- Pat Metheny Unity Group
If you’ve got access to a friend’s ex-girlfriend’s father’s coworker’s HBO Go account, chances are high that you spent the weekend binge-watching True Detective and could stand to spend an evening or two away from the glow of one screen or another. Fortunately there are plenty of concerts to see during the next few days.
It took me quite some time to get hooked on pop-punk outfit the Wonder Years, but they recently got me with their even-handed approach to making songs about the suburbs: “The Wonder Years’ sublime ‘We Could Die Like This’ is one of many high points on last year’s The Greatest Generation (Hopeless), the group’s fourth full-length; it’s about the way certain trinkets, memories, and sensory triggers (such as the smell of Coppertone) can make you nostalgic for a place that’s no longer home. (The Wonders Years are based in Philadelphia now, but the formed in suburban Lansdale.) Front man Dan Campbell sings with heartfelt earnestness but not too much sentimentality—a welcome change from some of his past performances—and the band’s big, crunchy sound helps balance out the sugar.” Modern Baseball opens.
