• Ay, Compadre! Live on Route 66 South Broadway

    South Broadway Cultural Center
    arts & theaterDetails

    Sandia Performing Arts Company brings Ay, Compadre! to South Broadway Cultural Center, one of the corridor's most underattended performing arts spaces. The room is intimate and the sightlines are genuinely...

  • Desert Rat Punk Fest at Insideout

    El Rey Theater
    Downtownall agesTickets

    Twelve bands across one night, starting at 9 p.m. and running until the sun is already thinking about coming up, anchored by locals like Cheap Perfume and Clusterfux alongside a full card of Burque punk regulars. Insideout is a small room, which means the sound hits hard and there is nowhere to hide from a...

  • Desert Rat Punk Fest at Launchpad Downtown

    Launchpad
    Downtownall agesTickets

    Twelve bands, nearly ten hours, one room: this is the kind of marathon that separates the people who say they like punk from the people who actually show up on a Saturday night. Launchpad is a narrow, loud box with a low ceiling that does exactly what a show like this needs, and the stacked...

  • Kiko & Le Zydeco Hot Live

    Marble Brewery Downtown
    Downtownworld musicDetails

    Zydeco on Central Avenue is a rare enough thing that this 10:30 p.m. set at Marble's downtown taproom deserves your attention, a Louisiana-rooted accordion-and-washboard genre that hits harder in a room with good beer in hand. Marble's main floor handles a dancing crowd well, and this is absolutely a dancing crowd. A ticket link exists,...

  • Danny Moreno & Tim Lin Quintet

    The Hall

    A quintet format puts real space between the players, and that breathing room is where jazz either earns its keep or exposes itself. The Hall on Central has decent acoustics...

  • Jacob Chavez Live at Tractor Brewing Nob Hill

    Bosque Brewing Nob Hill
    Nob Hilllive musicDetails

    Jacob Chavez takes the stage at Tractor Brewing's Nob Hill location, one of the more reliably good rooms on this stretch of Central for catching a local act up close....

  • Cardboard Playhouse Quiz Show

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreacomedyTickets

    In The Box Annex is bringing their quiz show format into The Box Performance Space, a black-box theater on Central that tends to reward audiences willing to play along with...

  • Soul Puddin Live at Thirsty Eye

    Thirsty Eye Brewing Company
    soul/R&BDetails

    Soul Puddin brings their funk and soul set to Thirsty Eye, one of the more low-key spots on the Central corridor for catching live music with a beer in hand. The room keeps things casual, which suits this kind of groove-forward act better than a stage with a spotlight and a cover charge attitude. Check...