ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

So much to do in Retro Atlanta this week!  What will you choose?  A little sultry burlesque? Take in a flick or two?  How about some revved up rockabilly and honky-tonk?  Or maybe you’ll get a little spaced out and groove to some good ‘ole psychedelic space funk!  Retro Atlanta’s where it’s at, so get hip to the jive, leave the bore behind and get really Retro!

Monday, November 11

Knock out those Monday blues with the lethal funk of Kung Fu at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or get adventurous with Masaki Kobayashi’s HARAKIRI (1962) during The Plaza Theater’s Samurai Series at 7:30 pm! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!  Groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Stroll on over to Blind Willie’s for a little hillbilly blues swagger with Brandon Reeves! Pork it up with Pead Boy & The Pork Bellies at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And make your way to the Cinefest for a retreat into fantasy in Federico Fellini’s masterpiece, 8 ½ (1963), which runs until Nov. 16^th!

Tuesday, November 12

Shimmy on down to The Shelter and get fed with the tasty treats of Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her Sirens of the South as their Tease Tuesday: Thanksgiving Edition feeds every fantasy! Spend a spicy evening with Ruby Redmayne, Nicole Nedley and many more! You can’t beat 10 acts for 10 bucks, so, come on and get teased with a little burlesque, a little Vaudeville, a little variety and everything savory and tasty!

Get retro on the big screen tonight as Atlanta offers a smorgasbord of flicks you won’t want to miss! Get horror filled at The Plaza Theater while getting your fix of blood-sucking fiends and get hunted as Splatter Cinema presents John Carpenter’s VAMPIRES (1998) at 9:30!  Or make it a night of sword-yielding warriors in The Plaza Theater’s Samurai Series as they present Kihachi Okamato’s SWORD OF DOOM (1966) or maybe even make your way down to the Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Akira Kurosawa’s HIGH AND LOW (1963) in their Midtown Cinema Series at 6:45 pm with a Q&A afterwards!  And Christmas gets really retro at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with an evening of Bing Crosby at their screening of Michael Curtiz’s WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) in their Home For The Holidays series at 7:30 pm!

Let The Southern Belles of Richmond, VA fill you to the brim with their boogified psych-Americana at Smith’s Olde Bar or get groovy and head on over to The Earl for an evening of psychedelic folk 60s-inspired rock with Midlake and Nicole Adkins! Get rootsy rambunctious and retro and stroll on over to the Buckhead Theater for a night of folksy rock revival with The Head and The Heart, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and Quiet Life! Ed Kowalczyk, former singer of the 90’s Live goes solo with some post-garage, hard rock at Eddie’s Attic! Boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues or rock on over to Blind Willie’s for the BB King and Ray Charles sounds coming from Timo Arthur! For a night of some Cajun blues and honky-tonk, boogie on over to Steve’s Live Music as Hair of The Dog takes the stage! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm. And The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 13

Get retro, Norwegian-style with Bernhoft and their vintage rockin’ soul with Miracles of Modern Science delivering their orchestral space-pop at Smith’s Olde Bar! Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue delivers a night of swampy, voodoo soul and funk at the Buckhead Theater! Rock on over to 10 High for some rockin’ tunes delivered by Zangaro, a little Siouxie and the Banshees-inspired classic cabaret rock with Karma Lingo and a little boot stompin’ moonshine rock with 1978 Champs! Rock on over to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues or get groovy and make your way to Big Tex for some deep, southern-fried funk and psychedelic soul with Deep Blue Sun! Head on over to Blind Willie’s for some blues, jazz and southern soul with Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo or rock on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night of “Frankie Lee” Robinson belting out some smoky blues in his Frankie’s Blues Mission! Spend an evening with Woody Allen and his neurotic quest for love and an eccentric understanding of existence as Emory’s Cinematheque screens ANNIE HALL (1977) during their American Comedy Classics series at Emory’s White Hall at 7:30 pm or get rebellious warrior-style and make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Masaki Kobayashi’s SAMURAI REBELLION (1967) in their Samurai Series at 7:30! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Get old-school heavy at The Shelter for their Dark Retro Night for an evening of hard electro, industrial and dark retro at 9 pm! And don’t forget to get holiday retro as the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern screens Michael Curtiz’s WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) in their Home For The Holidays series matinee at 11:30 am!

Thursday, November 14

Rock on out to a night of 80s heavy metal at 10 High as they present their 2013 Crue Fest benefiting The Official Skylar Neil Foundation, promising a night of party rock anthems from ’81 to ’91 with a rockin’ musical line-up paying homage to Motley Crue in the name of charity!  So, come on out, get rocked and hardcore all the while supporting a great cause! Get hardcore and heavy with a line-up of Hellyen, Spand-XXX, the ISSUES, Alchemy, ElctrOFlesh, Blood @ 6pm, Stickman, Twotley Crue (an all-female Motley Crue tribute band), Shotgun Orchestra and so  much more!

Tonight is Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so come get your fill of the The Porch Bottom Boys! Or stomp on over to Smith’s Olde Bar for a little ‘barnyard stomp’, a little jazz and some bluegrass reggae funk with Twiddle!  The Earl’s got some old school soul with Lee Field & The Expressions while ATL Collective covers Elton John’s Tumbleweed in its entirety at Eddie’s Attic!  Or pop on over to Mary’s in East Atlanta for their OFFyerHEAD event guaranteeing a fab evening of BritPop and Indie Music Videos while DJs Dennis Millay and Todd Rivera spin some classic BritPop and Indie keeping you on your toes and boogying all night long!

Get hazardous and explore the Samurai life in Kihachi Okamoto’s near parody, KILL! (1968) during The Plaza Theater’s Samurai Series at 7:30 pm! Or spend the evening in Paris! In the sultry, down and dirty dive bars of Paris that is, as The Plaza Theater screens Francois Truffaut’s cinematic ode to film noir, SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (1960) in their Fall Focus on Directors series at 9:30 pm!   Head on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their weekly Occupy Edgewood event featuring DJs Rene Dellefont & Brian Parris as they offer up the sounds of The Smiths and The Cure and all the morose tunes your black little heart desires. Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner delivers some honky-tonk blues while the Northside Tavern presents the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Paul Geremia and his old-school blues while Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs has The Barry Richman Band rockin’ out to some bluesy classic rock!  It’s 80s/90s Retro Video Night with free drinks ’til 10 at The Shelter. Surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a few cocktails and a night with Grinder Nova and their funky, dirty surf mariachi! And it’s your last chance to hang with Bing as the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern screens Michael Curtiz’s WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) in their Home For The Holidays series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, November 15

For a night of retro monsters and a spookin’ good time, crawl on down to the Diesel Filling Station in Virginia Highland as they play host to the Atlanta Monster Pub Crawl with special guests zombie pin-up extraordinaire, Ghouella Deville, Circus Envy and the ever cool, Kool Kat Reverend Andy, DJ of Psychobilly Freakout on Garage 71 Internet Radio!  Discover your inner monster and get dressed to kill in your deadliest, monstrous duds and come help strike a little fear and ferocious fun into some innocent bystanders! Spook your way to five different pub stops down the Virginia Highland stretch and enjoy five complimentary monster-themed shots at each stop venue!  Shenanigans begin at 7 pm and don’t forget the after-party of rockin’ retro proportions as Reverend Andy supplies all the psychobilly you’ve been hankerin’ for until 2 am!

The Earl gets obscure and psychedelic as they host a groovy evening with Os Mutantes’ Tropicalia-infused 60’s rock, with special guests, Capsula rockin’ out to their Argentinian garage rock and Adron delivering some neo-tropical funky soul!  Boogie on down to The Star Bar for the hard-core rockin’ and 70s bad-assery of Big Foot with the ‘Zeppelinesque’ boogie band The Six Shot Revival and a little sleazy bluesy rock with Gunpowder Gray!  Roll on down to 37 Main in Buford for an evening with The Jagged Stones, delivering a rockin’ tribute to the Rolling Stones! Stroll on over to the Masquerade for some retro-inspired rockabilly-inspired and screamin’ vintage rock with Mona, and a little 80s synth and indie electronic with The Limousines and then maybe a little light party rock with the Dresses! Or get groovy and head on over to The Shelter and boogie the night away at their Mad Psyentists event for a night of psychedelic trance at 9 pm! Blind Willie’s gets rootsy with the legends of blues, The Nighthawks! Or get a taste of The Sweet & Salty Blues Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues or maybe take a trip to the Northside Tavern as Stoney Brooks delivers some old school blues! Eddie’s Attic has The John Cowan Band delivering rockin’ bluegrass and soul while 38^th Parallel get’s heavy and soulful at Big Tex!  Rumble on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with the Radio Ramblers rockin’ out to some blues and Americana or make your way to the Red Light Café for Thomas Oliver and a little roots rock! Or maybe get your Americana roots rock fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Webb Wilder! Get jazzy at the High Museum at their Friday Jazz event featuring the Steve Dancz Sextet! Cha-cha on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX for a cocktail or two and dance the night away at their Salsa Dance Night featuring the Salsambo Dance Studio!

Saturday, November 16

Shimmy on down to Andrews Upstairs and get retro saucy at Fat Cat Cabaret’s 1950s Burlesque Holiday Show!  Get sultry and spend the evening with Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kool Kat Ruby le Chatte and many more teasing tasty tartlets!  Big Daddy Cool gets magical while Ben Gravitt, a.k.a. Jerry is your hip narrator for the night! Take in some vintage tunes, scrumptious food and all all around rockin’ retro time!

Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt will be rockin’ out with the Psycho-DeVilles at The Alamo in Newnan, so get your dancin’ shoes on and rev on over! Or rumble on down to The Star Bar and get super retro with a night of rockabilly and honky tonk with JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and his dark and dirty blues and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer as he delivers his unique and nostalgic tunes!  Or head on over to Wonderroot for their 7^th Annual Homebrew Hootenanny delivering homebrews, soul food and rockin’ roots music benefiting the Music Maker Relief Foundation! So, rumble on down, get your boogie on, support a great cause all the while getting an earful of Kool Kat Phil Stair and Grim Rooster’s rockabilly honky-tonk and a whole ‘lotta roots rock with Rolling Nowhere, I want Whiskey, Migrant Worker and The Whateverly Brothers!

Get glam and rock out as Sir Elton John and His Band take over Phillips Arena at 8 pm while War spreads their legendary funky rock n roll jazz at the Variety Playhouse! Anthony’s Pizza & Pasta gets swingin’ with The Hungry Monks and Banna De Dha!  The Basement gets rockin’ as Electric Western presents their Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! So, put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and some jumpin’ blues at 10 pm!  Get funky and southern-fried at The Drunken Unicorn with some old-school soul of The Pimps of Joytime, Champagne Room and Secondhand Swagger! Blues on over to Blind Willie’s and rock on out to Too Slim & The Taildraggers! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs gets swanky as Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonadventure Quartet gets to rockin’ with their Django gypsy-jazz! Head on over to the Red Clay Theater for an evening of the blues with Francine Reed & Friends! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with The Cazanovas! Or rock on over to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues! Hop on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for some good ole BBQ and the rockin’ blues of The Jumpin’ Jukes! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 17

Start your day with a Bluegrass Brunch with Banjolicious at Big Tex in Decatur from 11am to 1 pm.  Get jazzy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for an afternoon with the Bria Skonberg Quartet! It’s your last chance to catch Francois Truffaut’s SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (1960) at The Plaza Theater’s Fall Focus on Director’s series’ 1 pm matinee! Stomp on over to The Earl for some rockin’ retro inspiration with Shannon and the Clams’ vintage garage punk, the Night Beats’ psychedelic rockin’ soul and Shantih Shantih’s desert psychedelic rock! Smith’s Olde Bar has Dixieghost rockin’ Americana-style! The Family Dog presents the bluesy sounds of the Jez Graham Trio and Francine Reed while Tony Bryant gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And spend the evening with the ever sultry Rickie Lee Jones and her thirty years of smokin’ bluesy rock n jazz at the Variety Playhouse!

Ongoing

Cinefest screens Federico Fellini’s fantasy masterpiece, 8 ½ (1963), which runs Nov. 11 to Nov. 16.

Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents Ira Levin’s 1978 theatrical thriller, DEATHTRAP runs Nov. 7 through Nov. 24.

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.