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The surviving Wailers are marking the 50th anniversary of Rastaman Vibration with a tour that pulls from that album alongside the catalog standards that made Bob Marley a household name on every continent. The Albuquerque Journal Theatre is an intimate room for a band of this legacy, which works in your favor, and the tiered...
Pawn Drive takes the stage at Thirsty Eye Brewing Company, a Route 66 corridor taproom that keeps its live music calendar busy on weekend nights. The room is compact and...
New Mexico United takes on Indy Eleven in a USL Championship regular season match at Isotopes Park, one of the better soccer atmospheres in the American lower divisions. The supporter sections here are loud and organized enough to genuinely affect the game, so sitting near the south end puts you in the middle of something...
St. Range takes the outdoor stage at Marble's Downtown taproom, one of the more reliably good rooms on the corridor for catching a live set with a cold beer in hand. The open-air layout means sound carries differently than an indoor club, so arriving early gets you a spot where the mix actually lands. A...
A seated dinner show built around live flamenco, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist performing in the tablao format that originated in mid-20th-century Spanish clubs. Hotel Albuquerque's sala is a genuinely intimate room for this kind of thing, close enough that you'll feel the footwork in your chest. Performers are still TBA, so check...
This is a traditional tablao format, which means flamenco as a close-quarters performance art rather than a stage spectacle, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist working in the kind of tight conversation that only happens when the audience is ten feet away. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is one of the few dedicated flamenco spaces...
Yungchen Lhamo is one of the most quietly commanding vocalists alive, a Tibetan singer whose a cappella and minimally accompanied performances have carried weight on stages from Carnegie Hall to small rooms like this one. FUSION | 708 is an intimate space, which works in the audience's favor here, the kind of room where there's...
The Wailers, the band that outlasted Bob Marley's death by four decades and kept touring with original members carrying the weight of that legacy, play the Journal Theatre for their 50 Years of Positive Vibrations run. The Journal is an intimate indoor theater, which means the sound stays tight and the sightlines are good, a...
Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an unscripted hour of live comedy, the kind where nothing is planned and the room decides how good it gets. The Box is a small, focused space that rewards audience participation and punishes phone distraction, so come ready to be present. Ticket link is live through...
This is the weekly house residency at SPACE AT 515, running tech house and deep house through the night on Central. The room runs late and the floor doesn't really find its footing until well after 10, so arriving right at door is optional. Start time is unconfirmed from the source, so check the ticket...
The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means the floor gets loud fast and the sightlines are genuinely good from anywhere, but get there before the openers finish if you want a comfortable...
The post-Bob Marley touring lineup of The Wailers brings the full roots-reggae catalog to what is almost certainly an outdoor stage at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, not Launchpad's usual room on Central. The NHCC's courtyard holds a crowd well and the acoustics are better than you'd expect for an open-air setup, so a show...
The surviving members of Bob Marley's original backing band bring a full reggae set to the NHCC's outdoor performance space in Barelas. This venue runs a tight operation and the outdoor stage carries sound well on a September evening, which is about as good as Albuquerque weather gets for an outdoor show. Grab tickets through...
A comedy debate show where being wrong is apparently the whole point, running just one hour on a Friday night at The Box Annex on Central. The Box tends to reward a small, game crowd, and a format built around argument works better when the room is willing to heckle back a little. Tickets are...
This is a late-night tribute DJ set at El Rey, running from 9:30 p.m. Friday deep into Saturday morning, which tells you everything about the crowd's intentions. El Rey's floor opens up well when a DJ has the room to themselves, and a set framed around a specific artist's influence tends to pull people who...
In the Box Mainstage runs a full long-form improv show at The Box, one of the few dedicated performance spaces actually on the Central corridor. The 10:15 p.m. start time means this is a late-night crowd, which tends to loosen up both the audience and the players in ways that work in everybody's favor. Tickets...