Press

Based On Happy Times

“Based On Happy Times” – Allmusic.com

Review – People Magazine, April 17, 1989

Review – Rolling Stone, June 15, 1989

Behind The Parade

“Best of 2011” – Twangville, Dec. 23, 2011

“Guitar Pop Is Dead, Long Live Guitar Pop” – Blurt Magazine, Sept. 16, 2011

Review – American Singer Songwriter, Sept. 12, 2011

Review – Glide Magazine, Aug. 31, 2011

Review – Icon Fetch, Dec. 21, 2011

Review – PopMatters, Sept. 8, 2011

Review – Under the Radar, Sept. 1, 2011

Crashing The Ether

“Interview with TK” – Ear Candy, Oct. 2006

“Q & A with Tommy Keene” – Magnet Magazine, Feb. 23, 2006

“The Lifer” – Chicago Reader, June 15, 2006

“Tommy Keene Plans Two New Albums” – Billboard Magazine, Jan. 17, 2006

Review – Hybrid Magazine

Review – PopMatters, July 30, 2006

Review – The Oklahoman, June 16, 2006

Drowning - A Tommy Keene Miscellany

Review – Shredding Paper, March 2005

Excitement At Your Feet

Review – Blogcritics, Aug. 26, 2013

Review – Blurt Magazine, Sept. 17, 2013

Review – Glide Magazine, Oct. 7, 2013

Review – Icon Fetch, Oct. 14, 2013

Review – Musoscribe, Aug. 5, 2013

Review – Outlaw Magazine, July 11, 2013

Review – PopMatters, Oct. 7, 2013

Review – PopMatters, Sept. 8, 2013

In The Late Bright

“Album of the Week” – The New Yorker, June 2009

“Backstage Pass: Tommy Keene: 25 years ‘In The Late Bright'” – Goldmine, March 3, 2009

“Later, Brighter” – Austin Chronicle, Apr. 15, 2009

“This Is What I Want To Hear” – L.A. Record, Jan. 28, 2016

“Tommy Keene Makes Magnet a Mix Tape” – Magnet MP3 at 3PM, Feb. 16, 2009

“Tommy Keene Sees a ‘Bright’ Spot in His Long Career” – Washington Post, May 1, 2009

“Tommy Keene: A Power-Pop Master Returns” – NPR, April 30, 2009

“Two Decades & Still Going Strong” – Innocent Words, June 2009

Interview – Blurt

Interview – Scene Point Blank, Oct. 16, 2010

ITLB Teaser – Magnet Magazine, Jan. 4, 2009

Review – Impose Magazine

Review – Paste Magazine, Feb. 20, 2009

Review – PopMatters, March 8, 2009

Isolation Party

“Back Again” – Washington City Paper, Feb. 27, 1998

“Once The Rage” – Washington Post, March 4, 1998

“Sharps & Flats” – Salon.com, Feb. 27, 1998

“Tommy Keene Organizes His Own Party” – MTV, April 2, 1998

Review – Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1998

Review – CMJ New Music Monthly, March 1998

Review – Furia, March 5, 1998

Review – No Depression, March 1, 1998

Review – The Onion AV Club, March 29, 2002

Keene Brothers

“My Impression Now” – Magnet Magazine, April 11, 2017

Review – Midheaven, 2006

Review – Pitchfork, May 23 2006

Review – Scene Point Blank, Sept. 25, 2006

Review – Shoes On Powerlines, June 1, 2007

Review – The Big Takeover, June 3, 2006

Review – The Denver Post, May 29, 2006

Laugh In the Dark

“Best of 2016: Terry Banks of Dot Dash” – Ghettoblaster, Dec. 5, 2016

“Tommy Keene Excellent on ‘Laugh in the Dark’” – Daily Breeze, Jan. 4, 2015

“Tommy Keene” – Magnet MP3 at 3PM, Dec. 7, 2016

“Top 25 Albums of 2015” – Goldmine, Jan. 12, 2016

2016 Best of – Matador Blog, Dec. 19, 2016

Review – Glide Magazine, Sept. 7, 2015

Review – Goldmine, Jan. 2016

Review – The Vinyl District, Oct. 1, 2015

Places That Are Gone EP

“The Big Breakout” – Washington Post, June 3, 1984

Showtunes

Showtunes – Allmusic

Showtunes II

“Best of 2016” – Can’t Stop the Bleeding, Dec, 21, 2016

“Best of 2016” – Matador Records, Dec. 19, 2016

Songs From The Film

Review – Willfully Obscure – Nov. 23, 2017

Strange Alliance

Review – Willfully Obscure, Nov. 23, 2008

Ten Years After

“Keene Should Soar From Underground” – Hartford Courant, April 13, 1996

“Listening Booth” – PopDose, Dec. 8, 2005

Review – C-Noise, Feb. 18, 2011

Review – Chicago Tribune, March 14 1996

Review – Washington City Paper, Feb. 23, 1996

Ten Years After – Allmusic

The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down

“Critical Mass 2002 – Top 10 Lists” – Seattle Weekly, Oct. 9, 2002

“Spot Check” – Chicago Reader, Aug. 29, 2002

Review – City Pages, Aug. 28, 2002

Review – Fuira, Nov. 7, 2002

Review – Phoenix New Times, Aug. 15, 2002

The Real Underground

Review Continuum Transfunctioner, Nov. 28, 2010

Tommy Features

“Tommy Keene Should Have Been Bigger. But He Didn’t Need to Be.” – Esquire, Nov. 29, 2017

Interview – Blurt

Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective - 1983 - 2009

“A Keene Sense of It”, The New Yorker, July 5, 2010

“Paper Words & Truths: A Look Inside the New Tommy Keene Retrospective” – Magnet Magazine, Jul. 15, 2010

Review – Accelerated Decrepitude, July 19, 2010

Review – Glide, July 20, 2010

Review – Media Maxi Pad, July 18, 2010

Review – The Big Takeover, July 4, 2010

Review – Willfully Obscure, July 2010