Events on Central

Song Diva takes the stage at Thirsty Eye Brewing for a Thursday night set on Central. Thirsty Eye is a compact, low-key room where the bar and the stage share...

A fundraiser at Painted Lady Bed & Brew on Central, raising money for Barrett House, Albuquerque's longest-running shelter for women and children experiencing homelessness. Painted Lady is a genuine neighborhood...

Brooklyn rapper Kota the Friend brings his lo-fi, self-produced sound to Sister Bar, one of the tighter indoor rooms on the corridor. His crowds tend to be genuinely invested rather...

Josh Turner, the South Carolina baritone whose voice sits somewhere between classic country and Southern gospel, plays Kiva Auditorium on his This Country Music Thing Tour. Kiva is a proper...

The EQNX Jazztet brings small-group jazz to Outpost, one of the few rooms on Central that was purpose-built for listening rather than drinking. Outpost keeps its sight lines clean and its sound dialed, so wherever you sit, you're actually hearing the music.

Three of the more respected names in modern traditional country, Brennen Leigh, Kelly Willis, and Melissa Carper, split a single bill at FUSION 708 on Central. This is a room...

Dale Watson has been keeping real honky-tonk alive since before it was fashionable to care about that, and a Launchpad show puts him in a room where the PA can actually handle a steel guitar at volume. Launchpad's long and narrow floor means almost every spot in the house is closer to the stage than...

Four local acts share a bill at Insideout, a small Downtown room that rewards showing up early because the capacity is real and the later sets tend to draw. The...

Three local acts share a bill at Moonlight Lounge, and the lineup has enough range to keep the room honest across a three-hour set. The Moonlight runs late and the...