• Crzy Live at Gaia’s Kava Root

    Gaia's Kava Root
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    Crzy plays Gaia's Kava Root on September 20th, one of the more low-key rooms on this stretch of Central where the kava bar format tends to keep the crowd genuinely attentive rather than just present. Details beyond the date are thin, so checking the Instagram link before you go is worth the thirty seconds.

  • Melt-Banana at Launchpad

    Launchpad
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    Melt-Banana is a two-person Japanese noise-punk outfit that has been doing exactly what they do, at full intensity, since 1992, and live they are genuinely disorienting in the best way. Launchpad is a small room, which means there is nowhere to hide from the volume and nowhere you'd want to be. Tickets are through Hold...

  • Dent May & Pearl and the Oysters at Sister Downtown

    Sister Bar
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    Dent May brings his brand of breezy, orchestral pop to Sister, paired with Pearl & the Oysters, the French-American duo whose sound sits somewhere between sunshine and a vintage record...

  • Melissa Aldana Quartet at Outpost

    Outpost Performance Space
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    Chilean tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana brings her quartet to Outpost Performance Space for the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival, and this is a legitimate get for the festival. Outpost is a proper listening room, which means the crowd actually listens, so if you want to talk through a show, this is the wrong night...

  • Mustard Service & Pity Party Live

    Sunshine Theatre
    Downtownlive musicTickets

    Four bands, one night at the Sunshine, with Mustard Service bringing the Paradise Tour through Downtown on what is technically a Wednesday night given the 8:30 PM local start. The Sunshine's standing room floor rewards getting there early when a bill runs this deep, and four acts means the opener hits before most people have...

  • NITE with DJ Ren + Moonside

    Inside Out
    DowntownelectronicTickets

    Two DJs, one late-night set at Insideout, running from what is effectively 9 p.m. Wednesday local time through 6 a.m. Thursday morning once you convert from UTC. Insideout is a small room on Central, which means the sound hits differently than it would in a warehouse, so expect it to feel immediate and a little...

  • Millionaire$ My Super Sweet 16 Tour

    Launchpad
    DowntownindieTickets

    Millionaire$ headlines this four-act bill at Launchpad, rolling through on their My Super Sweet 16 Tour with Davvn, Notions, and Slowburn in support. Launchpad's stage puts you close to the action in a way that bigger rooms can't replicate, and the local openers here are worth arriving early for. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket,...

  • Facing Scars Pilot Premiere at Lobo Theater

    Historic Lobo Theater
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    An Albuquerque production company screens the pilot episode of Facing Scars, a drama about a amateur boxing champion rebuilding her life after escaping an abusive marriage, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Every dollar from ticket sales goes directly to S.A.F.E. House, New Mexico's largest intimate-partner domestic violence shelter, because tickets are sold through...

  • Tarot on Tap at Painted Lady

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
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    Part of Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, this is a ticketed evening of tarot readings with Triple Moon Bewitched in one of the more genuinely atmospheric rooms on the corridor. The Bed & Brew's interior does a lot of the heavy lifting here, the kind of space where this sort of thing doesn't feel...

  • Dexter and The Moonrocks at El Rey

    El Rey Theater
    Downtownlive musicTickets

    Dexter and The Moonrocks are on the El Rey stage, one of the better mid-size rooms on the Central corridor for catching a band at close range. The Ticketmaster link is live, so this one is moving through a formal box office, which usually means the act has real production behind it. Worth grabbing tickets...