ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get hep to the jive and see what’s on the Retro menu in Atlanta this week! We’ve dug up a whole lotta shakin’ shenanigans, so boogie on down, take a peek and live la vida Retro!

Monday, April 27

Geek it up 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! 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 soul with Greg Hester at Blind Willie’s! 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 28

Snuggle up with Al Capone at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Brian De Palma’s gangster classic, THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or get deviant at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of John Cameron Mitchell’s HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH (2001) at 10pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Rock out at the Tabernacle with Godsmack and Hellyeah! Folk it up with Ben Sollee at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Blues it up with Cadillac Assembly 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 29

Rock out punk-style at The Earl as they screen Scott Crawford’s SALAD DAYS: A DECADE OF PUNK IN WASHINGTON, D.C. [’80-‘90] (2014) followed by Minor Threat cover band, Salad Days! Get funky at the Elliott Street Pub with Myles Brown! Get old-timey and stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Elephant Revival and Cicada Rhythm! Funk it up with Jerry on the Moon at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s your last chance to get criminal at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Brian De Palma’s gangster classic, THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Jazz it up at the Wolf Creek Branch Library (Atlanta-Fulton) during their Jazz Night Out event featuring a tribute to Nina Simone with LaTosha Brown at 6pm! Or get jazzy Latin-style at Java Monkey with Wild Rice! The Tabernacle rocks out with The Offspring and Jawws! It’s a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s with the Electromatics! 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! 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 30

Get down and dirty at the Clermont Lounge with Kool Kats, The Joy Kills, Crazy Big Lady, Koskee and the Dirty Magazines! Get your gritty garage-grass ‘n’ hillbilly fix at The Earl with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and Strung Like a Horse! Rock on down to The Basement for a night with Doesin, Scarlett Mistress, the Great American Noise Jihad and The 200s! ARTStation presents “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, running through May 3! Get old-timey at the Red Light Café with The Duhks and the Bottom Dollar String Band! The Weight rock out at the Variety Playhouse, slingin’ The Band tunes! Make your way to Eyedrum for a night with Jon Mueller and Ben Agustin! Get folksy with Don Flemons and The Steel Wheels at Eddie’s Attic! Or folk it up with Seryn and Songs of Water at the Red Clay Theatre! 529 delivers a night of garage rock and indie surf with Rad-Isaurus Rex, Antarcticats and Good Mother! Get funky with Brown Sabbath (Brownout) and Heavy Chevy at Terminal West! Geek it up at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center as they present The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses Master Quest! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of smokin’ island tunes! Jazz it up with The Nick Longo Band during Oakhurst’s Jazz Nights! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Lazer Lloyd! 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, May 1

Make your way to The Star Bar for Songs of Love & Hate: The Music of Leonard Cohen featuring Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, Book of Colors, Michael Bradley, Ryan Peoples, Molly Harvey and more! Yacht Rock Schooner delivers a night of Steely Dan at Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Geek it up at the Masquerade with Markster Con’s Bash of the Empire IV STAR WARS party with Kool Kat VJ Anthony, featuring costume contests, rockin’ tunes and a vendor area including Kool Kat Chris Hamer of Urbnpop! Stomp down to The Earl for a night with The Bros. Landreth, Hare & the Hounds and The Skylarks! Blues it up with Tito & the Chicken Raiders at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Red Clay Theatre delivers a night with Chuck Cannon and Eliot Bronson! Bluegrass it up with the Porch Bottom Boys and Megan Saunders & the Driftless at the Red Light Café! Steve Winwood gets down at the Fox Theatre! Make your way to Union EAV for their Vinyl Potlock Party featuring vinyl, vintage video games and rockin’ tunes! The Buggs deliver a rockin’ tribute to The Beatles at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Georgia Flood gets bluesy and funks it up at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so boogie on down under the dinosaurs while sippin’ a few cocktails! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Frankie’s Blues Mission is smokin’ hot at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Make your way to The Plaza Theater as they screen Jef Bredemeier’s documentary, DANTE’S DOWN THE HATCH (2014) about Atlanta’s landmark restaurant where you could dine inside an old pirate ship with live jazz and ferocious crocodiles (See our Retro Review here) at 7:20pm! 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, May 2

The Star Bar gets old-timey with I Want Whisky, Lily & the Tigers and the Bottom Dollar String Band! Rock out retro-style at The Earl with Radio Birds, Slow Parade and Cicada Rhythm! Pay homage to the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 in Old Fourth Ward during their Fire in the Fourth event from 2-10pm, featuring fire installations, performances, live music with Mr. Blue Sky, the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable, The Ruby Red Band, Mausiki Scales & the Common Groove Collective and more! Webb Wilder and The Cazanovas boogie on down at Life University in Marietta! Haunt on over to the Historic Oakland Cemetery and experience their Cryptophonic Tour from 2-7pm! Or experience the Old Atlanta Prison Farm Tours at 10:30am and 1:30pm! The Drunken Unicorn delivers a night of psyche, punk and surf rock with the Blazers, Buffalo Buffalo and The Organ Machines! Folk it up with Paper Bird and Faye Webster at Vinyl! Get legendary and blues it up with the Robert Cray Band and Shemekia Copeland at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with The Doobie Brothers and Don Felder! Get your dark ‘80s Goth fix at Famous Pub with Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s BLACK OUT: Goth Industrial Night! Blues it up with the Red, White & Blues Band at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Elvis Perkins! It’s a night of rockin’ soul at the Red Light Café with Diane Durrett and Soul Suga’! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Michelle Malone and Trish Land! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Hannah Thomas and Travis Meadows! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night with Too Slim & the Taildraggers! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night with Playing on the Planet and a Stevie Wonder tribute with The BadAsh Allstar Team! Get the blues with Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Geek it up at Kings Market Shopping Center in Roswell with their Vintage Computer Festival running through May 3! Make your way to The Plaza Theater as they screen Jef Bredemeier’s documentary, DANTE’S DOWN THE HATCH (2014) about Atlanta’s landmark restaurant where you could dine inside an old pirate ship with live jazz and ferocious crocodiles (See our Retro Review here) at 7:20pm! 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, May 3

The Earl rocks out with Crocodiles, Del Venicci and Shark Week! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out their Bluegrass Brunch with Delta Cane followed by a night with Ryan Montbleau, Emily Kopp and Lauren St. Jane! Rock out with Tesla at the Tabernacle! Get old-timey at Grocery on Home with River Whyless and Frank Fairfield! Doo-wop it up at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with The Midtown Men! The Honeycutters deliver a night of Appalachian honkytonk at Eddie’s Attic! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

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

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

The Alliance Theatre presents Pearl Cleage’s BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY 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.