Reggie Watts

Few artists skirt the lines of music, comedy, and performance art like Reggie Watts. The 40-year-old Brooklynite busts out of the usual boxes of music-based comedy (or comedy-based music – we're still not sure which side Watts falls on) through a busy mix of singing, rapping, beatboxing, and joke-telling that seem like they go from brain-to-mouth in less than 10 seconds. The dude gets the faceless, soulless monotony found in all kinds of indie, rap, R&B, and hipster music, and happily skewers them. “Fuck Shit Stack” is funny enough as a song, but its video – which piles on so many hip-hop cliches even Hype Williams can't miss the joke – is comic gold. Watts' 2007 breakthrough was a sensitive piano ballad called “What About Blowjobs,” in which he schools ladies on the proper method of class-A fellatio: “Take your dominant hand and place it around the shaft,” he sings like an old-school soul man. “You still have one hand free, so why don't you cradle the balls?” Watts brings the love to town this week. 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $25. –Michael Gallucci