PUJOL Walters Downtown, October 24

Few feelings can match the exuberance of playing rock and roll in your early twenties. It's a potent combination of arrogance, recklessness and a hint of vulnerability that, done right, taps into the grand tradition of the Stones, the Clash, the Replacements, the Strokes and the Arctic Monkeys. In 2014, the hellion known as PUJOL positively reeks of it.

The Nashville-based auteur is one of the hottest indie acts going right now thanks to Reunited States of Being, his 2012 album reissued for last month's Cassette Store Day, and KLUDGE, the new Saddle Creek LP that embeds the sarcastic smarts of a typical late-night IFC/Comedy Central sketch series into an album's worth of lo-fi bedroom-pop nuggets. Fun stuff. With Screaming Females and Spare Bones. CHRIS GRAY

Wade Bowen Big Texas (Spring), October 24

Singer, songwriter, golf-tournament namesake, Waco native Wade Bowen has been burnin' up the blacktop since 2002's Try Not to Listen and turned a few heads outside the Lone Star State with last year's clever bro-country retort "Songs About Trucks." This Tuesday he'll release his seventh album, an eponymous affair that alternates introspective memoirs ("Hungover," "West Texas Rain") with Tom Petty-esque tunes that shadow people runnin down a dream or two. CHRIS GRAY

honeyhoney Continental Club, October 24

Call it the Civil Wars syndrome: boy-girl Americana duos are fast becoming one of this decade's most overhyped pop-music trends, but unfairly so in the case of honeyhoney. However, Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe's L.A.-based band actually appeared well ahead of all this media interest, with 2010's First Rodeo.

They returned quickly the next year with Billy Jack, an album heavily indebted to traditional country and gospel, but executed with a scrappy indie mindset and ready-for-prime-time production. No one ever called Gillian Welch & David Rawlings a cliché, after all, and although honeyhoney may not be quite at that same level yet, they are a sight less retro. CHRIS GRAY

Mike Doughty Warehouse Live (Studio), October 24

New York City-based Soul Coughing plied a peculiar brand of jazz, folk and Violent Femmes-like acoustic rock; like a lot of offbeat '90s acts, they managed a couple of hit singles, 1996's "Super Bon Bon" and "Circles" two years later. They then disappeared back to the niche from whence they came, which in SC mastermind Mike Doughty's case means the small-room circuit he's taken to like a duck to water, visiting the Mucky Duck several times in recent years.

This time he's back at Warehouse Live for the modestly named "Mike Doughty's World-Renowned, Award-Winning Question Jar Show," which finds the singer-songwriter -- who released crowd-funded new album Stellar Motel last month -- formulating his set list from a jar onstage and promising on Facebook, "his audience is wickedly good at coming up with extremely weird things to ask." CHRIS GRAY

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