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Three names from the heavier end of house music, Wax Motif and VNSSA in particular having built real momentum on the festival circuit, playing a venue better known for visual art and cultural programming than for DJ sets. The NHCC's event spaces can work well for this kind of show when production is dialed in,...
Doug Martsch and Built To Spill bring their sprawling, guitar-heavy catalog to El Rey, one of the better rooms on the corridor for a band that rewards a good sound system. El Rey runs long on show nights, so the 9 PM local start time is real, and Paul Schalda opens. Grab tickets in advance;...
Bryan Lambe's puppet-fronted variety show takes over The Box Annex, the smaller secondary room inside The Box Performance Space on Central. The Annex is an intimate black-box setup, so there is no bad seat and no hiding from the performer, which suits a variety show just fine. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so grab...
The One Night Stanleys perform long-form improv under the On the Mainstage banner at The Box, one of the few actual black-box theater spaces on the corridor. Long-form improv lives or dies on the ensemble's chemistry, and The Box's intimate configuration means you'll feel both the hits and the misses, which is honestly part of...
The Isotopes take on the Salt Lake Bees in a Pacific Coast League matchup at one of the better minor-league ballparks in the Southwest, sitting right on the Central Avenue...
BIJOU, the Denver-based producer who built a following through relentless touring and a catalog that sits at the harder, grittier end of house music, plays Effex on a Saturday night....
The Last Poets, the New York collective whose 1960s and 70s recordings laid foundational groundwork for hip-hop, perform at the KiMo with Terminator X on the decks and Albuquerque's own former poet laureate Hakim Bellamy holding it together as host. The KiMo's ornate Pueblo Deco interior has a way of making certain performances feel genuinely...
DØMINA takes the decks for the latest installment of Effex's ongoing Techno Affair 360 series, a hard techno and techno night that the club has been running long enough to have built a real following. Effex is a gay bar first, which means the dance floor tends to attract people who actually came to dance,...
Joanne Shaw Taylor, the British guitarist who started playing professionally at 16 after Eurythmics' Dave Stewart heard her at a festival, brings her full-throated blues-rock to the KiMo on a Tuesday night. The KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior is genuinely one of the best rooms in the Southwest to see a player this good, because the...
The 1986 film plays on screen while a live orchestra performs the full score underneath it, Bowie songs and all, on Halloween night at one of the most theatrical rooms in New Mexico. The KiMo's 1927 Pueblo Deco interior is already a lot to take in, and a crowd dressed for Halloween watching David Bowie...