Over the last 40-plus years, musicians of myriad stripes have been interpreting the Beatles’ bounteous, beautiful catalog, obviously with varying results. The Fab Four wrote some of the most sophisticated and catchy pop ever, songs you can hear hundreds of times without exhausting their pleasures. Therefore, it should be a blast to witness the precocious youths in Seattle’s School of Rock tackle these lovable tunes with adorable enthusiasm and surprisingly deft musicianship. Hope they do “Tomorrow Never Knows.” (Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave, thecrocodile.com, 5 pm, $10 adv, all ages)

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...