ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Baby, it’s cold outside! But no worries! Retro Atlanta promises to get you warm and toasty with a week of rockin’ good times, and shakin’ shenanigans galore! So get hip to the jive and come on out to see what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!

Monday, November 3

Don’t let the Monday blues keep you down! Rock down to the Masquerade for a night with Hot Water Music, Dave Hause and The

Dave Hause, Photo Credit: Jen Maler Photography

Flatliners! Or for a night of retro rock and psych funk, head over to Terminal West for J. RoddyWalston & the Business and Fly Golden Eagle! Get folksy with MarkRogers & Mary Byrne, Love Me Till My Heart Stops and Moses Nesh at The Earl! Arts at Emory presents Clive Donner’s THE CARETAKER (1963), based on Harry Pinter’s play, during PinterFest at the Emory Schwartz Center. Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get a little soul at Blind Willie’s with BrandonReeves! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ! And Halloween may be over, but the season still haunts with The Plaza Theater’s encore screenings of Ruggero Deodato’s CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1979), Ken Wiederhorn’s SHOCK WAVES (1977) and William Lustig’s MANIAC COP 2 (1990) will terrorize through Nov. 6!

Tuesday, November 4

It’s a night of mischief and mayhem as Vincent Vega and Jules go on a rampage at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their ‘Cineclassics 2014’ screening of Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION (1994)! Get scroogey with The Muppets at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Brian Henson’s holiday classic, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) during their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! Spice up your life at the Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Federico Fellini’s I VITELLONI (1953) at 7pm (digital restoration)! Rock out at Eddie’s Attic with Ed Roland & theSweet Tea Project! For a night of back porch folk rock, stomp down to TheLoft for a night with Jamestown Revival, Pete Molinari and the LeftyWilliams Band! Or get your Americana fix at Java Monkey with TimPepper! Get jazzy at Gladys Knight’s Chicken & Waffles with Ron James! It’s a night of flamenco and Spanish folk tunes at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Carmen Ladesma & Jose Mendez straight from Spain! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with KoolKat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! 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! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets the blues with the Bob Page Trio! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Blues Station! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 5

The English Beat and Hermits of Suburbia invade theMasqueradewith a whole lotta skankin’ ska, reggae and new-wave!Get glammed up and rock out with The Unsatisfied and Ajeva at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Atlanta Room! Or get bluesy in the Music Room with Maria Maldaur and Francine Reed!Or get cosmically rocked atVinylwith Cass McCombs and The Meat Puppets!The Earl delivers a night of retro rock and pop with the Dum Dum Girls, Ex Cops and Del Venicci! Swing on by the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant for a rockin’ rollin’ swing dance with HepCat’s Hop, every first Wed. of the month! Get glamorous at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) as they screen Deborah Riley Draper’s peek into the history of the fashion world, VERSAILLE ’73: AMERICAN RUNWAY REVOLUTION (2012), while getting to experience their 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair exhibit, running through Jan. 4! Rock out at 529 with Meatbodies, Purling Hiss, the Vincas and Landline! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Andrzej Wajda’s THE WEDDING (1972) at White Hall! Or creep down to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for their screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 2pm and 7pm, during their AMC Classics series! Honky-tonk on down to The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza,featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Make your way to Elliott Street Pub for Alex Gordon Hi-Fi! It’s your last chance to get comfy with The Muppets at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Brian Henson’s holiday classic, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), part of their “Home for the Holidays” series at 7:30! The Black Lillies deliver a night of Americana at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Andrew Black! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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, November 6

TheVariety Playhouse rocks out with one of the “most influential guitar players to come out of the British blues rock scene,” Robin Trower and Tony Levitas! Blues it up at The Strand Theatre with Roger “Hurricane” Wilson! Get folksy with Kate Callahan at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s a night of vintage ‘60s inspiration at the Buckhead Theatre with The New Pornographers and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart! It’s an old-time string band hootenanny at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room with Acoustic Syndicate and The Hackensaw Boys! Or rock out retro-style in the Atlanta Room with BAST, Missing Letters, The Yev and Frisky Monkey! Terminal West delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Aaron Behrens (Ghostland Observatory) & the Midnight Stroll! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with Nine Years Apart and Jason C. Waller! 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 & Delifor 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! Get the blues, Americana-style with Heather Luttrell 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, November 7

Hey kiddies! It’s Corndogorama 2014, celebrating 18 years and rockin’ out at The Star Bar, with 2 days of rockin’ tunes for a cause! This year’s charity is the Children’s Restoration Network (CRN) and tonight’s musical lineup, beginning at 9 pm is Brain Box, Coma Girls, All My Vices At Once and more! It’s a night of ‘70s Brit rock at the Variety Playhouse with Ian Hunter & the Rant Band(Mott the Hoople) and Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby! Honky-tonk punk on down to 529 for Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, The North Trolls and The Marrows! Culture jam with Mark Hosler (Negativland) at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery! Get revived and swing on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Donkey and The McNifficent 7! Rock down to the Highlander for a night with Ricer, the Rememberables and Spray Tan! Get funky at Big Tex with Dapper Slap! Boogie on down to The Strand Theatre for their presentation of Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION (1994), with a dance-off on stage before the show! Get artsy with film at Film Love’s event, Through the Image: The Power of the Visual in Storytelling at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center! Emory Arts’ delivers their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Wojciech Has’ THE SARGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (1964) at White Hall at 7:30pm! Get jazzy, New Orleans-style at the Ferst Center with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/ Allen Toussaint! Get funky at The Family Dog with Sugarfoot! Shimmy down to Center Stage for the Clubesque: A Modern Cabaret event! The Rockaholics deliver a night of blues, rock and soul at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Boogie under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event delivering a night of Chicago and West Coast blues with the Electromatics! Rock out at the Northside Tavern with the Allman Brothers Tribute Band! Get down and dirty at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Snake Legs! Get some soul at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Gareth Asher & the Earthlings! Delta Moon delivers a night of blues, Americana and roots at Blind Willie’s! John Sosebee delivers the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, November 8

It’s day 2 of Corndogorama 2014 at The Star Bar! Today’s musical line-up will have you rockin’ all night for a great cause, beginning at 2pm with Spray Tan, Blue Tower, Chickens & Pigs, Hip to Death, Glen Iris, The Higher Choir, Kool Kats Spirits & the MelchizedekChildren, Skin Jobs, Zoners, Kill Baby, Kill, Guantanamo Baywatch, Book of Colors, PLS PLS and more! It’s a day of rockin’ and revvin’ at Frazier’s Harley-Davidson with their Rockabilly Rat Rod & Car Show from 11am to 4pm, offering tasty food, and live music with Grim Rooster (ft. Kool Kat Phil Stair), hosted by Kool Kat Rev. Andy and Garage71! It’s a night of garage and retro rock at The Mammal Gallery with The Ray City Rollers, Blake Rainey & His Demons and The Southern Gentlemen League! It’s a night of alt-funk metal rock at the Tabernacle with Primus! Get funky with Ajeva at The Family Dog! Rock out with the Melvins and Honky at The Loft! Honky-tonk on down to the Dixie Tavern in Marietta as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza,featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! You won’t want to miss Atlanta’s premier screening of Billy Wilder’s FEDORA (1978) at the Lefont Theatre at 10:30am! And don’t forget to catch the 35mm screening of Federico Fellini’s I VITELLONI (1953) at Midtown Art Cinema at 10am! The Lone Bellow delivers a night of alt-country, blues and folk rock at SCADShow! Get jazzy with a bit of Dylan-style folk at the Red Light Café with Spottiswoode & His Enemies! The “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin will have you boogyin’ all night at theFox Theatre! Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) delivers his ELP legacy at theVariety Playhouse! Get rootsy at Vinyl with Cody Marlowe & the Dead Flowers! Blackfoot Daisy delivers a night of Americana at Java Monkey! Get folksy with Randall Bramblett at Eddie’s Attic! Spend an evening with blues chanteuse Francine Reed & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get funky at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with the Billy Thompson Band! Blues it up at the Northside Tavern with Ike Stubblefield! It’s a night of indie folk and roots rock at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room with Rosco Bandana, Cornmeal and Radio Birds! Or stomp over to the Atlanta Room for a night with Buck O Five, Amnesty Road and Rob Cash (Six Ways to Sunday)! Get funky with Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with Lingo at the Buckhead Theatre! Bluegrass it up at Big Tex with Georgia Railroad! Groove over to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Bitteroots and Nine Times Blue! The Stooge Brothers deliver their rockin’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 9

Rev on down to The Earl for a rockin’ night with Reverend Horton Heat and El Capitan & the Band With No Name! Calling all vivacious vintage gals! Get saucy at Grease Inc, Magazine in Buford at their Pin-Up Boot Camp, from 11am to 5pm, with full day of learning hair and make-up basics and all things vintage! It’s vigilante day at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 during their matinee AMC Classics screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) at 2pm! The Atlanta Symphony delivers a night of baroque, operatic and indie pop with Rufus Wainwright! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at The Family Dog! Cedar Hill brunches out at Big Tex during their Bluegrass Brunch! And blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

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

Center for Puppetry Arts presents “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Silly Hollow” spooking through Nov. 9! (LAST CHANCE!)

Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents “The Elephant Man” through Nov. 16!

Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4!

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

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

Nerd Film Mafiascreenings at theDiesel 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 Nightat 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 Pikeand 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 ofLips 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.