Back to Zero, Now.
Radio was very good to me this week. Why? An interview and a live set of Tommy Keene who has a new record out, on Joe Belocks three chord monte show on WFMU
WFMU - Three Chord Monte - Playlist - August 1, 2006. [The other week he had a short phone interview with Susanna Hoffs (Bangles) - the day she and Matthew Sweet played on Conan O'Briens show.] The live set - recorded in Keene's living room in LA - featured Back to Zero Now, a great early song of his, and Nighttime an Alex Chilton Song off the third Big Star record. Anyone who read an earlier post of mine from last year
Wither WHFS - a salute to the, at times, great Washington DC radio station WHFS - may recall I wrote that the very first time I tuned to that station they were interviewing Tommy Keene. I saw him play at least once, probably twice, I know I saw him open for the Jam. I thought I remembered that my friend Derrick Hsu had something to do with Tommy Keene at one point, one of the ep's. But looking over the listed discography
Tommy Keene - Wikipedia I don't see anything from Derrick's old imprint Fountain of Youth records. The world of indie rock labels can be a little opaque at times. While I'm on the subject of small labels first I finally heard the band Boy Racer who someone else I knew (Mike) put out on his Slumberland Label 10 or 12 years ago. I thought they sounded good, just thought I'd mention it. In the present epoch, the label that impresses me the most right now is Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar record label: Pink Mountaintops (plastic man, you're the devil), Black mountain (don't run our hearts around), Brooklyn NY's Oneida (up with people -- "You got to get up to get free") Washington City Paper Onieda preview , Okkervil river... I know some people must be confused because little of Jagjaguwar's stuff sounds like Tommy Keene. But remember that these days Tommy Keene is playing in Bob (Guided by Voices) Pollards band.
WFMU; I need to send them folks their check.
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