ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This week in Retro Atlanta is chock full of red-hot jazz, redneck underground hootenannies, and Time Lords! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you! And don’t forget all the classic cinema and rowdy nitty gritty rock ‘n’ roll invading Retro Atlanta!

Monday, May 18

Monday blues got you down? Why not rock on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with JEFF the Brotherhood, the Zoners, Deep State and The Scraps! Join 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! Get to the root of it all with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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, May 19

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO (1982) during their “Werner Herzog Retrospective” series at 6:45pm! Or get cinematically retro at the Decatur Library during their screening of John Ford’s MISTER ROBERTS (1955) at 10am! Check out Fathom Events’ Classic Music Series: R.E.M. by MTV playing at several Atlanta-area theatres at 7:30pm! Catch Devon Allman and 68-75 dishin’ out some good ole rock ‘n’ roll at Vinyl! Power pop on by Eddie’s Attic for a night with Indianapolis Jones, Peter Searcy and members of Yacht Rock Revue! Bluegrass it up with Cedar Hill, the Classy Chicks Trio and the Classical Mountain Fiddles at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! Or surf on downstairs to a hidden paradise, at the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Get some soul with Joe McGuinness 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, May 20

Spend an evening with famed American photographer, Sally Mann at the Atlanta History Center! It’s a night of boot stompin’ Americana at the Red Light Café with Cortez Garza and Christopher Lockett! Psyche out at The Drunken Unicorn with Fake Flowers, Wayne Szalinkski, Buffalo Rodeo and Floral Print! Or get your (not) garage rock ‘n’ ‘70s Euro-punk fix at 529 with Gary Wrong and GG King! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get jazzy with Mace Hibbard at the Rialto Center for the Arts during the Atlanta Jazz Festival’s 31 days of Jazz event! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo blueses it up at Blind Willie’s! 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! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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, May 21

Mac McCaughan (Superchunk) delivers a night of ‘80s indie rock and garage punk with Flesh Wounds and Gold-Bears at 529! Get ghostly and celebrate Gil Kenan’s homage and remake, POLTERGEIST (2015) during The Plaza Theater’s first ever 24-hour movie marathon! Get some soul with Mingo Fishtrap and The Congress at Vinyl! Ramble on down to Galactic Quest (Lawrenceville) for a night with the Possum Kingdom Ramblers! Get your punk fix at The Star Bar with SkinJobs, the Highriders and Dang Dang Dang! Catch Duwayne Dunham’s LITTLE GIANTS (1994) at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series at dusk. Folk it up with Studio Le Bradshaw and Mansell at Smith’s Olde Bar! Bluegrass it up with the Wayward Souls and Alex & Todd at the Red Light Café for Bluegrass Thursday! Rock out at WonderRoot with Groam, Momcat and The Black Buttons! Get sultry every Thursday at St. James Live! with their South City Jazz event! Get the blues with Geoff Achison (The Souldiggers) at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your island tunes ‘n’ cocktail fix! Blues it up with HouseRocker Johnson & 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 22

It’s a Kool Kat honkytonkin’ redneck underground extravaganza tonight at The Star Bar! Stomp on down for night one of Bubbapalooza 2015 at 7 pm and get ‘yer hillbilly fix with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, Kool Kat Julea Thomerson & Her Dear Johns, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club, The Blacktop Rockets and Big Iron (featuring Jim Goad)! Check out ATLRetro’s Retro Review on Bubbapalooza’s 20th celebration here! It’s a weekend of time travel as Timegate 2015 kicks off as Atlanta’s premiere Doctor Who convention at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center through May 24! You won’t want to miss all the retro guests, music of the British Invasion by Louis Robinson & Friends and more! And jazz up your weekend with the 38th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival in Piedmont Park, free to the public and full of jazzy tunes covering three stages! Don’t miss out on Mad Satta and Thundercat kicking off this year’s festival on the Main Stage tonight!

“The Dude” bowls over the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for a second time this year with their screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their Midnight Bowling and Cocktail Party! Get retro and diva-tastic at Chastain Park with Diana Ross! Rock out with a cause at The Earl with MammaBear, Bearknuckle, Novus and DJ Jared Swilley (The Black Lips), benefitting Ignite the World! Take a nostalgic trip back to the ‘50s and ‘60s at Atlanta Symphony Hall with the Music of the Mad Men Era, conducted by Steven Reineke and featuring Nikki Renee Daniels and Ryan Silverman, at 8pm! Swing on by the Buckhead Theatre for a night with Scott Bradlee’s Post-Modern Jukebox! Or stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the Hackensaw Boys, the Jugtime Ragband and Book Club! Eighties it up at Wild Wing Café in Gainesville with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Bluegrass it up at Terminal West with The Steeldrivers with two shows (6:30/9:30pm)! Beau Soleil avec Michael Doucet Cajuns it up at the Red Clay Theatre! The Hollidays dish out a night of rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get funky with Blues Fusion Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of rockin’ boogie with Tullamore Road at the Northside Tavern! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of rockin’ jazzy blues with Wavetree! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of blues ‘n’ roots with Karp Foley! Francine Reed & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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 23

Rev on down for Day 2 of Bubbapalooza 2015 at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Cletis Reid & His City Cousins, Kool Kat Phil Stair with Rocket 350, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Big Foot, Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, Bully, Chickens & Pigs, Willie Heath Neal, Hothouse Peaches, The Wheel Knockers and more! And make your way downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a little down ‘n’ dirty nitty gritty with Kool Kat Sen Artie Mondello, Whayas, The Skylarks and Kenny Howe! Hop in your T.A.R.D.I.S. for Day 2 of Timegate 2015 and get your fill of classic Doctor Who panels, a Q&A with ‘70s Doctor Who actress Katy Manning, RetroTV, The Ken Spivey Band, the Timegate Cabaret starring Lt. Moxie Magnus, the Timegate Masquerade and celebrate the anniversary of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975)! Jazz it up with Day 2 of the 38th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival! Catch The Rad Trads, Marcus Strickland “Twi-Life”, Otis Brown III and Derrick Hodge on the Main Stage! The International Stage delivers Dida Pelled, Banda Magda and Alfredo Rodriguez! Jessie Davis & the Nebraska Jones Experiment, Kenosha Kid and Wolfpack ATL get red-hot on the Locals Stage!

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) at 10:30am, and his MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at 1pm! Get rowdy at Garage71 Studios during their Gasoline & Brass Knuckles Punk Show featuring Drop Dead Nasty, Blue Tower, Crypt 24, Moreland Wrecks and Cadillac Junkies! Get debaucherous at the Red Light Café with The Dime Show Cabaret, presented by The Cirque du Lune, with performances by the Imperial OPA Circus and more! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire you up at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his Clash of the Decades: Guilty Pleasures Music Video Dance Party at Opera Nightclub! 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! Skank on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Slackers, The Duppies and Razorcomb! Rock on down to The Earl for The Preakness, Love Letter and Pete DeLorenzo! Get folksy with Claire Campbell, Kyshona Armstrong and HaTTrick at Kavarna! Take a second trip down memory lane at Atlanta Symphony Hall with the Music of the Mad Men Era, conducted by Steven Reineke and featuring Nikki Renee Daniels and Ryan Silverman, at 8pm! Eddie’s Attic gets rootsy with The Grahams! Lee Roy Parnell dishes out some Texas roots at the Crimson Moon Café! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Swami (Swami Gone Bananas) does the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get soulful with Grant Green Jr. at the Northside Tavern! Get the blues with Annika Chambers at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs blueses it up with The Electromatics featuring Jon Liebman! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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 24

It’s your last chance to jazz it up in Piedmont Park during the 38th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival! Make your way to the Main Stage for Four Women: A Tribute to Nina Simone, the Nettwork Trio, Diane Schuur and the Pharaoh Sanders Quartet! Or catch Fernando Noronha, Jacky Ambroise & Strings, Emrah Kotan and Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra on the International Stage! And the Locals Stage gets jazzy with Joe Gransden & His Big Band, Mastery, Jeff Sparks and Tony Hightower! It’s your last chance to get geeky at Timegate 2015, so come on down for a screening of the 50th Anniversary of DOCTOR WHO & THE DALEKS (1965), starring Peter Cushing, a ‘70s glam fashion show and more! Rock out at The Earl with the Zoners, Rope and Bodyfather! Folk it up with Emisunshine at Eddie’s Attic! D.B.A. (Decatur Bluegrass Association) bluegrasses it up at Smith’s Olde Bar! Geoff Achison gets the blues at the Crimson Moon Café! Stomp down to Kavarna for a night with Blackfoot Daisy! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gives you a second chance to catch their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) at 10:30am, and his MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at 1pm! Boogie on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for their Sultry Sunday ‘60s Party with Reggie Parks! Blues it up with Stephen the Blues Dude at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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.