Avi Buffalo is an indie-pop band based in Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

 founded by singer/songwriter and guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

, Avi Zahner-Isenberg. Their self-titled debut album was released on the 27th of April, 2010, and was given positive reviews by The Onion A.V. Club, NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

, Filter

Filter (magazine)

FILTER, the publication that promises us that "Good music will prevail," is a seasonal American music and off-beat entertainment magazine. It features commentary and photos of up-and-coming musicians and filmmakers ranging from actors to writer-directors...

, Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound

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 and numerous other music review sites. The album's first single is "What's In It For" with "Jessica" on the B side. The band performed at SXSW the same year, and opened for Enya

Enya

Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...

 in July. In 2010, the band toured Europe and North America. In late 2010 Rebecca Coleman and Arin Fazio left the band to pursue other musical endeavors. Rebecca now currently fronts Pageants Pageants. In June 2011 a second single was released on SubPop, "How Come? and Good I'm Wishing", and Avi is working on a second album. Summer 2011 had the band with Avi, Sheridan, Barbara and George touring Europe and the US again.

Track listing

External links

• Official site
• "What's In It For" music video
• Avi Buffalo Daytrotter
  Daytrotter
  Daytrotter is a website for the recording studio Horseshack, which hosts recording sessions with many popular and typically upcoming indie music acts, although it works with local bands in the Illinois area as well. The sessions can be compared to that of a radio station's lounge recordings, where...
  
  Session