'After a less than ideal tenure at Geffen Records, Keene emerged undaunted in the '90s with a rockin' new band and a strong batch of fresh songs, as evidenced on this five-song EP. Produced by Keene and Steve Carr -- who engineered a good share of Keene's work in the '80s, including the magnificent Places That Are Gone EP -- Sleeping on a Roller Coaster contains some of Keene's most dynamic and powerful pop/rock performances to date. With muscular grooves provided by Brad Quinn on bass, vocals and piano, a   [ read more ]

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'The first full-length album since 1989's Based on Happy Times, Ten Years After comes closer to capturing the raw energy of a Tommy Keene live show than any of his previous studio recordings. Kicking off with a hard guitar assault in Going Out Again, the intensity and emotion is sustained throughout the rest of this superb 12-song collection. Keene's voice has never sounded better, and his guitar lines are fluid and inspired. The strength of lyric and melody in songs such as We Started Over Again and   [ read more ]

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'Tommy Keene always sounded a bit smarter and edgier than the sizable majority of his pure pop brethren back in the early 1980s, and he was a much tougher guitarist than nearly any of his peers (check out his live take of Lou Reed's Kill Your Sons on the Run Now EP sometime and hear him blow a hole in Reed's original). Which might be why his best stuff hasn't dated much, and, 15 years after his debut album, he could still come up with an intelligent and razor sharp set of hard pop songs, with Isolation P   [ read more ]

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Tommy Keene is has released his first solo album in nearly three years, In The Late Bright via Second Motion Records. The 11-track album, co-produced by Keene and R. Walt Vincent (Pete Yorn, James Blunt), was recorded in Keene's Los Angeles home earlier this year and features a wide range of songs from the rollicking opener, 'Late Bright', to his first recorded instrumental Elevated.His most recent release, Blues and Boogie Shoes, was a duet with Pollard, dubbing the outfit the Keene B   [ read more ]

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Magnificent live document from legendary power-pop singer/songwriter/guitarist Tommy Keene! Recorded in the Midwest and Northeast in the Spring & Summer of 1998 and 2000 ?Showtunes' features much of Tommy's best work, from the early songs "Back To Zero Now" and "Places That Are Gone" up to cuts from his ?98 Matador album ?Isolation Party', plus a rousing rendition of Mission of Burma's classic "Einstein's Day".

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'While we all know there's a fine line between 'rock legend' and 'cult figure,' there is no doubt that [Tommy] Keene is one of America's greatest, unheralded songwriters,' proclaims Rolling Stone. Keene creates pure jangle pop full of heartache and minor sevenths, but he infuses it with a rough-around-the-edges approach that has drawn comparisons to the likes of The Replacements, Matthew Sweet, and the Posies. Along with two albums for Geffen and two for the indie-rock enthusiasts of Matador, his career ha   [ read more ]

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Between 1982 and 1989, Tommy Keene released a handful of superb records that blended intelligent lyrics and classically styled pop melodies with Keene's stellar guitar work to create some of the most satisfying American pop of the era (especially his superb major-label debut, 1986's Songs from the Film). This period represented Keene's creative peak, but was also something of a millstone, as his fans kept wondering when (or if) Keene was ever going to make a record that good again. Of c   [ read more ]

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Tommy Keene is best known to smart pop obsessives for the superb songwriting that's dominated the handful of great albums he's released since 1984, including Songs from the Film, The Real Underground, and Ten Years After. But Keene has also established himself as a first-class guitarist, having toured as a sideman with the likes of Paul Westerberg and Robert Pollard, and on his 2009 album, In the Late Bright, Keene has given his guitar work a greater prominence than on many of    [ read more ]

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