Squeeze
(Showbox at the Market) Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford are the new-wave Lennon and McCartney. Thank you and good night. Oh, you need more? All right. Back in late-’70s Britain, these masterly songwriters had the gumption to skirt punk’s bumptious fury and focus on crafting ingenious melodies that make critics reflexively type “the new-wave Lennon and McCartney.” Squeeze’s first four albums (spanning the years 1978 to 1981) yield a treasure trove of some of the sweetest tunes that will ever carom around your gray matter. Whether Squeeze can do these classics—and their lesser, later material—justice nearly three decades after their prime is the (at least) $40 question. DAVE SEGAL

Also tonight (from the Stranger Suggests):

Vince Mira at Can Can
Can Can’s Sun Records Revival is an ode to the classics—Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, all the great musicians who got their start at the famous Memphis studio—and local teenager Vince Mira is the perfect talent to perform such beloved songs. At first he’s just a baby-faced kid—he can’t be older than 16, and his acoustic guitar looks big against his slight frame. But when that kid opens his mouth, it’s unreal. Mira sings Cash’s classics with an eerily exact replica of Cash’s whiskey-tinged baritone. The shock is what pulls the crowd in, but his charisma and talent is what keeps ‘em coming back. (Can Can, 94 Pike St, 652-0832. 8 pm, free, 21+.) by MEGAN SELING