Events on Central

The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means...

The post-Bob Marley touring lineup of The Wailers brings the full roots-reggae catalog to what is almost certainly an outdoor stage at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, not Launchpad's usual...

Three serious players share a bill for Blues Night, the capstone evening of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival: Judith Hill (a vocalist who has worked with Prince and...

Los Tigres del Norte, the Sinaloa-born norteño institution that has been recording since 1968, bring their corridos and narcocorridos canon to the Kiva Auditorium. The Kiva seats around 2,300 and...

NWA-sanctioned pro wrestling comes to one of the best mid-size rooms on the corridor, with Duke City Championship Wrestling running their Kings Landing card at the El Rey. The theater's...

Emo Nite is the traveling DJ event that built a cult following by treating My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday like sacred texts, and Launchpad is one of the...

San Diego's The Frights are marking a decade of their debut album with a full tour stop at the Sunshine, one of the few rooms on Central that can actually...

Cambridge psych-doom outfit Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats headlines the Sunshine Theater with Italian doom trio Messa opening, a double bill that earns its weight in riffs. The Sunshine's standing...

San Francisco's Hot Flash Heat Wave brings their hazy, sun-warped indie pop to Launchpad, with local and regional support from Small Crush and High rounding out the bill. Launchpad's sound...

Iron Lung, the Seattle powerviolence duo who have been doing this longer and louder than almost anyone, headlines a four-band bill that also features Soak, G.A.S.M., and Nyctophagia. Launchpad's room...