Friendship Commanders

Friendship Commanders are a heavy duo from Nashville TN. The band is songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Buick Audra and drummer/bassist Jerry Roe. Their fourth album, BEAR, was released on October 10, 2025 via Magnetic Eye Records (pre-orders are open). The ten-track body of work was co-produced, engineered, and mixed by Kurt Ballou at his Salem, MA studio, GodCity. The project is centered around the idea of belonging—where it exists, and where it absolutely does not. Their third album, MASS , is a concept record about memory, language, and the state of Massachusetts. Like BEAR, it was co-produced, engineered, and mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity in Salem, MA. The album is accompanied by a memoir in essays by Buick Audra. Both were released on September 29, 2023. BILL - The Steve Albini Mixes was released on July 22, 2024, revealing the original, previously unreleased analog mixes of FC’s second album, BILL. The record was released on what would have been Albini’s 62nd birthday. Their 2022 EP, RELEASE THE REST, is a limited vinyl compilation of the singles they released throughout the pandemic following their 2020 EP, HOLD ON TO YOURSELF, a collection about being an adult survivor of childhood abuse. Both were mixed by Kurt Ballou. The band released two previous albums; BILL (2018) was recorded at Electrical Audio by Steve Albini, and DAVE (2016) was engineered and produced by the band.