Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter Name Tommy Keene Website Official site | Years active 1979–present Instruments Guitar, vocals Role Singer · tommykeene.com | |
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Born June 30, 1958 (age 66) ( 1958-06-30 ) Associated acts Genres Power pop, New Wave, Pop rock Record labels Matador Records, Geffen Records, Not Lame Recordings, Parasol Records, Alias Records, spinART Records Albums Profiles | ||
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Tommy Keene (born June 30, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for releasing critically acclaimed new wave/power pop songs in the 1980s. He has a longtime cult following among fans of the musical genre of power pop. Originally hailing from Washington D.C., he first received critical acclaim with his pioneering pop band The Razz, who released several local independent singles. His 1984 EP Places That Are Gone became one of the year's top selling independent releases. 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, Don Dixon, and R. Walt Vincent. He continues to record and tour and recently released an album with Robert Pollard, formerly of Guided by Voices, as 'The Keene Brothers.' Tommy's three favorite bands are The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. Keene also played guitar on the Goo Goo Dolls' hit song, "Broadway", on their 1998 album, Dizzy Up The Girl.
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- Education
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Keene released his ninth original studio album, Behind The Parade, with Second Motion Records in 2011. This is the fourth release with members of the label as founder Stephen Judge also signed and released Keene's two disc retrospective Tommy Keene: You Hear Me in 2010 and his previous release, Crashing The Ether, in 2006 on his Eleven Thirty Records, while serving as A&R Director and General Manager at Redeye Distribution.
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Education
Keene attended the University of Maryland. Keene graduated from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda Maryland (class of 1976), which was also the Alma Mater of fellow famed musician Nils Lofgren, who went on to play and record with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. Tommy played drums in one version of Nils's early bands.