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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...
A three-day Latin dance festival spread across the NHCC campus, Fusion, and the Albuquerque Museum, anchored by Grammy-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra on Friday night and 30 workshops covering everything from Casino Salsa and Rumba to Kizomba and Latin Hip Hop. Friday's concert at the museum is a separate venue from the weekend's workshops and socials,...
Carlos Morton's Esperanza adapts the story of the 1951 Empire Zinc strike in Bayard, NM, where Mexican American miners' wives took over the picket line after the Taft-Hartley Act pushed the men off it, and sets that history to music with Teatro Paraguas doing the lifting. Salt of the Earth, the film this draws from,...
Two acts share the bill here, starting with Bossa 66 at 5 pm and handing off to Jazz Traveler at 8 pm, which gives you a genuine evening arc rather than a single set and done. Tractor's Wells Park patio is one of the better outdoor listening situations on this stretch of Central when the...