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Black Veil Brides, the Los Angeles band that built a career out of glam-metal theatrics and arena-sized anthems, plays El Rey with Caskets in support. El Rey is a tight room for a band that usually wants to feel bigger, which actually works in your favor here because the production hits harder when you're close...
A three-day Latin dance festival spread across the NHCC campus, Fusion, and the Albuquerque Museum, anchored by Grammy-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra on Friday night and 30 workshops covering everything from...
Carlos Morton's Esperanza adapts the story of the 1951 Empire Zinc strike in Bayard, NM, where Mexican American miners' wives took over the picket line after the Taft-Hartley Act pushed...
Two acts share the bill here, starting with Bossa 66 at 5 pm and handing off to Jazz Traveler at 8 pm, which gives you a genuine evening arc rather than a single set and done. Tractor's Wells Park patio is one of the better outdoor listening situations on this stretch of Central when the...
Black Veil Brides bring their Vindicatour US 2026 run to El Rey with a full four-band bill that includes Caskets, Archers, and Holy Wars. El Rey's floor gets genuinely packed for national touring acts at this level, so arriving close to doors rather than at headliner time is the difference between a good spot and...
Horror trivia at one of the more characterful spots on Central, a brewpub that actually has rooms upstairs, which gives the whole Brews and Boos series a faint gothic logic. The format rewards people who know their slasher franchises cold, but the crowd skews more enthusiastic than cutthroat, so first-timers tend to hold their own....
Marble's Downtown taproom is hosting a cover night built around the Y2K era, which in practice means anything from Destiny's Child to Blink-182 depending on who shows up to play. The room has a long bar and decent floor space, so it works for dancing or just standing around feeling nostalgic with a pint. A...
Billy & Bella take the stage at Thirsty Eye Brewing Company for an evening show on the Central Avenue corridor. Thirsty Eye is a working brewery with a no-frills room that tends to reward acts with some acoustic presence, so expect the sound to land better if the duo leans that direction. A ticket link...
This is a seated dinner-format flamenco show in a room that was built for exactly this kind of performance, with a stage close enough that you feel the foot percussion in your chest. Performers are TBA at time of listing, which is typical for tablao-style productions that pull from a rotating roster of working artists...
Three dancers, a singer, and a guitarist perform traditional tablao flamenco in one of the few dedicated flamenco formats on the corridor. Hotel Albuquerque's performance space keeps the room small enough that you feel the footwork through the floor, which is the whole point. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so buy ahead rather than...
The Spanish Harlem Orchestra, a Grammy-winning nine-piece salsa dura outfit from New York, brings the kind of hard-bop Latin brass that doesn't get softened for festival crowds. The museum's outdoor amphitheater sits at the edge of Old Town and carries sound well on a late-August night, but the grassy slope fills early and latecomers end...
Ron Crowder brings his new album, Moving at the Speed of Life, to FUSION 708 for a proper release show on Central. FUSION 708 is a small room, which means the sound hits closer and the crowd energy reads immediately, so this kind of night either locks in fast or fizzles, and Crowder's local following...
Two improvisers (or a full ensemble, depending on the night) build scenes from nothing in real time at one of the corridor's few dedicated performance spaces. The Box is a proper black-box theater, which means sight lines are good and the room is small enough that a bad show has nowhere to hide and a...
Five local and regional DJs trading off across bass house, techno, trance, and UK garage in what amounts to a full-night showcase of Albuquerque's underground dance scene. Resident takeovers like this tend to run longer and weirder than standard bookings, which is either a selling point or a warning depending on how you feel about...
Two local electronic acts, Las Borrachas and Carma, are headlining this late-night set at Lunas Kava Root, a kava bar on Central that tends to run quieter and more intentional than your average after-hours spot. The 3:00 AM UTC timestamp puts this squarely in after-hours territory, but the listed start time is a placeholder, so...
Three local acts share the Launchpad stage on a Friday night, with Shauna Dean Cokeland headlining above No Manners and Junkyard Butterfly. Launchpad's sound system punches harder than the room's size suggests, and the stage sightlines are good from almost anywhere on the floor. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so grab them before the...
Carma holds down a resident takeover at the Press Club, which means the booth stays in trusted hands for the duration and the night builds with some intention rather than bouncing between unrelated acts. The Press Club's back room runs small, so the floor fills fast and the sound hits differently than it does in...
Mr. AfterHours Presents brings WHF 360° to Effex with Haylee Wood headlining and XBLYSSID in the special guest slot, which typically means the room doesn't find its footing until well past midnight. Effex runs late and loud by design, so if you're coming for the headline set, don't bother showing up at door time. Tickets...
Long-form improv from the Improv Theatre company at The Box, starting well after midnight on a Saturday, which tells you exactly what kind of crowd you'll find. The Box is a proper black box theater, so even a small audience feels like it was planned that way, and the format rewards staying attentive rather than...