ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey kiddies! Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow and is chock full of goodies, with cult classics to a whole ‘lotta honkytonk shenanigans, blues and rock n roll! Forget Blueberry Hill, guys and gals! Get your thrills in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, March 23

Get your ‘90s British psychedelia and alt-rock fix with Swervedriver at Terminal West! Or rock down to the Drunken Unicorn for a night with Cinema Novo, Eula and Sheeba Darwin! Folk it up with Sara Louise, Moses Nesh and Lebo Jenkins at the Mammal Gallery’s Cropland Ramble! Get geeky with Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Catch Jonathan Demme’s PHILADELPHIA (1993) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library’s “Brown Bag Lunch Film Series” at 12pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Get some roots ‘n’ soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, March 24

Rock out at The Earl with Sabadoh, Qui and The Preakness! Get really retro at Pallookaville with Jim Stacy’s second in his culinary anthropological series, “Eat Like A Native American” at 7:30pm! Feufollet and Megan Jean & the KFB deliver a night of rockin’ Americana, avant-garde punk ‘n’ Cajun tunes at Eddie’s Attic! Take a trip through the universe with the award-winning astrophysicist, author and host of FOX’s COSMOS, Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Fox Theatre! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Bob Rafelson’s FIVE EASY PIECES (1970) during their “Midtown Classics” series at 7pm! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern has made an offer you can’t refuse with their screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER (1972), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for the world premiere screening of Danielle Bernstein’s IMBA MEANS SING (2015), with a pre-show performance by Yacht Rock Revue with the Atlanta Music Project Choir! Jazz it up gypsy-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands! The Hollidays deliver a night of rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 25

SCENE MISSING Magazine presents My Neighbor Atlantotoro, at the Highland Inn Ballroom, as part of the 2015 Atlanta Film Festival, delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on films of Studio Ghibli at 9pm! Get spooked and spend the night with Alfred Hitchcock as TCM presents REAR WINDOW (1954), screening at several Atlanta-area theatres at 2pm and 7pm (Hollywood Stadium 24; Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville and Newnan’s Regal Georgian Stadium 14)! Folk it up with a little traditional Irish and Celtic tunes at the Variety Playhouse with Lunasa! It’s a night of experimental jazz guitar and painting at Eddie’s Attic with Nels Cline, Norton Wisdom and Sam Amidon! Mr. Blue Sky, Zach & Davis and Vinyl Refuge deliver a night of jazz, blues and soul at Smith’s Olde Bar! Fleetwood Mac rocks out at Philips Arena! The Electromatics deliver a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Punk on down to The Basement for a night with Swingset, The Landmines, The Mad Doctors, Microwave and Bully Pulpit! Funk it up with a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern has made an offer you can’t refuse for a second time with their screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER (1972), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, March 26

Celebrate 30 years with the “Brat Pack” with a screening of John Hughes’ ‘80s classic, THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) at 7:30pm at movie theaters across Atlanta (Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Carmike 12 in Snellville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow and Regal McDonough Stadium 16)! Bluegrass it up with Smokey’s Farmland Band at the Red Light Café! Father John Misty and King Tuff rock out at the Variety Playhouse! Baroque rock it up at The Earl with Hare & the Hounds, Ben Trickey and Sara Rachele! It’s a night of old-school-inspired punk at Smith’s Olde Bar with Bloodplums, Olio and Bearknuckle! Stomp down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Danielle Howle and The Ain’t Sisters! Get jazzy with Miles Tackett & the 3 Times at the Drunken Unicorn! Or funk it up with Incognito featuring Maysa at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so get your taste of a little ‘60s/’70s Jamaican soul with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue! The BadAsh Allstar Team deliver a tribute to Sting and The Police at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 27

Have a devilish good time at 7 Stages for the 2015 Atlanta Film Festival’s screening of Kool Kat Eddie Ray’s SATANIC PANIC 2: BATTLE OF THE BANDS (2014) at 6:30pm, followed by Splatter Cinema’s presentation of Mario Bava’s BLACK SUNDAY (1960) at 10pm, with pre-screening lobby shenanigans! Or for something a little less sinister, get your dino fix at Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) at 8pm! Rock out and get some soul at the Little Vinyl Lounge with The Lamentations, Jed Drummond, Matt Greenia and Kool Kat Amber Taylor (Sexual Side Effects)! Or blues it up at the Fox Theatre’s 11^th Annual Blues Festival, featuring Theodis Ealey, Mel Waiters, Shirley Brown, Latimore and Sir Charles Jones! Make your way to the Toco-Hill Avis G. Williams Library for their screening of Woody Allen’s RADIO DAYS (1987) at 1:30pm! Honkytonk it up with Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, The Bohannons and Hans Condor at The Earl! Cosmic Charlie delivers a rockin’ tribute to the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd at the Variety Playhouse! The Cazanovas deliver some rockin’ blues at the Dallas Pub House! Get your ‘80s fix with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Sportstime Bar & Grille in Duluth! Eighties it up at the Famous Pub for their ‘80s Music Video Dance Party! Get funky with Dynamo at the Red Light Café! It’s a night of retro rock at Union EAV with Love Letter, Hip to Death and Avi Jacob! Riot grrl it up at the Masquerade with The Shondes! Rock out science punk style at the Ferst Center with Leucine Zipper & Zinc Fingers! Jazz it up with Kenosha Kid at the Elliott Street Pub! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of rockin’ folk and Americana with The Ain’t Sisters, Danielle Howle and Underhill Rose! Blues it up with Larry Griffith and Hill Roberts at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s a Blues Rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack while The Nighthawks get some soul at Blind Willie’s! Hottie Hawgs BBQ dishes out a night of ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll with Swami Gone Bananas! Boogie down at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event while sippin’ a few cocktails with Lethal Rhythms! 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! 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 28

Pig out to some rockin’ tunes at the Masquerade Music Park for Baconfest 2015 with The Dirt Poets, Thimblerig Circus, Blast-Off Burlesque, Kool Kat Rich DeSantis’ Honkytonk Extravaganza and more! Or get dolled up for Pit Bulls & Poodle Skirts: An Evening for Puppy Love for Bullseye Rescue at DooGallery, with rockin’ tunes by Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids, pin-up contests and a shimmy ‘n’ shake with Mary Strawberry! Jazz it up with the Atlanta Finland Society as they present a night of Finnish culture and the jazz guitar stylings of Olli Hirvonen at Front Page News! Or get immersed at The Goat Farm Arts Center with their screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s NOSTALGHIA (1983) with an art installation by Igor Korsunskiy at 8pm! Make your way to SCADShow for their screening of Agnes Varda’s CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out old-time style with Delta Moon, The Bitteroots, Big Daddy Love, Soul Mechanic and Penny Western! Flappers welcome at The Basement for their Roaring Twenties Party featuring Waking the Bates, The Roycrofters and the DAMS! Shake a tail feather at Kavarna with their Last Call Blues Dance at 8:3opm! Get down and dirty with The Cazanovas at Good ‘Ol Days Pub in Cumming! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Eric Norman and The Ain’t Sisters! Martin Sexton gets some soul at the Variety Playhouse! Get funky with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Francine Reed & the Shadows sing the blues at Blind Willie’s! Hannah Thomas and Cooper Carter deliver a night of Americana and blues at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of jazz and western swing with Hot Club of Cowtown! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Eric Taylor! Or folk it up with the Jason Kenney Band at the Crimson Moon Café! Jesco White, the “Dancing Outlaw” boogies down at 529 with Six Shot Revival! Meat & 3 deliver a night of classic rock at The Family Dog! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade rock out ‘80s-style at the North River Tavern in Sandy Springs! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night with the Gina Sicilia Band! 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 29

Red Light Café folks it up with Boo Reefa, Julian Morena, The Brookses, Zac Jimenez, Stephanie Koziej and Gas Hound! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers their Bluegrass Brunch with Honeywood! Al Stewart gets folksy at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with Uncle Sugar at the Northside Tavern! Rock out at The Earl with Wymyns Prysyn, Buck Biloxi and The Fucks, Heavy Lids and Earth Girls! And get the blues with Snakelegs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

OnStage Atlanta dishes out the infamous horror rock musical, “Little Shop of Horrors”, horrifying through March 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

The 39th Annual Atlanta Film Festival, being held at The Plaza Theater, runs through Mar. 29 (LAST CHANCE!)

The 35th Annual Atlanta Fair is being held at Turner Field through April 5!

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents the “Gilda Radner Research and Translation Center”, an unofficial academic-ish platform for the analysis of Radner’s life and comedy, running through April 11!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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