and the dates supporting MASS begin on October 1st!  Check the list to see if we're coming to your city, and get tickets here! We'd love to see you.

08.19 - Warren, OH @ Modern Methods Brewing Co.
08.20 - Columbus, OH @ Dirty Dungarees
08.22 - Champaign, IL @ The Space
08.23 - Kansas City, MO @ Minibar
08.24 - Wichita, KS @ Kirby’s
08.25 - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
10.01 - Gainesville, GA @ Blackstrap Rock Hall
10.05 - Asheville, NC @ The Odd
10.06 - Raleigh, NC @ Ruby Deluxe
10.07 - Richmond, VA @ Get Tight Lounge
10.08 - Charleston, SC @ Tin Roof
10.11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Century
10.12 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Squirrel Hill Sports Bar
10.13 – Baltimore, MD @ The Undercroft
10.14 - West Akron, OH @ Buzzbin
10.15 - Kalamazoo, MI @ The Run Off
10.21 - Allston, MA @ O’Brien’s
10.25 - Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s
11.02 - Reno, NV @ Alturas Bar
11.03 - Portland, OR @ Azoth Space
11.04 - Vancouver, BC @ Black Lab
11.05 - Seattle, WA @ Funhouse
11.08 - San Francisco, CA
11.10 - Long Beach, CA @ Supply & Demand
11.11 - Palmdale, CA @ Transplants Brewing Co.
11.12 - San Diego, CA @ Til-Two Club
11.17 - Houston, TX @ Kickback Bar

We hope you love VAMPIRE! Thanks so much for being here! We appreciate it more than you know!

Yours in autonomy and loud riffs,
Buick & Jerry, FC

☀️HIGH SUN☀️ is out & our summer tour dates are up!

Happy summer, friends!
Our brand new single HIGH SUN is out today and we can’t wait for you to hear it! This is the third single from our forthcoming album, MASS, out September 29th. The song is about Buick’s memories of her time living in Boston, about being scapegoated in her social circle for speaking up and being different. The video was made by combining Super 8 footage with hi-res digital footage to depict the passage of time. It was directed by Buick, and shot and edited by Jerry! The video premiered in No Echo! Read it to learn more about the direction and creative choices.

Also stoked to share an essay that Buick wrote for Talkhouse about how the concept for the entire album came to be. Check it out!

Also, we’re coming out to see you if you live in any of the below cities! We can't wait. The first show is next weekend: June 24th at Portal in Louisville!

6/24 - PORTAL, LOUISVILLE KY

8/19 - MODERN METHODS BREWING CO, WARREN OH

8/20 - DIRTY DUNGAREES, COLUMBUS OH

8/22 – THE SPACE, CHAMPAIGN IL

8/23 - MINIBAR, KANSAS CITY MO

8/24 - KIRBY'S, WICHITA KS

8/25 - HI-DIVE, DENVER CO

We love and appreciate you! Turn HIGH SUN way up, and we’ll see you very soon!

Buick & Jerry, FC

HIGH SUN is coming June 16th - pre-save today!

Hello, friends!

We're thrilled to announce HIGH SUN, the third single from our forthcoming album, MASS! Pre-save it today to have it the moment it's released on June 16th, 2023!

Thank you for the love you've shown to FAIL and BLUE, the first two singles. And thanks for pre-ordering MASS! The limited merch bundles are selling down, so grab one while they still exist! 

Also, we're playing a rad show at Portal in Louisville KY on June 24th! See you there!

We can't wait for you to hear the new single. 

Thanks so much for being here,

Buick & Jerry, FC

💎FAIL💎 is out & MASS is open for pre-orders!

Hello, friends!

We're so proud to share "FAIL" with you today, the second single from our forthcoming album. We're also excited to tell you that the album is called MASS, and you can finally pre-order it!

"FAIL" is a one-sided conversation between Buick and her longtime friend Marc Orleans who died by suicide in 2020. The song grapples with speaking about him in the past tense, hoping he knew how much she cared about and respected him when he was alive, and wondering if he can see and hear her now. The video (shot and directed by Jerry) premiered in Metal Injection yesterday, and the track is now streaming everywhere. We hope you love it. The cover is a photo of Buick at Walden Pond as a teenager, layered with a photo of Marc's hands playing his resonator guitar. The images are inverted and upside-down to express the unmooring impact of his passing.

MASS is a co-production between us and Kurt Ballou, a concept record that we're going to continue to unspool over the coming months. It feels great to share the pre-order for the physical copies of the work, as well as the book that Buick has written to accompany the music. It's called MASS: Essays on Memory, Language, & the State of Massachusetts. Both projects will be out in September. We recommend ordering them now, as there are some very limited merch offerings, including hand-rendered cyanotype prints—all numbered and signed! 

Thank you for being here for chapters one and two, and we'll be back with more of the story very soon.

We're so grateful for your continued support. Enjoy "FAIL"!

More soon!
Yours, 

Buick & Jerry, FC