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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...
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...
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 breathe better than the interior on a warm August night, so dress for that. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, which means the door price...
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 the Rhythm Room stage in a show hosted by Buck D and put together by Takeover Promotions. The Rhythm Room is a small room, which...
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 you loved. Launchpad's long room rewards this format: the sound system carries well toward the back, so you don't have to fight the front to...
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...
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'...
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 drawing the most committed crowd, so arriving after midnight is a legitimate strategy. A ticket link exists, which suggests this one may sell or at...
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 observance that rewards showing up with some baseline knowledge of what you're witnessing. The Japanese Garden is one of the more quietly beautiful spaces in...