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The Isotopes host Salt Lake in a late-season Triple-A Pacific Coast League game at one of the better mid-level ballparks in the country, with sightlines that are genuinely good from almost every seat. A Friday night start at 6:35 local time means the Sandia Mountains are lit up behind right field for the first few...
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...
DØMINA takes the decks for the latest installment of Effex's ongoing Techno Affair 360 series, a hard techno and techno night that the club has been running long enough to...
Joanne Shaw Taylor, the British guitarist who started playing professionally at 16 after Eurythmics' Dave Stewart heard her at a festival, brings her full-throated blues-rock to the KiMo on a...
The 1986 film plays on screen while a live orchestra performs the full score underneath it, Bowie songs and all, on Halloween night at one of the most theatrical rooms in New Mexico. The KiMo's 1927 Pueblo Deco interior is already a lot to take in, and a crowd dressed for Halloween watching David Bowie...
The UNM Robb Musical Trust's annual memorial concert honors John Donald Robb Jr. with an evening of violin-focused works at South Broadway Cultural Center, a neighborhood arts space that punches well above its square footage. Robb spent decades collecting New Mexican folk music before becoming dean of UNM's music school, so this concert carries real...
The Four C Notes are a working tribute act built around the Four Seasons catalog, falsettos and all, performing at one of the most acoustically and visually distinctive theaters on the Route 66 corridor. The KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior does something genuinely strange and good to close-harmony vocal groups, bouncing the sound in ways a...