ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

So many goodies on the retro menu this week! We’ve got all the honky-tonkin’ ‘billy that’ll rev you up all week long! We’ve got classic cinema galore! And come on out for all the rockin’ garage, punk and old-school shows you could ever want, including the King of Surf Rock, Dick Dale; Bob Dylan; The Who and Joan Jett! Be the Kat’s meow and rock out in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, April 20

Stomp out those Monday blahs with a night of the old-school rockin’ blues of Denny Laine (Wings/Moody Blues) at Eddie’s Attic! Folk it up with Lily & the Tigers, Valley Maker and Gary Eddy at Mammal Gallery! Or make your way to Grocery on Home for a night with Alicia Witt, the Ghost of Paul Revere and Max Garcia Conover! The 20th Anniversary edition of F. Gary Gray’s ‘90s classic FRIDAY (1995) screens at several local theatres [Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake 24 (Morrow); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)] at 7:30pm! 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! 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! 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! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of roots ‘n’ soul with Brandon Reeves! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And for a night of tasty blues, make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, April 21

It’s a night of folk rock and gypsy jazz at the Red Light Café with The Ragbirds and Carly Gibson! Folk it up with Willie Watson and Lauren Shera at Eddie’s Attic! The Georgia Tech Jazz Ensemble rocks out to the tunes of Radiohead, Soundgarden and Steely Dan at the Ferst Center! Holly Golightly on down to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Blake Edwards’ classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Anthony Asquith’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1952) at 10am! And catch the 20th Anniversary screening of F. Gary Gray’s FRIDAY (1995) at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville) at 7:3opm! 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! Fire it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some soul with The Hollidays 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, April 22

Get vintage and stomp on down to Aisle 5 for a night with Miss Tess & the Talkbacks and Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen! Folk it up with Darlingside and Bombadil at Eddie’s Attic! SCENE MISSING Magazine presents Atlantarantino, at the Highland Inn Ballroom, delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on Quentin Tarantino films! Emory Cinematheque screens John Boorman’s eerie tale, DELIVERANCE (1972) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Blake Edwards’ classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! And it’s your last chance to catch TCM’s presentation of the 50th Anniversary of Robert Wise’s classic, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) screening in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Merchant’s Walk Stadium Cinemas 14 (Marietta); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake 24 (Morrow); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Get funky in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Wasted Potential Brass Band! Or hillbilly it up in the Music Room with Cash O’Riley, Wyatt Espalin and Maya Neiada! For a night of scrappy punk and cosmic sludge, rock on down to 529 for MTN ISL, Muuy Biien and Bataille (formerly Georges Bataille Battle Cry)! Blues on down t0 Blind Willie’s for a night with The Boohoo Ramblers! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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! Get some soul with The Hollidays 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, April 23

Surf on down to The Earl for a night with the legendary ‘King of the Surf Guitar’, Dick Dale (See ATLRetro’s feature here) and Moonbase! The Who, with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, invades the Gwinnett Center! The “Master of Suspense” invades the Palmetto Branch of the Atlanta Public Library with their Alfred Hitchcock Film Fest from 2pm-7pm, featuring his THE 39 STEPS (1959) and PSYCHO (1960)! Get old-timey at the Variety Playhouse with The Earls of Leicester! Rock out with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and The London Souls at Smith’s Olde Bar! Never grow up and make your way to the Fabrefaction Theatre Company for their presentation of the timeless Broadway musical, PETER PAN, running through May 10! Blues it up at The Star Bar with “Brassier Blues” featuring Julie Gribble, Katie Martin, Halle Johnson, Allie Lee, Mandi Strachata, Barb Carbon and Skye Paige! Get really retro at the Rialto Center for the Arts as Georgia State University ensembles present an evening of Finnish music celebrating the 150th anniversary of Jean Sibelius’ birth, with a reception to follow provided by the Atlanta Finland Society! Jazz it up with Bryan Bromberg at Suite Food Lounge! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Secret Sisters and Dean Fields! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of smokin’ island tunes! Jazz it up with Frank Barham during Oakhurst’s Jazz Nights! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with City Hotel, American Hologram and the Georgia Mountain String Band! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of rockin’ Americana with Emily Kate Boyd! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & 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! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. And catch the 20th Anniversary screening of F. Gary Gray’s FRIDAY (1995) at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville) at 7:3opm!

Friday, April 24

Make your way into the Final Frontier during Treklanta, Atlanta’s annual sci-fi con dedicated to space opera and Star Trek, running through April 26, at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, celebrating the life of Leonard Nimoy! Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta presents Jack Willis’ films chronicling the Civil Rights Movement [LAY MY BURDEN DOWN (1966) and THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962)] at Emory’s White Hall at 7pm! Rock out at 529 (day shows) and The Earl (night shows) for Atlanta Mess-Around 2015! Daytime shows at 529 include Hector’s Pets, Paint Fumes, Slugga and the Zoners! Then make your way to The Earl for Pissed Jeans, GG King, Obnox, Whatever Brains, GHB and Wymyns Prysyn! The Dude invades the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their Midnight Bowling and Cocktail Party!

Get old-school and folk it up with Bob Dylan at the Fox Theatre! The Red Light Café delivers a night of rowdy bluegrass with Heyday Revival and special guests, Joe Dunn & Ajay Chavez and hosted by Salome Cabaret’s Big Gay James and more! Yacht Rock Revue performs the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” and more at the Variety Playhouse! Get revved at Motorheads in McDonough with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles! Rumors and their Fleetwood Mac tribute rock out at The Star Bar! Get funky with Zach Deputy at Smith’s Olde Bar! Stomp on down to Java Monkey for a night with Blackfoot Daisy! Swami Gone Bananas rocks out ‘70s-style at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! The Villain Family, Mr. Blue Sky and Andrea Colburn deliver a night of garage country and folksy jazz at 529! Get some old-style southern blues at the Crimson Moon Café with Dave Boyd! 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! Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows get red-hot at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of Americana and blues with Heather Luttrell! The HoboHemians deliver a night of old-time ‘20s and ‘30s jazz at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so shake a tail feather under the dinosaurs while sippin’ a few cocktails! Blues it up with Atlanta Boogie at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, April 25

It’s that time of year again, folks! Rock on down to the 44th Annual Inman Park Spring Festival, running through April 26, featuring 3 stages of live music, home tours, a street parade, an artist’s market and more! Rockin’ retro performances include, Book of Colors, Mr. Blue Sky, the Myles Brown Band, 10 Degrees Off, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers, Brian Ashley Jones, Cooper Tisdale, Kool Kat Amy Pike and Bonaventure Quartet, the Georgia Soul Council, Diamond Thief, A Moment Electric, R. Garcia and more! And it’s day 2 of Atlanta Mess-Around 2015, so rock on down to 529 for the Barreracudas, OBN IIIs, Giorgio Murderer, The Secret Prostitutes, Uniform and Easy Magick! Night shows follow at The Earl with the Flamin’ Groovies, Gentlemen Jessie & His Men, Blaxxx, NOTS, PAMPERS and The Gaye Blades!

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys and El Capitan & the Band With No Name! Or rock on down to Union EAV for a night of the nitty gritty with Woven In, Swank Sinatra, Denderea Bloodbath, The Gnar Wave Rangers and mtvghosts! Get funky and avant-garde at the Goat Farm Arts Center with Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra with James Harrar’s collaborative artist think-tank, Cinema Soloriens! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Moonlighters and the Scott Draffin Quartet! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their “Members-Only” screening of Jim Henson’s THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at 7pm! Get your horror punk fix with Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures as they pay tribute to The Ramones at the Mule Camp Tavern in Gainesville! Or get your horror surf fix with Genki Genki Panic at the Burnt Hickory Brewery in Kennesaw! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Punk out Cramps-style at Kavarna with Air Wolves! Stomp on down to the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with American Hologram followed by Chuck Mead and Kool Kat Cletis & His City Cousins! Or get your classic rock fix in the Music Room with 68-75 and the Gasoline Brothers! For a night of dirty rock ‘n’ roll, head on down to the Elliott Street Pub for Nathan Kalish & the Wildfire! Jimbo Mathis & the Tri-State Coalition delivers a night of old-time blues and country at the Red Clay Theatre! The Family Dog delivers a night of Americana and folk with the Tyler Nail Trio! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Jimmy Webb! Folk it up with Kate & Corey and The Good Graces at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get the blues with Francine Reed & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with Damon Fowler! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with The Stooge Brothers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, April 26

Swing on by day 2 of the 44th Annual Inman Park Spring Festival featuring rockin’ performances by Flat Rock Swing, Black Lion, Larkin Poe, Sweet Claudette, Michelle Malone, the Rocket 88s, The Backyard Birds, The Rainmen, Webb Wilder, Ike Stubblefield, Sea Ghost, Woven In, Momcat, Man Up, Yancey, Plague of Pilgrams and more! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar for their Bluegrass Brunch with the Porch Bottom Boys! Stick around for a rockin’ night with Eddie Spaghetti (Supersuckers), Sean Thomason and Taylor Hollingsworth! Get some soul with Moonchild at Vinyl! Get your old-school radio drama fix with the premiere of Season 3 of HARRY STRANGE RADIO DRAMA on www.ksuradio.com at 10pm! Hula on down to The Lawrence and get your ‘50s and ‘60s surf and rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Jazz it up with Joe Alterman, Houston Person and The Hot Sardines at the Rialto Center for the Arts! Blues it up at Grocery on Home with Water Liars and Marshall Ruffin! Rock over to the Masquerade for a night with Buckcherry, Sons of Texas and Needeep!, For a night of rockin’ blues, come on down to Steve’s Live Music dishes out a Spring Cabaret featuring the students of funky folkster, Heidi Pollyea! Get some soul and tasty vittles at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Fatback Deluxe! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents Don Farrell’s “My Fair Lady” through April 26! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Shakespeare Tavern presents Andrew Houchins’ adaptation of Thornton Wilde’s “Our Town” running through April 26! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

The Fabrefaction Theatre Company presents the timeless Broadway musical, PETER PAN, running through May 10!

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!

The Georgia Renaissance Festival runs 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 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!

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.