Events on Central

Hondo Coyote plays country built for dancing, not just listening, at one of the corridor's most reliably fun neighborhood taprooms. The Wells Park location has a layout that actually gives you room to two-step, which not every Tractor spot can claim. Admission details aren't posted yet, so check the 505 Live link before you show...

CLAWZ headlines this late-night electronic event at Effex as part of a touring floor-focused set, with local support from SIHK and MEGAB4T rounding out the bill. The UTC start time...

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...

DJ Hump holds down a full late-night set built around Sade's catalog at Insideout, one of Downtown's more dependable dance rooms when the booking is right. The 2 a.m. start time is not a typo, so plan accordingly if you have anywhere to be Sunday morning. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, which means will-call...

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 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...

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...