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Biography
Refimprove|date=June 2010Infobox musical artist | name = Buffalo Tom| image = Buffalo Tom.jpg| caption = Bill Janovitz| image_size = | background = group_or_band| origin = Boston , Massachusetts , United States | genre = Alternative rock | years_active = 1987& ndash;present| label = SST Records|SST , RCA Records|RCA , Situation Two , Megadisc, Ra, Beggars Banquet Records|Beggars Banquet , EastWest , Polydor , Ammal/New West| associated_acts =| website = http://www.buffalotom.com/| current_members = Bill Janovitz Chris Colbourn Tom Maginnis Buffalo Tom is an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts|Boston , Massachusetts , formed in 1986. Its principal members are guitar ist Bill Janovitz , bass guitar|bassist Chris Colbourn, and drum mer Tom Maginnis. The band's name is derived from the band Buffalo Springfield and the first name of the drummer.
Career
Dinosaur Jr. guitarist/frontman J Mascis assisted with the production on the band's first two albums.J Mascis also played lead guitar on the song "Impossible" from Buffalo Tom's self-titled debut.
Buffalo Tom became one of the more popular alternative rock bands by the mid 1990s: "Big Red Letter Day" (1993) peaked at #8 and "Sleepy Eyed" (1995) peaked at #4 on the Heatseekers chart. Their album, Big Red Letter Day , peaked at #17 in the UK Albums Chart in October 1993.cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 85
The band contributed the track "For All To See" to the 1993 AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization , and the track http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Lolly.html "Lolly Lolly Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here" to the CD School House Rock#Schoolhouse Rock& #33; Rocks|School House Rock& #33; Rocks . Buffalo Tom's song "Sodajerk" was featured on the soundtrack to the 1994 television series My So-Called Life . They appeared in a club scene on My So-Called Life , episode 12, titled "Self-Esteem," playing "Late at Night." The episode originally aired on 17 November 1994. They were also mentioned on the CW show Gossip Girl .
Buffalo Tom also wrote the theme song to the short-lived 1999 sitcom '' The Mike O'Malley Show . In 1999, the song "Taillights Fade" was used in the Breckin Meyer / Elizabeth Berkley independent film Taillights Fade''. They also recorded The Jam|The Jam's " Going Underground " for the 2000 tribute album Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam . Issued as a double A-side and B-side|A-sided single (music)|single , with Liam Gallagher and Steve Cradock 's cover version of "Carnation", the single reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart in October 1999.
They were the final musical guest on The Jon Stewart Show . Buffalo Tom is a perennial performer at the Hot Stove Cool Music concerts that benefit Theo Epstein 's Charity, 'Foundation to Be Named Later'.
After a lengthy hiatus through most of the decade, during 2007 Buffalo Tom re-emerged to perform at the South by Southwest Music Festival and to go on a summer tour across the US. An album, Three Easy Pieces , was released on July 10, 2007 through the New West Records|New West label. The band has played a number of concerts in the US, Australia and Europe.
On November 24, 2010 it was announced through the band's Facebook and Twitter pages that their new album is titled Skins , and was intended for release in mid-February 2011. It came out to positive reviews from AllMusic.com and others on March 8, 2011, through their own label Scrawny Records, via The Orchard distribution company.
