Events for September 26, 2026

Seven local acts, each doing their own version of Dolly, across a single late night at one of Central's most reliable small stages. Launchpad runs loud, the sightlines from the...

A rodeo-themed party night at Gaia's Kava Root, the kava bar on Central that doubles as one of the more reliably energetic late-night spots near campus. The 18+ door keeps...

Two of French house's most distinct camps get the head-to-head treatment here: the warm, disco-filtered funk of Daft Punk's catalog against Justice's harder, more distorted edge. The ticket link is...

Three DJs, one of them a last-minute-feeling 'special guest' wildcard, spinning a goth night at El Rey on a Friday that runs until 10 p.m. local time. El Rey's floor...

Reklez Entertainment is throwing a late-night rodeo at Gaia's Kava Root, a kava bar on Central that runs closer to a living room than a nightclub. The kava-instead-of-alcohol setup makes this a genuinely different kind of late night, which is either exactly what you want or something to think about before you go.

Albuquerque Roller Derby is taking over Guild Cinema for a screening of The Kansas City Bomber, the 1972 Raquel Welch roller derby film that remains the genre's high-water mark. Guild is a small, single-screen house on Central with good sight lines from nearly every seat, so there's no bad spot in the room. Expect a...

Free Event at Casa San Ysidro

The Lobo Sports Vault pulls the full Saturday NCAA slate across multiple screens, with every New Mexico Lobos game getting the big screen when the room is available for it. This is a sports bar setup inside a 1939 movie palace, which means the bones of the room are genuinely interesting even if your team...

The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame is putting on a four-hour concert at the Route 66 Visitor Center, which means the lineup will skew toward artists with genuine roots...

New Mexico United brings Sacramento Republic FC to Isotopes Park for a USL Championship regular-season match on a Saturday evening in late September. The sightlines at this park are genuinely...

JMSN is a Detroit-rooted R&B singer and producer who writes, records, and releases everything himself, which gives his live sets a rawness that polished label acts rarely manage. Sister is...

Wickedly Cunning and Lunatyk Arts are staging a Halloween-season high tea at Painted Lady Bed & Brew, which means expect theatrical weirdness layered over the scones-and-small-plates format rather than a...

Ken 52 Pick-Up is a late-night DJ set at El Rey, running from 8 PM deep into the early morning on a Saturday night into Sunday. El Rey's main room...

A live concert production built around the songs of the 1960s, staged at Popejoy Hall on the UNM campus. Popejoy is a proper listening room with real acoustics and actual...

A seated flamenco show in the tablao format, meaning performers work close to the audience in a room built for this kind of intensity rather than a concert stage. Hotel...

Irene Diaz, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter whose voice sits somewhere between late-night folk and slow-burn soul, comes to South Broadway Cultural Center under the Lensic 360 banner. That presenter connection...

A live improv comedy show at The Box, one of the more committed small performance spaces on the Central corridor, running about an hour at 8PM. The Box seats intimately...

Three local acts take the Launchpad stage on a Saturday night that bleeds well into Sunday, with Dead Payphones headlining above Ditch Dog and Anti Gravity Love Machine. Launchpad's sound system punches harder than the room's capacity suggests, and the late start means the crowd thins before it builds, so arriving closer to doors pays...

A late-night screening of Rocky Horror with a live shadow cast performing in front of the screen, presented by PRIDE & Equality and New Mexico Entertainment. Flix Brewhouse lets you order food and drinks from your seat, which makes the participation factor easier to manage than a traditional theater setup. Tickets are through Hold My...

JMSN, the Detroit-bred R&B singer and self-producing one-man operation, brings his late-night, heavily atmospheric sound to Sister the Bar. The room runs small and close, which suits his music better than a theater would. Lensic 360 presenting means the production attention is a step above a typical bar booking.

A DJ night built around the songs that still hit, pulling from hip-hop, R&B, and disco without committing to any single decade too hard. Gaia's Kava Root is a kava bar, so the crowd tends to be loose and social without the aggressive bar-scene energy you'd find a few blocks in either direction. The listing...

Gaia's Kava Root is throwing a throwback dance night, the kind of set where the playlist does most of the heavy lifting. The kava bar format means you can actually be present on the dance floor without the usual bar-crowd noise floor working against you. Admission details aren't posted, so check their Instagram before you...

The One Night Stanleys bring long-form improv to The Box, one of the few dedicated performance spaces on the corridor that actually treats comedy as a craft rather than a bar filler. The Box runs a tight ship technically, so expect decent sound and sight lines for a room this size. A ticket link exists,...

A.M. Ent takes over Gaia's Kava Root for a night built around nostalgia, with a lineup and era TBD but a promoter with a track record of keeping the floor moving. The kava bar format means you can hydrate between sets without the usual bar tab, which changes the late-night math considerably. Tickets are through...