Events on Central

Jahbabii and Badmon take the decks at Gaia's Kava Root for a late-night set that runs hip-hop, R&B, reggaeton, and trap, with a third DJ listed only as a surprise....

Taylor Torrence, the Denver-based DJ whose melodic techno and progressive house sets have earned him a serious international following, takes over Effex for Mr. AfterHours Presents' SNTA 360° night. The...

The 2026 World Cup Final goes up on the Lobo's theater big screen, the balcony simulcast, and all 15 screens in the Sports Lounge, including a four-screen video wall, which is a lot of real estate for the biggest match on the planet. The grand-prize drawing for the sports memorabilia package happens live in the...

All Sick Burque brings a beach theme to one of Downtown's more reliably sweaty dance floors, with DJ Solita and Rissy trading sets from 10pm until the early hours of Sunday morning. Insideout runs small and loud, so if you're going for the music rather than the scene, get there before midnight when the room...

Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarist perform a full tablao-format flamenco show in one of the few dedicated flamenco venues left on Central. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is intimate enough that you'll feel the footwork through the floor, so sit where you can see feet as well as hands. Tickets move on this one,...

Triple-A ball under a New Mexico sky, with the Sandia Mountains sitting out beyond the right-field wall doing their thing regardless of the score. Isotopes Park is genuinely one of the better minor league venues in the country, and a Sunday night game in July means warm air, manageable crowds compared to weekend afternoons, and...

Jordan Jonas, best known for surviving 77 days alone in the Arctic on Season 6 of the show Alone, brings whatever he knows about things that go bump in the night to Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series on a Sunday evening. Painted Lady is a small, genuinely weird-in-the-good-way spot on Central, and the intimate...

Arizona metalcore headliners The Word Alive are running their Deceiver and Dark Matter Tour through Launchpad with three support acts filling out a bill that should run long. Launchpad's low ceiling and close-quarters floor make the heavy stuff hit harder than the room has any right to, which is either the appeal or the reason...

Mary Gauthier is one of the more unsparing songwriters working in American roots music, the kind who writes about addiction, incarceration, and grief with enough craft that the songs feel like relief rather than punishment. FUSION | 708 is a small room on Central, which means you are close enough to watch her face, and...

Cockroach Theatre, one of Albuquerque's scrappier and more reliable small companies, takes on Shakespeare's fairy-court comedy in The Box Annex, the smaller of the two performance spaces at this Central corridor staple. The Annex puts you close enough to the stage that the physical comedy lands harder than it would in a conventional house, which...