THURSTON MOORE & KURT VILE After announcing his recent split with longtime wife and Sonic Youth bandmate Kim Gordon, Moore is back on the road. He’s got plenty of solo material to draw on, including last year’s “Demolished Thoughts.’’ Meanwhile, Vile is still touring behind last year’s acclaimed “Smoke Ring for My Halo.’’ Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $21.50. Somerville Theatre. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com
MARK KOZELEK People are still talking about how haunting his Boston show was last year, as the mastermind behind Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters performed his slow-burning acoustic laments in near darkness. Jan. 31, 8 p.m. Tickets: $20. First Church in Cambridge Congregational, 11 Garden St., Cambridge. 617-876-4275, www.worldmusic.org
JAMES REED
FOLK, WORLD & COUNTRY
DAN NAVARRO AND TRACY GRAMMER Both of these artists performed for years with an ampersand before their names (Grammer with Dave Carter, Navarro with Eric Lowen) before sad circumstance forced them to carry on without their musical partners. They aren’t performing as a duo here, but sharing a bill. Jan. 26, 8 p.m. Tickets: $20. Club Passim. 617-492-7679, www.passim.org
GRIFFIN HOUSE This Nashville-based singer-songwriter brings a little bit of pop and rock and little bit of rootsy Americana to a musical mix that often comes wrapped in ghostly atmospherics. Maybe he’ll play his titular-mouthful of a song, “The Guy That Says Goodbye to You Is Out of His Mind.’’ He’s joined on the bill by fellow Nashvillian Matthew Perryman Jones. Jan. 28, 8 p.m. Tickets: $15. Cafe 939 at Berklee. 617-747-2261, www.cafe939.com
COEUR DE PIRATE is the nom de guerre of French Canadian singer Beatrice Martin, who blends her indie pop with a cabaret sensibility and (mostly) French vocals and has ridden a MySpace and YouTube viral wave to international popularity. Jan. 28, 9 p.m. Tickets: $15. Brighton Music Hall. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com
