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Suffolk's long-running symphonic black metal institution comes to Central Avenue the night before Halloween, which is either obvious or perfect depending on your tolerance for thematic coincidence. The Sunshine's floor gets loud and close for heavy shows, so if you want breathing room, arrive early and find your spot before the room fills. Tickets are...
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...
TourABQ's Halloween pedaler crawl puts a pack of costumed riders on a guided multi-stop bar route through the city on the night itself. The party bike format means you're moving between bars as a group, so this works best if you commit to the whole ride rather than planning to peel off early. Tickets are...
A seated tablao flamenco performance inside Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues in the Southwest running this format with any regularity. The specific cast is still TBD at listing time, so the experience depends on who they book, but the room itself is well-suited to the form: intimate enough that the footwork lands in...
The 1986 Bowie-and-Muppets fantasy film screens at the KiMo with a live orchestra playing the score, which means you hear Trevor Jones and David Bowie's songs the way a theater this ornate was built to deliver them. Halloween night adds a cosplay energy that the KiMo's Pueblo Deco interior handles better than most rooms would....
Six local acts, six full-set tributes, one Halloween night: the lineup runs from Neutral Milk Hotel to Kataklysm, which tells you this is less a genre show than a chaos experiment that somehow works every year. Launchpad's long narrow room gets genuinely packed for this one, so arriving early matters more than it usually would....
The Guild's fourteenth year running Rocky Horror on Halloween night, which at this point makes it less a screening and more a Central Avenue institution. The audience participation here runs deep, the kind of crowd that shows up in full costume with prop bags and knows every callback by heart. Tickets through Hold My Ticket,...
The Lobo Sports Vault takes over a room inside the Historic Lobo Theater for a full afternoon of NCAA football, with a buffet running 11 AM to 2 PM and the college slate on screens through the evening. The venue puts every New Mexico Lobos game on the big screen when the room is available...
The Deal, Albuquerque's Grateful Dead tribute act, wraps their three-show 2026 Lobo run on Halloween night with a set pulling from the full Dead catalog, long jams included. This is the third and final Lobo date of the year, which tends to mean the band arrives with something to prove, and a 550-person room full...