08/15/2026

Heat, smoke, opera, Indian Market, scarcely a drop of rain, barely a place to park—yes, it’s August in Santa Fe, Gentle Reader(s). Add Ye Olde Matador Bar & Lounge to the mix and it’s quite the uniquely Tierra del Encantado combo. Well, less smoke and more rain would be preferable but we all gots to work with what we have at hand. At current hand, it’s another Thursday night deep beneath Galisteo Street and DJ Inky is once again back in his crepuscular hidey hole, hidden behind fans, blowers, blown woofers, twitchy tweeters, pints of ale, computers, mixers, cables... Through the Frijoles Fire haze and high season hullabaloo duty’s clarion call is sounded and to the Matador I must go. Your exclusive playlist is enumerated below—as always, click your clicky clicker right HERE to access the YouTube-ish iteration thereof. For Ivy, wheresoever she may be—this one's for you.