Buffalo Tom - Summer HD

What this video is

Released in 1995 on Beggars Banquet/EastWest America, 'Summer' arrived during the commercial and critical peak of Boston indie trio Buffalo Tom, peaking at No. 4 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. The song appeared on the album Sleepy Eyed and captured the melancholic underbelly of 90s alternative rock — counterposing the culturally loaded signifier of 'summer' with themes of loss, stagnation, and wasted time. This…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of mid-90s alternative rock's introspective strand, 'Summer' demonstrates the genre's capacity to weaponize seasonal imagery against expectation. Buffalo Tom's jangle-pop and post-grunge fusion represented a Boston-centric counterpoint to Seattle grunge orthodoxy, and this…

The director

Carlos Grasso is a filmmaker, designer, and sound artist whose early career was rooted in I.R.S. Records, where he served as the label's first art director/designer and co-produced the pioneering MTV show The Cutting Edge (1983–89). After I.R.S., he directed…