Events on Central

Four bands, one birthday, and a bill that leans hard into the heavier end of the Albuquerque scene. Launchpad's room is built for exactly this kind of stacked weekend show,...

Bravo The Bagchaser, the Sacramento rapper who built a following through raw street narratives and consistent independent releases, headlines the Nothing Given Tour at one of Central Avenue's better rooms...

Triple-A Pacific Coast League baseball on Central, the Isotopes hosting the Salt Lake Bees in what is reliably one of the better ways to spend an evening in this neighborhood. The park sits right on the corridor and the sight lines are genuinely good from almost every seat, which is not something you can say...

Built To Spill, the Boise outfit that helped define what overdriven, melodically obsessive indie rock could be in the '90s, plays El Rey with local singer-songwriter Paul Schalda opening. El Rey's long room and solid sound system suit this band well, since their live sets tend to stretch and wander in ways that reward a...

A full tablao-format flamenco show at Hotel Albuquerque, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist performing in the tradition that has made this recurring series one of the more serious...

A seated dinner show built around traditional tablao flamenco, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist performing in the Old Town-adjacent ballroom space at Hotel Albuquerque on Central. The room is formal enough that showing up in shorts feels wrong, and the stage-to-table proximity means you will hear every footstrike and feel it, which is...

Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an hour of unscripted comedy built entirely in the room, with the audience as a co-conspirator. The Box is a small, focused black-box space where nothing hides, which either sharpens a troupe or exposes them, and Improv Theatre tends to handle that pressure well. Grab tickets...