Heavy Rock duo Friendship Commanders have released their fifth single, Found, off of their upcoming album Bear – due out October 10th via Magnetic Eye Records – and have announced a tour in support of the album.
You can watch the video for Found here:
While pre-orders for Bear are available from this link.
The band comments:
“The song’s title, ‘FOUND’, is quite appropriate, as it was written in a season of feeling so displaced, so locked out of my own gender, and then I had this profound experience at an art exhibit where I realized that what I truly belong to is the work itself”, Buick Audra writes. “The music, the art. The proclivity to explore, observe, witness, love hard, and grieve even harder. I stood in front of silver gelatin prints one artist made about their dead friend and collaborator – another genius creative person who was misunderstood in his lifetime, and I wept. Wept for them, for me, for my dead friends, and oddly, with gratitude for what we all share: the courage to go there. It’s a gift to be able to walk with death, to witness horror, and to admit your own human frailty – and then turn around and make work expressing it, to allow others to see it. ‘FOUND’ is a love letter to the work, and to the parts of us that generate it. I was never lost; I was and am just outside. They’re not the same. Either way, I belong to myself and the work. Today, that’s enough. When unsure, go within.”
While bassist and drummer Jerry Roe adds:
“‘FOUND’ is maybe the most straightforward rock song, we’ve recorded to date, and the arrangement of it in particular is something that I’m extremely proud of”, the drummer and bass player elaborates. “Every part is taken as far as it can go, and we get both quiet and extremely loud. It all circles around to an incredible and emotional ending that feels like a grand conclusion to the thesis of the record. Also, to speak of it in more direct terms: The riffs are sick!”
Tracklist:
- 1. KEEPING SCORE
- 2. DRAIN
- 3. DRIPPING SILVER
- 4. MELT
- 5. NEW
- 6. X
- 7. MIDHEAVEN
- 8. IMPERFECT
- 9. FOUND
- 10. DEAD & DISCARDED GIRLS
Friendship Commanders Live:
- 19 SEP 2025 Pittsburgh, PA (US) The Stage at Squirrel Hill Sports Bar
- 20 SEP 2025 Youngstown, OH (US) Westside Bowl
- 09 OCT 2025 Kansas City, MO (US) SK8bar
- 10 OCT 2025 Tulsa, OK (US) Whittier Bar
- 16 OCT 2025 Columbus, OH (US) Ace of Cups
- 17 OCT 2025 Lexington, KY (US) Al’s Bar
- 19 OCT 2025 Allston, MA (US) O’Brien’s
- 20 OCT 2025 Brooklyn, NY (US) The Wood Shop
- 22 OCT 2025 Richmond, VA (US) Bandito’s
- 23 OCT 2025 Raleigh, NC (US) Slim’s
- 24 OCT 2025 Nashville, TN (US) The Cobra
- 07 NOV 2025 Austin, TX (US) Raven Room at Crowbar
- 08 NOV 2025 Houston, TX (US) 1810 Ojeman
- 09 NOV 2025 Fort Worth, TX (US) The Cicada
- 11 NOV 2025 Albuquerque, NM (US) TBA
- 12 NOV 2025 Las Vegas, NV (US) The Griffin
- 13 NOV 2025 Los Angeles, CA (US) The Redwood Bar
- 16 NOV 2025 Palmdale, CA (US) Transplants Brewing Co.
- 19 NOV 2025 Bellingham, WA (US) Waterfront Tavern
- 20 NOV 2025 Portland, OR (US) High Water Mark
- 21 NOV 2025 Seattle, WA (US) Bad Bar
- 23 NOV 2025 Laramie, WY (US) Ruffed Up Duck
PRESS SOURCE: Dominik Goncalves dos Reis/All Noir.
