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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....

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...

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...

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...

Combichrist brings their abrasive industrial-metal live show to Launchpad for the Venom in the Mouth of God Tour, with Ludovico Technique and Dead Animal Assembly Plant opening and DJ K.0ss...