Events on Central

Four bands cycling through El Rey's stage on what is effectively a late Sunday night, with doors putting you well past midnight by the time the lineup runs its course....

Two California hardcore acts with serious lineage share the Launchpad stage: Bl'ast carry a direct SST Records thread back to the mid-80s, and Luicidal bring a Suicidal Tendencies family-tree pedigree that the crowd will absolutely know. Launchpad's room is narrow and loud, which works in everyone's favor for this kind of show. The UTC start...

Outpost's recurring jazz incubator puts working musicians in a room with Rodney Bowe and Dimi DiSanti, two of the more serious jazz educators operating in this city right now. The...

A seated flamenco show in the tablao room at Hotel Albuquerque, running about 90 minutes with live guitar, cante, and baile, though the specific performers won't be confirmed until closer to the date. Balloon Fiesta week means the Old Town corridor is packed and parking around Hotel Albuquerque tightens up fast, so arriving early or...

César Bauvallet teaches a recurring Monday night Latin music class at Outpost, the longtime listening room on Central that has been hosting serious musicians and serious students for decades. Outpost keeps the room intimate and the acoustics honest, which makes it a better learning environment than most places charging twice as much for this kind...

The Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez play a kind of wordless, sun-bleached guitar music that sits somewhere between spaghetti western scores and Andean folk, and Popejoy's acoustics will do...

Exhorder helped invent the sound that made Pantera famous, and they've been making that point live for thirty-plus years. Launchpad's long narrow room compresses a metal crowd in a way that works in the band's favor, so arrive early if you want a position that isn't directly behind a post. Ticket link is live, and...

This is a live tablao flamenco show, the kind built around the triangle of dancer, singer, and guitarist performing for a close-in seated audience, not a stage-at-a-distance production. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is genuinely intimate, which means the footwork lands in your chest and the cante lands in your face, for better or worse depending...

César Bauvallet leads a seven-week Tuesday night Latin music class at one of the corridor's most respected listening rooms, running 6:30 to 8pm through late November. Outpost is a proper performance space with good acoustics and a teaching-friendly layout, which makes it a better classroom than most spots that host this kind of instruction. A...

Wednesday 13 has been doing horror-punk theatrics since the Murderdolls days, and the Shocktober Blood Tour is built around that aesthetic, costumes, prop blood, and all. The Sunshine Theater is one of the few rooms in Albuquerque big enough to hold a production like this without the stage swallowing the crowd, which matters here. Tickets...