ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta is chock full of goodies! We’ve got rockabilly! We’ve got blues, jazz and all the honk- tonkin’ bluegrass you’ve been craving! So, If you need a rockin’ good time, come on out and live la vida Retro!

Monday, January 26

It’s a punk rock cabaret at The Earl with The World/Inferno Friendship Society, along with The Everymen and I Want Whisky! Get your hillbilly punk fix at 529 with Joseph Lazzari (Walk From the Gallows) and Steve Gilbert! Leon Russell gets down to the nitty gritty for night one at Terminal West with Dave Griffin! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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!’ Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And 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!

Tuesday, January 27

Geek it up and create your ideal gal at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John Hughes’, WEIRD SCIENCE (1985), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get your second helping of Leon Russell and Dave Griffin at Terminal West! Get the blues with Kristin’s Blues Station at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Get bluesy with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! 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, January 28

SCENE MISSING Magazine presents Whedon Need No Education at the Highland Inn Ballroom delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on Joss Whedon works, at 9pm! It’s your last chance to geek it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John Hughes’, WEIRD SCIENCE (1985), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Emory Cinematheque screens Monte Hellman’s COCKFIGHTER (1974) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! Roots rock ‘n’ blues it up at Eddie’s Attic with their “American B-Sides” show featuring Joe McGuinness, Marshall Ruffin, Andrew Black, Aaron Trubic, Alex Gordon and more! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo delivers a night of blues, jazz and soul at Blind Willie’s! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes, with special guest Wayne “The Train” Hancock delivering a set of his juke joint swing! Get some rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays 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, January 29

It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your ‘50s and ‘60s surf and rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Rock out at the Masquerade for a night of old-school metal with Napalm Death, Voivod, Iron Reagan, Exhumed and the Black Crown Initiate! Get old-timey and bluegrass it up at Red Light Café with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen, the Hothouse Peaches and the Hunger Valley String Band! Or get jazzy with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo and Kayla Taylor at Zeal A Modern Eatery! Punk out at 529 with Rotten Stitches, the Moreland Wrecks, Drop Dead Nasty, Squadron and The Aggravated! Honky-tonk it up at the Elliott Street Pub with Crying Wolf! Or stomp down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Carly Gibson, BJ Wilbanks and Hannah Zale! Get your boogie shoes on because it’s Swing Night at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center! Get geeky at Union EAV at their Blood Drunk Arcade night with retro games and rockin’ tunes! Get funky with Cooper Tisdale at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Yarn dishes a night of rockin’ Americana at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get the 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! 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, January 30

Rock out at The Star Bar with a night the nitty gritty rock ‘n’ roll with Bigfoot, Catfight, Lust, Red Rocket Deluxe and Lost Otaku! The Stacktone Slims dish out some bluesy garage rock at Smith’s Olde Bar with Navajo Joe! Jazz it up with Diane Schuuer at the Ferst Arts Center! Or get jazzy with Frank Barham at the Elliott Street Pub! Get old-school at the Cobb Performing Arts Center for a night with the Australian Bee Gees Show! It’s a night of horror punk and rock ‘n’ roll at The Highlander with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Black Cat Attack, Antagonizers ATL and The Independents! Stomp down to the Red Light Café for a night with Brock’s Folly, Our Great Lifeboat and Jonathan Peyton! Rock down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with ZOSO, delivering selected works from Led Zeppelin! It’s a night of traditional folk at Eddie’s Attic with John McCutcheon! 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! ‘80s it up at the Sportstime Bar & Grille in Duluth with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of outlaw blues and classic rock with Blue Roads! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Danielle Howle and Carsie Blanton! Boogie down under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX with Lethal Rhythms! Fire up the blues with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at the Northside Tavern! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! The Texas KGB dishes out some rockin’ Americana at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, January 31

Get your low-down, nitty gritty sleaze surf fix at The Star Bar with Tiger! Tiger!, The Delusionaires (see our Kool Kat feature soon!) and special guests, Bad Friend! Moonbase dishes out some surf and prog rock with Gnomonaut’s space rock at The Basement! Viva Las Vegas! Elvis Lives!, the ultimate Elvis tribute invades the Fox Theatre! The Highlander delivers a night of rockin’ punk with Cadillac Junkies, Forsaken Profits and Random Conflict! Rock out horror punk-style at The Pointe in Conyers with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Gunpowder Gray and Bishop Lake! Get geeky and make your way to The Hair of the Dragon IV costuming photo studio party, produced by Markster Con at Studio Space Atlanta! ZOSO delivers their second night of Led Zeppelin tunes at the Variety Playhouse! Swing on by Emory University for the Emory Swing Club’s January Dance at 8pm! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of vintage art and rockin’ tunes as Studio Pins presents their Screen Stories Art opening, fusing classic Hollywood films and pop art along with rockin’ tunes by the Cigar Store Indians! Get revved up at Shawn O’Brian’s Roadhouse in Jackson with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles! Get to rockin’ at The Earl with The Rocket Boys, Cute Boots and Black Linen! Kristy Lee gets some soul at Eddie’s Attic! Folk icon, Arlo Guthrie honors the 50th Anniversary of blues classic, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” at the Ferst Center! Get funky and folksy in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Moontower, Sazerac, Sailing to Denver and City Mouse! Or bluegrass it up in the Atlanta Room with Lion & Company, The Vineyard and Rick Brantley! Fire up the blues with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at the Northside Tavern! Get your ‘80s fix at Wild Wing Café in Suwannee with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s hits with the Way Back Band! Blues it up with Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! Spend the night with blues hall of famer, Bobby Messano at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, February 1

Kool Kats Spirits & the Melchizedek Children dish out a night of ‘70s-style psychedelia with Must Be the Holy Ghost at 97 Estoria! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch with the Georgia Mountain Stringband in the Bar Room! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! Blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theatre presents the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s “Tuck Everlasting”, running through Feb. 22!

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

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second 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!

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.