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This is a multi-band cover night at Launchpad, kicking off what the name makes clear is at least a two-night run timed to Halloween season. Launchpad's long room rewards the format: you can drift toward the bar when a set isn't for you and move up when one is. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket,...
Two of the most quietly influential voices in left-field hip-hop share a bill, with Surf Gang and skate legend turned rapper Na-Kel Smith opening. El Rey holds around 500 and the floor gets close fast, so arriving early puts you in a better position than the ticket alone does. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket,...
Launchpad's annual Halloween cover band run is exactly what it sounds like: a stretch of October nights where different acts take the stage as someone else entirely, costumes and all....
This one leans into local lore: Milton Yarberry was Albuquerque's first city marshal, hanged in 1883, and this magic and storytelling show uses his story as the spine of a...
Levi Platero, one of the most technically serious blues guitarists working out of New Mexico right now, leads a rotating cast of guests through an SRV birthday tribute at FUSION...
The Lobo Sports Vault takes over the screening room inside one of Central Avenue's landmark theaters for a full Saturday of college football, with a buffet running through the early afternoon and the Lobos game on the big screen whenever the schedule allows. The all-ages window closes at 10 PM, after which it goes 18-plus,...
The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame is putting on a four-hour concert at the Route 66 Visitor Center, part of a centennial series that has been pulling in acts tied to the state's musical legacy. The Visitor Center is a small, purpose-built space, so this will feel closer to a listening room than a...
Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque runs a Saturday matinee during Balloon Fiesta weekend, pairing live guitar, cante, and baile in a purpose-built tablao inside Hotel Albuquerque on Old Town's edge of the corridor. The specific performers are still being confirmed, but the format itself is the draw: close seats, no amplification buffer between you and the footwork,...
New Mexico United takes on Phoenix Rising FC in a USL Championship regular-season match at Isotopes Park, sitting right on the Central Avenue corridor in the UNM Area. United's supporter sections are genuinely loud and organized, the kind of crowd energy that makes a mid-table October match feel like something with stakes. Tickets are through...
Whitney Cummings, one of the sharper stand-ups working right now, brings her Big Baby Tour to Kiva Auditorium on October 3. Kiva seats around 2,400, so this is a proper theater experience with real sightlines from nearly every section, not the crammed club setting where her material usually lives. Tickets are through Ticketmaster, so buy...