Saturday, January 3: Blues legend Danny Kalb is a must-see tonight in Red Hook. This founding member of the Blues Project in the 1960s always puts on a warm, intimate show filled with rollicking numbers and performed in a blues style that’s anything but dull.

Sunday, January 4: Remember the cyclists who lost their lives last year by taking part in the annual Memorial Ride and Walk, which will lead walkers and pedal pushers to the scenes of fatal bike crashes around the city, including the corner of President Street and Eighth Avenue and the intersection of Livingston and Boerum streets, where cyclists Jonathan Millstein and Alexander Toulouse were killed.

Thursday, January 8: Tonight, drunken art curator Peter Teraberry brings his roving collection of inebriated drawings to Sputnik in Clinton Hill. Teraberry himself is a master of this most-underappreciated art form, but no one is better than Sam Crees, whose muse may be killing his brain cells, but it’s also aiding his art.

Friday, January 9: There have been many singer-songwriters trying to cloak themselves as “The New Dylan,” but only one deservedly earned the mantle of “The New Buddy Holly”: Marshall Crenshaw. Tonight at the BAM Cafe, the legend — whose “Someday, Someway” was the radio song of 1982 — will deliver what Nick Lowe always promised: pure pop for now people.

Saturday, January 10: If there was any one band that defined the post-punk 1980s, it was John Doe and Exene Cervenka’s X. Tonight, the pair (married from 1980 to 85, which should make for some nice stage tension!) will perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Expect a great show.