Tommy Keene
Jam Today: Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
Both life affirming and heartbreaking
10 Songs: Saturday, September 19th, 2015
Places That Are Gone – Tommy Keene – This is the song that should have taken Tommy up a rung into that special place where superstars live, a jingle jangle song that listens like the blueprint of every song the Gin Blossoms every wrote. Bizarre, it didn’t happen – A+
Tommy Keene At Bowery Electric, September 17th, 2015, Review
He can dazzle you with his tight and smart band on point as one, and his constant inventiveness on every level, whether it be guitar on “Nowhere Drag”, a beautiful refrain on “Places That Are Gone”, or even on his own inevitable epitaph, like Bronson at the train station, leaving Dodge, “but what can a poor boy do…?” breaks through the clutter in our brain and lifts us somewhere we weren’t
Let’s Active: rock nyc Top Concert Picks Week Of September 14th, 2015
With a fabulous album, Laugh in The Dark, just released and a deep back catalog to dip into, Tommy Keene is bringing along power poppers Dot Dash to Bowery Electric and for less than ten bucks (a ridiculously great price) all this can be yours on Thursday. I have never seen Keene on stage and wonder if he can deliver…
Tommy Keene’s “Laugh In The Dark” Reviewed
Yes, great songs, terrific voice, beautiful guitars, lyrics: a long term artist with more than enough integrity and skill to last a lifetime. But lemme tell ya something, kids: I want more solos (I wouldn’t mind an instrumental album) and I want many more people to listen.