Avi Buffalo (born Avigdor Benyamin Zahner-Isenberg) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer.
Career
Avi Buffalo's self-titled debut album was released on April 27, 2010, and was given positive reviews by ''
The A.V. Club'', ''
NME
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'', ''
Filter'',
Drowned in Sound and numerous other music review sites.
The album's first single was "What's In It For" with "Jessica" on the B-side. His band performed at
SXSW
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has conti ...
the same year, and opened for
Modest Mouse in July. In 2010, the band toured Europe and North America. In June 2011 a second single was released on
Sub Pop
Sub Pop is an independent record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. Sub Pop achieved fame in the early 1990s for signing Seattle bands such as Nirvana (band), Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney, central players in the gru ...
, "How Come? and Good I'm Wishing", and he had already began writing for a second album.
Avi began recording a follow-up to his self-titled album in 2012, and in 2013 began producing other artists and side projects in addition to his own material. Avi Buffalo's second album ''At Best Cuckold'' was released on 8 September 2014 in Europe, and on 9 September in the US. Avi and a live band toured the US and Europe in support of this album in Autumn of 2014 for a brief amount of time before Avi decided to return to performing, writing and producing new music.
In 2015, he said he was putting an end to the band Avi Buffalo. In 2019, he released the electronic album ''Glow Cast on Eternal Sound'' with Ari Prado.
On July 27, 2020, Avi Buffalo was accused of raping a former bandmate. In response to the accusations, Sub Pop stopped selling his albums from stores and digital services.
Discography
Albums
* 2007: Avi Buffalo - Home Recording era begins and varying CD-R bootlegs circulated by Avi Buffalo
* 2010: Avi Buffalo - ''Avi Buffalo'' (Sub Pop Records)
* 2014: Avi Buffalo - ''At Best Cuckold'' (Sub Pop Records)
* 2019: Ari Prado & Avi Buffalo - ''Glow Cast on Eternal Sound'' (Ari Prado Music)
EPs and singles
* 2010: "What's In It For/Jessica"
(7" release)
* 2011: "How Come/Good I'm Wishing"
(7" release)
* 2018: "Panegyric"
* 2019: "Skeleton Painting"
Other credits
*2010: Sevendys - Guitarist
*2015: Bobby Rae - The Now and Then Clubhouse (as producer, mixer and masterer)
*2015: Litronix - Pump The Gas (as producer, engineer and musician)
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Rock musicians from California
Sub Pop artists
American alternative rock musicians
Musical groups disestablished in 2015