Events on Central

A tablao-format flamenco show with live guitar, cante, and baile performed over a Friday dinner service at Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues on the corridor doing this with...

Friday night flamenco at Hotel Albuquerque puts live bailaores, a cantaora, and a guitarrista in one of the few dedicated tablao settings in the Southwest. The room is intimate enough...

Jason Scott & The High Heat take the KiMo stage for Bands of Enchantment, a show whose name suggests something bigger than a single headliner, so expect either a multi-act...

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 and Peysoh roll the Nothing Given Tour through El Rey, a late-night show with a ticket link already live, which means the room will fill before walk-up...

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 for hip-hop sound. DJ Trill handles sounds between sets, which usually means this crowd stays warm the whole night rather than cooling off between acts....

The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame takes over the Route 66 Visitor Center for a four-hour concert series tied to centennial celebrations, which puts the music literally on the historic corridor itself. The Hall of Fame tends to book acts with deep New Mexico roots, the kind that don't always surface in advance press,...

The Bands of Enchantment festival closes out its run at the KiMo, a 1927 Pueblo Deco landmark on Central that is worth the visit on architectural merit alone before a single note plays. This particular listing covers the final night, starting at 10 p.m., so you are looking at a late set in one of...

Five acts across a late-night satellite slot for Bands of Enchantment, the festival that tends to use Insideout as an overflow room when the main stages are packed. That satellite designation matters: this is the crowd that either couldn't get into the headliner or knew exactly what they were doing by skipping it, and the...

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...