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Tonight on the corridor
Will Hanley & The Silver Vigilantes bring their sound to Thirsty Eye Brewing, one of the more low-key rooms on the Central corridor where the beer list is serious and the stage is close enough that you feel the room breathe. Admission details are not confirmed yet, so check the 505 Live link before you...
Five short plays in two acts follow a young immigrant girl navigating two cultures at once, written and performed by an Albuquerque troupe that has been building this kind of specific, locally-rooted work for a while now. The Lobo's theater seating puts you genuinely close to the stage, so the quieter moments land differently here...
This listing covers the closing night of a four-day festival co-produced by Elkhorn Media and the City of Albuquerque, running September 16 through 19 at one of the most architecturally loaded rooms on Central. The KiMo's 1927 Pueblo Deco interior makes it a genuinely strange and wonderful place to hear live music, but the sightlines...
Night three of Bands of Enchantment puts Jason Scott and the High Heat, Metamorfos, and Turquoise Steel on the KiMo stage for a roots-heavy taping with red-dirt country-rock, Andean psych-folk, and Navajo blues-rock in the same room. The KiMo makes this kind of mixed bill feel more intentional than a bar lineup, but it also...
Locals take the mic to tell real ghost stories at this open mic night inside Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, a seasonal run that leans into the building's own considerable history. The Painted Lady itself dates back to the early Route 66 era and has enough documented weirdness that the storytellers don't have to...
Bravo the Bagchaser, the Sacramento rapper who built a following on drill-adjacent street rap before landing a deal with Interscope, headlines El Rey with Peysoh in support. El Rey's long narrow room puts you close to the stage no matter where you end up, which works in everyone's favor for a show like this. Tickets...
Comatose Beatz takes over the Downtown Marble taproom for a late end-of-summer send-off, the kind of night that treats a Tuesday like it owes you something. The outdoor patio at this location runs louder and later than the Nob Hill spot, so expect the crowd to lean into it. A ticket link exists but admission...
A tablao-format flamenco show with live guitar, cante, and baile performed over a Friday dinner service at Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues on the corridor doing this with any regularity. Specific performers are still TBA, so the cast is a variable, but the room itself is well-suited for this, closer in scale to...
Friday night flamenco at Hotel Albuquerque puts live bailaores, a cantaora, and a guitarrista in one of the few dedicated tablao settings in the Southwest. The room is intimate enough that you will feel the footwork through the floor, which is either thrilling or distracting depending on where you sit, so request a table toward...
Jason Scott & The High Heat take the KiMo stage for Bands of Enchantment, a show whose name suggests something bigger than a single headliner, so expect either a multi-act bill or a set with genuine range. The KiMo's ornate Pueblo Deco interior does something to a live show that flat-walled rooms can't touch, but...