Avi Buffalo

There's a sweetness and innocence to Avi Buffalo that's as indebted to leader Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg's tender age as it is the lilting indie pop he makes.

Location Info

Map

Dada

2720 Elm St.
Dallas, TX 75226

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown & Deep Ellum

Photos

5 user reviews	Write A Review
Save to foursquare	0

Related Content

• When Hipsters Procreate: Children's Music That Won't Make You Wish You Were Deaf
  May 18, 2012
• Last Night: Wilco, Nick Lowe at the Music Hall at Fair Park
  November 30, 2011
• The Flaming Lips Cover The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows"
  May 4, 2012
• Jane's Addiction, The Duke Spirit - McFarlin Auditorium - 5/10/12
  May 11, 2012
• Nick Lowe: "I Never Really Liked Punk Music, But I Like The Mischief That Was Caused By It."
  May 7, 2012

More About

• Long Beach (New York)
• Elliott Smith
• Aaron Embry
• Indie Rock and Indie Pop
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

The 20-year-old Long Beach, California, native started the band with schoolmates while in high school and connected with producer Aaron Embry (Elliott Smith, Jane's Addiction), who recorded songs for their debut to test his new home studio. Those recordings eventually found their way to Sub Pop, which released last year's critically lauded self-titled debut. Zahner-Isenberg's tremulous falsetto recalls Girls' Christopher Owens, while strummy, shimmering melodies waft dreamily recalling The Flaming Lips, The Shins and Neutral Milk Hotel.

Though the lyrics are callow and appropriately girl-crazy for his age, they're redeemed by Zahner-Isenberg's astounding playing. He's jammed privately with Nels Cline (Wilco) and developed a wonderfully fragrant finger-picked style that fills the beatific arrangements with the color and subtle detail of a botanical garden.

After touring widely last year and enduring the departure of two members, including ex-girlfriend Rebecca Coleman, Zahner-Isenberg began writing for a new album in the spring. Though there's been little indication of what progress he's made, he's said he wants the next album to be an adventure like Dr. Dre's The Chronic. Perhaps this show will offer hints as to what that entails.