Events on Central

New Mexico United, the USL Championship club that turned Albuquerque into a genuine soccer town, hosts Lexington SC at Isotopes Park on a late-August Thursday night. The supporter sections behind the goals are legitimately loud, and the sightlines in this baseball-converted setup are better than you'd expect because the stands push you close to the...

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 patio pulls ambient noise from Central, so the interior stage tends to reward listeners who actually want to hear the songs. Ticket details are through...

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. The room is lively and social, not reverent, so expect your reading to happen alongside the ambient hum of other people enjoying a Thursday pint....

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...

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...

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 horns-out, big-room energy fits the KiMo's 700-seat Pueblo Deco interior better than most clubs could manage. The KiMo has limited flat floor space, so if...