Avi Vinocur - Solo Bio - Summer 2025 

Avi Vinocur is a San Francisco Bay Area singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer with a talent for crafting vivid, three-dimensional narrators and slice-of-life tales set in forgotten places. Vinocur has made a name for himself as a songwriter’s songwriter: a modern musician with an old soul’s gift for storytelling. 

Vinocur is best known for his work as a co-frontman of the acclaimed Americana band Goodnight, Texas; for his poignant bedroom folk solo records; and, increasingly over the past 7 years, as an occasional collaborator and live background vocalist/guitar and mandolin player for Metallica. (His songs have also made appearances in places like the opening credits to Tiger King, the Academy Award-winning documentary Free Solo, Coors commercials, and Major League Baseball games. Vinocur has performed the National Anthem before the first pitch four times at Oracle Park and Wrigley Field.) 

Hindsight, Vinocur’s third full-length solo record, was recorded entirely on Vinocur’s iPhone in his apartment in San Francisco’s Sunset District during the Pandemic, Hindsight echoes the intimate, demo-type sound of records by the Mountain Goats, Field Medic, or Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. It also feels a bit like rediscovering a cassette mixtape from a friend in an old glove compartment. 

2025 brings LAPDOG, a full length grunge-folk record (it’ll make sense when you hear it) compiled entirely of songs written about his dog Ollie and/or the end of the world. 

Avi has spent the last year busy with Goodnight, Texas - touring and promoting 2024’s LP Signals. Also recently, Avi appeared again in December 2024 with Metallica in Los Angeles for their All Within My Hands Foundation benefit pay-per-view performance playing mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar and singing.