Guster

Okay, we’re playing a trick here. Guster actually plays warm-up to John Mayer, the singer/songwriter responsible for “No Such Thing”—an atrocious piece of bland, radio-friendly pablum you probably know as the “I-wanna run-through-the-halls-of-my-high school-and-scream-at-the-top-of-my-lungs” song. We can’t explain this ditty’s popularity, and we won’t hold it against the various local radio stations that insist on keeping it in constant rotation. But dig this: Guster is by far the better offering of this match-up. This acoustic trio from Boston is still touring on the strength of Lost and Gone Forever , a wonderful slice of unpretentious pop released back in 1999. And they’re still drawing comparisons to early R.E.M., though they’re less jangly and precious than their Georgian predecessors. This is a bill filled with nice, modest, all-American white boys playing acoustic guitars and congas, but if you want to hear the music that really matters, you have the luxury of leaving early for ice cream, and never having to find out precisely who is responsible for making John Mayer a rock star.


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