TOMMY KEENE Excitement at Your Feet tommykeene.com Talk about taste. After opening his first covers LP with a Flamin’ Groovies nugget, this power-pop lifer gives the jangle-punk treatment to classics by everyone from Echo & the Bunnymen to Guided by Voices. On the Donovan and Big Star ballads, he unplugs without switching off the electricity.    Read More →

TOMMY KEENE Behind the Parade [Second Motion] You’d think that after 25 years of plying his trade, Tommy Keene might have run out of ideas—or worse, inspiration. After all, that’s an awfully long time to labor below the radar. But if Keene’s dismayed, there’s no evidence of it here. Behind the Parade is brimming with enthusiasm, as reflected in the earworm hooks and enticing melodies that have long since become his stock in trade. The muted...