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Goth Beach Party at El Rey

El Rey Theater

Four DJs, a goth beach concept, and a start time that is technically 9:30 PM local (the UTC listing puts this squarely in Saturday night prime time) make this the third year Apparition has taken over El Rey for what has quietly become one of the more committed theme nights on the corridor. El Rey's...

Goth Beach Party at Insideout

El Rey Theater

The third installment of Apparition's goth beach party concept lands at Insideout with four DJs and whatever logic says you can wear fishnets and flip-flops in the same outfit. Insideout runs late and loud, so if you're planning to arrive at 10 p.m. expecting a full room, you're early by this crowd's standards. Tickets are...

Mic Club 46 with Bandit Lordz & El Uno

Sunshine Theatre

Sac One Presents brings Bandit Lordz and El Uno to Moonlight Lounge for another Mic Club 46 installment, one of the more consistent hip-hop booking series working the corridor right now. Moonlight runs late and the crowd tends to arrive that way too, so showing up at the listed start time means you have the...

Fuego Summer: Jahbabii & Badmon at UNM Area

Gaia's Kava Root

Jahbabii and Badmon take the decks at Gaia's Kava Root for a late-night set that runs hip-hop, R&B, reggaeton, and trap, with a third DJ listed only as a surprise. Gaia's is a kava bar by day, which means the room skews sober-friendly and the crowd tends to be more about the music than the...

Taylor Torrence at Effex Nightclub

Effex

Taylor Torrence, the Denver-based DJ whose melodic techno and progressive house sets have earned him a serious international following, takes over Effex for Mr. AfterHours Presents' SNTA 360° night. The 360° format means the booth is centered in the room, which changes the crowd geometry in ways a standard stage setup never does. Tickets are...

World Cup Final Watch Party

Historic Lobo Theater

The 2026 World Cup Final goes up on the Lobo's theater big screen, the balcony simulcast, and all 15 screens in the Sports Lounge, including a four-screen video wall, which...

Beach Bash with DJ Solita & Rissy

El Rey Theater

All Sick Burque brings a beach theme to one of Downtown's more reliably sweaty dance floors, with DJ Solita and Rissy trading sets from 10pm until the early hours of Sunday morning. Insideout runs small and loud, so if you're going for the music rather than the scene, get there before midnight when the room...

Tablao Flamenco Sunday Matinee

Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque

Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarist perform a full tablao-format flamenco show in one of the few dedicated flamenco venues left on Central. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is intimate enough that you'll feel the footwork through the floor, so sit where you can see feet as well as hands. Tickets move on this one,...

Isotopes vs. River Cats at Route 66’s Best Ballpark

Isotopes Park

Triple-A ball under a New Mexico sky, with the Sandia Mountains sitting out beyond the right-field wall doing their thing regardless of the score. Isotopes Park is genuinely one of...

Supernatural Sundays on Route 66 at Painted Lady Bed & Brew

Painted Lady Bed & Brew

Jordan Jonas, best known for surviving 77 days alone in the Arctic on Season 6 of the show Alone, brings whatever he knows about things that go bump in the night to Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series on a Sunday evening. Painted Lady is a small, genuinely weird-in-the-good-way spot on Central, and the intimate...

The Word Alive at Launchpad

Launchpad

Arizona metalcore headliners The Word Alive are running their Deceiver and Dark Matter Tour through Launchpad with three support acts filling out a bill that should run long. Launchpad's low ceiling and close-quarters floor make the heavy stuff hit harder than the room has any right to, which is either the appeal or the reason...

Mary Gauthier at FUSION 708

FUSION | 708

Mary Gauthier is one of the more unsparing songwriters working in American roots music, the kind who writes about addiction, incarceration, and grief with enough craft that the songs feel like relief rather than punishment. FUSION | 708 is a small room on Central, which means you are close enough to watch her face, and...

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Outpost Performance Space

Cockroach Theatre, one of Albuquerque's scrappier and more reliable small companies, takes on Shakespeare's fairy-court comedy in The Box Annex, the smaller of the two performance spaces at this Central...