Tommy Keene

Infobox musical artist
Name = Tommy Keene


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Background = solo_singer
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Origin = Bethesda, Maryland
Instrument = Guitar
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Genre = Power pop
Occupation = Singer, songwriter
Years_active = 1979–present
Label = Avenue, Dolphin, Geffen, Matador, Alias, Parasol, spinART, Not Lame, Eleven Thirty
Associated_acts =Robert Pollard, Paul Westerberg, Velvet Crush, (The) Razz, Richard X. Heyman
URL = [http://www.tommykeene.com Official site]
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Tommy Keene is considered one of the 1980s most critically acclaimed (and commercially ignored) singer/songwriters and a prime example of the musical genre of Power pop.Fact|date=May 2007 Originally hailing from Washington D.C., his 1984 EP "Places That Are Gone" became one of the year's top selling independent releases.Fact|date=May 2007 The EP garnered a four-star review in Rolling Stone, and was voted the #1 EP in the following year's Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll. Keene has since recorded and released numerous albums on such labels as Dolphin, Geffen and Matador Records. He has worked with producers T-Bone Burnett and Don Dixon. He continues to record and tour and recently released an album with Robert Pollard, formerly of Guided by Voices, as 'The Keene Brothers.' His biggest influence is said to be The Raspberries.Fact|date=May 2007 In May 2006, Keene confirmed that he was gay in an interview with The Advocate. [ [http://www.advocate.com/toc_w_ektid962.asp] Keene comes out]

Discography

Full-length albums

* "Strange Alliance" (1982, Avenue)
* "Songs from the Film" (1986, Geffen)
* "Based on Happy Times" (1989, Geffen)
* "Ten Years After" (1996, Matador)
* "Isolation Party" (1998, Matador)
* "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" (2002, spinART)
* "Crashing the Ether" (2006, Eleven Thirty)

Compilations and live albums

* "The Real Underground" (1993, Alias)
* "Showtunes" (2000, Parasol)
* "Drowning—A Tommy Keene Miscellany" (2004, Not Lame)

EPs

* "Places That Are Gone" (1984, Dolphin)
* "Back Again (Try...)" (1984, Dolphin)
* "Run Now" (1986, Geffen)
* "Sleeping on a Roller Coaster" (1992, Matador)

References

External links

* [http://www.tommykeene.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/tommykeene MySpace page]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:a9fexqu5ldse~T0 "All Music Guide" entry]