• Pints with Purpose Fundraiser

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
    Wells Parkarts & cultureTickets

    A fundraiser night at Painted Lady Bed & Brew on Central, with proceeds going to Barrett House, which provides transitional housing and support services for women in recovery. Painted Lady is a genuinely unusual room, a working bed and breakfast with a taproom attached, so the crowd tends to be neighborly and the energy stays...

  • International Thursdays at Bourbon & Boots

    Bourbon & Boots
    DowntownDJ setDetails

    Bourbon & Boots runs its weekly International Thursdays late into the night, with a DJ format built around a rotating global playlist that shifts depending on who's behind the decks. The 1 a.m. start is the thing to clock here: this is not a come-early situation, and the room doesn't find its footing until well...

  • Isotopes vs. Salt Lake Bees at Route 66’s Ballpark

    Isotopes Park
    UNM AreasportsTickets

    Triple-A Pacific Coast League ball at one of the better mid-size stadiums in the country, where the Isotopes host the Salt Lake Bees for a late-season matchup. Isotopes Park sits right on the corridor, and at altitude the ball carries, so even a quiet offensive night tends to produce something worth watching. Tickets are through...

  • Killer Lloronas at the Historic Lobo Theater

    Historic Lobo Theater
    Nob HilltheaterTickets

    Five short plays in two acts follow a young immigrant girl navigating two cultures at once, written and performed by an Albuquerque troupe that has been building this kind of specific, locally-rooted work for a while now. The Lobo's theater seating puts you genuinely close to the stage, so the quieter moments land differently here...

  • Fright Night Open Mic

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
    Wells ParkliteraryTickets

    Locals take the mic to tell real ghost stories at this open mic night inside Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, a seasonal run that leans into the building's own considerable history. The Painted Lady itself dates back to the early Route 66 era and has enough documented weirdness that the storytellers don't have to...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Dinner Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    latinTickets

    A tablao-format flamenco show with live guitar, cante, and baile performed over a Friday dinner service at Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues on the corridor doing this with any regularity. Specific performers are still TBA, so the cast is a variable, but the room itself is well-suited for this, closer in scale to...

  • Tablao Flamenco Friday Show

    Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque at Hotel Albuquerque
    world musicTickets

    Friday night flamenco at Hotel Albuquerque puts live bailaores, a cantaora, and a guitarrista in one of the few dedicated tablao settings in the Southwest. The room is intimate enough that you will feel the footwork through the floor, which is either thrilling or distracting depending on where you sit, so request a table toward...

  • TSU NAMI at Effex Rooftop

    Effex
    Downtownhouse/technoDetails

    TSU NAMI headlines the rooftop edition of We House Fridays, pulling from stutter house and UK garage, two genres that reward a sound system with actual low-end. The Effex rooftop gives you Downtown Albuquerque at night as your backdrop, which on a clear September evening is genuinely hard to argue with. Start time is unconfirmed,...

  • Birthday Metal Blowout

    Launchpad
    DowntownmetalTickets

    Four bands, one birthday, and a bill that leans hard into the heavier end of the Albuquerque scene. Launchpad's room is built for exactly this kind of stacked weekend show, where the floor fills early and the sound desk gets a proper workout. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so grab them before the door...