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Dan DeLuca's Mix Picks: Charlie Puth, Radiooooo.com, Pokey LaFarge/Cactus Blossoms, Jonathan Richman, and "The Record Store of the Mind."

Charlie Puth. Rising piano-playing "Marvin Gaye" and "See You Again" pop star plays a headlining gig before heading out this spring as an opener for Selena Gomez, with whom the Rumson, N.J., singer is more than just BFFs, according to the gossip mags. Monday at TLA.

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Charlie Puth. Rising piano-playing "Marvin Gaye" and "See You Again" pop star plays a headlining gig before heading out this spring as an opener for Selena Gomez, with whom the Rumson, N.J., singer is more than just BFFs, according to the gossip mags. Monday at TLA.

Radiooooo.com. That's five o's. Supercool world-music discovery site of the week allows users to pick a decade and a country from a map of the world, and hear an intelligently curated playlist from that time and place. Along with, say, Brazil in the '70s or South Africa in the 1980s, you can even go to Antarctica, though your choice might be limited to singing whales. Free.

Pokey LaFarge/Cactus Blossoms. Midwestern string band leader LaFarge cuts old-timey, crowd-pleasing songs, formerly for Jack White's Third Man label, now for Rounder. He's on top of a double bill with the Cactus Blossoms, the Minneapolis duo who wear an Everly Brothers influence on their sleeves on their JD McPherson-produced debut, You're Dreaming. Tuesday at World Cafe Live.

Jonathan Richman. The now 64-year-old "Roadrunner" is still going "faster miles an hour." The Modern Lovers founder and unaffected charmer is touring behind his new album, Ishkode! Ishkode! on the Vanyaland label. Don't yell out the title in a crowded theater, because it means "Fire!" in the indigenous American Ojibwe language. Wednesday at Union Transfer.

"The Record Store of the Mind." Josh Rosenthal, founder of the superb San Francisco record label Tompkins Square and "a musician's record man" in the words of T-Bone Burnett, reads from his memoir about a lifetime of music exploration, with guitarist Chris Forsyth as his opening act. Thursday at Brickbat Books.