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The Spanish Harlem Orchestra, a Grammy-winning nine-piece salsa dura outfit from New York, brings the kind of hard-bop Latin brass that doesn't get softened for festival crowds. The museum's outdoor amphitheater sits at the edge of Old Town and carries sound well on a late-August night, but the grassy slope fills early and latecomers end...
Ron Crowder brings his new album, Moving at the Speed of Life, to FUSION 708 for a proper release show on Central. FUSION 708 is a small room, which means the sound hits closer and the crowd energy reads immediately, so this kind of night either locks in fast or fizzles, and Crowder's local following...
Two improvisers (or a full ensemble, depending on the night) build scenes from nothing in real time at one of the corridor's few dedicated performance spaces. The Box is a proper black-box theater, which means sight lines are good and the room is small enough that a bad show has nowhere to hide and a...
Five local and regional DJs trading off across bass house, techno, trance, and UK garage in what amounts to a full-night showcase of Albuquerque's underground dance scene. Resident takeovers like this tend to run longer and weirder than standard bookings, which is either a selling point or a warning depending on how you feel about...
Two local electronic acts, Las Borrachas and Carma, are headlining this late-night set at Lunas Kava Root, a kava bar on Central that tends to run quieter and more intentional than your average after-hours spot. The 3:00 AM UTC timestamp puts this squarely in after-hours territory, but the listed start time is a placeholder, so...
Three local acts share the Launchpad stage on a Friday night, with Shauna Dean Cokeland headlining above No Manners and Junkyard Butterfly. Launchpad's sound system punches harder than the room's size suggests, and the stage sightlines are good from almost anywhere on the floor. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so grab them before the...
Carma holds down a resident takeover at the Press Club, which means the booth stays in trusted hands for the duration and the night builds with some intention rather than bouncing between unrelated acts. The Press Club's back room runs small, so the floor fills fast and the sound hits differently than it does in...
Mr. AfterHours Presents brings WHF 360° to Effex with Haylee Wood headlining and XBLYSSID in the special guest slot, which typically means the room doesn't find its footing until well past midnight. Effex runs late and loud by design, so if you're coming for the headline set, don't bother showing up at door time. Tickets...
Long-form improv from the Improv Theatre company at The Box, starting well after midnight on a Saturday, which tells you exactly what kind of crowd you'll find. The Box is a proper black box theater, so even a small audience feels like it was planned that way, and the format rewards staying attentive rather than...
The Lobo Sports Vault is the dedicated sports room inside the Historic Lobo Theater, and on Saturdays this fall it runs college football across its screens from open to close, with a buffet available during the lunch window. The big-screen treatment is reserved for Lobos games when the room is theirs, so if UNM is...