• Jazz Standards at Outpost Performance Space

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreajazzDetails

    Toni Morgan and Michael Matison bring a paired vocal concept to jazz standards, trading and blending across the classic American songbook. Outpost is one of the few rooms in Albuquerque built for listening rather than drinking, so the audience actually goes quiet and the nuance lands. Tickets are through 505livemusic.com, and this room sells out...

  • Horror Comedy Night at Painted Lady

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
    Wells Parkbar & breweryTickets

    The Brews & Boos series at Painted Lady Bed & Brew brings a horror-comedy standup hour to their Central Avenue taproom, leaning into the campy premise rather than treating it as a gimmick. The room is small and the setting is a working inn, so the audience tends to be a mix of overnight guests...

  • Garden Party at Insideout

    Inside Out
    Downtownarts & cultureTickets

    A late-night garden party at Insideout, one of the more reliably interesting rooms on Central, running from 8 PM well past midnight. The outdoor setup at this spot tends to...

  • Kap G Live at Rhythm Room Downtown

    Sister Bar
    DowntownconcertTickets

    Atlanta's Kap G, the bilingual rapper who came up alongside Young Thug and built a following on tracks that blur Spanish and English without making a gimmick of it, takes...

  • Indie Sleaze Nite at Launchpad

    Launchpad
    DowntownDJ setTickets

    Two DJs spin the greasy, eyeliner-heavy crossover zone where indie rock and early-2000s sleaze collide, the kind of set list that moves between Yeah Yeah Yeahs and something you forgot...

  • Ay, Compadre at the NHCC Barelas

    NHCC National Hispanic Cultural Center
    Barelasdate nightDetails

    Sandia Performing Arts brings Rudolfo Anaya's two-act comedy to the Wells Fargo Auditorium, following a pair of New Mexico compadres and their wives through the awkward, tender territory of middle age. Anaya wrote this one with more laughs than his heavier work, but the emotional undertow is still there, and a live Albuquerque audience tends...

  • Rock en Español 90s Night at Lobo Theater

    Historic Lobo Theater
    Nob Hillbar sceneTickets

    Rastas Retro runs two back-to-back sets covering Soda Stereo, Caifanes, MANÁ, Enanitos Verdes, and more, all live, no backing tracks, with both male and female vocalists handling the catalog. The Lobo's main floor has enough room to move but the acoustics keep it tight, and a crowd that knows every word to 'De Música Ligera'...

  • Launchpad 29th Birthday Party

    Launchpad
    Downtownlive musicDetails

    Ten local acts, one stage, one of the oldest all-ages rock rooms left on Central Avenue turning 29. Launchpad birthday shows historically run long and loud, with the later slots...

  • Obon Festival at ABQ BioPark

    ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden
    Old TownculturalDetails

    Held in the BioPark's Japanese Garden, this annual ceremony draws on Buddhist traditions of honoring the dead through Bon Odori folk dancing, taiko drumming, and lantern rituals, the kind of...