Dust City Opera

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🏆 award-winning alt-rock weirdos bringing sadness, madness, & mayhem to a city near you 🎪🪩

This unexpected folk-rock orchestra materialized out of Albuquerque, but they might as well have slipped through an intergalactic portal or stowed away on a derelict spacecraft before crashlanding in the desert. Dust City Opera tells harrowing tales of sadness, madness, and mishaps. With each performance illuminating the space between death and humor, this quintet becomes the soundtrack to stories

02/04/2026

We just hit our 8 year anniversary as a band?! 🥹To celebrate our bandiversary, here are 8 of our favorite memories as a band. Let us know your favorite DCO memory and if you haven’t already, you should definitely join our mailing list for cool (and free) stuff!
-Getting silly on Brenda’s porch with Bryce
-Losing our s**t loudly at a pizza joint in Trinidad over a stupid cracker barrel joke
-Playing on a LITERAL MOVING BUS in Boise at Treefort
-That first show with Jesse at La Sala when we debuted Drunk on a Ladder
-Raising 20+ thousand american dollars to fund our award-winning album Alien Summer
-Mayhem!! (can’t pick one, so let’s just say all of them)
-Filming our Bands of Enchantment episode for all the world to see
-That one time in Amarillo that a fan heard us playing from across the street, recognized our music from hearing us online, and brought his whole crew to party

Photos from Dust City Opera's post 01/31/2026

Ok friends it’s been approximately exactly 1 week since sadness madness mayhem III and we have questions... What did you think of this year’s experience? Did you dress up and take photos with ur frenz? Favorite part of the night? Best costume you saw? Lettuce know 🎪🎭🔥👇

01/24/2026

Setting up for sadness madness mayhem. See you tonight, Albuquerque!

Photos from Dust City Opera's post 01/24/2026

Thanks for highlighting our event Albuquerque Journal, KUNM Radio, New Mexico Magazine, New Mexico Entertainment Television, and all the awesome locals sharing the news! See you tonight!

Photos from Dust City Opera's post 01/23/2026

Live right now at 89.9 KUNM right now talking all things Sadness, Madness, & Mayhem 🎪😈🎉🤹

01/22/2026

Lil behind the scenes, lil sneaky peek of Sadness, Madness, & Mayhem with our bffs …see you Saturday at w/

01/21/2026

See you Saturday
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Photos from Dust City Opera's post 01/16/2026

Next weekend! Who’s ready?

01/16/2026

🎪🦇 Next week! Sadness, Madness, & Mayhem III: A Haunted Costume Carnival with Dust City Opera is happening at El Rey January 24th! This otherworldly extravaganza brings together New Mexico’s finest performing artists to celebrate alternative folk music, circus culture, haute haunted fashion, and mystical entertainment.

📆 Saturday, January 24th | Doors 6:30pm | All Ages

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