John Mayer comes to town Tuesday

When he's not busy cramming his foot into his mouth (perhaps you heard about a certain Playboy magazine interview?), singer-songwriter-guitarist John Mayer actually makes music for a living. His latest, Battle Studies, is a grim, gloomily fascinating affair written in the wake of his breakup with Jennifer Aniston. However, it's not a TMZ-ready postmortem of a famous couple. Rather, Studies is more bluesy pop songs about grappling with the agonies of growing up, a subject Mayer has been mining ever since his 2001 debut, Room for Squares. With Michael Franti & Spearhead.