Avi Buffalo

Avi Buffalo (born Avigdor Benyamin Zahner-Isenberg) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer.

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	Musician
Instrument(s)	Guitar, Piano, Voice
Years active	2006-Present
Labels	Sub Pop

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)