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Well that was a flurry of a day for many reasons, but our new record is finally out!

Huge thanks to Scott and Sherise at Halo are in order, as well as to Chad at NoRules, and of course, to all of you who watched, liked, and shared the new video, pre-ordered, and ordered vinyl on day one!

We’re getting support from awesome radio stations like CKCU, CKMS, CFUV, met Radio CJTM, CFBR (the Bear), WITR, KOWS, and a bunch more. Its super appreciated.

I have yet to deliver records to any mom & pop shops in Vancouver, but I promise I’ll get to Red Cat and Matterhorn soon. If you’re in Toronto, I hear Rotate This is your best bet. If you’re elsewhere in Canada or the US, you can have your favourite record store order stock from Cobraside Distribution in Glendale.

Of course I’m always happy to fill orders through our Bandcamp too!

I definitely got my heart rate up yesterday, carrying all nine boxes of records upstairs! Once again, amazing service from Pirates Press (and I suppose Fed Ex) despite crazy sub-zero weather in Memphis the other day.

I busted one box open and checked out one of the records and wow, the orange crush vinyl colour is SO rad. Here’s the back cover:

Another couple of boxes got delivered to Cobraside in Glendale, CA so if you’re inclined to pick up a copy of any of our records from your local mom and pop record store, you can tell them to order stock there.

Otherwise, you can pre-order from us here or come grab one at the merch table from Wayne on the 6th or 7th.

For those of you looking to stream stuff, the official release date for DSPs is February 20th. We have chosen to continue our boycott of Spotify, but you’ll be able to stream on Qobuz, Apple Music, and most of the other platforms by about 9pm pacific on that day.

Oh, and before I forget, for those of you awaiting physical copies for review, those will start going out this week.

See you guys soon!

So the release date for our new record is getting closer! To celebrate, we are throwing a couple of parties and have invited a few Büddies to join us. The first one is in Victoria at Lucky Bar:

Advance tickets are available here. It’s an early show, so you can check out the out of town bands and be home on the couch in no time!

The second one is in Vancouver the very next night at one of our favourite spots:

Advance tickets are also on Eventbrite.

We’re super excited to host our Portland pals, plus Vic is a serious OG so it would be so rad if we could have a good crowd for them!

Records should have arrived from Pirates by then as well! Woohoo!

Saturday, September 20th, 2025

Well, Büddies Fest was a pretty epic weekend, not going to lie. I got to sing 2541 with Greg & Jon & Dave, which was honestly pretty emotional for me. Grant Hart was kind of a hero to 20 year old Brock, so to sing a song of Grant’s posthumously, with his long time bandmate, was definitely pulling my heartstrings.

I joined in on the end of New Day Rising, and pretty much blew my voice out for the rest of the weekend, screaming the Bob parts, but I guess the opportunity to do that doesn’t come around every day, so I’d say it was worth it! I think it made Greg laugh too, so there’s that.

There’s a good account of the goings on from Jeremy Porter‘s perspective on the Pencil Storm blog and Max Laisina shot quite a lot of video which is posted on his vimeo page.

Tons of amazing performances, and great vibes were had, and true to the name, many new and old büddies were celebrated. Huge Kudos and appreciation to Jon Snodgrass, Ben Andress and Blacktop Records for making the whole thing happen.

With that in mind, Greg Norton & Büddies (Snodgrass/Jarnstrom) are doing a bunch more dates, including September 20th in Vancouver. Scott Reynolds is also on that bill, along with us. You can get advance tickets up until 4pm on the day of show, and for those of you local punks that want to sing a Hüsker tune or two with the band, feel free to reach out and claim your song picks!