Events on Central

A seated flamenco show in the tablao room at Hotel Albuquerque, running about 90 minutes with live guitar, cante, and baile, though the specific performers won't be confirmed until closer to the date. Balloon Fiesta week means the Old Town corridor is packed and parking around Hotel Albuquerque tightens up fast, so arriving early or...

César Bauvallet teaches a recurring Monday night Latin music class at Outpost, the longtime listening room on Central that has been hosting serious musicians and serious students for decades. Outpost keeps the room intimate and the acoustics honest, which makes it a better learning environment than most places charging twice as much for this kind...

The Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez play a kind of wordless, sun-bleached guitar music that sits somewhere between spaghetti western scores and Andean folk, and Popejoy's acoustics will do...

Exhorder helped invent the sound that made Pantera famous, and they've been making that point live for thirty-plus years. Launchpad's long narrow room compresses a metal crowd in a way that works in the band's favor, so arrive early if you want a position that isn't directly behind a post. Ticket link is live, and...

This is a live tablao flamenco show, the kind built around the triangle of dancer, singer, and guitarist performing for a close-in seated audience, not a stage-at-a-distance production. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is genuinely intimate, which means the footwork lands in your chest and the cante lands in your face, for better or worse depending...

César Bauvallet leads a seven-week Tuesday night Latin music class at one of the corridor's most respected listening rooms, running 6:30 to 8pm through late November. Outpost is a proper performance space with good acoustics and a teaching-friendly layout, which makes it a better classroom than most spots that host this kind of instruction. A...

Wednesday 13 has been doing horror-punk theatrics since the Murderdolls days, and the Shocktober Blood Tour is built around that aesthetic, costumes, prop blood, and all. The Sunshine Theater is one of the few rooms in Albuquerque big enough to hold a production like this without the stage swallowing the crowd, which matters here. Tickets...

Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque runs its Wednesday-night show during one of the busiest tourist weeks the city sees all year, which means the room will likely be full of first-timers who have no idea what they're walking into. That's not a knock; it actually tends to raise the energy, and the performers here are used to...

Two bands who never quite fit their scene's labels share a bill that should appeal to anyone who liked their mid-2000s post-hardcore with actual rhythmic ambition. El Rey is a long room with a solid floor mix, so getting toward the center pays off for a show like this. Tickets are through Ticketmaster, which means...

Palace, the brooding South London indie outfit, co-headlines this tour stop with Rollo Doherty, whose quietly devastating solo work has been pulling bigger rooms than his name suggests. The Sunshine's mid-size floor is one of the better matches for this kind of music in the city, close enough to feel the room but not so...