Events on Central

The instructors at Rock 101 Music Academy step out from behind the lesson plans and play a full night of live music at Rio Bravo Brewing. These are working musicians...

San Antonio punk trio FEA brings their bilingual, Latinx-rooted hardcore to Insideout alongside Albuquerque locals All Thicc and Fit To Burn. Insideout runs small and close, which for a band...

Four touring acts, Good Terms, Stateside, Savings, and Right On Kid, stack up on the Launchpad stage for a late-night show that runs into the early hours of September 2nd. Launchpad is a narrow room with a low ceiling that does something genuinely useful for this kind of bill: it makes even a half-full crowd...

Night one of New Mexico's annual goth festival stacks eight acts across what will likely be a long, late run at Launchpad, anchored by local and regional names like Theif,...

The second night of New Mexico Goth Fest loads eight acts into Insideout starting at midnight, running Church Fire, Academy Order, Funeral Process, The Writhers, Cruel Mourning, Crash Davidian, Leiahdoris,...

Wayne Hancock is the kind of Texas honky-tonk lifer who makes you wonder why anyone ever bothered complicating country music in the first place, and Launchpad's compact room puts you close enough to feel it. The event title references Juno Brewery, so confirm the venue before you go, because that detail in the listing suggests...

Twin Temple performs their self-described Satanic doo-wop, a genuinely strange and committed act built around Alexandra and Zachary Twin's old-school vocal harmonies set against occult pageantry. The Sunshine's general admission floor gets intimate fast for a show like this, so arriving early puts you closer to whatever ritual they have planned. Tickets are through Hold...

Three heavyweights of postwar blues harmonica and guitar share a stage for a CD release night at FUSION | 708, which puts this closer to a recording-session atmosphere than a standard bar gig. Anson Funderburgh has been one of the most respected Texas blues guitarists since the early eighties, and Junior Watson's phrasing is the...

The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means the floor gets loud fast and the sightlines are genuinely good from anywhere, but get there before the openers finish if you want a comfortable...