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  • NM United vs. Phoenix Rising FC

    Isotopes Park
    UNM AreasportsTickets

    New Mexico United takes on Phoenix Rising FC in a USL Championship regular-season match at Isotopes Park, sitting right on the Central Avenue corridor in the UNM Area. United's supporter...

  • Whitney Cummings Live at Kiva Auditorium Downtown

    Kiva Auditorium
    DowntowncomedyTickets

    Whitney Cummings, one of the sharper stand-ups working right now, brings her Big Baby Tour to Kiva Auditorium on October 3. Kiva seats around 2,400, so this is a proper theater experience with real sightlines from nearly every section, not the crammed club setting where her material usually lives. Tickets are through Ticketmaster, so buy...

  • BIJOU at Effex Nightclub

    Effex
    Downtownlate-nightDetails

    BIJOU, the Denver-based producer who built a following through relentless touring and a catalog that sits at the harder, grittier end of house music, plays Effex on a Saturday night. Effex runs late and the crowd usually doesn't hit critical mass until well after 10, so plan accordingly. The 9 PM start time is a...

  • The Last Poets & Terminator X at KiMo

    Kimo Theatre
    Downtownarts & cultureDetails

    The Last Poets, the New York collective whose 1960s and 70s recordings laid foundational groundwork for hip-hop, perform at the KiMo with Terminator X on the decks and Albuquerque's own former poet laureate Hakim Bellamy holding it together as host. The KiMo's ornate Pueblo Deco interior has a way of making certain performances feel genuinely...

  • Hard Techno Night with DØMINA at Effex

    Effex
    Downtownlate-nightDetails

    DØMINA takes the decks for the latest installment of Effex's ongoing Techno Affair 360 series, a hard techno and techno night that the club has been running long enough to have built a real following. Effex is a gay bar first, which means the dance floor tends to attract people who actually came to dance,...

  • Tokyo Machine at Effex Nightclub

    Effex
    DowntownelectronicDetails

    Tokyo Machine is the masked, robot-character project known for high-energy dubstep sets built around a running visual gimmick that somehow stays fun longer than it has any right to. Effex...

  • Joanne Shaw Taylor Live at KiMo Theatre Downtown

    Kimo Theatre
    Downtownlive musicDetails

    Joanne Shaw Taylor, the British guitarist who started playing professionally at 16 after Eurythmics' Dave Stewart heard her at a festival, brings her full-throated blues-rock to the KiMo on a Tuesday night. The KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior is genuinely one of the best rooms in the Southwest to see a player this good, because the...

  • Labyrinth in Concert at KiMo Theatre Downtown

    Kimo Theatre
    Downtowndate nightDetails

    The 1986 film plays on screen while a live orchestra performs the full score underneath it, Bowie songs and all, on Halloween night at one of the most theatrical rooms...

  • Robb Memorial Concert at South Broadway

    South Broadway Cultural Center
    classicalDetails

    The UNM Robb Musical Trust's annual memorial concert honors John Donald Robb Jr. with an evening of violin-focused works at South Broadway Cultural Center, a neighborhood arts space that punches well above its square footage. Robb spent decades collecting New Mexican folk music before becoming dean of UNM's music school, so this concert carries real...

  • Four C Notes Frankie Valli Tribute

    Kimo Theatre
    Downtownlive musicDetails

    The Four C Notes are a working tribute act built around the Four Seasons catalog, falsettos and all, performing at one of the most acoustically and visually distinctive theaters on...