Events on Central

Four-band bill anchored by Arm's Length and Holding Absence, two acts who have quietly built devoted followings on opposite sides of the Atlantic without ever quite breaking through to the...

A one-hour tablao set, bailaoras, cantaor, and guitarrista performing traditional flamenco in an intimate theater built for exactly this format, on the Sunday night of Balloon Fiesta weekend when the...

Four bands cycling through El Rey's stage on what is effectively a late Sunday night, with doors putting you well past midnight by the time the lineup runs its course....

Two California hardcore acts with serious lineage share the Launchpad stage: Bl'ast carry a direct SST Records thread back to the mid-80s, and Luicidal bring a Suicidal Tendencies family-tree pedigree...

Outpost's recurring jazz incubator puts working musicians in a room with Rodney Bowe and Dimi DiSanti, two of the more serious jazz educators operating in this city right now. The...

A seated flamenco show in the tablao room at Hotel Albuquerque, running about 90 minutes with live guitar, cante, and baile, though the specific performers won't be confirmed until closer...

César Bauvallet teaches a recurring Monday night Latin music class at Outpost, the longtime listening room on Central that has been hosting serious musicians and serious students for decades. Outpost...

The Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez play a kind of wordless, sun-bleached guitar music that sits somewhere between spaghetti western scores and Andean folk, and Popejoy's acoustics will do...

Exhorder helped invent the sound that made Pantera famous, and they've been making that point live for thirty-plus years. Launchpad's long narrow room compresses a metal crowd in a way...

This is a live tablao flamenco show, the kind built around the triangle of dancer, singer, and guitarist performing for a close-in seated audience, not a stage-at-a-distance production. Hotel Albuquerque's...