Kool Kat of the Week: Everybody Loves Red Spoons and Tootsie Rolls: Fred Leblanc Invites You to Join Cowboy Mouth for a Hurricane Party, Friday at The Loft

Posted on: Sep 21st, 2016 By:

Cowboy Mouth Promo 2_ July 2016By Geoff Slade
Contributing Writer

Cowboy Mouth hits The Loft on Fri. Sept. 23. The New Orleans-originated band got its start in the early ‘90s, and their biggest hit was released on a major label a few years later. But Cowboy Mouth ain’t just about turn-of-the-millennium nostalgia, as anyone who has seen them perform will tell you. They are, and have been from the beginning, an incredible and incredibly compelling live band. They have toured constantly, playing thousands of shows in front of millions of fans over the past quarter century.

Lead singer/drummer/wild man Fred LeBlanc says there is an energy from the audience that defines the band as much as the people on stage. Fans traditionally throw red spoons and Tootsie Rolls at the band on lyrical cues in the songs “Everybody Loves Jill” and “Hurricane Party,” respectively.

The current line-up consists of original members LeBlanc and guitarist John Thomas Griffith, and Matt Jones (guitar) and Brian Broussard (bass). ATLRetro grabbed Kool Kat of the Week LeBlanc for a few minutes last week to get the inside scoop on this week’s gig and what’s up with the band.

ATLRetro: Thanks for taking the time to chat with us. How’s the tour going so far?

Fred LeBlanc: So far, it been going really well. But we’ve always been fortunate to have a healthy touring life. As any CM fan knows, the live setting is where we really shine. I like to think so anyway. I hope so!

It looks like you’re touring the Southeast throughout the Fall. Every performance is unique, of course, but will fans in Baton Rouge and Orlando see completely different shows than the ones here in Atlanta?

There are some similarities as far as energy flow and also, you have to play the songs that people want to hear. I’d probably be in a lot of trouble if we didn’t play “Jenny Says” or “I Believe.” Fortunately I still really enjoy playing those songs—not just for my own enjoyment but also for what those songs mean to our audiences and what they seem to get out of them. It really is still quite a buzz to see large groups of people howling out their frustrations or fears by singing “let it go, let it go!” But at the same time every show is its own unique experience. It HAS to be! You never really know what’s gonna happen at one of our shows. Hell, I don’t even know what’s gonna happen—and I’m the lead singer! As much as you try to guide the show in a certain direction, it has a life of its own ultimately. I just try to keep the joygasm that is one of our shows chugging along. I’m just as much of a rider on this train as anyone.

Cowboy Mouth Promo_ July 2016You’re from New Orleans. Did that city’s deep musical tradition influence your own work?
It’d be difficult for it not to. The influence of the city permeates every single aspect of this band; always has, always will. That’s not to say that that influence is limited to what the general public perceives New Orleans to be, per se. The character and vibe of the city is ever changing, and that’s not a bad thing at all. There have been many changes to New Orleans since Katrina 10 or so years ago, predominantly I believe for the better. It’s not the same place it once was, which was this awesome little secret that not many people paid attention to.

I saw an article recently that described modern day Nola as “hipster” central. Like I said, I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all. The economic revitalization has been enormous and the older generations are always complaining about the younger and vice-versa, that’s just life. There’s so much to learn from all viewpoints, but I’m going off on a tangent… Simply said, there’s a joy of life that has always been a common thread through the experience of living in New Orleans and hasn’t changed in all the years that I’ve known and loved the city. It’s almost defiant, but in a very celebratory way. The defining musical and cultural aspects might change specifics every few years, but it’s the vibe and the feel that make it what it is. We could’ve never come from anywhere else.

LeBlanc_FredAre you working on anything new? Any plans to?

We’ve just put out a “best of…” collection called THE NAME OF THE BAND IS… that I’m really proud of. The songs you know, plus a few new ones, all in one place. People seem to love it. You can find it online or at the shows. Also, I’ve got a children’s book called  FRED, THE NEW ORLEANS DRUMMER BOY coming out thru River Road Press in October. It’s kind of the attitude of a CM show, but in kids book form. I’m sure we’ll have a link through our social media. 

My friend and local musician Matt Mitchelson is an enormous Cowboy Mouth fan, so I asked if he had any questions I should ask you. “Uh…only 1,000,” he said. Here are a few:
Tell your friend Matt “hello and thanks for the questions.”
 

Cowboy Mouth’s live show sets the standard for me and many of my friends. Who set that kind of standard for you before the band?

I guess my main performing influence came from the black gospel churches I knew of from my youth. Growing up Catholic, and dealing with all the crap from that, I was always attracted to spiritual experiences that were as much cleansing and uplifting as they could be spiritual. When I saw how the Baptist black experience was a lot more of a cleansing celebratory thing, I decided then and there that that was what I wanted to do. Everything else extends from that.

Which artifact of your fans’ rowdy adoration has generated a better story—perhaps when one or more of those artifacts ended up in an inexplicable place—a red plastic spoon, or a tootsie roll?

Every once in a while somebody will show up with a giant oversized red spoon. I’m always hoping that they won’t throw it, but they usually do. And usually at me. In fact, ALWAYS at me!

The lineup has changed a good bit over the years, and I think we’re coming up on 10 years since the split with Paul Sanchez (damn…still so hard to believe!). But you and Griff have been in it together from the beginning. What have your collaborations with other bandmates brought out in you two, and what remains unchanged in the band?
The ENERGY is constant. Always has been, always will be. That’s what the show stems from, and that’s what I think the fans have been responding to most of our entire career.  People leave our show feeling great, and that’s exactly what I wanted to do, both as a person and a performer. You ‘re always responsible for what you put out to the world and how it comes back to you. I just wanted to make sure that whatever I did with my life, my tiny insignificant corner of the world could potentially be a little better off simply because I was here. A lofty goal, but why not?

LeBlancFredIs there one venue that stands out above the rest, where the show has a little extra energy every time (so I can book my ticket now)?

Not a specific venue as much is a vibe; Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest are my two favorite times of the year. Being from New Orleans, how could they NOT be? We do a giant New Year’s Eve event every year now in New Orleans as well called “Big Night New Orleans” that is becoming a huge deal every year that passes. Folks should make the road trip, it’s totally worth it. Basically, anytime I get a chance to play New Orleans, I’m happy.

What’s the most pleasantly surprising gig you’ve ever played? Has there been one that you’d thought couldn’t go well but did?

We played over 3000 gigs in the entire history of this band. I always try to make whatever the next gig is a surprise or challenge in some way, just to keep it interesting for myself as well as the band. You don’t want the experience to grow stale from any perspective on any level. It’s never about the last gig, or any past show, it’s always about the next one.  

Which one is a greater challenge: a night when you have to dig deep for enthusiasm and energy in yourself, or when you come up against an unexpectedly flat audience? (trick question: neither has ever happened!)
I can honestly say that no audience we have ever played for has ever been flat. I just can’t remember that, if it did happen. As much as anything, it’s a matter of perspective. I want an audience to give everything it can, but at the same time you can’t expect things from them that they’re just not capable of giving. Appreciation from our perspective leads to enthusiasm from them, and vice versa. That’s one of the many secrets of doing what we do, and doing it hopefully well.

Anything else we should be sure to mention?

I think we covered it all! If you can think of any other questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks again for your time. We’ll see you guys Friday at The Loft.

It’s going to be a fucking ball!

Doors at 7, show at 8. Click here for ticket info.

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This Week in ATLRetro, August 13-19, 2018

Posted on: Aug 12th, 2018 By:

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in ATLRetro has Kool Kats galore! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, August 13

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday! Time travel to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for a screening of Robert ZemeckisBACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Isao Takahata’s GRAVEYARD OF THE FIREFLIES (1993) at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Funk it up with Tower of Power at City Winery! Get experimental with Kraus and No Life at the Drunken Unicorn! Get the blues with Clark Ashton at Blind Willies! 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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, August 14

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of Robert Altman’s THE PLAYER (1992) at 7pm, featuring a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! Get Texas countrified and swing on by Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Lyle Lovett & His Large Band with special guest Francine Reed! Get sizzlin’ with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South as they hit the books during their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Back to School event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Get a second funky helping of Tower of Power at City Winery! Folk it up with Skout at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a Q&A with Dave Lory, Jeff Buckley’s Manager and author of FROM HALLELUJAH TO THE LAST GOODBYE! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down with Andrew Black at Blind Willies! 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! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, August 15

Get campy and catch a screening of Beeban Kidron’s TO WONG FOO (1995) presented by WUSSY MAG at The Plaza Theater at 8pm (doors at 7pm)! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Wax on and wax off at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John G. Avildsen’s THE KARATE KID (1984) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Isao Takahata’s GRAVEYARD OF THE FIREFLIES (1993) at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Glam it up with Steel Panther at the Buckhead Theatre! Or get your Americana fix with Lori McKenna and Dustin Christensen at City Winery! Rock out at The Earl with DeGreaser, Glove, Twisty Cats and Muted! Get some grit, soul and rock ‘n’ roll with Magnolia Moon, Hush Money and Whiskey Tango at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Electromatics dish out a night of Chicago/West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a screening of Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! 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 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, August 16

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater sells their souls for rock ‘n’ roll with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Brian De Palma’s PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) at 9:30pm! Rock out ‘70s-style with Rare Birds and Blackfox at The Star Bar! Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the ELVIS ’68 COMEBACK SPECIAL at theatres across Atlanta at 7:30pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get folksy with Nate Currin at Eddie’s Attic! The BadAsh Allstar Team dish out their ELO Jam at the Red Light Café! Smith’s Olde Bar gets down with a night of dirty ol’ rock ‘n’ roll with World is Watching, Kyle Troop & The Heretics, Judah Kim & The Assasination and Edelwood! Get some rockin’ soul with Fire & Knife Duo at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Make your way to Venkman’s for The Atlanta Jazz Orchestra! Get groovy with Kendall Street Company and C2 & the Brothers Reed at Vinyl! 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 rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns get down at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 17

Get hellacious and rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Hanging Judge, Redneck Nosferatu and The Jasons! Get your southern retro electro rock fix with Stop Light Observations at Terminal West! Catch a live taping of The Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast at the Variety Playhouse! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck records live at Avondale Towne Cinema! The Marietta Theatre Company presents NUNSENSE through Sept. 1! Strike a pose and vogue it up at Mary’s for Madonna-Rama, celebrating the Grand Dame of Pop’s 60th birthday! Spend the night with Trombone Shorty, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Galactic at Chastain Park! Rhett Miller rocks out at City Winery! Folk it up with Michael McDermott and Halcyon at Eddie’s Attic! Get jazzy with Marquis Hare at the High Museum! The Purple Madness pays tribute to Prince at MadLife Stage & Studios! Experience Black Moth Super Rainbow at the Masquerade! Folk it up with Boo Reefa at Tin Roof Cantina! The Good Times Brass Band gets down at Venkman’s! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out some golden oldies with their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19! Big Shoes pay tribute to Little Feat at The Vista Room! Get rocked with Godsmack and Shinedown at Lakewood Amphitheatre! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern!  Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out their R&B Revue! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 18

Rock on down to The Star Bar for the Upbeat! Benefit (founded in memory of Atlanta’s Tony Dinnewith), benefitting local independent musicians, with a hellacious line-up featuring The Scragglers, Bad Spell, Codeine Haze, Screamin’ Demons, Blowdown, Captain & Maybelle, Dusty Booze & The Babyhaters and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! Toto invades Atlanta Symphony Hall! Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics dish out a night of Georgia soul at the Red Hare Brewing Company in Marietta! Allied Ink Tattoo with Kool Kat Chris Hamer of UrbnPop host their first ever Punk Rock Flea Market, from 4pm – 9pm! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for their Led Zeppelin Jam III! Get your magic fix at ATL Craft’s Bewitching Bazaar at 7pm! Or get witchy at Markster Con’s TriWizard Ball at Fado Irish Pub! Spend the night with Kool Kat Fred LeBlanc with Cowboy Mouth at the Buckhead Theatre! Get countrified with Mac McAnally at City Winery! Criminal Records dishes out some gritty psychedelic garage rock with Kool Kats Gringo Star during their album release party! Bluegrass it up with Adam Wakefield & Nick Hagelin at Eddie’s Attic! Departure pays tribute to Journey at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheatre! Indie rock it up with Jonah Matranga at the Masquerade! The Chi-Town Transit Authority pays tribute to Chicago at the Red Clay Theatre! Get down with Escape Vehicle, Sugarfoot and Free Hat at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your ‘60s and ‘70s rock fix with The Rainmen and Penny Western at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a 10am screening of Disney’s THE LION KING (1994) at Venkman’s followed by ATL Collective reliving the hit from The Doobie Brothers! Blues it up with Albert White and Shelton Powe at the Northside Tavern! Get down and dirty with the Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, August 19

Get the blues with Southern Avenue and The Vegabonds at Park Tavern! Get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or get adventurous at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 12pm! Get countrified with Mac McAnally at City Winery! Todd Nance & Friends and Back to Memphis get down at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Harvest Moon! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get down with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out some golden oldies with their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Marietta Theatre Company presents NUNSENSE through Sept. 1!

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & LanesComet 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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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.

 

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This Week in ATLRetro, Sept. 4-10, 2017

Posted on: Sep 4th, 2017 By:

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week is chock full of oldies but goodies! Come see what we’ve found for you. Get out and get Retro!

Monday, September 4

Get intergalactic and celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) at theatres across Atlanta (contact theatres for show times) [AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Parkway Point 15; and AMC Dine-In North Point Mall 12 (Alpharetta)], through Sept. 6! Make your way to Chastain Park for a night with the Goo Goo Dolls! Blues on down to Park Tavern for their 32nd Annual Labor Day Blues BBQ featuring tasty food and live music with Nick Moss, Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, The Breeze Kings, Tribute and more! Bring the funk and pay Tribute to Chaka Khan at City Winery! Travel through time and save the world with James Cameron’s TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY (1991) at theatres across Atlanta (contact theatres for show times) [AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Parkway Point 15; AMC Classic North Dekalb Mall 16; AMC Classic Mansell Crossing 14 (Alpharetta); and AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw)], through Sept. 6! 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! 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, September 5

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Jean Renoir’s LA GRANDE ILLUSION (1937) at 7pm! Rock out at the Masquerade with GBH, The Casualties and The Hanging Judge! Apocalyptica brings their ‘90s Finnish orchestra rock to Center Stage! Catch a DeLorean on over to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ‘80s classic BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) during their  Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Get old-timey with Annette Conlon at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with the Poverty Level Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with Steve Cunningham at Blind Willie’s! 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 Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get down and dirty with Gray & The Bad Boys at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 6

Emory Cinematheque continues their Resist Fascism Series with a screening of Frank Borzage’s THE MORTAL STORM (1940) at 7:30pm! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for a night with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley, Black Tarpoon and Southern Sinners! Get your garage rock fix with Thee Oh Sees and All the Saints at the Variety Playhouse! Catch a DeLorean on over to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for an encore screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ‘80s classic BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) during their  Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Get the rockin’ blues with the Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Art Holliday, Inc. boogies down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Get the blues with the Cody Matlock Band at Blind Willie’s! Down South Swing brings you their September Swing Classes at Firefly Studio Decatur! 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, September 7

Madness, maniacs and science, oh my – hilarity ensues with Cineprov at The Plaza Theater as they riff Anthony Lanza’s THE INCREDIBLE TWO-HEADED TRANSPLANT (1971) at 7:00pm! Get the blues with the Cody Matlock Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Folk it up with Ben Sollee at Eddie’s Attic! Get weird with Shark Jackson at EyeDrum! Get your klezmer fiddle fix with Alicia Svigals at the Schwartz Center (Emory)! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rock out at The Star Bar with Air Wolves, Glen Iris and Hip to Death! Garage rock it up with The Afghan Whigs and Har Mar Superstar at Terminal West! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for some smokin’ hot island tunes and a couple of cocktails! Get down with The Whiskey Charmers at the Red Light Café! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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! 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, September 8

Get sinister and celebrate 40 years of Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA (1977), bloodying it up at The Plaza Theater through Sept. 14! Get down and dirty and sleaze it up with The Dreaded Marco, Filthy Rebel and Bigfoot at The Star Bar! Blake Rainey & His Demons raise a ruckus at The Earl with Virginia Plane and Takenobu! Rock out with Kool Kat Fred Leblanc/Cowboy Mouth and Five Eight at The Vista Room! Shimmy on down to City Winery for Wasabassco Burlesque! Old-time it up with Don Flemons (Carolina Chocolate Drops) at Art Farm (Serenbe)! Get intergalactic with Wicket: The Musical at Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, geeking it up through Oct. 7! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Suwannee! Get strange and make your way to Venkman’s for The Dirty DoorsStrange Days 50th Anniversary Celebration! Make your way to the Old Fourth Ward Fall Fest, running through Sept. 9, featuring tasty food, a parade, and live music with The Pussywillows, The Breeze Kings and more! Blues it up with Vintage #18 at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get the blue with Kerry Hill at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Spend the night with the Villain Family at the Fernbank Museum’s “Fernbank After Dark” adults-only event! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at Smith’s Olde Bar! George Hughley & The Shadows dish out the blues at Blind Willie’s! Get down with Lola at Northside Tavern! 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, September 9

Beebopalula on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys! Or get hellacious with ELZIG at The Highlander! Boogie down ‘80s-style with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his 80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party: Depeche Mode Edition at Amsterdam Atlanta! The REMakes pay tribute to R.E.M. at Venkman’s! Get your Americana fix with Penny & Sparrow at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock out at The Star Bar with the TNT Band, The Gartrells, and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah! Or make your way to the Little Vinyl Lounge downstairs for a night with Sasha Vallely! Rock out with The Skylarks at Kavarna! Roar on down to The Wren’s Nest for their The Great Gatsby Lawn Party! Get some summer lovin’ cemetery-style with the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Love Stories of Oakland: Summer Lovin’ Date Night! Make your way to the Infinite Energy Center for I Love the 90s Tour! Rock out with Kool Kat Fred Leblanc/Cowboy Mouth and the Barbaric Gentlemen at The Vista Room! Shimmy on down to City Winery for Wasabassco Burlesque! Blue it up with Swap Raw Deal at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get folksy with Webster at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Venkman’s for a Chicken Pickin’ Brunch featuring the Sweet Auburn String Band! Get down and dirty with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Tyler Neal Band dishes out the blues at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, September 10

Surf on down to Victory Sandwich Bar for their Victory Fall Luau featuring live tunes with The Flamethrowers and Kinky Wiakiki! Live long and prosper and celebrate 35 years of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982) at theatres across Atlanta, 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)] Get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out with Band X at Johnny’s Hideaway! Make your way to Yaarab Shriners for I.C.E.’s Fall Craft & Vintage Market! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Get intergalactic with Wicket: The Musical at Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, geeking it up through Oct. 7!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & LanesComet 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.

 

 

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This Week in ATLRetro, Feb. 27-Mar. 5, 2017

Posted on: Feb 26th, 2017 By:

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Take a peek at what we’ve dug up for you This Week in ATLRetro!

Monday, February 27

Make your way to the Tabernacle for Sting’s 57th and 9th Tour! Catch a screening of Billy Wilder’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! Get some soul with Lake Street Dive and Joey Dosik at the Variety Playhouse! Brandon Reeves dishes out a night of roots ‘n’ soul 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!” Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 28

Cult writer Joe R. Lansdale signs his newest release in his HAP AND LEONARD series, RUSTY PUPPY, at Eagle Eye Books at 7pm! Get your circus shenanigan fix at the Red Light Café with the Tinderbox Circus Sideshow and more! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for Mardi Gras with Bob Page! Party it up with a Fat Tuesday Extravaganza at The Vista Room! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kills it with their Noir Film Classics Series with a screening of Roman Polanski’s CHINATOWN (1974) at 7pm! Rock out with Agent Orange, Guttermouth, The Queers and Atom Age at The Earl! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Or come down to the Little Vinyl Lounge for Kenny’s Record Club featuring Kenny Howes dishin’ out Ringo Starr’s “Blast From Your Past”! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 1

Grab your favorite droogs and catch a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for the Southern Soul Assembly, featuring JJ Grey, Luther Dickinson, Anders Osborne and Marc Broussard! Spend the evening with Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge at The Earl! Bluegrass it up at The Vista Room with The Vista Stringband! Make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the Big Mean Sound Machine and the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra! Make your way to Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Anthony Mann’s MEN IN WAR (1957) at 7:30pm as part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Festival of Preservation Tour! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! 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, March 2

Get funkadelic with George Clinton & P-Funk with Gurufish at the Buckhead Theatre! Cineprov returns to The Plaza Theater and kills it with an undead riffing of George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at 7:45pm! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with JD McPherson! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue performing The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & the Piedmont Playboys get down at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for their Bluegrass Pickin’ Party! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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! 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, March 3

Get criminal at SCADShow’s screening of Martin Scorsese’s GOODFELLAS (1990) at 7pm! Folk it up with Cory Branan and Ben Trickey at The Earl! It’s R.E.M. Night at Eddie’s Attic! Eighties it up with Saved by the Band at Venkman’s! Get artsy at the High Museum with “A Curatorial Conversation on Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915-1950” at 7pm! Celebrate 21 years of rock with PARADOCS at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater’s Rocky Horror Pub Crawl 2, featuring a costume contest, a screening of  Jim Sharman’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) and more, at 7pm! The Masquerade gets mischievous and metal with Suicidal Tendencies, Crowbar and Havok! Get bizarre with filmmaker Kool Kat Brian Lonano and Video Video Nasty’s “Sad Stonewash!” event at JavaVino! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with Greg Presmanes!

Saturday, March 4

Honkytonk it up with Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers and Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club at Kavarna! That 1 Guy dishes out a night of future funk ‘n’ experimental jazzy goodness all in a one-man-band at Eddie’s Attic! Get dark and rock out with The Saturation, James Hall & The Steady Wicked and Shadowland at The Star Bar! Glam it up with PINUPS and The Backyardbirds at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rock out with Southside Johnny & Asbury Jukes at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock out at The Earl with Clashinista (Clash tribute), Cadillac Jones and Jupiter Watts! The Park Tavern dishes out a full day of the Big Easy with their Oyster Crawfish Festival featuring live tunes by Kool Kat Fred Leblanc with Cowboy Mouth, Gurufish and the Atlanta Brass Connection! Get some New Orleans funk with The Mar-Tans at Venkman’s! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at The Vista Room! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, March 5

Catch a screening of Joseph L. MankiewiczALL ABOUT EVE (1950) at theatres across Atlanta (2pm/7pm) [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)! Get hellacious and rock out with Overkill at the Variety Playhouse! Get folksy with Mouths of Babes at Eddie’s Attic! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Get haunted Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” at the Fox Theatre, running through March 5! (LAST CHANCE!)

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!

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.

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This Weekend in Retro Atlanta, Sept. 23-25, 2016

Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2016 By:

Friday, September 23

The spook season has a killer kick off with Netherworld Haunted House’s horrorific 20th season opening this weekend Netherworld(23rd/24th), and then nightly beginning October 1! SCADFilm presents a screening of Amy Heckerling’s ‘80s classic, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) at SCADShow at 6:30pm followed by a Q&A with Amy Heckerling! Heads will be rolling at Synchronicity Theatre during opening night of Howard Brenton’s ANNE BOLEYN, running through Oct. 16! Rock out with Yacht Rock Revue at Park Tavern’s 2016 Summer Sunsets Season Finale! Make your way to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for a special “Quote-Along” screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry JonesMONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at 9:30pm! Get down and dirty with Whiskey Dixie and The Muckers at Red Light Café! Make your way to The Earl for a night with the Kansas Bible Company, Sidney Eloise & The Palms and more! Rock out with Veiny Hands, Black Linen and Mattiel at The Star Bar! Rock out with our upcoming Kool Kats Cowboy Mouth at The Loft! Reggae it up with John Brown’s Body and Roots of a Rebellion at the Masquerade! Gov’t Mule rocks out at the Tabernacle! Venkman’s gets ILLin-N-CHILIn with the music of the Beastie Boys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers! Honkytonk it up with Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, The Waymores and the 9:35’s at the Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with the Rockin’ Dirty Revue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out under the dinosaurs with The Highbeams at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! 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, September 24

9.24MasqueradeSlink on down to EAV for the 2016 EAV Strut, featuring local food, an artist’s market and retro-tastic tunes with Chelsea Shag, Zale, Future Babes, Netherglades, Book of Colors, Flamingo Shadow, Doesin, Cold Heart Canyon, DOT.S, Get Damned, Kool Kats Joy Kills, Midnight Larks and more! SCADShow presents a killer screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at 7pm! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for Jim Henson’s 80th Birthday Celebration, featuring tours and special screenings of his series THE STORYTELLER (1987) and FARSCAPE (1999)! Get mischievous and rock on down to the Masquerade for Slaughter QUE 2016, featuring sideshow shenanigans, a midway with games and prizes, a helluva lot of BBQ and rockin’ tunes with LAZER/WULF, Beitthemeans, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and more! Get experimental and electronic at The Earl with Clock DVA, Pyramid Club and Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Skank on down to City Winery for a night with Kool Kat Reverend Andy and the Southern Ska Syndicate! ATL Collective revives Dolly Parton’s “JOLENE” at Eddie’s Attic! Beer meets history at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Malts & Vaults event! Inch your way to The Plaza Theater for the first ever HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) Pub Crawl at 7pm, ending with a screening of John Cameron Mitchell’s rock theatre hit, and so much more! Get your horror punk fix at The Pointe in Conyers with DDC and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! It’s a night of fantasy and time travel at The 9.24PointePlaza Theater with their screening of Terry Gilliam’s TIME BANDITS (1981)! Or make your way to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for a special “Quote-Along” screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry JonesMONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at 9:30pm! Mark Michelson & Friends presents their Muscle Shoals Jam at the Red Light Café! Get folksy with Raven and Red at Venkman’s, then stay for The REMakes, paying tribute to R.E.M! Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Don Bluth’s THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982) at 11am! Get rocked ‘60s-‘70s-style with the Rainmen at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get your classic western fix with Back in the Saddle at the Red Clay Theatre! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of rockin’ cover bands with Nameless Nameless, The Cherry Bombs and The Buzzards of Fuzz! Funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation at Terminal West! Get down with the Juke Joint Jukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Selwyn Birchwood at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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, September 25

9.25Rock out with the Violent Femmes at the Buckhead Theatre! Celebrate 20 years of The Righteous Room at their 20th Anniversary Party, from 11am to 5pm! Catch a screening of Phil Aldon Robinson’s FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Get your ‘90s French death metal fix with Gojira and Tesseract at the Tabernacle! Get yer Gypsy Western Swing fix with Django Earnhardt at Venkman’s! It’s your last chance to catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Don Bluth’s THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982) at 11am! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And get the rockin’ blues with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

7 Stages gets mischievous with their presentation of Bertolt Brecht’s classical musical, THE THREE PENNY OPERA, running through Sept. 24 (LAST CHANCE!)

Heads are rolling at Synchronicity Theatre’s presentation of Howard Brenton’s ANNE BOLEYN, running through Oct. 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

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!

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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, September 19-25, 2016

Posted on: Sep 18th, 2016 By:

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come on down and see what killer shenanigans we’ve found for you This Week in Retro Atlanta!

Monday, September 199.19

Kick off the week with a rock ‘n’ roll ruckus with Sadie HawkinsElectric Glitterland Rock ‘N’ Roll Cabaret at Smith’s Olde Bar, featuring performances by Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Nikki Nuke’m, Annette Coquette, Kool Kat Katherine Lashe, Kool Kat Persephone Phoenix and more! Get your Gene Wilder fix at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Mel BrooksBLAZING SADDLES (1974), and hop across the pond for a screening of Ron Howard’s documentary, THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, THE TOURING YEARS (2016), both screening through Sept. 22! 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! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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 The Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, September 20

9.20StarBarIt’s a night of Americana ‘n’ blues with Norman Frank and Liz Brasher at Eddie’s Attic! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Flamenco it up with Marija Temo and friends at the Red Light Café! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 21

Get the rockin’ blues with Kool Kat Brooks Mason and The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down and dirty with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at 9.21Blind Willie’s! Rock out at the Tabernacle with Alice in Chains! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) at theatres across Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Or catch a screening of Mike Hodges’ FLASH GORDON (1980) during Emory Cinematheque’s Comics & Graphic Novels Series at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Phil Aldon Robinson’s FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! Or 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, September 22

Come celebrate the best of Atlanta, including our pals, Blast-Off Burlesque (Best Burlesque Act) at Creative Loafing’s 9.22CityWineryBest of Atlanta Party at the Georgia Freight Depot, featuring performances by The Imperial OPA Circus, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers and more! Stomp on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with the Villain Family and I Want Whisky! Get hot with the Squirrel Nut Zippers at City Winery! Get some rockin’ soul with The Gartrells, Dusk, Tenement and The Suitcase Junket at 529! Or get down with the classic soul of The Suffers at Aisle 5! Catch a little Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get jazzy with The Matthew Kaminski Quartet at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so swank it up with Bogey & the Viceroy at Trader Vic’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Venkman’s delivers a night of old-school Jamaican soul with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue! Boogie down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! 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, September 23

The spook season has a killer kick off with Netherworld Haunted House’s horrorific 20th season opening this weekend (23rd/24th), and then nightly beginning October 1! SCADFilm presents a screening of Amy Heckerling’s ‘80s classic, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) at SCADShow at 6:30pm followed by a Q&A with Amy Heckerling! Heads will 9.23be rolling at Synchronicity Theatre during opening night of Howard Brenton’s ANNE BOLEYN, running through Oct. 16! Rock out with Yacht Rock Revue at Park Tavern’s 2016 Summer Sunsets Season Finale! Make your way to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for a special “Quote-Along” screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry JonesMONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at 9:30pm! Get down and dirty with Whiskey Dixie and The Muckers at Red Light Café! Make your way to The Earl for a night with the Kansas Bible Company, Sidney Eloise & The Palms and more! Rock out with Veiny Hands, Black Linen and Mattiel at The Star Bar! Rock out with our upcoming Kool Kats Cowboy Mouth at The Loft! Reggae it up with John Brown’s Body and Roots of a Rebellion at the Masquerade! Gov’t Mule rocks out at the Tabernacle! Venkman’s gets ILLin-N-CHILIn with the music of the Beastie Boys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers! Honkytonk it up with Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, The Waymores and the 9:35’s at the Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with the Rockin’ Dirty Revue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out under the dinosaurs with The Highbeams at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! 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, September 24

9.24MasqueradeSlink on down to EAV for the 2016 EAV Strut, featuring local food, an artist’s market and retro-tastic tunes with Chelsea Shag, Zale, Future Babes, Netherglades, Book of Colors, Flamingo Shadow, Doesin, Cold Heart Canyon, DOT.S, Get Damned, Kool Kats Joy Kills, Midnight Larks and more! SCADShow presents a killer screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at 7pm! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for Jim Henson’s 80th Birthday Celebration, featuring tours and special screenings of his series THE STORYTELLER (1987) and FARSCAPE (1999)! Get mischievious and rock on down to the Masquerade for Slaughter QUE 2016, featuring sideshow shenanigans, a midway with games and prizes, a helluva lot of BBQ and rockin’ tunes with LAZER/WULF, Beitthemeans, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and more! Get experimental and electronic at The Earl with Clock DVA, Pyramid Club and Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Skank on down to City Winery for a night with Kool Kat Reverend Andy and the Southern Ska Syndicate! ATL Collective revives Dolly Parton’s “JOLENE” at Eddie’s Attic! Beer meets history at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Malts & Vaults event! Inch your way to The Plaza Theater for the first ever HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) Pub Crawl at 9.24Pointe7pm, ending with a screening of John Cameron Mitchell’s rock theatre hit, and so much more! Get your horror punk fix at The Pointe in Conyers with DDC and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! It’s a night of fantasy and time travel at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Terry Gilliam’s TIME BANDITS (1981)! Or make your way to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for a special “Quote-Along” screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry JonesMONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at 9:30pm! Mark Michelson & Friends presents their Muscle Shoals Jam at the Red Light Café! Get folksy with Raven and Red at Venkman’s, then stay for The REMakes, paying tribute to R.E.M! Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Don Bluth’s THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982) at 11am! Get rocked ‘60s-‘70s-style with the Rainmen at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get your classic western fix with Back in the Saddle at the Red Clay Theatre! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of rockin’ cover bands with Nameless Nameless, The Cherry Bombs and The Buzzards of Fuzz! Funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation at Terminal West! Get down with the Juke Joint Jukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Selwyn Birchwood at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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, September 25

9.25Rock out with the Violent Femmes at the Buckhead Theatre! Celebrate 20 years of The Righteous Room at their 20th Anniversary Party, from 11am to 5pm! Catch a screening of Phil Aldon Robinson’s FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Get your ‘90s French death metal fix with Gojira and Tesseract at the Tabernacle! Get yer Gypsy Western Swing fix with Django Earnhardt at Venkman’s! It’s your last chance to catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Don Bluth’s THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982) at 11am! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And get the rockin’ blues with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

7 Stages gets mischievous with their presentation of Bertolt Brecht’s classical musical, THE THREE PENNY OPERA, running through Sept. 24 (LAST CHANCE!)

Heads are rolling at Synchronicity Theatre’s presentation of Howard Brenton’s ANNE BOLEYN, running through Oct. 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

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!

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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, March 21-27, 2016

Posted on: Mar 20th, 2016 By:

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Are you hep to the jive? ‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta promises the jolt you’ve needed to kick Old Man Winter’s tail and spring into action like the good little misfits and miscreants you are! So come on out, make a little mischief and rock out with the rest of us! Come check out all the swell shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, March 21

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Gregory La Cava’s STAGE DOOR 3.21EAYC(1937) at 10:30am! Get some soul with Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only “SCI-FI” trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, March 22

3.22Groove on down to the Red Light Café as the BadAsh Allstar Team pays tribute to Prince! Penny & Sparrow dish out a night of Americana ‘n’ roots at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with Joe McGuinness at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 23

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Alain ResnaisHIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! It’s a night of comedy and sketches at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge with Scene Missing’s ATLabyrinth! Terminal West presents “A Night of David Bowie” with The Ziggy Stardust Tribute! TCM presents their Big Screen 3.23TerminalClassics 60th Anniversary screening of Cecil B. Demille’s epic , THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) at 2pm/7pm in theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Joe Satriani! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for their Albert Collins Tribute! Join the Muppet mayhem at the Decatur Library as they screen James Frawley’s THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) at 1pm! Folk it up with Barnaby Bright at Grocery on Home! Jaap Blonk delivers a night of sound poetry celebrating the Dada Centennial at EyeDrum! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Dusty Roads! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or 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, March 24

Rock out at The Star Bar with The Supersuckers, Jesse Dayton and Dead Soldiers! Get the Led Out pays 3.24tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Fox Theatre! Get some Appalachian soul with Upstate Rubdown and Cortez Garza at the Red Light Café! “Grace Slick meets Led Zeppelin” with The Broadcast as they rock out at The Earl with Autumn Attics! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Eagles/Alabama Tribute concert! Get smooth at Venkman’s with Yacht Rock Schooner! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with George Hughley & The Shadows! 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! 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, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 25

Kool Kats The Blackfoot Gypsies deliver a night of rockin’ garage blues with The Yawpers at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some ‘50s and ‘60s Georgia soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics at The Earl! Or make your way to the Variety Playhouse as Yacht Rock Revue performs “The Dark Side of the Moon” and “Abbey 3.25RLCRoad”! DJ Doctor Q presents his Speakeasy Electro Swing Atlanta at the Red Light Café featuring the Swingrowers! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Deep South Pub in McDonough! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers followed by the Electromatics featuring Jon Liebman! The 9th Street Stompers dish out a night of hillbilly swingin’ hot jazz at Venkman’s! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! The Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event turns into a ‘20s/’30s speakeasy with The HoboHemians! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Eagles/Alabama Tribute concert! 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, March 26

It’s Rockabilly Night at The Star Bar, so rev on down for a night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, The Royal Hounds and Little Lesley & The Bloodshots! It’s a night of psychobilly and horror punk at The Highlander with Burns Like Fire, Wolfspider and Crypt 24! Dad’s Garage Theatre gets porky with 3.26LVLBaconfest 2016 featuring carnival games, piggies galore, live performances by The Honkytonk Extravaganza (Kool Kat Rich Desantis), Blast-Off Burlesque, and more! Rock on down to the Park Tavern for their Oyster & Crawfish Fest featuring Cowboy Mouth! Or shuck on down to Tin Roof Cantina for their Sham Jam Shuckfest featuring live performances by Chicago Joe’s School of Rock, Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents, Little Country Giants, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, Heavy Chevy, Cousin Dan and more! Get really retro in Marietta at the grand opening of The Viking Alchemist Meadery from 12-8pm! Shake a tail feather on down to the Little Vinyl Lounge for their “Twistin’ in the Lounge” event and boogie the night away as Dusty Booze dishes out the weirdest and kookiest ‘50s/’60s rock ‘n’ roll! Byrne & Kelly dish out a night of traditional Irish folk at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Rusted Root at the Variety Playhouse! Steve’s Live Music gets down bluegrass and Dixieland style with La Terza Classe and Escape Vehicle! Jazz it up with the Elgin Wells Group at the Elliott Street Pub! Honkytonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Dale Watson & His Lonestars and Cold Heart Canyon! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with Little G. Weevil! Blues it up with Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get the blues with Grant Green, Jr. at Venkman’s! 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, March 273.27

Get sinfully saucy at Smith’s Olde Bar as The Candybox Revue presents their Bunny Bash with Delinda D’Rabbit, Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kool Kat Roula Roulette and more! Mike Farris dishes out a night of rockin’ blues at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with Matthew Kaminksi at Venkman’s! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

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

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!

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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, September 7-13, 2015

Posted on: Sep 6th, 2015 By:

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Take a peek at the Retro menu this week and get your old-school kicks with Kool Kats galore! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, September 7The Breakfast Club

Blues it up at Park Tavern during WRFG’s 30th Annual Labor Day Blues & BBQ event, featuring performances by Albert White (Honoree), Chickenshack, Lola, Blind Cadillac, JP Blues and more! Or head to detention at Community Smith with their screening of John HughesTHE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985), at 8pm! It’s your last chance to get your geek on with Dragon*Con 2015, so come on by and catch all the comic, horror and sci-fi shenanigans winding down in Atlanta today! 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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, with a different theme every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out a night of blues with the Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, September 8

9.8RLCWink, wink – nudge, nudge, it’s Monty Python night at the Fox Theatre, with their 40th Anniversary screening of Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones’ cult classic, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975), followed by a Q&A with Terry Jones, at 7:30pm! 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: Nerdtastic event featuring performances by Rosie Rivet-her, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Get your old-time rockin’ country fix at Eddie’s Attic with Jimmy Webb! Or bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock gets down and dirty at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their ‘80s Dance Night! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 9

Rock on down to Terminal West for a night of old-school punk with X and Dead Rock West! Get your ‘60s psychedelic rock metal fix at 9.9RLCCenter Stage with Uncle Acid & the Dead Beats, with Ruby the Hatchett and Ecstatic Vision! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! You’re your way to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of Garry Marshall’s PRETTY WOMAN (1990) at 7:30pm! Help pay tribute to the Rocket Man, Elton John with the BadAsh Allstar Team at Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! Get funky with The Georgia Flood’s rockin’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, September 10

9.10StarBarGet your garage surf rock fix at The Star Bar with The Evil Streaks, The Mystery Men? and Rad Rex! The Rialto Center for the Arts gets old-school with Theatrical Outfit’s presentation of “Memphis”, running through Sept. 20! Get down and dirty and help the Clermont Lounge celebrate during their 50th Anniversary Party with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club, Captain & Maybelle and more! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Get your rockin’ lady blues fix with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Geoff Achison gets the blues at Steve’s Live Music! Bluegrass it up with the Adam Ezra Group and Buttered Bourbon at the Red Light Café! 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, September 11

Rock ‘n’ rev on down to the Masquerade for a night of mayhem and mischief with the Reverend Horton Heat, The Adicts, The Creepshow and Kool Kat Rev. Andy! Kick off the fall season with Old Fourth Ward’s Fall Festival, running through Sept. 12, and promising tasty food, lantern parades and performances by9.11Masquerade The Space Time Travelers (groove/funk); Marshall Ruffin (blues); The Whiskey Gentry (punk country) and more! Or get your psych-garage surf rock fix at The Earl with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Michael Rault and the Reverends! Blues it up and celebrate 25 years of Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, running through Sept. 13, with Willy Jackson, the Slab Remains the Same, Fatback Deluxe, The Backyard Birds and Felix and the Cats! Slink on down to the Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s BLACKOUT: Goth Industrial Dance Night, featuring Dark 80s, synth pop, post-punk and more! Geek it up at the Red Light Café with Blacklist Burlesque’s Game of Thrones Burlesque event! The Variety Playhouse delivers a night of ‘90s experimental post-rock with Godspeed You! Black Emperor! Rock on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night of tributes with Almost Billy Joel! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Get your Djanjo Reinhardt gypsy jazz fix with Kool Kat Amy Pike and Bonaventure Quartet while sippin’ a few cocktails under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Rock out roots-style with Uncle Lucius at Eddie’s Attic! The Red, White & Blues Band gets the blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get folksy with Jason Kenney & Caromia at the Crimson Moon Café! Get your old-school country rock fix with Dwight Yoakam at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Pay tribute to BB King with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at the Northside Tavern! Honkytonk it up at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with the Cosmic American Derelicts! 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, September 12

It’s day 2 of Old Fourth Ward’s Fall Festival, so come on down for a day of retro performances with Moontower (funk/disco); Secondhand Swagger (soul/funk); the Jugtime Ragband (ragtime/Dixieland); Water Seed (funk/soul); the Georgia Soul Council (honkytonk) and more! It’s night 2 of celebrations at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Beverly 9.12Terminal“Guitar” Watkins, The Hollidays, Rough Draft, Frankie’s Blues Mission, Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue and more! Rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Atlanta Room with Kool Kat Ray Dafrico and the Ray City Rollers, Kenny Howes and Love is Loud! Or make your way to the Music Room for a night of tributes with Tribute and Rumours! Get your indie retro rock fix at The Star Bar with The Donkeys and Jessica Lee Wilkes! Funk it up with Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band and Heavy Chevy at Aisle 5! Or get funky with Earphunk and The Main Squeeze at Terminal West! Kool Kat Spirits and the Melchizedek Children dish out a night of ‘70s psych rock with Mamiffer at 529! Outr pals at Pallookaville dish out their Artist Bazaar, from 12-4pm! Learn about the history of beer while meeting some new spirited pals at Oakland Cemetery’s Malts & Vaults tour! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for The History of Tiki & Trader Vic’s event! Delta Moon dishes out a night of Americana blues ‘n’ roots at Blind Willie’s! Get your ‘70s soul fix double-time at Eddie’s Attic with Angie Stone! Michelle Malone dishes out her rockin’ Americana at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down and dirty with Joe McGuinness at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Cowpunk it up with the Bathhouse Janitors at the Red Light Café! Rock on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Cowboy Mouth and the El Caminos! Get down and dirty with Diedra & the Ruff Pro Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with the Cody Matlock Band at the Northside Tavern! 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, September 139.13Masquerade

Rock out in Hell with The Atomic Bitchwax’s ‘60s psych rock/’70s riff rock at the Masquerade with Mos Generator and Against the Grain! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Folk it up with The Good Graces at the Crimson Moon Café! Rock out roots-style at Red Light Café with Letters to Abigail and Kate & Corey! It’s Sultry Sunday at Steve’s Live Music! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Day 3 of Fat Matt’s Rib Shack’s 25th Anniversary celebration brings you Atlanta Boogie, the Kerry Hill Band, Sana Blues and Snake Legs! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Alliance Theatre presents ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, running through Sept. 20!

The Rialto Center for the Arts gets old-school with Theatrical Outfit’s presentation of “Memphis”, running through Sept. 20!

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.

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This Week in ATLRetro, October 14-20, 2019

Posted on: Oct 14th, 2019 By:

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Become one with the creatures of the night this week and rock out with one helluva line-up of spooktacular shenanigans!

Monday, October 14

Spook on down to Ponce City Roof for their Movies on the Roof event featuring a screening of Brad Silberling’s CASPER (1995) at 8:30pm! Or have a ghastly good time during Aurora Theatre’s Spirits & Spirits Ft. the Wicked Library at 8pm! Get Russian retro-rocked with Igor & the Red Elvises, The Muckers and Blood Oaks at the Masquerade! Catch a screening  of Dario Argento/George A. Romero’s TWO EVIL EYES (1990) at 4:45pm and Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD (1981) at 10:30pm at The Plaza Theater! Get retro rocked with Making Movies at Vinyl! Get old school with the Silkworm Smugglers at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at The Vista Room! Rock out and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday! Get your vinyl fix at Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction, every Monday! 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!

Tuesday, October 15

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Yasujiro Ozu’s TOKYO TWILIGHT (1957) at 7pm! Get monsterific at the opening night of Battle & Brew’s Monster Mash Art Show! Film Love Atlanta (Kool Kat Andy Ditzler) presents Empire’s Final Reel: Andy Warhol and the Cinema of Darkness at Beautiful Briny Sea starting at 7:30pm! Get down with ’68, The Inspector Cluzo, The Messenger Birds and Ghost Moths at The Drunken Unicorn! The Plaza Theater’s Little Plaza of Horror Series screens a trifecta of evil with Dario Argento/George A. Romero’s TWO EVIL EYES (1990), Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD (1981), and Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 40th Anniversary screening of Ridley Scott’s ALIEN (1979) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Studio Movie Grill (Marietta/Alpharetta/Marietta) and Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18]! Get down with Yaiin Bey (Mos Def) at the Masquerade! Whet your appetite at Ponce City Roof during their Movies on the Roof event featuring a screening of Jonathan Demme’s SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) at 8:30pm! Get your jazzy flamenco fix with New Bojaira at the Red Light Café! Get to the root of it all with The Mighty Pines at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s 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, October 16

Emory Cinematheque screens Billy Wilder’s STALAG 17 (1953) in White Hall at 7:30pm! Get haunted at the Wren’s Nest during The Edgar Allan Poe Experience nevermore’ing it up through Nov. 3! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 40th Anniversary screening of Ridley Scott’s ALIEN (1979) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Studio Movie Grill (Marietta/Alpharetta/Marietta) and Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18]! The Fox Theatre dishes out a spooktacular time as they haunt it up during their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, bone chilling Oct. 9, Oct. 15, and Oct. 17! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 26!  The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Catch a screening  of Dario Argento/George A. Romero’s TWO EVIL EYES (1990) at 4:45pm and Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD (1981) at The Plaza Theater! Get experimental during the Legendary Pink Dots 40th Anniversary Tour in Purgatory at the Masquerade, or rock out with Face-to-Face  and Lagwagon in Heaven! Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Joe Dante’s GREMLINS (1984) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Or catch a screening of Ridley Scott’s GLADIATOR (2000) at CineBistro Brookhaven! Death metal it up with Sweden’s Amon Amarth at the Tabernacle! Funk it up with Corey Henry & The Funk Apostles with Ric Wilson at Terminal West! Stomp on down to Waller’s Coffee Shop for their Bluegrass Jam! Honkytonk on down to The Star Bar for Cowboy Karaoke! 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 for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 17

Conjure up a haunting myth with Videodrome and The Plaza Theater during PlazaDrome’s screening of Bernard Rose’s CANDYMAN (1992) at 9:30pm! Get hellacious and rock on down to the Clermont Lounge for the 4th Annual Shock & Roll Halloween Extravaganza featuring Kool Kats the Casket Creatures, ELZIG and Captain & Maybelle! Rock on down to The Star Bar for their Halloween Parade Weekend Kick-Off Party featuring El Capitan & the Reluctant Sadists, Naan Violence, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and more! Shake a Prohibition pandemonium tail feather with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers during Paris on Ponce’s Burlesque Night! Have a blood-curdling good time as NerdLanta presents their Back to the ‘80s Movie Night, every third Thursday of the month, at Mother Bar+Kitchen, this month featuring a screening of Joel Schumacher’s THE LOST BOYS (1987) and bingo at 7:30pm! Get your heart pumping and catch The Plaza Theater’s Little Plaza of Horror Series screening of Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) at 7:30pm! Get rocked with Mike Watt & The Missingmen at The Earl! Dark Wave it up with Vatican Shadow at 529! Pink Talking Fish bring you a night of Pink Floyd, the Talking Heads and Phish at The Loft! Celebrate Halloween and Pride with an arts market and LGBTQ Halloween Dance Party during Halloween Mas(Queer)ade at Market of the Unorthodox! Unleash evil spirits and catch Out of Box Theatre’s presentation of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, through Oct. 20! Get haunted at the Wren’s Nest during The Edgar Allan Poe Experience nevermore’ing it up through Nov. 3! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 26! Catch the BadAsh AllStar Team bringing their Pink Floyd Jam to the Red Light Café! Honky-tonk it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with JP Harris and Nikki & The Phantom Callers! Get your Americana fix with Houndmouth at Terminal West! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get down with some island tunes and have some killer cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Star Bar kicks it in the Little Vinyl Lounge with Karaoke Night, every Thursday! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack 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, October 18

Roll in the hay and catch a screening of Mel Brooks’s YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Honky-tonk it up with Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires and more at The Earl! Get jazzy with Dashill Smith at the High Museum! Or jazz it up and spend the night with Ledisi at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get your retro rock fix with Slippery When Wet at Madlife Stage & Studios! Americana it up with Seth Walker at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to Terminal West for a night with Anders Osborne and The High Divers! Make your way to the Ivy Wall Drive-In Theatre for their Spook/Haunt/Creep/Gore-tober screening of James Whale’s FRANKENSTEIN (1931) at 8pm! Catch a Legacy Series screening of Robert Mulligan’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at SCADShow at 7pm! Get folksy with Foy Vance at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with WILCO at Chastain Park! Hootenanny it up at City Winery with We Banjo 3! Folk it up with the Randall Bramblett Band at the Red Clay Theatre! Eighties it up with Electric Avenue at Park Tavern! Folk rock it up with Amigo the Devil at the Masquerade! Get the blues with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Get old-timey with the Georgia Mountain String Band at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 26! Unleash evil spirits and catch Out of Box Theatre’s presentation of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, through Oct. 20! Get haunted at the Wren’s Nest during The Edgar Allan Poe Experience nevermore’ing it up through Nov. 3! 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, October 19

Today is the day all you ghosts and goblins have been waiting for! Little 5 Points business district hosts its annual L5P Halloween Festival & Parade! So, come on out dressed to the bloody nines in your spookiest Halloween costume and get horrorifically haunted! Get fed! Get rocked! And get your flesh to the biggest Halloween parade in the south! The event wakes from the dead at noon and haunts until 11 pm, with an artists’ market, food venders, as well as two stages for live entertainment, featuring tunes by Rumours, Nameless Nameless, Running down a Dream, Kool Kat Shane Morton with The VALKYRIE, Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley and the Southern Ska Syndicate, Sash the Bash, Slack Sabbath, ELZIG, The Dirty Doors, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Disco and more! The spooktacular parade of horror runs from 4 to 6 pm on Euclid and Moreland and promises to spook even the bravest of the brave, so pick a spot and hold on tight!  Get your faces rocked off and have a bloody fangtastic time!

Funk on down to Terminal West for the Big Bang Block Party featuring Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and more! Have a foot stompin’ good time with Michelle Malone at Eddie’s Attic! The Curtis Leow Project pays tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd at Madlife Stage & Studios! Haunt on down to the Ivy Wall Drive-In Theatre for their Spook/Haunt/Creep/Gore-tober double-feature screenings of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973) and Michael Gornick’s CREEPSHOW 2 (1987) at 8pm! Yacht Rock Revue gets down at Historic Fourth Ward! Boogie down with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his Destination Unknown: Dead Man’s Party – 80s New Wave Halloween event at The Highlander! Get revved with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The PsychoDevilles at Dixie Tavern! Unleash evil spirits and catch Out of Box Theatre’s presentation of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, through Oct. 20! Or creep on down to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their Halloween Masquerade Tour, followed by your favorite band of specters, The Ghastly Dreadfuls, bringing you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 26! Get haunted at the Wren’s Nest during The Edgar Allan Poe Experience nevermore’ing it up through Nov. 3! Get the blues with Charlie Wooten at The Northside Tavern! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 20

Get down with Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble at The Vista Room! Grind Core it up with Captured! By Robots at 529! Or spend the night with the Cosmic Gypsies at Johnny’s Hideaway! It’s your last chance to unleash evil spirits and catch Out of Box Theatre’s presentation of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL! Get haunted at the Wren’s Nest during The Edgar Allan Poe Experience nevermore’ing it up through Nov. 3! Get down with Mudcat at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Unleash evil spirits and catch Out of Box Theatre’s presentation of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, through Oct. 20! [LAST CHANCE!]

Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 26!

Get haunted at the Wren’s Nest during The Edgar Allan Poe Experience nevermore’ing it up through Nov. 3!

Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 23nd season getting gory through Nov. 4!

New-Wave it up with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during an 80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party every 2nd Saturday of the month at Amsterdam Atlanta!

Geek it up as NerdLanta presents their Back to the ‘80s Movie Night, every third Thursday of the month, at Mother Bar+Kitchen!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & LanesComet 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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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.

 

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This Week in ATLRetro, Sept. 16-22, 2019

Posted on: Sep 15th, 2019 By:

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, September 16

WUSSY MAG and Out on Film present their monthly series, Queers on Film, at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Frank Simon’s newly-restored documentary THE QUEEN (1968) at 7pm! Get some soul with Angie Stone at City Winery! Grunge it up at the Red Light Café with Play Center, Buzzard Cult, Cosmic Kitten and Jerry Would Let Me Down! Or get old-timey at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Tyler Neal Band, Folk Family Revival, John Evans and Alex Culbreath! Head out to the Sahara for a night with Tinariwen and Lonnie Holley at the Variety Playhouse! Break the boundaries and jazz it up with a screening of Stanley Nelson Jr.’s documentary, MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL (2019), through Sept. 19 at The Plaza Theater! Or make your way to Regal Tara Cinemas for a screening of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s documentary, LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE (2019), or Max Lewkowicz’s documentary, FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES (2019), through Sept. 19! AJFF on Campus presents a screening of  Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s documentary, MONKEY BUSINESS: THE ADVENTURES OF CURIOUS GEORGE’S CREATORS (2017) at 5:30pm in White Hall 208/Emory! Americana it up with Jason Waller at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Rock out and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday! Get your vinyl fix at Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction, every Monday! 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! 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, September 17

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961) at 7pm! Or have some late night laughs as The Plaza Theater and the Silver Scream Spook Show present a screening of Shinichirou Ueda’s ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017) at 9pm! Jeff Sparks gets jazzy at City Winery! Spend the night with Sinkane at The Earl! Folk it up with Barns Courtney and The Hunna at The Loft! Get the Piedmont blues with Mudcat during Gypsy Rose’s Mudcat Tuesdays event! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Eddie & the 9 Volts get the rockin’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 18

Rock out with The Who at State Farm Arena! Emory Cinematheque screens Billy Wilder’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) at 7:30pm! Get rocked with Shonen Knife at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some soul with Syleena Johnson at City Winery! Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Get down with Mudcat & the Piedmont Playboys at Blind Willie’s! Live long and prosper and catch a 40th Anniversary screening of Robert Wise’s STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); and Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18]! Bluegrass it up at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Honkytonk on down to The Star Bar for Cowboy Karaoke! 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 for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Electric Blue Express! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, September 19

Spend the night with the godfather of Hong Kong action films with Videodrome and The Plaza Theater during PlazaDrome’s screening of Jackie Chan’s POLICE STORY (1985) at 9:30pm! Get some soul with the Seratones and Wanderwild at The Earl! Stomp on down to Waller’s Coffee Shop for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Russian Roulette Band! Geek it up as NerdLanta presents their Back to the ‘80s Movie Night, every third Thursday of the month, at Mother Bar+Kitchen, this month featuring a screening of Robert Zemeckis’s BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) and bingo! Get your ‘90s alt rock fix with Matthew Sweet at City Winery! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Bombshell Burlesque! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get down with some island tunes and have some killer cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Star Bar kicks it in the Little Vinyl Lounge with Karaoke Night, every Thursday! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack 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, September 20

Surf it up with The Disasternauts, The Manakooras and DJ Big Tiki Dude at the official Southern Surf StompFest Pre-Party at Trader Vic’s! WUSSY MAG nineties it up and invites you to The Buffy Hour: Party at the Hellmouth at 7 Stages! Have a slashing good time and catch HALLOWEEN: THE MUSICAL at Pulp Atlanta, through Sept. 21! Stomp on down to the Tin Roof Cantina for a night with The Muckers, Whiskey Magnolia and Shayne Goss! Nelson Ramos gets jazzy at the High Museum! SCADShow presents a Legacy Series screening of Disney’s SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) at 7pm! Get jazzy at Callandwolde during their Jazz on the Lawn series featuring Bob Baldwin! Spend the night with Snarky Puppy at the Tabernacle! Get down with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Get rocked with T.N.T. at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with the Chris O’Leary Band at Blind Willie’s! 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, September 21

Rock out surf-style with the big kahuna, Kool Kat Chad Shivers and his kickin’ cohorts at the rockin’est annual shindig in Avondale Estates, the Southern Surf StompFest, catching a wave at Little Tree Art Studios, featuring The Surge!, The Mystery Men?, Fiend Without a Face, The Madeira, Surfer Joe, Insect Surfers, the Intoxicators, El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists, The Flamethrowers and so much more to feed your kitschy vintage culture lust (check out our Shop Here feature for 2th9’s Retro and Jezebel Blue here)! In celebration of Southern Surf Stompfest, My Parents’ Basement brings back their Bizarre Bazaar featuring 50 artists, vintage dealers, collectables and oddities, comic books, vintage toys, and more! Get Muppet-y at the Center for Puppetry Arts for Henson Cosplay Day and stick around for a screening of Frank Oz/Henson’s THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN (1984) at 7pm! Head on over to the Children’s Museum of Atlanta for their opening of Curious George: Let’s Get Curious exhibit! Or make your way to the Old Fourth Ward Fall Fest featuring live music, tasty treats and a lantern parade! Get rocked with Kool Kats Blackfoot Gypsies at The Earl! Midsummer Night Faire in downtown Smyrna is an experience you don’t want to miss – with an artist’s market, fire performances, aerial performances, food trucks, palm readings Tarot readings, a dragon lighting and so much more! Spend the night with Bob Mould at City Winery! Or get hellacious with ELZIG and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures at Smokin’ Cues in Stockbridge! Make your way to Ameris Bank Amphitheatre for a night with Hank Williams, Jr.! The Destroy Boys rock out at the Drunken Unicorn! Spend the night with Fiona Silver, Sash the Bash, Damn Jackals and the Pussy Willows at The Star Bar! Make your way to the Ivy Wall Drive-In Theatre in Dacula for a buggy double-feature with Kurt Newmann’s THE FLY (1958) and David Cronenberg’s THE FLY (1986) at 8pm! Get old-timey with the Rev. Justin Hylton and Trent Rice at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Get the blues with Ron Cooley & The Hard Times at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northside Tavern gets down with the Tyler Neal Band! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, September 22

Break free and celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Frank Darabont’s THE SHAWSHANK REDEMTPION (1994) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18]! New Wave it up with Squeeze at the Tabernacle! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with Michelle Malone & Drag the River! Celebrate all things Japan at JapanFest at the Infinite Energy Center! Get rocked with GWAR at the Masquerade! Catch a screening of Dennis Hopper’s EASY RIDER (1969) and Herbert RossSTEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) at The Plaza Theater! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s Silent Film Series screening of Harold Lloyd’s THE KID BROTHER (1927), featuring live organ accompaniment at 3pm with Kool Kat Ron Carter! Get rocked with Strung Out, The Casualties and The Breaknecks at The Earl! Spend the night with Julio Iglesias at Gwinnett Arena! Get classical with Joshua Bell at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get your film noir fix and catch a Flashback Cinema screening of John Huston’s THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Or get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Geek it up as NerdLanta presents their Back to the ‘80s Movie Night, every third Thursday of the month, at Mother Bar+Kitchen!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & LanesComet 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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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.

 

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