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There's an hour on Central when the street belongs to nobody. The dinner crowd's gone home, the club lines haven't formed yet, and for about twenty minutes the neon does its work for an audience of line cooks on smoke breaks and one guy walking east with his hands in his pockets.

I've been that guy more nights than I'd admit. This site exists because I got tired of hearing about it on Monday.

See this weekend

Central This Week

63 shows on Central over the next seven days. Saturday is the one that does not sleep.

63Showson the corridor
21Roomsopen this week
6Neighborhoodslit up
SaturdayBusiest night22 shows
1Freeno cover
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Tonight on Central

Tonight on the corridor

  1. Tonight

    Downtownlatin

    Tropa Magica at KiMo Theatre Downtown

    Tropa Magica, the East LA band whose cumbia-punk collision has been turning heads well outside their home turf, brings Bands…

    8:00 pm Kimo Theatre Tickets

  2. Tonight

    UNM Areajazz

    Fred Hersch Trio at Outpost

    Fred Hersch is one of the most technically accomplished and emotionally honest pianists in jazz right now, and this trio…

    8:30 pm Outpost Performance Space Tickets

  3. Tonight

    Downtownpunk

    Iron Lung + Soak + G.A.S.M. at Launchpad Downtown

    Iron Lung, the Seattle powerviolence duo who have been doing this longer and louder than almost anyone, headlines a four-band…

    9:00 pm Launchpad Tickets

Everything on Central tonight

How this works

Every listing on this site tries to earn one sentence you won't find on the venue's website. Not a press release rewritten. Not a poster transcribed. Somebody walked in, looked around, and wrote down what mattered.

Go to the show. Not the one you already know about. The other one, the Tuesday one, the one where the opener's mom is running the merch table.

This weekend

The corridor doesn't sleep Friday through Sunday. See the full preview.

This Week on the Route

One email. Sunday morning, before you've finished your coffee. One featured event with the kind of detail you won't find on the venue's website. Plus eight more things worth doing on the corridor that week.

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