ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Hey all you Retro kiddies and blood-lusting miscreants! Get out and get spooked this week as Retro Atlanta gets gory, gussied up and ghostly in celebration of the most haunted and eerie time of the year! Retro Atlanta has everything your wicked little black heart could ever desire, from rockin’ tunes to nightmare-inducing flicks to horrifically exciting Halloween parties you won’t want to miss! So, come on out and haunt with the rest of us!

Monday, October 27

Rock out and do the monster mash with Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures during their live performance at Garage71 Internet Radio’s studio during Kool Kat Rev. Andy’s “Psychobilly Freakout”! Arts at Emory presents their “Pinter Staged Reading” series during PinterFest, with a free staged reading of “Moonlight”, directed by Brenda Bynum at the Emory Schwartz Center! For a night of adult horror and chilling madness, haunt on down to Chambers of Horror, running 7 nights a week through all of October! 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!’ Rock out softly at the Mill Town Music Hall in Bremen with Kenny Loggins! Barrelhouse Bob Page gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! 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, October 28

Classic monsters are unleashed at Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of Fred Dekker’s, THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987) at 10 pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Or spend the night with the “Master of Suspense” at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Alfred Hitchock’s tale of mama’s boys and murder, PSYCHO (1960) during their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! Get murderous at the Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Louis Malle’s ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958) at 7pm! Get possessed at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their ‘Cineclassics 2014’ screening of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973)! Steelism delivers a night reminiscent of Dick Dale and Booker T & the MGs at Eddie’s Attic with special guest Faye Webster! Stomp down to The Earl for a night with Cute Boots, Factory and 100 Watt Horse! Get rocked heavily at the Gwinnett Center with Judas Priest! Get a taste of old-time country at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Secret Sisters! Let the heads roll at the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Silly Hollow” spooking through Nov. 9! Bluegrass it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Curtis Jones &Primal Roots! It’s a night of retro shenanigans at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get some rhythm ‘n’ soul at Blind Willie’s with The Hollidays! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern! And rock out with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Wednesday, October 29

Get rocked and horrified with a little 70’s Italian horror-esque rock with Father Murphy, Chamber Cartel and In Sonitus Lux at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery! Experience Dracula’s (a.k.a Timothy Albrecht) “Scary Ride”, a Halloween-themed organ concert at the Emory Schwartz Center at 8pm! Get your rockin’ fill of Bill Kirchen, “Titan of the Telecaster” at Smith’s Olde Bar! The OBN IIIs deliver their vintage ‘70s Detroit rock at The Earl with Dinos Boys and Skin Jobs! It’s a night of ‘60s R&B at the Buckhead Theatre with Lake Street Dive and The Congress! Get baroque (but not broke!) and rock out at the Drunken Unicorn with Motopony and The Family Crest! The Studio Movie Grill (Duluth and Alpharetta locations) will get you in the haunted spirit with their screenings of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at 7:30pm! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern delivers their second screening of Alfred Hitchock’s PSYCHO (1960) during their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! Or catch Hitchock’s masterpiece at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 during their AMC Classics screening at 2pm and 7pm! Get epic with Emory Arts’ during their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Jerzy Kawaterowicz’s PHARAOH (1965) at White Hall! Honky-tonk on down to The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins delivers her rockin’ woman blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s a night of psychedelic folk blues with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood at Center Stage! Honky-tonk over to Terminal West for a night with Hooray For the Riff Raff! It’s a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s with the Electromatics! The Hollidays deliver some rhythm and soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 30

All Hallows Eve-Eve has arrived folks! “Monsters in Black and White” brings their second chilling installation at Cinevision with Kool Kat Ben Ruder of Enjoy the Film delivering Karl Freund/Tod Browning’s DRACULA (1931) in glorious 35mm at 7:30pm, with a spooky intro by Prof. Morte (Kool Kat Shane Morton) of the Silver Scream Spook Show! Get undead at Vinyl as ATL Collective delivers their presentation of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”! Get ghoulish at The Star Bar’s pre-Halloween party with The Clap, Breathers and the Shepherds! Don’t forget that Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse‘s (AZA) zombie outbreak will have you running for your lives this spook-filled season! Catch rock icon and cult favorite, Paul Collins (The Beat) with Zoners and the Moreland Wrecks at 529! Rock out vintage-style at the Dashboard Co-Op as WRAS Album 88.5 presents Gringo Star (see our Kool Kat interview soon!) and their 7” release party with the MoodRings! Tonight is opening night for Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s presentation of the 19^th century tale of a freak show attraction’s longing to be a normal man in “The Elephant Man” running through Nov. 16! Get spooky at the Westview Cemetery with their “Party with the Past” event, celebrating its 130th anniversary at 5:30pm! It’s the devil’s night out at Mary’s with their Goth Night party delivering all the rockin’ goth, new-wave and industrial your naughty little hearts could desire, at 9pm! It’s a night of psychedelic cosmic and scuzz-filled glam stomp at Terminal West with Temples and Spires! Rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Grateful Dead tribute band, the Scarlet Begonias! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with The Matchsellers and Georgia Railroad! Get ‘90s indie and rock out with Mike Doughty at Eddie’s Attic for 2 shows! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint delivers some New Orleans funk and R&B with The Mar-Tans! Get the blues with Blind Cadillac at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Delifor 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 House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s!

Friday, October 31

IT IS FINALLY HERE! Get mischievous all you miscreants, spooks and ghouls! Pull out your ghastly costumes and get spooky and see what gory galas Retro Atlanta has in store for you! Do the “Time Warp” at The Plaza Theater during their Rocky Horror Halloween Costume Party, with a live cast featuring Lips Down on Dixie, a complimentary Rocky gift bag and screenings of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 9pm and midnight! Or monster mash over to The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock Monster Mash Halloween Dance Party, featuring costume contests, games and more! The Goat Farm Arts Center is hosting their Halloween 2014 event with a helluva lot of spectacle, art, performances by Kool Kat Mike Geier as Puddles Pity Party, Ninja Puppet Productions, biting bites from Pallookaville and more! Or help Pallookaville celebrate their first year anniversary in classic monster style at their 1st Anniversary Ice Scream Ball & Halloweiner, featuring costume contests, drink specials, live music and tricks ’n’ treats, until midnight! It’s Fright Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX, so boogie on down with the bone-rattlin’ tunes of Bogey & the Viceroys, have a couple devilish drinks and wake the dead under the dinosaurs! Get ‘80s monster retro at Sports Time Bar & Grill with Denim Arcade (with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch) and Radio Cult! Rock down to The Star Bar for their 24th Anniversary Party & Halloween Bash featuring The Biters (special KISS show), Dinos Boys and the Night Terrors (Motley Crue set)! Mary’s puts on a spooky disco with their 10th Annual Halloweenie Spooky Monster Mash that’ll have you boogyin’ to some killer rock ‘n’ roll! Get revved and “rock-o-weened” at the Porterdale Bar & Grill with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Monstrous vampires invade Paris on Ponce at their Le Grande Halloween Party, featuring two screenings of F.W. Murnau’s spook-fest and blood-curdling, NOSFERATU (1922), accompanied by Felipe Barral at 10:30pm and 1:00am! Rock down to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for their Annual Halloween Bash featuring DJ Evil Jet! Yacht Rock Schooner celebrates Samhain in style at The Strand Theatre! It’s your second chance to catch ATL Collective delivering Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” with The Shadowboxers at Vinyl! Swami Gone Bananas and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fire up the blues during Northside Tavern’s Go-Go Party and Halloween Spectacular featuring the Atlanta Horns! Rock on over to the dark side asKool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his Halloween Goth & Industrial Blackout Party at the Famous Pub! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for their Halloween party featuring the Katie Martin Blues band! Celebrate Halloween with a twang at the Red Light Café at their Halloween Americana Bash featuring Dear Mr. Peasant, Sans Abri and Rye Baby! What better way to get monstrous that to run for you lives at Atlanta Zombie Apocolypse’s (AZA), kicking zombie tail until November 2! It’s “Hawgtoberfest” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with The Dirty Doors! Or ride the “Highway to Helloween” all the way to Wild Bills with the rockin’ AC/DC tribute band, Back N Black and a rockin’ ZZ Top tribute with Tres Diablos! The Music Room will be a rockin’ maniacal riot at their Boom in the Toom and Blood Drunk Records Evil Dead Party featuring Hot Patootie, a rockin’ Rocky Horror cover band, Swank Sinatra, Kool Kats, The Joy Kills and more! Bring the kiddies out to the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for their Halloween on Callanwolde Mountain event from 6-9pm, featuring Matthew Kaminski (Braves’ organist) and the Callanwolde Concert Band delivering selections from “Phantom of the Opera”, “Night on Bald Mountain” and more!

Get your magical fantasy fix at CONjurgation, a three-day convention featuring the Artifice Club, trick-or-treating, a marketplace/bazaar and panels bringing the fantastical to life, at the Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center! The Plaza Theater shocks with their screenings of Ruggero Deodato’s CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1979), Ken Wiederhorn’s SHOCK WAVES (1977) and William Lustig’s MANIAC COP 2 (1990), all screening through Nov. 6! Or creep down to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for their screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 4pm and 8pm! Get witchy at Atlantic Station for their screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) during their “Spooky Movie Fest” at 7:30pm! It’s a night of rockin’ tributes at The Earl with the Ted Kennedys (Dead Kennedys tribute), 30 Year Old Woman From Mars (all-female Misfits tribute), Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute) and Unknown Pleasure (Joy Division tribute)! Punk out at the Drunken Unicorn with Single Mothers, Sex BBQ and Sheeba Darwin! Get psychedelic at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Jerry Garcia Cover Band! It’s a night of gritty, sweat-drippin’, hip swingin’ blues at 529 with Curtis Harding and Black Linen! Rock out ‘60s and ‘70s-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with The Rainmen! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for Francine Reed & the Shadows! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out with Robyn Hitchcock (Soft Boys) at Eddie’s Attic! And The Band of Desperate Men deliver a night of Americana at Big Tex!

Saturday, November 1

Monster madness is taking over the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse with their Monster Bash Halloween Party! Rock out with costume contests, Horror movies, zombies and more! It’s a monster movie matinee with Kool Kat Ben Ruder of Enjoy the Film at Cinevision, at his third installation of his “Monsters in Black and White” series, with his screening of Jack Arnold’s THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954), in 3-D at 3pm! It’s day 2 of CONjurgation, so get witchy at their Samhain Ball with DJ Doctor Q at 9pm, and don’t forget to catch all the other magical goodness! Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers are puttin’ on a Day of the Dead hootenanny and Halloween party at Terminal West, so come on out for a whole lotta prohibition-era pandemonium with Indianapolis Jones! Rock on down to the House of Rock ATL for their Change Fest 2014, a free music festival, featuring a reunion of The Swimming Pool Qs, The Glenn Phillips Band with The B-52’s, Cindy Wilson, the Possum Kingdom Ramblers, Bill Sheffield and more! The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash are honky-tonkin’ it up at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room, while the Atlanta Room is chock full of folk troubadours, with Michael C. Smith, Marcus Wilbur and Mitch Haney! If you missed the Time-Warp shenanigans at The Plaza Theater on Halloween, here’s your chance to catch Tim Curry in all his alien transsexual glory, during their encore presentation off THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at midnight with a live cast by Lips Down on Dixie! Rock down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Tony Levitas! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Rock on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Rebel City Rockers! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola! Punk down to The Star Bar for their “I Love Saturdays” early show with wWAYLon, Alchemy, Owner of the Sun and Uncle Van & the Buzzards of Fuzz! It’s your second chance to catch Robyn Hitchcock (Soft Boys) at Eddie’s Attic! Get your garage folk fix at the Crimson Moon Café with Randall Bramblett and Eliot Bronson! And stomp on down to Cabbagetown for their Chomp & Stomp Bluegrass Festival, from 11-6pm! 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, November 2

It’s day 3 and your last chance to get spell-bound at CONjurgation! Or creep down to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for a matinee screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) 2pm! Folk down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Stray Birds with special guest, Jordie Lane! The Mountain String Band brunches out at Big Tex during their Bluegrass Brunch! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

Get headless and haunted at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse will have you running for your life through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

Chambers of Horror terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering, 7 nights a week, through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

New London Theatre (Snellville) presents “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Newnan Theatre Company Time-Warps it up with their presentation of “Rocky Horror Show” through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

Netherworld haunts with two terrifying haunted houses, “Season of the Witch” and “SPLICED” every weekend through Nov. 8!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Silly Hollow” spooking through Nov. 9!

Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents “The Elephant Man” through Nov. 16!

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

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

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.