Illinois’ Backyard Tire Fire sang “I want to be Tom Petty, I want to be a star,” as the opening salvo to their latest record, Vagabonds and Hooligans, but judging from their agreeably modest rock ’n’ roll of that record and its follow-ups Good to Be and The Places We Lived, they’d happily settle for just being a well-liked bar band. With a persistent, rootsy twang, the band evokes shades of The Replacements, The Violent Femmes and early Wilco. The group will split an 8 p.m. bill tonight with the Crooked Barn Duo at Shank Hall.
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