Avi Buffalo

Avi Buffalo
Avi Buffalo performing at All Tomorrow's Parties New York in 2010
Background information
Birth name	Avigdor Benyamin Zahner-Isenberg
Origin	Long Beach, California
Genres	Indie
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Guitar, Piano, Voice
Years active	2006-Present
Labels	Sub Pop

Musical artist

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, Filter, Drowned in Sound and numerous other music review sites.^[1] The album's first single was "What's In It For" with "Jessica" on the B-side. His band performed at SXSW 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, "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.^[2] 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.^[3]

In 2015, he said he was putting an end to the band Avi Buffalo.^[4] In 2019, he released the electronic album Glow Cast on Eternal Sound with Ari Prado.^[5]

On July 27, 2020, Avi Buffalo was accused of raping a former bandmate.^[6]^[7]^[8] In response to the accusations, Sub Pop stopped selling his albums from stores and digital services.^[9]

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)^[10]
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

^ "Avi Buffalo album reviews at Metacritic". Metacritic.com. April 29, 2010. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
^ "Avi Buffalo". Subpop.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
^ "Avi Buffalo - This post is actually void. Of course I'll..." Facebook.com. 2014-09-08. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
^ "Avi Buffalo puts an end to group". The Guardian. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
^ "Meet Avi Buffalo". Voyagela.com. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
^ "Avi Buffalo Accused Of Rape By Former Bandmate". Stereogum. 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
^ "Avi Buffalo accused of rape, emotional abuse by former bandmate". Consequence of Sound. 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
^ "Avi Buffalo Accused of Rape by Former Bandmate Rebecca Coleman". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
^ "Avi Buffalo Accused of Rape by Former Bandmate, Music Pulled by Sub Pop". Pitchfork. 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
^ "Avi Buffalo - What's In It For / Jessica (Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved August 21, 2014.