ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

It’s that time again, all you hep Kats and Kittens!  The ice has melted and it’s a brand new week! Let us show you what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!  We’ve got all the ‘billy your wretched little revved up rockin’ hearts could desire! We’ve got bawdy burlesque and Viking shindigs, taking you way-way back! We’ve got cinematic tributes to punk rockers and poets! We’ve got classic monsters and old-school punk! And as usual, we’ve got all the funk, disco, blues and soul you could ever want! No excuses kiddies! Get out and get Retro!

Monday, February 17

Get psychedelic and groove out to some rockin’ dream pop art rock at 529 tonight with Bleeding Rainbow, the Hunters, Del Venicci and Sioux City Sue! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month. Roll on down to Blind Willie’s for a night of rockin’ blues with Barrelhouse Bob Page! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast with some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 18

The Loft rocks out reggae-style tonight, so skank on down for a night with The Expendables, Stick Figure and Seedless! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with The Night Travelers with special guest Brian Henke!  Get a little soul at Blind Willie’s as they deliver a rockin’ evening with The Hollidays! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm. The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. The Bob Page Trio gets blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! The hills are alive at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern tonight as they screen Robert Wise’s classic musical, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

What’s better than zombies, guns and kink?  Nothing! So, if you were stoked to get gory last Tuesday and couldn’t due to the brutal weather, here’s your chance! Creep on down to The Plaza Theater as Splatter Cinema gets gruesome with Michele Saovi’s dark comedy horror flick, CEMETERY MAN (DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE) (1994) at 9:30, preceded by some horrifically blood-filled lobby shenanigans! Or, for something a little more saccharin and sweet,  The Plaza Theater’s festival of love and lustful liaisons has been given a second chance to fill your hearts with old Hollywood romance while getting swept away during their post Valentine’s Day Movie Event that’ll have you packing your bags and running off to Morocco in search of love as they screen Michael Curtiz’s classic Bogart-filled Hollywood tale, CASABLANCA (1942)! Or get lured into the bohemian underworld of Paris that’ll have you drowning in temptation at their screening of Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant and vibrant experience, MOULIN ROUGE (2001)!  Dames Aflame teases with a short pre-show event and don’t forget, there’ll be plenty of sweets for your sweetie!  So, come on out and get your ‘cocktail, courtesan and Casablanca’ fix! And if you were looking forward to letting Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South seduce their way into your naughty little hearts last week, you’ve been given another chance!  Red Light Café plays host to their Tease Tuesday: Valentine’s Day Edition where $10 gets you 10 sultry acts, featuring performances by Bella Entendre, Bubble Bordeaux, Ruby Redmayne, the mysterious magic of the Clark Gable look-a-like, Chad Sanborn and so much more!

Wednesday, February 19

For some raunchy rhythms and seedy tunes, rock on down to The Star Bar for Gunpowder Gray, Six Shot Revival, Randy Michael and the Pelvis Breastlies! Get your nerd-rock and rootsy old-timey folk fix at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with R_Garcia, Riverside and Vagabond Philosophy! Or get funky down at Big Tex as Jerry on the Moon delivers their southern folk and funky blues during their Widespread Wednesday event! Blind Willie’s gets down with The Electromatics and their Chicago/West Coast Blues and jazz! You won’t want to miss Lola delivering her funky hard-core blues and soul at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! The Frankie’s Blues Mission takes you for a rockin’ blues voyage at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Emory Cinematheque pays homage to the French New-Wave with Francois Truffaut’s LA NUIT AMERICAIN (DAY FOR NIGHT) (1973) during their Global French Cinema series at Emory’s White Hall! And frolic with Julie Andrews over the Austrian mountains at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Robert Wise’s classic musical, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, February 20

The Clermont Lounge revs up their usual legendary seediness with a night of heavy old-school-inspired rockin’ tunes with Beitthemeans, the Pelvis Breastlies and Six Shot Revival! Rock on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Donna Hopkins and her soulful blues! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s every Thursday! Banjo on down to the Red Clay Theater for a night of old-timey bluegrass and a record release with Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings while Sweet Betty & The Shadows deliver some sugar-coated sultry blues at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. Catch a wave and spend the night rockin’ out surf-style with Grinder Nova while sipping a couple MaiTais in paradise at Trader Vic’s! It’s your last chance to escape the convent while seeking refuge at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern tonight as they screen Robert Wise’s classic musical, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And get romantically massacred at Mary’s for their ‘Goth Nite St. Valentine’s Massacre’ event, postponed due to last week’s murderous weather! It’ll be a Goth throw down featuring classic Goth rock, synth pop, post-punk and even tunes from the New Romantic era!  And, bring a personalized Goth Valentine’s card to score some free swag!

Friday, February 21

Tonight, Film Love pays a cinematic tribute to poet and rocker, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground and their relationship with their mentor and producer Andy Warhol, the granddaddy of pop art culture, at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center during their Film Love: The Velvet Underground event! Several of Warhol’s original Velvet Underground films will be screened in an immersive, multi-projection environment offering up an unforgettable experience while getting to the ‘roots’ of the cheeky and unorthodox avant garde period.  Documentaries to be screened will be THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO (1966), VELVET UNDERGROUND SCREEN TESTS (1966) and THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (1966). Event begins at 8 pm!

Get in the ring at Famous Pub for a night of classic monsters duking it out at Kool Kat Shane Morton’s Monstrosity Championship Wrestling February Frenzy event with the mariachi Misfits cover band, Los Meesfits! The Fratellis revive some garage and blues rock at the Masquerade with Ace Reporter and The Ceremonies! Vinyl dispenses a night of Beatle-esque melodic pop and rock with Kick the Robot, The Roosevelts and That’s My Kid! Blues on down for night one of Mudcat’s Big Dang Band Weekend at the Northside Tavern, featuring the Atlanta Horns! For a little roadhouse rock and juke-joint blues, stomp on over to the Variety Playhouse to catch Delbert McClinton! For a night reminiscent of 90’s garage and alternative, rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Nine Times Blue’s EP Release Party featuring Radar1 and The Affenders! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs offers up a night of rockin’ Americana and blues with Michelle Malone!  Get funky with the old-school red hot blues of Funky Bluester at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Francine Reed & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s while the Men in Blues deliver a night of funky blues classics at Hottie Hogs BBQ! Ike Stubblefield gets jazzy at the High Museum’s Friday Jazz event! Get your fill of some good ol’ mountain folk rock and Americana at Mac McGee’s in Roswell with Pioneer Chicken Stand!  Cha-cha on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event for Salsa Dance Night with the Salsambo Dance Studio! Sal’s Soulful Sinners promises a night of deliverance at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues while The Rainmen rock out to some 60s and 70s rock n roll at Big Tex! It’s night two and your last chance to banjo on down to the Red Clay Theater for a night of old-timey bluegrass and a record release with Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott! And do the Time-Warp while spicing things up with some naughty and uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight

Saturday, February 22

It’s an End of the World Party, a Norse mythology viking-style rock on to Valhalla party at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club!  Blast Off Burlesque Presents their Ragnarok Bingo & Dance Party! delivering a night of Bingo, dancing and surprise performances! Come dressed in your rockin’est Viking getups, win some prizes and get ready for the end of it all, with special guest Bingo callers, punk rocker Kool Kat Jayne County and  our local hero and purveyor of all things delicious at Pallookaville Fine Foods, Jim Stacy!

For a night of rockabilly, Americana and honky tonkin’ blues, stomp on down to The Star Bar for Washington DC’s The Highballers, Kool Kat Caroline Engle with Caroline & The Ramblers and Kool Kat Cletis Reid with Cletis & His City Cousins! Or rock on down to the Red Light Caféfor a night of cosmic West Coast country and outlaw Americana with Interstate’s EP release along with Reverend Hylton & The Devil’s Hands! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s 22^nd Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! The Earl delivers a night of surf rock and mojo soul with St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Steelism and the District Attorney’s side project, the Party Dolls! Get the blues at Steve’s Live Musicin Sandy Springs with the Electromatics, featuring Jon Liebmon! Fatback Deluxe slings some classic blues and soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s gets down and dirty with Sandra Hall & the Shadows! It’s night two of Mudcat’s Big Dang Band Weekend at the Northside Tavern featuring the Atlanta Horns while Blues Hall of Famer Bobby Messano rocks out with his blues guitar at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Eddie’s Atticpromises a night of antique Americana and rootsy soul with Julia Haltigan, Kristin Diable with special guest, Marshall Ruffin! Get funky at Smith’s Olde Barwith Allgood and The Bitteroots! The circus comes to town at the Masquerade with That 1 Guy (Mike Silverman) slingin’ a psychedelic spectacle show where he gets down and dirty with his invention, The Magic Pipe, offering up a night of classical electronica which can only be described as an ethereal gothic heart-pounding experience! Or for a night of old-timey garage country, stomp on down to the Family Dog and spend the night with the Villain Family!  Terminal West gets psychedelic with The BlackAngels, Roky Erickson and the Golden Animals!  Today is Kool Kat Shane Morton and Monstrosity Championship Wrestling’s February Frenzy matinee show of wrastlin’ classic monsters fit for the kiddies at the Famous Pub with The Silver Scream Spookshow’s ‘ghost host with the most’, Professor Morte! Get jazzy at Spivey Hall at Clayton State University for an evening with the Monty Alexander Trio!  The Loft takes you all the way to the Big Easy with their Taste of New Orleans 1^st Annual Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball with the Atlanta Brass Connection and their funky New Orleans street parade jazz! And, as usual, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, February 23

Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Gypsy Jazz Brunch offering up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday! And come back for Don Discenza & his Jazz Cabaret at 6 pm, with guest vocalist Shawn Megorden! For a night of traditional blues and new school funk, spend the night in Purgatory at the Masquerade with the Cedric Burnside Project! Francine Reed takes it back to old school blues at Eddie’s Attic! Big Tex has the Cohen Brothers Band slingin’ their style of bluegrass during their weekly Bluegrass Brunch from 11:30 to 2:30 pm! Rick Harris hosts Crimson Moon Café’s Jazz it Up Jam promising a night of classic and organic blues and jazz! The Earl gets stompin’ with the Georgia Mountain String Band during their weekly hangover-friendly ‘dunch’ event!  And make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the blues with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

Woodruff Arts Center gets Victorian with ‘Whistling Psyche’, a 19^th century tale of redemption and reflection, through Feb. 23! (LAST CHANCE!)

New American Shakespeare Tavern presents ‘Romeo & Juliet’ until March 30^th!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every other Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

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.