ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s on the Retro menu this week! From a whole ‘lotta revved up rock ‘n’ roll, to hillbilly hootenannies galore, to all the jazz and blues your rockin’ little heart could desire! And you won’t want to miss all the classic cinema we’ve found for you! So get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, May 11

Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Get folksy ‘90s style at the Variety Playhouse with Ani DiFranco! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Acid Mothers Temple, ST 37 and Guerilla Toss! 529 delivers a hoppin’ hootenanny with Ryley Walker, Moses Nesh and Steven Mann! Matt Pless, The Couch Hopper Band and The Black Buttons rock out at WonderRoot! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Funk it up with Greg Hester at Blind Willie’s! Catch Adam Carolla and Nate Adams’ documentary, WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN (2015), screening at The Plaza Theater through May 14! Shake a tail feather at the Red Light Café with live Flamenco featuring Carlos Menchaca, Cristian Puig and Julia la Luna, presented by Berdole Flamenco! Or 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!’ 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, May 12

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Werner Herzog’s AGUIRRE THE WRATH OF GOD (1972) during their “Werner Herzog Retrospective” series at 6:45pm! It’s a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: May Day! event featuring Annette Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Get rowdy and rock on down to Terminal West for Primal Scream and The Head! Get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s extraterrestrial classic, E.T. (1982) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Celebrate 20 years of Live’s “Throwing Copper” with Ed Kowalczyk at the Variety Playhouse! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! The Boohoo Ramblers deliver a night of foot stompin’ Americana at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 13

Splatter Cinema along with Kool Kat Blake Myers and Enjoy the Film (Kool Kat Ben Ruder) deliver a night of murderous mayhem at Cinevision Screening Room with their screening of Mary Harron’s gore-tastic flick, AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) at 8:30pm! And don’t forget to come early for some chilling lobby shenanigans (Keep your eyes peeled for our Retro Review soon)! The Earl delivers a night of ‘80s Brit post-punk reeking of the Talking Heads with Imagination Head, Highlander and Book of Colors! It’s a night of lonesome cowboys and dustbowl folk with Ben Trickey, David Dondero and Pete DeLorenzo at 529! Get funky with Sugarfoot at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s your last chance to get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s extraterrestrial classic, E.T. (1982) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or get girly and make your way to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of P.J. Hogan’s MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING (1997) at 7:3opm. Rock out blues-style with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of rockin’ 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! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, May 14

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Dusty 45s, The Mystery Men? and The Sideburners (upstairs), or stomp on downstairs for Hannah Aldridge and Betsty Franck! Blues it up with Ruthie Foster at SCADShow! Uncle Vann & the Buzzards of Fuzz, The Organ Machines and Bathhouse Janitors treat you to a night of surf rock and cow punk at Union EAV! Get rocked folk-style at The Earl with The Great Peacock and Book Club! Get your early UK punk rock (and more) fix at 529 with Zex, Bathrooms, Omotai and Waste Layer! Bluegrass it up with Benny Galloway & the Sleepy Cowboys and The War & Treaty at the Red Light Café for Bluegrass Thursday! Make your way to Philips Arena for a night with Bette Midler! Jazz it up country-style with Suzy Bogguss at the Red Clay Theatre! Get funky and get the blues with Tab Benoit, The Pimps of Joytime and The Dead 27s at Terminal West! Get some soul with Nik West at Suite Food Lounge! Get sultry every Thursday at St. James Live! with their South City Jazz event! Jam it up with Honeywood at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your island tunes ‘n’ cocktail fix! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets red hot at Blind Willie’s! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! 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, May 15

Terminal West delivers a night of psych-rock with Reptar, the Breathers and Hello Ocho! Get your early American, Broadway and movie themes fix during Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s Symphony on the Square event at 7pm! Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love presents Curation & Cinema at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, which delves into the art of cinema curation, Film Love history and accompanied by Andy Warhol’s silent 1964 film of Taylor Mead and additional screenings of shorts, 8mms, the trippy and avant-garde and a few 1980s home movies! Consider the Source delivers a night of sci-fi middle-eastern prog rock ‘n’ funk at Aisle 5! It’s a night of ‘80s industrial metal at the Masquerade with Ministry! Then make you’re your way to the Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Ministry After Party at 10pm! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Avenue of the Giants, Passionate Mayhem and the Pelvis Breastlies (all-female Elvis tribute)! Glam it up at the 120 Tavern & Music Hall with The Prophets of Addiction, Dusty Booze, The Night Terrors and Asphalt Valentine! Jazz it up with Alex Lattimore during the High Museum’s Friday Night Remix! The Crimson Moon Café dishes out a night with Jesse & Noah! Spend the night with Butch Walker at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Blues rock it up with The Brotherland at The Family Dog! Get some vintage swagger and Kansas City/West Coast blues jump with Atlanta Boogie at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get some rockin’ soul with The Rockaholics at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Stoney Brooks delivers the blues at the Northside Tavern! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues has the Bruce Katz Band! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs rocks out with The Barry Richman Band and his Allman Brothers tribute! 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! Francine Reed & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 16

Go back in time for a cosmic reunion at the Georgia Renaissance Festival’s Time Warp Weekend at 10:30am! The East Atlanta Beer Fest rocks out with 230 different beers, tasty treats from our pals at Pallookaville and King of Pops and tunes by the Wasted Potential Brass Band and more! Or get some tasty treats and vittles at A Taste of the Highlands 2015 from 2-5pm with live music from the Sweet Auburn String Band and The People’s Republic of Jambodia! Get jazzy with the Melvin Jones Quintet, Theresa Hightower and more at the Atlanta Beltline Jamboree from 2-8pm! It’s a hootenanny and a half during the Shaky Boots Festival, stompin’ down to the KSU Sports/Entertainment Park through May 17, with The Whiskey Gentry and more! And haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their Malts & Vaults: Where Beer Meets History tour, from 7-8pm!

Get your old-school punk (Stooges/Bowie/MC5-esque) fix at Union EAV with Bloodplums (album release), The Love Agenda and Hot Wives! Or rock on down to 97 Estoria for Estoriafest 2015 featuring the Sealions, Easy Magick (members of Dinos Boys & Barreracudas), This Piano Plays Itself, Wyldlife, A Drug Called Tradition and more! Rock out with Pat Dinizio (The Smithereens), Nine Times Blue, Navajo Joe and Kenney Howes upstairs at The Star Bar! Or bluegrass it up with Alex Commins & Todd Prussin downstairs! Get your punk country fix at the Red Light Café with Lexi Street, wWAYLon and Will Mitchell! Rock out with The El Caminos, The Western Sizzlers and the Night Terrors at Smith’s Olde Bar! Getty jazzy at the Gwinnett Center with their The Art of Jazz event featuring The Jacques Lesure Group! Make your way to Terminal West for a night with Sonia Leigh, Lisa Goe & the Flashtastiks, Jacob Thomas Jr. and The Wheeler Boys! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Unknown Lyric gets classic at The Family Dog! Fatback Deluxe delivers some ‘40s-‘60s classic blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern for “Magic Fred’s Birthday Bash” featuring Eddie Tigner, Albert White and The Cazanovas! Get the blues with Stacy Mitchart and Bobby Thompson at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers an early show with The Nearly Normal String Band and Louis Robison during their “Fiddler’s Green” Coffeehouse Concert followed by Tony Levitas & Friends! Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 17

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre screens Charlie Chaplin’s silent classic, THE GOLDRUSH (1925), with an organ accompaniment from Kool Kat Ron Carter, with a pre-show organ sing-a-long, during their “2015 Silent Films” series at 3pm! Get your acid rock ‘n’ blues fix at Vinyl with Bo Ningen and Alchemy! Stomp on down for day 2 of the Shaky Boots Festival with Old Crow Medicine Show, The Devil Makes Three, Cracker and more! Those Darlins deliver some retro rock ‘n’ roll at Park Tavern! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Steve Earle & the Dukes and The Mastersons! It’s a night of rockin’ stompin’ blues at The Earl with Chickens and Pigs! Get jazzy with Virginia Schenck at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with the Kris Youmans Band during Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch! Then shimmy on back in the evening for Awalim & Aziza Nowal’s Spring Bellydance Showcase! Jazz it up with Lisa Oakley and Deb Bowman at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Curtis Jones & Primal Roots delivers a night rowdy bluegrass at the Crimson Moon Café! Blues it up with Stephen the Blues Dude at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The High Museum presents “Gordon Parks: Segregation Story” (‘50s Life Magazine photos) and “Leonard Freed: Black in White America”, (1963-1966) exhibits through June 7!

The Georgia Renaissance Festival runs through June 7!

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

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

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

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling 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.