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Four years in, New Mexico Goth Fest has established itself as the one night Launchpad fully commits to the dark side, running past 2 a.m. with bands cycling through both the main room and the bar area. The crowd skews serious about the music rather than the costume, which makes for a better show and...
Night one of New Mexico's annual goth festival stacks eight acts across what will likely be a long, late run at Launchpad, anchored by local and regional names like Theif, Bellhead, and Hex Cassette alongside DJ sets from Ordo Amoris. Launchpad's layout rewards arriving early if you want a position near the stage, because by...
This one runs from 10 p.m. into the early hours of Saturday morning, which should tell you something about the energy level being aimed for. The Press Club is a mid-size room with a low ceiling that does real favors for loud, dense sound, and the bar stays busy. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket,...
College football takes over the Lobo Sports Vault, the dedicated sports room inside the Historic Lobo Theater, with a buffet running 11 AM to 2 PM and games on the screens all day. The event listing window shows 5 to 8 PM, but the college slate runs well beyond that, and UNM Lobos games get...
Marble's downtown patio has hosted enough outdoor shows to know what it's doing, and a September evening in Albuquerque is about as good a weather bet as this city offers. The 505 name signals a local and regional lineup rather than a national touring act, which historically means a crowd that actually knows the music....
Just Velvet plays the Old Town Gazebo on a September Saturday evening, which puts you outside in one of Albuquerque's most reliably pleasant spots at exactly the right time of year. The gazebo setting is genuinely intimate, open-air, and surrounded by the plaza, so sound carries in ways that can work for or against a...
Triple-A baseball on Central Avenue, the Isotopes hosting Tacoma in what should be a cool early-September evening with the Sandias going pink behind the outfield. Isotopes Park punches well above its minor-league weight in terms of sightlines and atmosphere, and weekend promotions tend to pull a crowd that actually watches the game rather than treating...
The New Mexico Philharmonic brings a full orchestra into the BioPark Botanic Garden for one of the more genuinely pleasant outdoor concert settings in the city. The gardens do interesting things to orchestral sound, and the September air after sundown is about as good as Albuquerque gets. A ticket link exists through the city's site,...
Vagabond Grove takes the stage at Tractor Brewing's Nob Hill location, one of the more reliably good rooms on this stretch of Central for catching live music without fighting a bad sightline. The taproom fills up faster than people expect on Saturday nights, so arriving early gets you a spot that isn't the back wall....
The second night of New Mexico Goth Fest loads eight acts into Insideout starting at midnight, running Church Fire, Academy Order, Funeral Process, The Writhers, Cruel Mourning, Crash Davidian, Leiahdoris, and dot.wall through a long Saturday night into Sunday morning. Insideout is a small room, which means the sound hits hard and the crowd gets...
The Lobos open their home schedule against Central Michigan in what should be a useful early read on how the roster came together over the offseason. University Stadium sits right on the Central Avenue corridor, so parking and pre-game options along Route 66 are genuinely part of the evening. Check golobos.com for kickoff time, which...
A seated dinner show format built around live flamenco, with bailaores, a cantaora, and guitarrista performing in the close quarters that the form actually requires to land. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is small enough that you feel the footwork in your chest, which is either the whole point or a reason to sit farther back...
A full tablao-format flamenco show, meaning dancers, a cantaor, and a live guitarist performing together in the traditional structure, not a fusion or approximation of the form. Hotel Albuquerque's space...
Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an evening of live, unscripted comedy. The Box is a small, intimate room where nothing about your reaction goes unnoticed by...
BEAUZ, the LA-based brother duo known for pushing hard techno into hypertechno territory, plays Effex, Albuquerque's longest-running LGBTQ nightclub and one of the few rooms on Central with a sound...
Wayne Hancock is the kind of Texas honky-tonk lifer who makes you wonder why anyone ever bothered complicating country music in the first place, and Launchpad's compact room puts you...
Five bands, one night, a metalcore bill with a beach party concept that is either absurd or perfect depending on your tolerance for humidity and breakdowns. Launchpad's stage-to-floor ratio keeps...
Reklez Ent is running a hip-hop and perreo dance night at Gaia's Kava Root, the kava bar on Central that doubles as one of the more interesting late-night rooms near...
Reklez Ent takes over Gaias Kava Root for a late-night party that runs from 10 p.m. into the early hours of Sunday morning. Kava bars carry a noticeably mellower baseline...
In The Box Annex takes improv comedy into extraterrestrial territory with A51*, a short-form show built around the alien-conspiracy premise. The Box is a genuinely intimate black-box room where the...