ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Rock out in Retro Atlanta this week and celebrate America’s 239th birthday! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you. From rockin’ surf, to down and dirty blues, to a whole lotta old-school garage, rock ‘n’ punk! And don’t forget to catch all the classics on the big screen! Get off that couch and live la vida retro!

Monday, June 29

Genki Genki Panic dishes out some rockin’ mischievous horror surf at the Kennesaw Food Truck Park! Get your rockin’ spoken word Lou Reed-esque fix with Hamell on Trial at Smith’s Olde Bar! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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! Beat the heat and catch Nick Park and Peter Lord’s CHICKEN RUN (2000) at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 11am, running through July 3! 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! 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 for a night of tasty blues, make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, June 30

The Earl delivers ‘70s British punk legends, Slaughter & The Dogs, along with Dinos Boys and Magoos Heros! Get post-apocalyptic at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of George Miller’s ‘80s classic action flick, MAD MAX: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) at 10pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Or catch Martin Scorsese’s RAGING BULL (1980) at Movies ATL 14 at 7pm! The Charles D. Switzer Public Library screens Robert Mulligan’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at 12:30pm! Surf on downstairs at The Star Bar to a hidden paradise, in the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Get the blues with the Cody Matlock Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 1

The Red Light Café is scorchin’ with Southern Spitfires: An Evening of Burlesque with Deanna Danger, Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Gigi Holliday and Sadie Hawkins! 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! Folk it up with a little ‘60s pop at Eddie’s Attic with Book Club and Sydney Eloise & The Palms! Rock and roll ‘60s and ‘70s-style on down to The Plaza Theater as they screen John Pirozzi’s documentary, DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA’S LOST ROCK AND ROLL (2014)! 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! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! 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, July 2

Get your garage rock ‘n’ punk fix at The Star Bar with The Cynics, The Forty-Fives, Black Linen and the Cherry Pits! Or rock on down to Union EAV for Kool Kat The Joy Kills, Karbomb, Shehehe and the Seagulls! Get some soul and blues it up with AJ Ghent and The Tin Man at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s a night of prog rock and funky psyche fusion with Indeedface, Chelsea Shag and Big Brutus at 529! Get old-timey at Terminal West with Larry Keel, Dangermuffin and the Jugtime Ragband! Get some action at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series screening of Roland Emmerich’s INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) at dusk! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a tribute to Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so surf on down for some rockin’ island tunes! 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, July 3

The Star Bar delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Sonic Graffiti, SWOTS and Momcat! Or rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with James Hall, David Bowie tribute PINUPS and Angela Wolff! Doo-wop on down to Earl Smith Strand Theatre for The Motown Sound, a musical revue running through July 26! Jump in your TARDIS and take a trip to the Doctor Who Bash! presented by TimeGate, at the Perimeter Center West Barnes and Noble! Get the root of it all at Eddie’s Attic with Cody Marlowe & the Dead Flowers and Foxhollow! Royal Thunder and Wild Throne rock out at The Earl! Make your way to the Kennesaw Historic Train Depot for their pre-Independence Day salute to America with the Journey tribute, Departure! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers The Spirit of Rush! The Katie Martin Band and Hey! Alligator dish out a night of blues, folk ‘n’ soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up at the Northside Tavern with the Cody Matlock Band! 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, July 4

Happy Birthday, America! Come celebrate with us retro-style! Our pals at Pallookaville are throwing one helluva birthday bash with their Fourth of July Independepallooza, featuring the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra, the Thimblerig Circus, a parade and of course, a whole lotta corndog shenanigans! Or celebrate ‘90s grunge style at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with their Hawgapalooza – Grungefest, featuring Pure Ed, Bleach Garden, Randyl Bishop and some tasty BBQ! Bluegrass it up at Barrington Hall (Roswell) during their BBQ & Bluegrass event featuring the Smokerise Bluegrass Band! Or get the blues with The Alexis P. Suter Band and Beverly “Guitar” Watkins during the Brookhaven BBQ Bash! Decatur delivers their Fourth of July Pied Piper parade, fireworks and the Callanwolde Concert Band! Blues it up with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and friends with their laid back holiday bash at the Northside Tavern! And fly on by the Aurora Cineplex for their screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at 11:59pm! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! 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, July 5

The Variety Playhouse delivers a night of ‘80s British alt-rock with World Party! Or rock on down to Park Tavern for the Radio Birds, Radiolucent and Sara Rachele! Swami Gone Bananas dishes out his Grateful Dead Tribute at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

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

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre doo-wops it up with The Motown Sound through July 26!

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

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

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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.