Events on Central

Launchpad's annual Halloween cover band run is exactly what it sounds like: a stretch of October nights where different acts take the stage as someone else entirely, costumes and all....

Outpost's recurring jazz incubator puts working musicians in a room with Rodney Bowe and Dimi DiSanti, two of the more serious jazz educators operating in this city right now. The format is part workshop, part live session, so the music you hear is being shaped in real time, which makes for a different kind of...

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 it genuine favors. Y La Bamba, Luz Elena Mendoza's emotionally direct project, is a real opening act and not an afterthought. Popejoy is a seated...

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...

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...