Pop music: Lucinda Williams at the Viper Room on New Year’s Eve

This is a rare chance to hear alt-country’s original siren, Lucinda Williams, in the intimate confines of the Viper Room. Best know for her early album “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” she’s stayed the foremost documentarian of the ravages of booze, drugs and heartbreak atop unerring modern folk-rock. Viper Room, 8852 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 9:45 p.m. Fri. $100. viperroom.com