ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Get spooked in Retro Atlanta this week! The days are creeping closer and closer to that most haunted pinnacle of fright and terror! So let Retro Atlanta show you where to find the shock and horror you’re lusting! Atlanta gets Retro this week with monsters and spooks and gore, oh my! And don’t forget, Retro Atlanta always offers a retro-rockin’ good time! Don’t be a scaredy cat! Come on out and play! We can’t promise you’ll make it home alive, but we can promise you a horrifying good time!

Monday, October 13

“Psychobilly Freakout” is delivered tonight to your ‘billy lusting ears at Camelis Gourmet Pizza Joint with Kool Kat Rev. Andy, broadcasting a spitfire night of rockin’ rockabilly and psychobilly live on Garage71 Internet Radio! Vinyl dishes out a night of ‘90s folk rock with Lisa Loeb and Sara Rachele! Get jazzy at the Elliott Street Pub with Myles Brown! Get funky and 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!’ Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Bill Sheffield! 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 and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, October 14

Boogie on down and get some soul at the Red Light Café with Ian Moore and Chelsea Shag! The Earl delivers a night of rock infused with disco, punk and new-wave with the Electric Six and The Soft White Sixties! Get your old-time bluegrass fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Sweetwater Creek, Honeywood and the Jim Culliton Trio! The “Master of Suspense” gets bone-chilling at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their presentation of Alfred Hitchock’s VERTIGO (1958) during their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! Head on down to Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Yasujiro Ozu’s classic, TOKYO STORY (1953) at 7pm! It’s a night of retro shenanigans at The Star Bar with Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm! Or get conned at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their ‘Cineclassics 2014’ screening of Charles Crichton and John Cleese’s A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Rock down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Goddamn Gallows and Rory Kelly’s Triple Threat! Get folksy at Eddie’s Attic with the Shook Twins! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boohoo Ramblers! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern! And rock out with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Wednesday, October 15

Get monstrous at Chambers of Horror as Monstrosity Championship Wrestling horrifies with classic monsters duking it out, brought to you by our BFF pop culture blogger and Kool Kat Jonathan Williams with Wrestling With Pop Culture and Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost-host with the most, Prof. Morte! Wreak havoc with creatures galore in Joe Dante’s GREMLINS (1984) during the Studio Movie Grill’s “Retro Family Rewind” series at 7pm! Rock on down for a night of Brit rock ‘n’ blues to Phillips Arena for a night with the legendary, Paul McCartney! Get your second helping of chills and suspense at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their presentation of Alfred Hitchock’s VERTIGO (1958) for their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! Get heroic during Emory Arts’ “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Andrzej Munk’s EROICA (1957) at White Hall! Funk on down to the Fox Theatre for a night with Lettuce! The Cazanovas get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Get your lonesome old-school cowboy and Americana fix at The Earl with Waller, Ben Trickey and Will Raines (An English Place)! Jazz on down to Elliott Street Pub for a night with Sal Gentile! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets down and dirty blues-style with Lola! The Hollidays deliver some rhythm and soul 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! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 16

Get demonically possessed at The Plaza Theater and experience Roman Polanski’s cult classic thriller, ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) for the first time in Atlanta since its opening at 7:30pm! The Stoneberrys and The DirtyDoors deliver rockin’ tributes to the Rolling Stones and The Doors at Smith’s Olde Bar! Cowpunk on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night of vintage roots and Americana with John Dee Graham(The True Believers) and Miss Tess & the Talkbacks! Get indie with a side of retro at the Tabernacle with The War on Drugs and Peter Matthew Bauer! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with The Parmesans and Alex & Todd! Boogie on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night of New Orleans’ boogie and roadhouse blues with the Marcia Ball Band! The Earl delivers a hillbilly rockin’ ruckus with Reuben’s Bell, The Deadfields and Battlefield Collective! Blues on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Mike Farris! Rock out roots-style with Donna Hopkins at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Sweet Betty & the Shadows get sweet and low down 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! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 17

The living dead get gruesome and spooky at the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse (AZA), a total immersion experience filled to the bloody brim with guts ‘n’ gore, throwing its victims right in the middle of a zombie outbreak, capable of causing a lifetime of terror! This event is not for the faint of heart so, prepare to scream, prepare to cry and come get your zombie fightin’ skills on! Kool Kat Madeline Brumby, badass zombie killer, fights for the survival of the uninfected, so, come on out and help exterminate the zombies! The AZA runs until November 2, so you’ll have ample opportunity to kick some zombie tail! It’s a night of gore, horror punk, geeks and freaks as Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures and Kool Kat Rev. Andy invade Chambers of Horror at 8pm! Zombies, zombies and more zombies! Stagger on down to AmericasMart Atlanta and get zombified at the Walker Stalker Convention, running through Sunday, Oct. 19, promising a weekend filled to the bloody brim with all the horror, sci-fi and Walking Dead cast members you could ever want and more! Or if ghastly things are your preference, haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2014 Ghost Tours, through Oct. 25! Tiptoe through the graves, make a few new spirited friends and hear the hallowed tales of some of their eternal residents! Come on down to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge for Pallookaville’s Jim Stacy and his Cooking Channel debut, OFFBEAT EATS’ Premiere Party, celebrating America’s roadside rebel chefs and quirky eateries!

Zombies, horror and fright take over The Plaza Theater, as they screen George A. Romero’s cult classic, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) and Victor Halperin/Edward Halperin’s vintage horror classic, WHITEZOMBIE (1932), both running through Oct. 23! Punk down to The Star Bar for a night of rockin’ tributes to the Misfits, The Ramones and the Alkaline Trio, with Horror Business, Road to Ruin and Fuck You Aluchua! It’s a night of old-time country, western swing and Dixie jazz at Kavarna with Thom Bresh and the VaudeVillians! Make your way to the New London Theatre in Snellville for their presentation of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” running through Nov. 2! Get your folk-a-billy fix at the Red Light Café with Antsy McClain! You won’t want to miss The Strand Theatre’s presentation of Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys” performed by the Strand Theatre Company Players at 8pm! Reggae on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Ziggy Marley! Get your ‘80s Latin rock fix at Center Stage with Café Tacuba! It’s a night of retro rock at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with Radio Cult! Rock out with some Americana and blues at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Michelle Malone! Get alternative retro-style at The Earl with Colony House and Knox Hamilton! It’s a night of trash/sugar pop with a whole lotta nods to retro rock and pop at the Masquerade with Twin Peaks, Tweens and Minor Miracles! Get witchy at Mary’s during their “Witch Please!” Dance Party! Bluegrass on down to the Crimson Moon Café with Monroe Crossing! Blues on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Stoney Brooks! Sandra Hall & the Shadows will blues you up at Blind Willie’s! The Rockaholics deliver some rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Kool Kat VJ Anthony presents his Dark ‘80s Music Video Dance Night at Famous Pub! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some 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, October 18

Today is the day all you ghosts and goblins have been waiting for! Little 5 Points business district hosts its 14th annual Little Five Points Halloween Festival & Parade! So, come on out dressed to the bloody nines in your spookiest Halloween costume and get horrorifically haunted! Get fed! Get rocked! And get your flesh to the biggest Halloween parade in the south! The event wakes from the dead at noon and haunts until 11 pm, with an artists’ market, food venders including Pallookaville and many more, as well as two stages for live entertainment, The Jagermeister Stage, located in Findley Plaza and the Wrecking Bar Brewpub Stage located in the The Star Bar’s parking lot. The spooktacular parade of horror runs from 4 to 6 pm on Euclid and Moreland and promises to spook even the bravest of the brave, so pick a spot and hold on tight! Get your faces rocked off with Kool Kats galore and more at the Jagermeister Stage, with chilling retro performances bythe Starbenders, The Wheelknockers, the Hothouse Peaches, The Mystery Men?, KoolKat Caroline & the Ramblers, Kool Kat Cletis & His City Cousins, Kool Kat Julea & Her Dear Johns, The Higher Choir and The Head! Or rock on down to the Wrecking Bar Brewpub Stage for Black Linen, Zoners, Daddy Issues, Momcat, Stonerider and Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Til Someone Loses an Eye! So, get ghastly, grotesque and rock out at the wildest Halloween party in town! And for something a bit more gore-filled and sinister, run for your life to Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse and see if you can survive the end of the world, running through Nov. 2!

It’s a vintage soul revival at Smith’s Olde Bar with Willie & the Giant (See our Kool Kat feature coming soon!) and Alex & Todd in the Atlanta Room! Or get your Americana fix in the Music Room with Dangermuffin, the Jon Harris Band and Lion & Company! Catch a gnarly wave to Kavarna and rock out during their Southern Surf Stomp featuring The Intoxicators, The Fugitives and The Wheelknockers! Get down and dirty with a twist of vintage rock ‘n’ roll at the Buckhead Theatre with The Dirty Guv’nahs and Seven Handle Circus! Get your freak on at the Masquerade during their pre-Halloween bash in hell, the Legendary Children Freakshow, promising a night of debauchery, oddities, fortune tellers, go-go clowns, performances by Kool Kat David “Baby Doll Schultz” Richardson and more! Or let Kool Kat VJ Anthony and Funk Master Romeo Cologne deliver you into a realm of funky misfits and outcasts during the Unofficial Aids Walk Freak Show Ball at The Loft! Get ‘Kink’y and rock out at 529 with Literature, The Hotels, Tape Waves, Babes Motel and Koko Beware! Benjamin Booker boogies down at Vinyl with Black Range! The Strand Theatre presents Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys” performed by the Strand Theatre Company Players at 8pm! It’s a night of ‘60s/’70s rock at Big Tex with The Rainmen! Get a taste of Burnt Bacon at Blind Willie’s! The Cazanovas deliver a night of the blues at the Northside Tavern! Get old-school at the Fox Theatre with John Prine and Jason Isbell! It’s day 2 of the Walker Stalker Convention! Get undead, catch a few gruesome panels and dance the night away at the Zombie Bash Party! And as always, boogie on down to the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge for a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 19

It’s your last chance this week to get horrified and grotesque while fighting for your life with the undead at Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse! Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics dishes out their ‘50s and ‘60s Georgia Soul at the Historic Fourth Ward Park! Get a night full of French Classic comedy film shorts at Robert Woodruff Park during their spotlight on Max Linder at 7:30pm, featuring: MAX LINDER’S FILM DEBUT (1910), MAX TAKES A BATH (1911), MAX IS RECOVERING (1912), A CORDIALUNDERSTANDING (1912), MAX IS AFRAID OF WATER (1912), MAX & JANE GET INTO ACTING (1912), A TENACIOUS LOVE (1912) and MAX’SHOLIDAYS (1913)! Get hellacious and rock on down to the Red Light Café for a night of rockin’ sultry shenanigans with Sadie Hawkins and her “Burlesque Battle of the Babes”, at herLast Pasties Standing Goes Punk Rock event! It’s sultry Sunday at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with the Gentlemen of Jazz! Bluegrass it up at Eddie’s Attic with two boot stompin’ shows featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys! Or stomp down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Hot Rize and Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers! Mipso delivers some dark holler pop and raucous jailbreak Americana at the Crimson Moon Café! Get your second chance to wreak havoc with creatures galore in Joe Dante’s GREMLINS (1984) during the Studio Movie Grill’s “Retro Family Rewind” series at 2pm! The Decatur Bluegrass Association (D.B.A) brunches out at Big Tex during their Bluegrass Brunch! The Strand Theatre presents Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys” performed by the Strand Theatre Company Players at 3pm! Get a side of Fatback Deluxe with a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And it’s day 3 and your last chance to get undead at the Walker Stalker Convention!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre Ghost Tours chill your bones through Oct 16! (LAST CHANCE!)

Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2014 Ghost Tours, haunt through Oct. 25!

Follow the yellow brick road all the way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their presentation of “The Wizard of Oz” through Oct. 26!

Get headless and haunted at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, through Nov. 1!

Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse will have you running for your life through Nov. 2!

Chambers of Horror terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering through Nov. 2!

New London Theatre (Snellville) presents “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” through Nov. 2!

Netherworld haunts with two terrifying haunted houses, “Season of the Witch” and “SPLICED” every weekend through Nov. 8!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Fueling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every 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!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

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.

It’s a night of gore, horror punk, geeks and freaks as Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures and Kool Kat Rev. Andy invade Chambers of Horror at 8pm!