The Flyer's music writers tell you where you can go. “Rock is dead they say. Long live rock!” I’m sure Roger Daltrey meant it when he sang these anthemic lines (“Long Live Rock” first appeared on the Who’s 1974 Odds & Sods). And maybe the lines turned out true, in a way, but what a life it’s turned out to be. Daltrey will appear Thursday at the Bluesville Showcase Nightclub at Horseshoe Casino with the British Rock Symphony, an idea that surely signals the end of something. To wit, the BRS “is a passionate symphonic tribute to the music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd.” It may be pretty, but I’ll be surprised if it rocks. It makes me feel almost lucky to have grown up in the much-maligned Eighties, where the good music is so overlooked that no symphony will ever be tempted to perform it, no matter how much disposable income the teens of the greed decade manage to amass. I Will Dare: The Timeless Masterworks of the Replacements? Hooked on SST? I don’t think so. In related news: Yes on Mud Island Tuesday with the Alan Parsons Project. In unrelated news, there’ll be some true new rock Saturday at the Map Room with a performance by local Tommy-Stinson-in-waiting (hell, he might even be Paul-Westerberg-in-waiting) Jay Reatard, frontkid of the gloriously sloppy but oddly poppy punk band the Reatards. You could take his “Out My Head, Into My Bed” and put it on an early Replacements album and no one would be the wiser. Also on that bill are the Jack Ballers, the Ultracats, and Vegas Thunder. Likewise on Saturday, North Carolina’s answer to Squeeze, the Connells, take the stage at the New Daisy. Opening the show will be Far Too Jones and L.A.’s Possum Dixon. To recall, Possum Dixon had one of the few well-deserved alt-radio hits of recent years with the irresistible sad-sack anthem “Watch That Girl Destroy Me” off their 1993 self-titled Interscope debut. If you ever heard it, the mere mention of the title should have it running through your head right about now. They have a new record, New Sheets, due out next month. – Jim Hanas