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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Launchpad’s 29th Birthday Party

    Launchpad
    Downtownhigh energyTickets

    Twenty-nine years on Central is a legitimate milestone for a room that has outlasted a dozen trends and twice as many competing venues, and Launchpad tends to treat its own...

  • Clark Libbey & High Desert Playboys

    Thirsty Eye Brewing Company
    americanaDetails

    Clark Libbey and The High Desert Playboys bring their New Mexico-rooted country and americana sound to Thirsty Eye, one of the more relaxed rooms on the corridor for live music....

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Dinner Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    arts & cultureTickets

    A seated flamenco dinner show in the Old Town-adjacent room at Hotel Albuquerque, with live guitar, cante, and dance performed in close quarters. Tablao format means the performers work within...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    latinTickets

    Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarrista perform a full tablao-format flamenco show inside Hotel Albuquerque, right on Central. This is not dinner theater dressed up as flamenco; the company...