Avi Buffalo, Last Night at the Echo

No one shut up. Whatever, it's a great bar that serves pizza and Pabst Blue Ribbon. Very solid finishing show. Avi Buffalo has an interesting look - something like your next door neighbor's kid who kicks a ball in your backyard all the time, and carries a wicked electric guitar.

They played some beautiful and crisp songs, harmonies as good as anyone, but their last song was the one that blew my socks off - it was somewhere in between Wilco's Misunderstood and Sounds of Silence (and something else completely original).

I didn't realize before, but Avi Buffalo can wail. Listen to the electric guitar on the track I'm posting.

The driving piano surged, and Avi let his guitar loose in controlled bursts - ending in a clash bang of sounds that sounded like an extra track on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Maybe I have Wilco on the brain the last few days (RIP Jay Bennett...), but his rough shout to the crowd and the skittering guitar was as solid as it gets at the Echo.

"All this time to die / Too much time to die / And I don't want to die"

Avi Buffalo - Where's Your Dirty Mind

Wilco - Misunderstood