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Bay Area rapper Mike Sherm brings his melodic, street-rooted sound to El Rey, one of the more reliable mid-size rooms on Central for catching hip-hop acts before they price out of it. The 13-and-over door policy is worth flagging if you're bringing younger fans, and El Rey's layout means the floor gets close fast when...
Nathan Fox plays an evening set at Tractor Brewing's Nob Hill location, one of the more reliably comfortable spots on the corridor for catching a solo performer mid-week. The front...
Triple Moon Bewitched sets up for tarot readings inside Painted Lady's Central Avenue brew house, part of the ongoing Brews & Boos series that mixes craft beer with occult-adjacent programming....
Two solo artists from the heavy-music underground share a bill here: Steve Von Till, known as one half of Neurosis's songwriting core, brings his sparse acoustic work, and Six Organs of Admittance is Ben Chasny's long-running project in fingerpicked psychedelia. Sister Bar is a small room, which works in everyone's favor tonight, because both of...
Bourbon & Boots runs this international-themed night as a weekly anchor for the late crowd on Central, with a ticket link suggesting there's either a guest DJ or some kind of structured programming rather than a walk-in bar night. The 1 a.m. start time is the detail that matters most here: this is not a...
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Los Angeles swing band that spent the late '90s making jump blues feel urgent again, plays the KiMo Theatre on Central. The KiMo's art deco interior is genuinely one of the better rooms in the Southwest for this kind of show, all hard surfaces and theatricality, and the acoustics reward...
Bay Area rapper Mike Sherm brings his street-rap catalog to El Rey, a late-night show that runs until 2 a.m. local time. El Rey's long room can feel cavernous for mid-tier draws, but it compresses nicely when a crowd actually shows up, and Sherm has a loyal enough following in the Southwest to fill the...
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the California swing band that never really went away after the late-90s revival, plays the KiMo Theatre in a pairing that actually makes sense: the band's...
Four Albuquerque bands across one night at Launchpad, which means a long bill that rewards showing up early rather than pacing yourself to the headliner. Launchpad's sound system handles loud and layered music well, and a four-band local show tends to draw a cross-section of scenes that makes the room feel alive before anyone plugs...
Black Veil Brides, the Los Angeles band that built a career out of glam-metal theatrics and arena-sized anthems, plays El Rey with Caskets in support. El Rey is a tight room for a band that usually wants to feel bigger, which actually works in your favor here because the production hits harder when you're close...