British singer/songwriter/guitarist Robyn Hitchcock may be fully gray-haired now, but his music possesses an evergreen sheen. With his accomplices in the Venus 3—Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, and Bill Rieflin, plus former Harvey Danger frontman Sean Nelson—Hitchcock should be engineering another smile-intensive night of gently twisted psychedelic pop and between-song stream-of-subconscious ramblings. His catalog bursts with beautifully wistful melodies and smart, weird lyrics, and if we’re lucky, maybe Hitch will toss in a couple of Soft Boys tunes. (Neptune Theater, 1303 NE 45th St, stgpresents.org, 8 pm, $20, 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...