• The Queers at Launchpad

    Downtownall agesTickets

    The Queers have been playing fast, funny, three-chord pop-punk since the mid-80s and they still mean it, which is more than you can say for most acts with that kind of tenure. Launchpad is a narrow room and the stage sits low, so this will be loud and close in the way that either delights...

  • Open Source All-Ages Class at Outpost

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM Areaall agesTickets

    Kanoa Kaluhiwa leads this all-ages weekly class at Outpost Performance Space, running every Tuesday through August 26 under the title Open Source. Outpost is one of the more thoughtfully run...

  • Adult Band Class at Outpost Performance Space

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreacommunityTickets

    This is a multi-week adult band class taught by Kanoa Kaluhiwa, wrapping up with what is presumably a final session on August 26 at Outpost. Outpost runs these classes with...

  • NM United Soccer vs. Lexington SC

    Isotopes Park
    UNM Areafamily friendlyTickets

    New Mexico United, the USL Championship club that turned Albuquerque into a genuine soccer town, hosts Lexington SC at Isotopes Park on a late-August Thursday night. The supporter sections behind...

  • Mike Sherm Live

    El Rey Theater
    Downtownhip-hopTickets

    Bay Area rapper Mike Sherm brings his melodic, street-rooted sound to El Rey, one of the more reliable mid-size rooms on Central for catching hip-hop acts before they price out of it. The 13-and-over door policy is worth flagging if you're bringing younger fans, and El Rey's layout means the floor gets close fast when...

  • Nathan Fox Live at Tractor Brewing Nob Hill

    Bosque Brewing Nob Hill
    Nob Hillsinger-songwriterDetails

    Nathan Fox plays an evening set at Tractor Brewing's Nob Hill location, one of the more reliably comfortable spots on the corridor for catching a solo performer mid-week. The front...

  • Tarot Readings on Route 66 at Painted Lady Bed & Brew

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
    Wells Parkbar vibesTickets

    Triple Moon Bewitched sets up for tarot readings inside Painted Lady's Central Avenue brew house, part of the ongoing Brews & Boos series that mixes craft beer with occult-adjacent programming....

  • Steve Von Till & Six Organs of Admittance

    Sister Bar
    DowntownexperimentalTickets

    Two solo artists from the heavy-music underground share a bill here: Steve Von Till, known as one half of Neurosis's songwriting core, brings his sparse acoustic work, and Six Organs of Admittance is Ben Chasny's long-running project in fingerpicked psychedelia. Sister Bar is a small room, which works in everyone's favor tonight, because both of...

  • International Thursday’s at Bourbon & Boots

    Bourbon & Boots
    DowntowndanceDetails

    Bourbon & Boots runs this international-themed night as a weekly anchor for the late crowd on Central, with a ticket link suggesting there's either a guest DJ or some kind of structured programming rather than a walk-in bar night. The 1 a.m. start time is the detail that matters most here: this is not a...

  • Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Live at KiMo Theatre Downtown

    Kimo Theatre
    Downtownall agesTickets

    Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Los Angeles swing band that spent the late '90s making jump blues feel urgent again, plays the KiMo Theatre on Central. The KiMo's art deco interior is genuinely one of the better rooms in the Southwest for this kind of show, all hard surfaces and theatricality, and the acoustics reward...