Events on Central

This is the official after-party for the Hybrid Minds show, a late-night (or early-morning, depending on your relationship with Saturday) liquid drum and bass gathering running 8:30 to 11am at...

Levi Dean brings his set to the open food hall floor at Sawmill Market, one of the corridor's more unusual live music settings. The room is loud by design, with hard surfaces and competing kitchen noise, so this works best as background-forward listening while you eat rather than a dedicated sit-and-watch show. A ticket link...

Sandia Performing Arts Company brings Ay, Compadre! to South Broadway Cultural Center, one of the corridor's most underattended performing arts spaces. The room is intimate and the sightlines are genuinely...

Twelve bands across one night, starting at 9 p.m. and running until the sun is already thinking about coming up, anchored by locals like Cheap Perfume and Clusterfux alongside a full card of Burque punk regulars. Insideout is a small room, which means the sound hits hard and there is nowhere to hide from a...

Twelve bands, nearly ten hours, one room: this is the kind of marathon that separates the people who say they like punk from the people who actually show up on a Saturday night. Launchpad is a narrow, loud box with a low ceiling that does exactly what a show like this needs, and the stacked...

Zydeco on Central Avenue is a rare enough thing that this 10:30 p.m. set at Marble's downtown taproom deserves your attention, a Louisiana-rooted accordion-and-washboard genre that hits harder in a room with good beer in hand. Marble's main floor handles a dancing crowd well, and this is absolutely a dancing crowd. A ticket link exists,...

A quintet format puts real space between the players, and that breathing room is where jazz either earns its keep or exposes itself. The Hall on Central has decent acoustics...

The Isotopes take on the Sugar Land Space Cowboys in a Triple-A Pacific Coast League night game at one of the better minor league parks in the Southwest. Isotopes Park...