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Struggle Jennings, the Nashville rapper who has built a cult following on outlaw hip-hop and hard-luck storytelling, brings that weight to Launchpad with The Kickback Counselors opening. This room runs loud and close, which suits the material, but get there before doors fill the floor because sightlines thin fast once the crowd locks in.
Mineral Hill brings their set to Tractor's Wells Park patio, one of the better outdoor stages on the corridor for a July evening. The trees out back actually do something about the heat, which matters when it's still 85 degrees at showtime. Check 505live for admission details before you go, since nothing's been posted yet.
Brooklyn rapper Kota the Friend brings his lo-fi, self-produced sound to Sister Bar, one of the tighter indoor rooms on the corridor. His crowds tend to be genuinely invested rather than just out for a Friday, which changes the room feel considerably. Tickets are moving, so waiting on this one has a real cost.
Josh Turner, the South Carolina baritone whose voice sits somewhere between classic country and Southern gospel, plays Kiva Auditorium on his This Country Music Thing Tour. Kiva is a proper seated theater inside the Convention Center, which means good sightlines from almost anywhere in the room but a crowd that tends to stay in their...
Three of the more respected names in modern traditional country, Brennen Leigh, Kelly Willis, and Melissa Carper, split a single bill at FUSION 708 on Central. This is a room that punches above its square footage when the booking is right, and this booking is right. Tickets through Hold My Ticket, which means will-call can...
Dale Watson has been keeping real honky-tonk alive since before it was fashionable to care about that, and a Launchpad show puts him in a room where the PA can actually handle a steel guitar at volume. Launchpad's long and narrow floor means almost every spot in the house is closer to the stage than...
Four local acts share a bill at Insideout, a small Downtown room that rewards showing up early because the capacity is real and the later sets tend to draw. The 9 PM local start puts this deep into a Thursday night, so know that going in. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, which means you...
Three local acts share a bill at Moonlight Lounge, and the lineup has enough range to keep the room honest across a three-hour set. The Moonlight runs late and the crowd tends to arrive late too, so the openers are worth catching early if any of these names are the reason you're going. Tickets are...
Crazy Bird brings their set to Tractor's Wells Park taproom, one of the more reliably good-sounding smaller rooms on the corridor. The outdoor patio fills up fast on summer nights, so arriving early gets you both a seat and the cooler part of the evening. Check 505livemusic.com closer to the date for set times, since...
A DJ night built around Bad Bunny's catalog, from the early SoundCloud era through his stadium-pop years, held at Marble's Downtown taproom on Central. Marble's outdoor patio is one of the better places to dance in this corridor on a July night, assuming the weather cooperates, which in Albuquerque mid-summer it usually does. Admission is...