Events on Central

A benefit concert rooted in tribal energy advocacy, with Tia Wood, The Bearhead Sisters, Destroy Kasmin, and DJ Young Native bringing range to a lineup that moves between acoustic weight...

The BioPark Zoo opens after regular hours for a ticketed adults-only evening walk through the grounds, with animals active in the cooler late-summer dusk in a way they simply aren't at 2 PM in August. The zoo sits a few blocks off Central, so this is a metro trip, but the parking is easy and...

César Bauvallet leads a recurring Tuesday night Latin music class at Outpost, one of the more acoustically honest rooms on the corridor. Outpost draws serious musicians as students, so expect a mixed room of beginners and people who already know what a clave is. The listing date reflects the series end on August 25, so...

The Inglewood rapper Fenix Flexin, formerly of Shoreline Mafia, brings his solo catalog to the Sunshine Theater on Central. The Sunshine holds around 800 and has a floor that gets loud fast, so if you want breathing room, arriving early matters more here than at most Downtown spots. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so...

The Queers have been playing fast, funny, three-chord pop-punk since the mid-80s and they still mean it, which is more than you can say for most acts with that kind...

Kanoa Kaluhiwa leads this all-ages weekly class at Outpost Performance Space, running every Tuesday through August 26 under the title Open Source. Outpost is one of the more thoughtfully run...

This is a multi-week adult band class taught by Kanoa Kaluhiwa, wrapping up with what is presumably a final session on August 26 at Outpost. Outpost runs these classes with...

New Mexico United, the USL Championship club that turned Albuquerque into a genuine soccer town, hosts Lexington SC at Isotopes Park on a late-August Thursday night. The supporter sections behind...

Triple Moon Bewitched sets up for tarot readings inside Painted Lady's Central Avenue brew house, part of the ongoing Brews & Boos series that mixes craft beer with occult-adjacent programming....

Two solo artists from the heavy-music underground share a bill here: Steve Von Till, known as one half of Neurosis's songwriting core, brings his sparse acoustic work, and Six Organs...