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Friday night flamenco at Hotel Albuquerque puts live bailaores, a cantaora, and a guitarrista in one of the few dedicated tablao settings in the Southwest. The room is intimate enough that you will feel the footwork through the floor, which is either thrilling or distracting depending on where you sit, so request a table toward...
TSU NAMI headlines the rooftop edition of We House Fridays, pulling from stutter house and UK garage, two genres that reward a sound system with actual low-end. The Effex rooftop gives you Downtown Albuquerque at night as your backdrop, which on a clear September evening is genuinely hard to argue with. Start time is unconfirmed,...
Four bands, one birthday, and a bill that leans hard into the heavier end of the Albuquerque scene. Launchpad's room is built for exactly this kind of stacked weekend show, where the floor fills early and the sound desk gets a proper workout. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so grab them before the door...
Bravo The Bagchaser, the Sacramento rapper who built a following through raw street narratives and consistent independent releases, headlines the Nothing Given Tour at one of Central Avenue's better rooms for hip-hop sound. DJ Trill handles sounds between sets, which usually means this crowd stays warm the whole night rather than cooling off between acts....
Triple-A Pacific Coast League baseball on Central, the Isotopes hosting the Salt Lake Bees in what is reliably one of the better ways to spend an evening in this neighborhood. The park sits right on the corridor and the sight lines are genuinely good from almost every seat, which is not something you can say...
Built To Spill, the Boise outfit that helped define what overdriven, melodically obsessive indie rock could be in the '90s, plays El Rey with local singer-songwriter Paul Schalda opening. El Rey's long room and solid sound system suit this band well, since their live sets tend to stretch and wander in ways that reward a...
Three names from the heavier end of house music, Wax Motif and VNSSA in particular having built real momentum on the festival circuit, playing a venue better known for visual art and cultural programming than for DJ sets. The NHCC's event spaces can work well for this kind of show when production is dialed in,...
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....
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...