The Little O and his Lonely One Man Folk-Punk Band is a wonderfully self-referential project. As the one-man band in question, the Little O is a self-styled caricature of a rambling troubadour. Most of his songs are titled with variations on "The Little O Sings About (Blank)," essentially rendering him a kind of Sunday comics character, doing bluesy little folk ditties about his thoughts on zines, phone calls, postcards, and - most delightfully - what it's like to be a one-man band. On one of his recordings, which are lo-fi homages to the sound of old 78s, he takes a break mid-song to read a selection from a book he found at the Nearsighted Narwhal, only to come back and essentially sing the rest of the song as a jingle for the store. It's self-aware folk with pops of humor.

THE LITTLE O AND HIS LONELY ONE MAN FOLK-PUNK BAND, w/ Forest Beutel, Micaela Cooley and Emelie Peine, 8 p.m., Northern Pacific Coffee Company, 401 Garfield St. S., Tacoma, no cover, 253.537.8338