Events on Central

A fundraiser night at Painted Lady Bed & Brew on Central, with proceeds going to Barrett House, which provides transitional housing and support services for women in recovery. Painted Lady...

Locals take the mic to tell real ghost stories at this open mic night inside Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, a seasonal run that leans into the building's own...

Bravo the Bagchaser, the Sacramento rapper who built a following on drill-adjacent street rap before landing a deal with Interscope, headlines El Rey with Peysoh in support. El Rey's long...

Albuquerque Nuevo Teatro is stepping outside its usual theatrical programming for a late-night 80s dance party on the Central corridor. The theater format means a proper stage and sightlines you won't get in a typical bar setup, which tends to make the whole thing feel a little more like a show and a little less...

Built To Spill, the Boise outfit that helped define what overdriven, melodically obsessive indie rock could be in the '90s, plays El Rey with local singer-songwriter Paul Schalda opening. El Rey's long room and solid sound system suit this band well, since their live sets tend to stretch and wander in ways that reward a...

A seated dinner show built around traditional tablao flamenco, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist performing in the Old Town-adjacent ballroom space at Hotel Albuquerque on Central. The room is formal enough that showing up in shorts feels wrong, and the stage-to-table proximity means you will hear every footstrike and feel it, which is...

Melt-Banana is a two-person Japanese noise-punk outfit that has been doing exactly what they do, at full intensity, since 1992, and live they are genuinely disorienting in the best way....

Dent May brings his brand of breezy, orchestral pop to Sister, paired with Pearl & the Oysters, the French-American duo whose sound sits somewhere between sunshine and a vintage record...