Album Review: Buffalo Tom - Skins (Scrawny)

Buffalo Tom - Skins (Scrawny)

After nearly a decade of inactivity, Boston grunge-pop trio Buffalo Tom swung back into action with an impossibly good comeback in the form of 2007’s ‘Three Easy Pieces’ . Where that album delivered a fierce shot of good ol’...

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Buffalo Tom

Buffalo Tom

Given the groundswell of indie rock reunions these last few years, it’s been disheartening not to hear another name among the likes of Dinosaur Jr and Pixies; that of blue-collar indie punks Buffalo Tom. That’s because the Boston band never...

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Buffalo Tom : Hollywood Troubadour

Buffalo Tom : Hollywood Troubadour

Winning a crowd over tends to be something a band needs to work at during the course of a show. Tonight, within the cozy confines of the Troubadour in Hollywood, Buffalo Tom skip the preliminaries and win 'em all over in the first three minutes....

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London WC2 LA2

London WC2 LA2

Round Buffalo Tom 's house, they haven't rearranged the furniture since 1990. They're still throwing the same jangly, affable guitar-rock shapes, still making like a bunch of college boys on summer holiday, still rocking in the free world -...

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London WC2 Astoria

London WC2 Astoria

The girlfriend offers a smile. "They're even better than Del Amitri," enthuses her rugby-shirted, baseball-capped beau, "that good." It's official then: Buffalo Tom, Boston's cherished college rockers, perform more heartily than a group of...

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Smitten

Smitten

THEY'RE LIKE OLD FRIENDS. THE KIND WITH WHOM YOU can lose contact for five years, knowing that when you finally get around to seeing them again, you'll pick up exactly where you left off. In a cockle-warming sort of a way, nothing will have...

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