Emo Philips

Courtney Barnett, Brockhampton, Justin Timberlake, and more Monday show options.

Mac Miller teams with Thundercat for a new song and a tour, plus blink-182, Fucked Up, the Big Adventure festival, Graham Coxon, Arctic Monkeys, Maxwell, and more tour news.

“Weird Al” Yankovic is gearing up for his “Ill-Advised Vanity Tour” where he’ll be living the fat suits and other costumes at home along with hit parodies and will this time play his many original songs he’s recorded over the years…

“No costumes, no props, no video screens, no computer servers. We’re just going to walk out on stage, sit down on stools, and play a bunch of old songs. Oh, and we’re going to be performing almost exclusively originals (i.e. not parodies). The deep cuts and obscure tracks. The songs that were never hits. The ones you barely remember.” — Weird Al. Emo Philips opens all dates.

It’s a tradition! Yo La Tengo begin their eight sold out shows at Maxwell’s in recently-Sandy-ravaged Hoboken tonight, Saturday, December 8th, the first night of Hanukkah 2012…

words & “I will erase all of the fun that you’ve had tonight. You didn’t pay to see me. I should do 40 minutes of broken jokes.” Surprise headliner Louis CK The first night of the 3rd Annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival was billed as “An Evening of Comedy from 1986” and featured sets from Emo Phillips, Tony V, Larry Murphy, Ron Lynch and Jon Glaser…

today in NYC * Mortified @ 92Y Tribeca * Aziz Ansari @ Town Hall * Otis Brown III @ The Stone * Luis Resto @ Le Poisson Rouge * The Secret Sisters @ Joe’s Pub * Melissa Ferrick @ The Rock Shop * Cake @ Central Park Summerstage * Biffy Clyro, Six Gallery @ Maxwell’s * Trainwreck, Reckless Sons @ Mercury Lounge * El Ten Eleven, Dosh, Baths @ Knitting Factory * Trevor Hall, Matthew Santos @ Mercury Lounge * Eugene Mirman Comedy Fest @ the Bell House * The Body, Bad Dream, Deathbeds @ The Acheron * AIDS Wolf, An Albatross, Child Abuse @ Cake Shop * Das Racist, Maluca, Keepaway, Tecla @ Santos Party House *

As I get older, I just I don’t have the wherewithal to see as much comedy as I should. It’s really depressing. There are so many goddamned GREAT comedy shows happening in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and even Queens that rather than pick one to go to, my brain shuts down and says “Just go home and watch Wheeler Dealers on the ole DVR, KK…