ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you Kool Kats! Shake a tail feather and come see what’s on the Retro menu this week! From classically absurd cinema to hootenannies galore to all that red-hot jazz ‘n’ blues, we’ve got it all!

Monday, May 25

Take a trip with Blast-Off Burlesque as they kick off your summer with a night of adults-only, “Summer Road Trip Americana” trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Or 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 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 26

Movies ATL delivers the Land ‘O Lynch with their screening of David Lynch’s absurdly weird BLUE VELVET (1986) at 7pm! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Werner Herzog’s SCREAM OF STONE (1991) during their “Werner Herzog Retrospective” series at 6:45pm! Or get devious and criminal at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of John Waters’ CECIL B. DEMENTED (2000) at 10pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Get your post-punk new wave fix at the Variety Playhouse with The Psychedelic Furs! Rock out blues-style at Eddie’s Attic with Joe Robinson and special guest, Hank Barbee! Rock out with Rush at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Or get your Billy Idol fix at the Tabernacle! 529 delivers a retro rockin’ night with Rad-Isaurus Rex, the Shivery Shakes and Highlander! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern gets cinematically retro with their screening of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get some soul at the Buckhead Theatre with The Tallest Man on Earth and Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear! 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 your fill of some vintage Kansas City and West Coast blues with Atlanta Boogie 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 27

Spend an evening with Chuck Palahniuk (“Fight Club”) during his book tour appearance promoting “Fight Club 2” – his graphic novel sequel at SCADShow! Make your way to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as SCENE MISSING Presents: Atlantans in a Half Shell, featuring music, comedy and puppetry based on the films of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, at 9pm! Get your rockin’ punk and scumbag revival fix at The Basement as Captain & Maybelle hosts Green Jelly, The Vaginas and Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern gives you one more chance to catch their screening of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Folk it up with Dan Navarro (Lowen & Navarro), Phil Madeira and Chuck McDowell at the Red Clay Theatre! Blind Willie’s dishes out Chicago and West Coast Blues 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! 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 28

Geek it up as MomoCon 2015 kicks off their 4-day animation, anime, comics and video game fest at the Georgia World Congress Center, running through May 31! There are so many retro reasons to come on out, so get your fill of the Godzilla: 60 Years of the King panel, the “Oldies but Goodies” screenings from 3pm-12am, comic book artists, a huge dealers room, artists alley, workshops and more! Honkytonk it up at The Earl with Interstate, Two Sisters and Virginia Plane! Get cosmic with psych-jazz trio, Samadha at 529! Get down and dirty with The Dry Devils and Bathhouse Janitors at The Star Bar (Little Vinyl Lounge)! Bluegrass it up with the Georgia Mountain String Band at the Red Light Café for Bluegrass Thursday! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Black Lillies! Ian Siegal delivers his Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf-inspired blues with Little G. Weevil 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! Heather Luttrell gets to the rockin’ root of it all 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 29

Tonight begins the 2-day Candler Park Music & Food Festival filled with rockin’ tunes and finger lickin’ bites! So come on out to Candler Park cause they’re dishin’ out Leftover Salmon (bluegrass/rock/country/Cajun); The Infamous String Dusters (bluegrass) and Cosmic Charlie (Grateful Dead/Pink Floyd tribute)! It’s Day 2 of MomoCon 2015! You won’t want to miss a rockin’ performance by Go, Robo! Go, panels on The Simpsons, a Sailor Moon Gameshow, a Bullwhips with Catwoman workshop and more!

Swing it up western-style at Kavarna with Chris Scruggs, Rodeo Twister, The Mystery Men? and Kool Kat Julea Thomerson spinning some obscure vintage 45s! Get retro and folk it up with Jesse Nighswonger (Jesse & the Great Perhaps), Man up, Yancey, Noel Stephen & the Darlings and The Threadbare Skivvies at The Drunken Unicorn! Or swing on by the Red Light Café for Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing’s Circus Night with The Way to Egress! Cabaret shenanigans ensue with performances by Claire Voyant, Tippy Tapage, Candi LeCoeur, DJ Doctor Q and more! Or get some ‘50s and ‘60s soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics along with Adron at Terminal West! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for Fred Zinnemann’s (Roger & Hammerstein) OKLAHOMA (1955), running through May 31! Or get really retro and catch Fritz Lang’s M (1931) during the Goethe Zentrum/German Cultural Center’s “Germany in the 20th century through the films of German’s greatest directors” series at 6:30pm! Rock out Americana-style at The Star Bar (Little Vinyl Lounge) with Stephen Simmons and Molly Jewell! All you need is love, so make your way to the Variety Playhouse for Abbey Road Live! as they perform love songs of the Beatles! Rev on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Cigar Store Indians, The Bitteroots and The Darnell Boys! It’s ‘80s night at The Family Dog with Quasi Mandisco! Eddie’s Attic delivers Delta Moon! Boogie down and sip a few cocktails under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! John Sosebee dishes out a night of hill country blues and rockin’ jazz at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get the blues with the Kerry Hill Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns fire it up at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Marty Manous and a CD Release Party at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of classic rock ‘n’ blues with Jake and the Beanstalk and The Luxury Kings! Ian Siegal delivers his Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf-inspired blues with Little G. Weevil 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 30

The Candler Park Music & Food Festival brings you your second chance to rock out this weekend with Drive by Truckers (alt-rock/alt-country); Shovels & Rope (sloppytonk); J Roddy Walston & The Business (retro rock ‘n’ roll); the Roadkill Ghost Choir (folk rock); Southern Culture on the Skids (voodoo beach party hillbilly hootenanny); Seven Handle Circus (bluegrass/funk/soul) and Webster (rock/folk/funk)! It’s Day 3 of MomoCon 2015 and you won’t want to miss out on all the anime shenanigans, including their “Why Wonder Woman? A Feminist Icon” panel and so much more!

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at 10:30am, and his PRINCESS MONONOKE (1999) at 1pm! Get adventurous with Indy at the Aurora Cineplex (Roswell) during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 11:59pm! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their screening of George Sidney’s SHOW BOAT (1951) at 10:30am! Get folksy in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Joe Fletcher and Mitch Haney, followed by Electric Bonfire, Taylor Hollingsworth and The Stacktone Slims! Or get funky in the Music Room with Flow Tribe and Seth Winters! Michelle Malone and Wyatt Espalin deliver some rockin’ blues and Americana at Eddie’s Attic! Get jazzy with Joe Gransden at the Buckhead Tavern! Make your way to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with Mr. Gnome, the Starbenders and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters! Get folksy at Terminal West with Family & Friends, Faye Webster, Monsoon and City Mouse! Katharine Cole and Humdinger get down at the Red Light Café! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns fire it up at the Northside Tavern, with special guest Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Get your ‘90s alt-rock fix with The Dave Matthews Band at Aaron’s Lakewood Amphitheatre! Get spooky during the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s History, Mystery and Mayhem tour and event at 7pm! Rock out with The Johnson Party at The Family Dog! The Crimson Moon Café gets to swingin’, western-style, with Carolyn Martin! Celebrate 40 years with the Glenn Phillips Band (Hampton Grease Band) at the Red Clay Theatre! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Blues it up with Billy George at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rockin’ soul with Diane Durrett & Soul Suga! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night with The Sledgehammers (Peter Gabriel tribute) and The Rainmen! Albert Castiglia gets down and dirty 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 31

It’s your last chance to geek it up at MomoCon 2015! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gives you a second chance to catch their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at 10:30am, and his PRINCESS MONONOKE (1999) at 1pm! Jazz it up with the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra and the Jazz Society of Atlanta featuring Jimmy Smith Jr. at the Red Light Café! Get cosmic at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with Brit Floyd and their “Space & Time World Tour 2015”! ATL Collective delivers a night of Stevie Wonder songs at Terminal West! The Earl delivers a night of folksy punk ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll with Continental and Rye Baby! Bluegrass it up with Controlled Burn at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Crimson Moon Café delivers a night of Kentucky bluegrass with the Kevin Prater Band! Catch the all-star western band, Back in the Saddle at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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!

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.