Avi Buffalo—October 17 @ Soundscapes I only took these two photos during the Avi Buffalo in-store at Soundscapes last night as I didn't want to ruin/disrupt the lovely acoustic performance with the loud clickings from my camera. Avi Buffalo plays again tonight at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern .
photo by Erin Robertson Fellow NH writer xtiandc and I have a minor disagreement about the seasonal place of Pet Sounds . I think it's the perfect summer record...he thinks it's a soundtrack best in winter. So if two people can hear the same album with complete opposite feelings of season, then it seems kind of dumb to try and associate the sound of a song with a season. Dumb, but fun. Here in the mid-Atlantic, we get a taste of all four seasons, for better or worse, and so it's a common [...]
photo by Erin Robertson Fellow NH writer xtiandc and I have a minor disagreement about the seasonal place of Pet Sounds . I think it's the perfect summer record...he thinks it's a soundtrack best in winter. So if two people can hear the same album with complete opposites feelings of season, then it seems kind of dumb to try and associate the sound of a song with a season. Dumb, but fun. Here in the mid-Atlantic, we get a taste of all four seasons, for better or worse, and so it's a common [...]
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Joe Fuda And now, a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with a certain record label that is now old enough to drink in the US. Starting locally, with The Rural Alberta Advantage . After one of the best and busiest 2009s on record, the trio has been relatively quiet through most of this year working on the follow-up to their debut Hometowns , as these photos (sort of) attest. But you can only keep road warriors in one place for so long and [...]
One of the only nice things about being perpetually short-sighted and behind on the blogging front is finding little gems like this after everyone else has heard them ( Hat Tip ). Maybe this song is an antidote to the mixtape earlier today? Back on topic (I was never on): We belong together, this song and I. Its eyes are wide open, they're full of wonder, and I hope everything is not-too-soon to collapse. It's an effervescent moment in time well-spent, it's still looking at me with these doe-eyes and I can't speak. I think I've described something [...]
just the other day, i found myself humming avi buffalo's "what's it in for?", forgetting for a moment what the song was, as its thin but piercing chorus settled into an endless loop. the title question, a straightforward one with frustrating elusive answers, anchors the song, which spins off tangents of misplaced wishes and misaligned desires. and it's with these points of tension that 19-year old avigdor zahner-isenberg and company do so well in not only capturing the voice of their generation, but weaving into it unearthed threads of personal memory and unspoken thoughts dug from deep. still, [...]
Bon, OK, le premier album d' Avi Buffalo est plutôt pas mal mais ça m'énerve d'en lire des critiques exaltées partout. Sérieux, c'est dingue cette unanimité. Si j'avais le courage, j'irais chercher des citations mais, comme je suis cuit, je vais les retranscrire de mémoire: « un premier essai qui réussit l'amalgame de la saison 2 de Racines et de la première de Skins » , « Avi Buffalo sonne comme du folk-rock américain qui n'aurait pas exterminé les indiens » , « un album réalisé par des jeunes qui ont su devenir vieux (positif dans l'esprit de celui [...]
Watch 'Truth Sets In' below. Be certain to follow Avi Buffalo on Twitter. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Avi Buffalo - Remember Last Time
The seething vitriolic track that was 2004's 'The Rat' gave The Walkmen what many people will argue is undeniably the bands best track to date, especially considering it has made it into various 'top tracks of the decade' lists. However, The Walkmen have spent the years since then reaching for something more; expanding their sound, maturing and moving on – as others argue fans of only 'The Rat' should do. Their last full-length effort, You & Me, was infused with a more intricate and extravagant array of instrumentation that was nostalgic and beautiful in [...]
My Morning Jacket - photography by Lindsey Best My Morning Jacket made their return to the Greek Theatre & played a high energy two hour set to a crowd of very excited fans. Los Angeles band Avi Buffalo opened. Setlist 1) At Dawn 2) Golden 3) It Beats 4) Gideon 5) Anytime 6) Mahgeetah 7) War Begun Circuital 9) Where To Begin 10) Touch Me pt.1 11) Dancefloors 12) Tonight 13) Wonderful 14) Dondate [...]
That post title is my entry in this year's "Most Tortuously Entitled Blog Post" prize. I think I'm in with a good chance. Hope this Sunday finds you well; mine's been largely spent doing a combination of cooking, lounging and working. And typing. As I have more cooking and working to get on with, I'll keep this short. Avi Buffalo hail from sunny Long Beach, California, and frankly, sound it. Those dreamy vocals, reverb-heavy guitars, handclaps, tunes that easily [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours The menace and tight black t-shirts of Day One were replaced by good vibes and frayed cardigans as Day Two of All Tomorrow's Parties rolled on. Krautrock legend Michael Rother teamed with Sonic Youth 's Steve Shelley and Tall Firs ' Aaron Mullen for Hallogallo 2010, playing classic songs from Rother's Neu! and Harmonia projects. Official ATP house band Shellac unleashed a full-on sonic assault under harsh white lights, [...]
Sin-Soaked Nights Avi Buffalo have been labeled Shins-esque with their stand-out single 'What's In It For' (with its plush guitar melodies, biting vocals and eerie euphoria), but the rest of their April-released self-titled debut album breaks out of that mold very quickly. Metacritic has categorised it as "universally acclaimed", with an 81/100 ranking from critics, and there's little wonder why. With its imaginative lyrics colouring densely saturated plush pop gems and Avi's technically adept blues guitar play-fighting with oddly pixie-ish vocals, there's dreamlike results. It's clear from the [...]
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 30 August 2010 [ Martin Donnelly of The Savings And Loan reviews one of the flagship events from this year's Edge Festival ] "Listen," she says, "have you gone to any concerts lately?" "No," I say, wishing she hadn't brought this, of all topics, up. "I don't like live music." "Live music?" she asks, intrigued, sipping San Pellegrino water. "Yeah. You know. Like a band," I explain, sensing from [...]
Tuesday night at London's Cargo - that dark, cellphone-receptionless cavern under the arches off Shoreditch High Street - and two of the current music scene's revivalist ingenues are on the bill. While Louis Jones from Spectrals , up first, may physically be an ocean apart from Avi Buffalo 's frontman Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg , they're both gaining acclaim for their sterling musicianship (at equally tender ages) and original takes on genre sounds. While Zahner-Isenberg is bringing a new slant to the californian psych-slacker sound, Jones' intriguing mix finds a place triangulated by Hank Marvin, Dick Dale and Phil Spector. Jones [...]
This is new and stems largely from my Blighty matey jc posting his monthly track listening us for all to see. To spin it back to artist level, here's who Last.fm tells me I've played most in the last month (top 5), as well as my thoughts on the results... 5. Black Tusk - 41 [...]
Sargent House Fans of Fang Island residing in Toronto can be forgiven for finding the Brooklyn combo's Fall touring itinerary a confusing bit of tease. Following some European dates at the tail end of Summer, they're heading out west with Matt & Kim for September, and then with Coheed & Cambria through the midwest and across Canada in October, inching ever closer to the 416 but stopping juuuuust short, wrapping things in Kitchener on October 29 (Coheed & Cambria having brought their comic book metal act to town back [...]
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Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
Ab-Soul "Terrorist Threats" ft. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko
Sigur Rós - Ég anda
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
Throwback Thursday: Evermore – It’s Too Late (Dirty South Remix)
mp3: kechPhrase – I Do It
