Better Than Ezra still works because the band never needed excess to get its songs over. The appeal is in the clean, durable stuff: sharp guitar-pop structure, a little wistfulness, a little bite, and choruses that hit fast without trying to flatten everything around them. In a room like the Guild, that kind of catalog should land especially well, somewhere between late-’90s alt-rock comfort food and a genuinely tight live set. Even if fans are desperately wanting to hear one particular song, this feels like the kind of show that will remind them how many of those songs still hold up.
Sun, May 24, 8pm, $75-$156
Guild Theatre, Menlo Park
