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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...
The Lobo Sports Vault, tucked inside the Historic Lobo Theater on Central, runs the full college football slate across its screens every Saturday, with a buffet from 11 AM to...
The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame is putting on a four-hour evening concert at the Route 66 Visitor Center, part of a fall centennial series that suggests something more...
Watermelon Mountain Jug Band brings their old-time, washboard-and-strings sound to the open-air gazebo at the heart of Old Town, one of the more charming outdoor stages on the corridor. The...
Benny Bassett brings his bass-forward sound to Sawmill Market's communal food hall space on a Saturday night. The open layout means sound bleeds across vendor stalls, so this plays more...
Eryn Bent plays the Downtown Marble patio, one of the better acoustic setups on this stretch of Central for a solo performer. The 9 PM start means the worst of...
Three blues acts worth taking seriously share the Civic Plaza stage, headlined by Judith Hill, whose vocal range and stage presence have drawn comparisons to Mavis Staples by people who...
Ed Allan plays Marble Brewery's Westside taproom, one of the more reliably good rooms on this stretch of Central for catching a solo performer without fighting the sound. The brewery...
Levi Dean & The Mesa Rats bring their dusty, Central Avenue-adjacent sound to one of the corridor's better small-room stages. Thirsty Eye keeps the volume at a level where you can still talk to the person next to you, which either sounds like a selling point or a dealbreaker depending on who you are. Admission...
Three serious players share a bill for Blues Night, the capstone evening of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival: Judith Hill (a vocalist who has worked with Prince and...
Los Tigres del Norte, the Sinaloa-born norteño institution that has been recording since 1968, bring their corridos and narcocorridos canon to the Kiva Auditorium. The Kiva seats around 2,300 and has a proper sightline from nearly every seat in the house, so there is no real bad spot in this room. Tickets through Ticketmaster means...
A seated flamenco dinner show in the Hotel Albuquerque ballroom, where the combination of live cante, guitar, and footwork gets performed close enough to feel the floor vibrate under the dancers. The room has genuine atmosphere for this kind of thing, which is not a given in Albuquerque, and the proximity to the stage makes...
A seated tablao-style flamenco show in one of the older hotel ballrooms on the corridor, with live guitar, cante, and baile performed close enough to the audience that you will feel the footwork in your chest. The specific performers haven't been announced yet, which is worth knowing before you buy, though the format itself is...
NWA-sanctioned pro wrestling comes to one of the best mid-size rooms on the corridor, with Duke City Championship Wrestling running their Kings Landing card at the El Rey. The theater's tiered floor and solid sightlines make it a better venue for this than most places that host indie wrestling in town. Tickets are through Hold...
Charlie Boy headlines a late-night Southeast Sayso set at the Rhythm Room, with Love Cannabis presenting the night. A ticket link is live, so this is a ticketed show even though the door price isn't posted yet. Start time is 10 PM local, and if the Rhythm Room is running its usual form, things won't...
The Blue Show is a live improv comedy night hosted by The Box Performance Space in partnership with Improv Theatre, running about an hour at 8 PM. The Box is a true black-box setup, which means sightlines are good from almost anywhere and the room stays small enough that crowd energy actually feeds the performers....
The traveling Emo Nite party comes to Launchpad for a DJ-driven night built around the anthems that defined a very specific kind of teenage suffering: Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, the whole catalog. Launchpad's narrow room and loud sound system make this kind of communal screaming-along work better than it has any right...
Marble's downtown taproom is hosting Love + Happiness, a soul and R&B-leaning night that the title alone tells you something about the intended mood. The brewery floor opens up nicely for this kind of event, but the bar stays busy, so arriving early gets you a better position before the room fills. A ticket link...
Kuzomii, Bass Prophet, and Zorro are headlining this late-night electronic session at Lunas Kava Root, billed as an 'afters' meaning this is designed to run well past midnight. The start time on the listing is a placeholder, so check the ticket link before you commit to a plan or you may show up to an...
Brad Cole has been a fixture in the Albuquerque DJ scene long enough to know how to read a room, and Strange Mix is built around exactly that flexibility, no fixed genre, just whatever the floor needs. Insideout runs late, and this one goes until nearly 7 a.m., so pace yourself accordingly. A ticket link...
Emo Nite is the traveling DJ event that built a cult following by treating My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday like sacred texts, and Launchpad is one of the better rooms in town for exactly this kind of loud, shoulder-to-shoulder catharsis. The floor at Launchpad gets packed fast for events like this, so arriving...
The One Night Stanleys bring long-form improv to The Box, one of the few dedicated performance spaces left on the corridor that actually treats comedy as a discipline rather than...