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Three acts covering cumbia, classic goth, EBM, new wave, dark wave, and Rock en Español share the Albuquerque Journal Theatre stage for a single night with a hard cap of 300 attendees. The dance floor is actually the theatre stage itself, open to 250 people at a time on a first-come basis, which means the...
Taimane, the Hawaiian ukulele player who makes that instrument do things most people don't think it can do, performs at the BioPark Zoo as part of their summer Zoo Music series, with live reptiles as part of the evening's programming. The outdoor zoo setting means heat lingers well past sundown in late July, so plan...
Triple-A Pacific Coast League ball at one of the better mid-size stadiums in the country, with the Sandias going pink behind the outfield as the evening cools down. Isotopes Park sits right on Central, so you can walk in from a pre-game meal along the corridor without fighting for parking in a concrete structure. Friday...
Taimane is a Hawaiian ukulele player who has genuinely expanded what people think the instrument can do, pulling from flamenco, classical, and rock in ways that hold up under scrutiny. The BioPark Zoo is an unusual setting for a ticketed concert, which means the logistics are different from a standard venue night, so check the...
Felix Y Los Gatos brings their Latin roots sound to the Old Town Gazebo, one of the few outdoor stages in Albuquerque where the setting genuinely competes with the music for your attention. The plaza draws a mixed crowd, locals and tourists side by side, which gives evening shows here an energy that's hard to...
Catalogue brings their set to Marble Brewery's Downtown taproom, one of the more reliably good live-music rooms on this stretch of Central. The outdoor patio here runs sound better than you'd expect for a brewery show, and the crowd tends to stick around rather than treating the band as background noise. Admission details weren't listed,...
The Silver Vigilantes take the tap room stage at Thirsty Eye late on a Friday night, which tells you something about the energy level you should expect. Thirsty Eye keeps the room small and the beer local, so this is the kind of show where you end up three feet from the band whether you...
Three bailaores, a cantaor, and guitarist Chuscales perform traditional flamenco in a seated dinner-show format at Hotel Albuquerque on a Friday evening. Chuscales has backed some of the most serious flamenco artists working today, so this skews closer to a genuine performance than dinner theater, even if the setup looks the same from the outside....
The Rhythm Room opens on Central with a grand opening block party headlined by J. Holiday, the R&B singer whose quiet-storm catalog from the mid-2000s still fills rooms that know their music. Grand openings on this stretch of Central have a habit of running long on ceremony and short on performance, but Reloaded Talent booking...
Flor de Toloache is a New York-based all-women mariachi group that has spent the better part of a decade expanding what the genre can hold, pulling in jazz, cumbia, and bolero without losing the thread back to traditional son. The Albuquerque Museum's courtyard is one of the better outdoor venues on the corridor, small enough...
The 505 Junglists crew brings another REWIND installment to Inside Out, with Halfblud and MS Vicious handling jungle and drum and bass across the night. Inside Out runs small and close, which works in everyone's favor for music built around sub-bass you feel before you hear it. The listed 9 PM start time is a...
Three electronic acts, MydNyte, S.A.I.N.T., and Sofly, take over Luna Kava Bar for a late-night session billed as an afters under The Cave series. The 3:00 AM UTC timestamp and a source note flagging the 9:00 PM start as a placeholder both suggest the actual door time is unconfirmed, so check the ticket link before...
Five local acts share the Launchpad stage for a night built around the kind of sweaty, unapologetic summer energy the name promises. Launchpad runs late and the crowd tends to arrive late too, so the early slots on a bill like this are where you catch something before everyone else figures it out. Tickets are...
A Liminal 77 Production brings Platonic Ideal into The Box Annex, the smaller, more immediate of the two spaces inside The Box Performance Space on Central. The Annex puts the...
505 Junglist is back with a six-DJ drum and bass showcase, putting Syndicrypt, Halfblud, MS Vicious, DNDY, MYDNYTE, and Jayzo G on the same bill at Insideout. This is Albuquerque's most consistent jungle and DnB crew doing what they do on home turf, and the room at Insideout is small enough that the bass actually...
Four local and regional heavy bands stack a Friday night at the Mezzanine, which sits above El Rey's main floor and runs tighter and louder than most rooms its size....
Mr. AfterHours Presents drops DANSYN into Effex for a WHF 360° night, which means the production gets the full room treatment rather than a stage-and-crowd setup. Effex runs late and the crowd arrives later, so if you show up before midnight you will be standing in a very different room than the one this is...
This is a 45-minute long-form improv set running late on a Friday night, produced jointly by The Box and Improv Theatre. The Box is a small black-box room where the audience is close enough to make eye contact with performers, which either thrills you or makes you want to sit in the back row. Tickets...