Tommy Keene has been making jangly, post-Big Star power pop since the early ’80s when songs like “Places That Are Gone” and “Run Now” were staples on collage radio. His new album is called Laugh in ...

Twenty-five years ago, Tommy Keene was a hot young thing atop the Village Voice Pazz and Jop Poll, but like his power-pop peers–namely Marshall Crenshaw and Tommy Heath (of Tommy Tutone)–he has eked ...

Beach Slang debuted its gritty new song Tommy In The 80s, strutting a classic crunching hard rock sound infused with sweet melodicism and energetic horns. Beach Slang recently announced their most ...

Last year, Ivan Julian of legendary punk band Richard Hell & the Voidoids (and other projects) was diagnosed with cancer, and he was honored with two benefit shows at City Winery NYC that had Richard ...

With his reedy voice, exceptional guitar chops and classic good looks, Tommy Keene should have been a star in the late ’70s when his career first began. The problem was that Keene’s amalgam of ...

After almost 30 years as a power-pop musician's power-pop musician, singer-songwriter Tommy Keene can unfurl a smoldering mid-tempo rocker as easily as most people breathe. He's enviably consistent, ...

In certain respects the music on Behind the Parade (Second Motion), the latest album by pop-rock veteran Tommy Keene, could have been made at any time in the past three decades or so—with classic ...

If good reviews were the coin of the realm, Tommy Keene could hire Donald Trump to be his cabana boy. Yet, for some unfathomable reason, radio has stayed away from Keene's compelling, melancholy power ...

Nearly everything written about Tommy Keene since his mid-90s comeback has hinged on his bad luck with the record industry–the veteran singer, songwriter, and sometime sideman has become a symbol for ...

Tommy Keene and band bring an infusion of melodic guitar-based pop/rock to KCRW's airwaves. Tommy Keene and band bring an infusion of melodic guitar-based pop/rock to KCRW's airwaves. A free weekday ...