ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get retro-tastic in ATLRetro This Week and come see what we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, January 22

Get folksy and catch a screening of Jennifer LeBeau’s Bob Dylan documentary, TROUBLE NO MORE (2017) at The Plaza Theater, through Jan. 25! Get the blues with Johnny Lang and Blue Water Highway at Center Stage! Get expiramental with OHMME, Rose Hotel and Shouldies at The Earl!  Get the blues with Matthew Pendrick at Blind Willie’s! 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!”  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 night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 23

Have a bloody fantastic night with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at SCADShow at 6:30pm! The Machine pays tribute to Pink Floyd at City Winery! Rock out with Enter Shikari, Single Mothers and Milk Teeth at Terminal West! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Suzanne Slair and Wyatt Espalin! Rock out with The Big Lonesome at the Red Light Café! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Nick Johnson! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, January 24

SCADShow dishes out shower curtains and a bloody peek into Hitchock’s PSYCHO with a screening of Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, 78/52 (2017) at 6:30pm! Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives honkytonk it up with The Way Out West Tour at Variety Playhouse! Emory Cinematheque kicks off their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with a screening of Marlon Riggs’ PBS documentary COLOR ADJUSTMENT (1992) at 7:30pm! Hillbilly it up with Roadkill Debutante, Ayo River and Cuntry at The Star Bar! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Michael Preston at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic 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, January 25

It’s a night of sleazy rock ‘n’ roll at The Star Bar with The Dirty Magazines, Twin Criminal, Dead Red Flowers, Butthole and Spurge! Geek it up and catch the 200th episode of Needless Things Podcast Live at Intown Coffeehouse! Or funk it up during Cozy 5^th Annual “Rick James Birthday Tribute” at Elmyr! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater, through Sunday! Get your bluesy Americana fix with Justin Townes Earl and H.C. McEntire at City Winery! The Earl dishes out a night of stoner metal with Red Fang! Get to the root of it all with The Steel Wheels at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with Marla Torgerson and Dueces are Wild at Red Light Café! Ragtime it up with UltraFaux, 9 String Theory and Lon Eldridge at Smith’s Olde Bar! Bluegrass it up with David Rawlings at the Variety Playhouse! Motor on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with JB Walker & The Cheap Whiskey Band! Shake a tail feather with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of ‘70s and ‘80s tunes with COAST GUARD and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 26

The Star Bar rocks out and presents The Aaron Space Program Show featuring Vincas, Bad Friend, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause, A Drug Called Tradition, Black Cat Rising and more! Rev on down to The Vista Room for a night with Cigar Store Indians and Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley! Get your geeky glamour fix at Welcome to FANdom: A Nerdlesque Celebration at Red Light Café! Get funky with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as they deliver The Music of Prince at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Spend the night with The Barbaric Gentlemen and The Billy Jacks at Avondale Towne Cinema! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Tannery Row Ale House in Buford! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Low Cut Connie, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Blue Blood! Donna the Buffalo dishes out a night of Zydeco at City Winery! Funk it up New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your Americana fix with John McCutcheon and David Robert King at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with The Bystander Effect at the Masquerade! Zoso pays tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Variety Playhouse! Or make your way to Venkman’s as The Dirty Doors pay tribute to The Doors! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Swap Raw Deal at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and The Atlanta Horns fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Time-Warp it up 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 27

Get mischievous and rock out at The Star Bar with The Queers, Switchblade Villain, The Hanging Judge and The Sawed-Offs! Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses an Eye and Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with The Russian Roulette Band get down at the Elliott Street Pub! Or rock out with Magnapop, Shantih Shantih and Bark at 529! Get freaky and rock out at Motorheads in McDonough during the Southern Fried Rock-N-Roll Sideshow featuring Captain & Maybelle, Beitthemeans and Dogwood Daze! Haunt on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICS: Goth Industrial Darkwave Music Video Night featuring Goth, dark 80s and more! Get folk rocked with Don McLean at City Winery! Spend the night with the Forrest McDonald Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get the old school blues with the Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Smooth rock on down to MadLife Stage & Studios for a night with Yacht Rock Schooner! Zoso pays tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Variety Playhouse! Folk rock it up with Little Tybee at The Earl! It’s a night of old-time country as Rodeo Twister hosts Deke Dickerson (a benefit for Greg Germani) at Avondale Towne Cinema! Boogie on down to The Basement for their KEEP ON MOVIN’ Rock ‘n’ Soul Dance Party! Gino Fanelli croons it up at Venkman’s with a night of Louis Prima and Louis Armstrong tunes, followed by a night with The REMakes! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their Dark Crystal Game Night! Cosplay it up at Hair of the Dragon VII (2018 Cosplay Photo Studio Party) at Studio Space Atlanta! Eighties it up with a second night of Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at the Dawsonville Tavern! Rock out blues-style with Vinyl Suns, the Milltown Road Band, The Longshot Saints and House of Thomas at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and The Atlanta Horns get down at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, January 28

Get wooed with a screening of Erich von Stroheim’s classic silent   (1925) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 3pm, with a live organ accompaniment by Kool Kat Ron Carter! Or catch a screening of Victor Fleming’s classic, GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with Royal Thunder, Backwoods Playback and Illegal Drugs at The Earl! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night of Americana with Justin Sam’s Band! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

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

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.