• TwoLips Homecoming Show at Sister Bar Downtown

    Sister Bar
    Downtownhip hopTickets

    TwoLips comes back to Albuquerque for a homecoming set, joined by Tolliver, Clarq, and Thot Daughter in a late-night lineup that runs until nearly 2 a.m. local time. Sister Bar...

  • Ghosts of Old Town

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
    Wells Parkhistory & heritageTickets

    Cody Polston, a published paranormal researcher with decades of New Mexico fieldwork, presents a deep dive into Old Town Albuquerque's ghost history as part of the Painted Lady's recurring Brews...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Dinner Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    arts & cultureTickets

    Hotel Albuquerque's tablao series brings together a bailaor, cantaora, and guitarrista for a seated dinner show in one of the corridor's most architecturally fitting rooms for this kind of performance. The Old Town adjacency is not incidental: this stretch of Central has hosted Spanish-rooted performance traditions longer than almost anywhere else in the country, and...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    latinTickets

    Three bailaoras, a cantaor, and a guitarist perform a full tablao-format flamenco show inside Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues on the corridor built for this kind of presentation. The room is intimate enough that you will hear the footwork on the floor and feel the call-and-response between dancer and singer the way it...

  • Calle 66 Live at Albuquerque Museum

    Albuquerque Museum
    Old TowndanceTickets

    Calle 66 takes the outdoor stage for the Friday salsa night in the Albuquerque Museum's long-running Music Under the Stars series, now in its 35th year. The museum courtyard is one of the better outdoor listening rooms in the city, with the Old Town adobe walls doing surprisingly good things for the sound. Tickets are...

  • Ben’s Birthday Bash at Moonlight Lounge

    Sunshine Theatre
    Downtownbar sceneTickets

    A ticketed birthday party running from roughly 10:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. local time at Moonlight Lounge on the corridor, which tells you everything you need to know about the energy level being aimed for. Details on the event itself are thin, so this one lives or dies on how well you know Ben. Tickets...

  • Live Improv Comedy

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreacomedyTickets

    Improv comedy night at The Box, co-presented with Improv Theatre, meaning the performers likely have actual training and structure behind them rather than a loose open-mic feel. The Box is a small, close-quarters room where there's no real bad seat, but there's also nowhere to hide if you get pulled into a bit. Tickets are...

  • Hybrid Minds Live

    Effex
    Downtownlate-nightDetails

    Hybrid Minds are one of the UK acts most responsible for pulling liquid DnB toward something that actually sounds like music rather than a stress test for subwoofers. Effex runs late and loud, so if you're coming from outside the neighborhood, plan around parking on that stretch of Central rather than assuming the lot. The...

  • Drum & Bass Afters at Lunas Kava Root

    Gaia's Kava Root
    UNM AreaelectronicDetails

    Three drum and bass acts, Kuzomii, basketOfries, and Bass Prophet, take over Lunas Kava Root for a late-night set billed as an afters, meaning this is the party after the party. Kava and DnB is a genuinely different combination than the usual bar setup, and the root bar format tends to keep the crowd focused...