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Jordan Jonas hosts a supernatural-themed evening at Painted Lady Bed & Brew, the quirky Central Avenue spot that doubles as an actual inn, as part of their recurring Brews & Boos series. That bed-and-brew setup means the crowd often includes out-of-towners who wandered downstairs, which gives these nights a looser, stranger energy than your typical...
Three Deuce Luce brings their set to Insideout's outdoor garden space for a late-summer party on Central. Insideout's courtyard punches above its square footage, so arrive with time to settle in before the music takes hold. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so sort that out in advance rather than gambling on the door.
San Diego's The Frights are marking a decade of their debut album with a full tour stop at the Sunshine, one of the few rooms on Central that can actually hold a crowd this size without losing the energy. The self-deprecating tour name is a bit. The band is not: ten years in, they play...
Hotline TNT brings their brand of loud, distortion-heavy guitar pop to Launchpad, one of the few rooms on Central that genuinely suits this kind of show. The stage-to-floor ratio here...
Triple-A Pacific Coast League ball at one of the better mid-size stadiums in the country, where the Isotopes host Salt Lake on a Tuesday night. Isotopes Park sits right on Central, which means you can walk to a postgame beer without moving your car. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 PM local, so the mountain...
Cola, the Toronto post-punk outfit that rose from the wreckage of Ought, brings their tightly coiled, conversational guitar work to Sister with Artificial Go opening. Sister runs small and close, which suits Cola's music better than a bigger room would. Tickets are through 505 Live Music, and this one will sell before the week of...
Roberto and Paoli Rodriguez dig into the Afro-Cuban jazz tradition as a tribute to Miles Davis at the 100-year mark, performing as part of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival at Outpost. Outpost is a listening room in the truest sense: the sightlines are good, the crowd pays attention, and the acoustics reward it....
Cambridge psych-doom outfit Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats headlines the Sunshine Theater with Italian doom trio Messa opening, a double bill that earns its weight in riffs. The Sunshine's standing floor suits this kind of music well, the sound hits harder when there's nowhere to sit and nothing to do but absorb it. Tickets are...
San Francisco's Hot Flash Heat Wave brings their hazy, sun-warped indie pop to Launchpad, with local and regional support from Small Crush and High rounding out the bill. Launchpad's sound system punches well above what the room size would suggest, so the dreamy, layered textures this band trades in actually land the way they're supposed...
The Isotopes close out a mid-September home stand against the Salt Lake Bees, a Triple-A affiliate rivalry with enough history to make the crowd care even on a Tuesday night. Isotopes Park sits right on Central, and the upper deck along the third-base line gives you a view of the Sandias that honestly competes with...