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Three bands on the Set It Off Tour roll into Launchpad for a late-night show headlined by Silly Goose, with Cheem and Hotbox opening. Launchpad's narrow room compresses sound in a way that either makes loud rock feel enormous or overwhelming depending on where you stand, so stake out your spot early. Tickets are through...

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson, two of the most consequential voices in contemporary improvised music, share the Outpost stage for an evening of duo work that will likely sound like nothing else you hear this year. Outpost is a listening room in the truest sense, a small, attentive space where people actually come...

Mingus Dynasty, the rotating ensemble dedicated to keeping Charles Mingus's compositions alive and argumentative, plays Outpost as part of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival. Outpost is one of the few rooms in the state where the acoustics and the audience both take the music seriously, so this is a real listening room experience,...

Unto Others brings their Portland gothic metal to Launchpad, the kind of band that sounds like they wrote the soundtrack to a city you never want to leave. Launchpad runs loud and the room rewards bands with dynamics, which Unto Others have in abundance. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so grab them before the...

Brian Blade is widely regarded as one of the finest jazz drummers alive, and the Fellowship Band is his most personal project, a working group that plays his own compositions with the kind of collective listening you rarely hear outside a recording studio. Outpost is a seated, purpose-built listening room, which means the room itself...

All Shall Perish are touring the twentieth anniversary of 'The Price of Existence,' the 2006 deathcore record that a significant portion of this genre's current practitioners grew up on, and Carnifex is no afterthought of a support act. Sunshine's floor can get genuinely punishing on a bill like this, so mind your position near the...

Rolling Quartz, the five-piece Korean rock band that has been building a devoted following since their 2020 debut, plays The Jam Spot as part of their first major North American tour. The venue is small enough that even a general admission ticket puts you close to the stage, but the tiered VIP options go all...

Australian brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone are touring behind their new album with the kind of large-scale production, lights and choreography included, that fills a room the size of Kiva without it feeling empty. This act has built a following that travels, so expect the auditorium to be full and the crowd to be genuinely...

Flamenco performed in the tablao format, meaning an intimate stage, close seating, and the kind of footwork you feel through the floor before you hear it. Balloon Fiesta week fills every room in the city, so this show will draw a tourist-heavy crowd, which changes the room energy but does not change the quality of...

Hot Water Music has been doing this for thirty years, and they still play like something is at stake, which is rarer than it should be at this level. Launchpad is a small room for a band of this stature, so the crowd will be close and loud, and that is exactly the point. Grab...