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, will be released on October 10, 2025 via Magnetic Eye Records. The band members co-produced the project with Kurt Ballou. The first dual single KEEPING SCORE / MELT was released on July 15, 2025 with corresponding music videos. BEAR is an album about belonging—where it occurs and where it absolutely does not. It marks the band's debut as a Magnetic Eye artist. Their third album, MASS, is a concept record about memory, language, and the state of Massachusetts. The ten-track body of work was co-produced, engineered, and mixed by Kurt Ballou at his Salem, MA studio, GodCity. 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 Steve’s 62nd birthday. The single OUTLIVE YOU (Steve Albini Mix) was released on July 1, 2024; it was Steve’s favorite track from the album. 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.  

NCS songs explore dark, bold, complex chords, incandescent melodies, delicate refrains, and languid, unexpected harmonies. In a review by the Chicago Doom Confederacy, their sound is described as "Noise and texture flutter, enticingly, beneath the all-consuming riff...If you like King Crimson and you like stoner rock, look no further.”

Chicago-bred rockers EGxBH born out of the bustling gutters rock-n-roll centric boroughs of Lombard, IL formed in 2017 around the talents of Patrick Goray , Mike Arturi ,Brad Haptas,and Shaun Meek. A full throttle, high energy, blood pumping ,muscular display of hypnotizing hard-hitting force in the vein of All Them Witches, Queens of the StoneAge,Aktar Aktar, and Highly Suspect.