Tommy Keene

Hurry’s Matt Scottoline discusses how the new Hurry album was inspired by Oasis, Weezer, Best Coast, Yuck, Joan of Arc, and more…

This week’s playlist includes songs from Bjork, The Breeders, The Replacements, Django Django, US Girls, Guided by Voices, The Soft Moon, Angel Olsen, Tommy Keene, and more

For a lot of folks, Keene’s style was the sound of the ’80s: bright, jangly guitar pop with hooks out the wazoo. While he never quite got the attention that Matthew Sweet, The Plimsouls, The dB’s or even Let’s Active, Tommy consistently made some terrific records over the last 25 years, including ones for Geffen and Matador…

Matthew Sweet is releasing his first album in six years, a 17-song double album titled Tomorrow Forever, this week via his own Honeycomb Hideout label. The record features his longtime rhythm section of Paul Chastain and Ric Menck (both of Velvet Crush), as well as the Bangles’ Debbi Peterson and a “keyboard cameo” from The Zombies’ Rod Argent…

Last year, Ivan Julian of legendary punk band Richard Hell & the Voidoids (and other projects) was diagnosed with cancer. He’s been recovering, and has made his return to the stage…

The mixtape also includes covers of The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Modern Lovers, The Candyskins, and Tommy Keene.

Tommy Keene has been making jangly, post-Big Star power pop since the early ’80s when songs like “Places That Are Gone” and “Run Now” were staples on collage radio…

Ceremony at Warsaw in 2012 (more by Joe McCabe) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

Doug Gillard @ Irving Plaza NYE (more by Chris Gersbeck) I got heavily obsessed with Guided By Voices after the demise of the “classic ’93 – ’96 line-up” which featured Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell, and Greg Demos (a line-up that reunited in 2010 and has been blazing a sweaty, beer soaked trail across the US since) (this past weekend’s Sasquatch Festival included)…