• Five-Band Rock Night at Launchpad

    Launchpad
    Downtownall agesTickets

    Five bands on one ticket at Launchpad, running from early evening into the small hours of a Thursday night on Central. Big Ass Truck has been a Memphis institution since the nineties, which makes this a genuinely unusual booking for a room this size. Five bands means late sets, so know going in that whoever...

  • International Thursdays at Bourbon & Boots

    Bourbon & Boots
    Downtownworld musicDetails

    Bourbon & Boots runs its weekly international music night here, which on the calendar lands as a Thursday but in practice is a very early Friday morning, running from roughly 8 p.m. local time into the pre-dawn hours. This is a late dance floor crowd, not a casual-drink-and-leave situation, so go in knowing the room...

  • Horror Comedy Night at Painted Lady

    Painted Lady Bed & Brew
    Wells Parkbar & breweryTickets

    The Brews & Boos series at Painted Lady Bed & Brew brings a horror-comedy standup hour to their Central Avenue taproom, leaning into the campy premise rather than treating it as a gimmick. The room is small and the setting is a working inn, so the audience tends to be a mix of overnight guests...

  • Garden Party at Insideout

    Inside Out
    Downtownarts & cultureTickets

    A late-night garden party at Insideout, one of the more reliably interesting rooms on Central, running from 8 PM well past midnight. The outdoor setup at this spot tends to...

  • Jazz Standards at Outpost

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM Areaintimate venueTickets

    Vocalists Toni Morgan and Michael Matison share the stage for an evening of jazz standards billed as a his-and-hers conversation between two voices. Outpost is one of the few rooms...

  • Kap G Live at Rhythm Room Downtown

    Sister Bar
    DowntownconcertTickets

    Atlanta's Kap G, the bilingual rapper who came up alongside Young Thug and built a following on tracks that blur Spanish and English without making a gimmick of it, takes...

  • Indie Sleaze Nite at Launchpad

    Launchpad
    DowntownDJ setTickets

    Two DJs spin the greasy, eyeliner-heavy crossover zone where indie rock and early-2000s sleaze collide, the kind of set list that moves between Yeah Yeah Yeahs and something you forgot...

  • Ay, Compadre at the NHCC Barelas

    NHCC National Hispanic Cultural Center
    Barelasdate nightDetails

    Sandia Performing Arts brings Rudolfo Anaya's two-act comedy to the Wells Fargo Auditorium, following a pair of New Mexico compadres and their wives through the awkward, tender territory of middle...

  • Rock en Español 90s Night at Lobo Theater

    Historic Lobo Theater
    Nob Hillbar sceneTickets

    Rastas Retro runs two back-to-back sets covering Soda Stereo, Caifanes, MANÁ, Enanitos Verdes, and more, all live, no backing tracks, with both male and female vocalists handling the catalog. The...

  • Obon Festival at ABQ BioPark

    ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden
    Old TownculturalDetails

    Held in the BioPark's Japanese Garden, this annual ceremony draws on Buddhist traditions of honoring the dead through Bon Odori folk dancing, taiko drumming, and lantern rituals, the kind of...