Following the jam-band business model even though they don't much care for jamming, alt-rockers Guster have gradually built their following by encouraging tape trading and touring colleges like the one they formed at two decades ago, Tufts University. They've become a better pop band with each release, casting themselves as something of a small-scale Coldplay without the egos and with a friendly sense of humor (in 2005 they celebrated their Judaism with a side project called Hanukkah Rocks). For this tour they've put their humor on display once again, sharing the stage with gregarious comedian Jeff Garlin, of HBO's “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
Guster w/ Jeff Garlin
Tonight @ The Pabst Theater, 7 p.m.