Show You Should Check Out Tomorrow Night: Tommy Keene @ The Cavern

I have two recommendations for you: 1) go see Tommy Keene at The Cavern tomorrow night, and 2) show up early, buy him a drink, and hope he rewards you with some stories. Because he has some great ones. (That tends to happen when you spend three decades in the music business, back up Paul Westerberg and Robert Pollard, record with Peter Buck, and generally know everyone worth knowing that sprang out of the college/indie rock world in the 1980s and ’90s.) Even if he’s not in a talkative mood, the show is worth your dime. Keene writes the best kind of power-pop songs, the sort that stick in your head immediately but don’t get old after the 10th listen.