ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Shake it up in Retro Atlanta this week! Get your fill of red-hot blues, tasty tease, hootenannies galore and more! Get off that couch, get hep to the jive and live la vida Retro!

Monday, June 15

Garage rock it up at 529 with The Hussy, Lowbanks, The Mumzees and the Immaculate Collection! Blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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, June 16

Come celebrate sixteen sweet years of Videodrome, Atlanta’s last remaining video store, with a Sweet Sixteen Party, rockin’ out at the Highland Inn Ballroom, which also includes a special screening of David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (1983) at 7pm! Make your way to the Decatur Library for a screening of Harry Keller’s THE BRASS BOTTLE (1964) at 9:30am! Get old-timey at Smith’s Olde Bar with City Mouse, Sour Bridges and Alex & Todd! Chelsea Shag gets some old-school soul at the Red Light Café! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Joe McGuiness delivers a night of roots and Americana at Blind Willie’s! Surf on downstairs at The Star Bar to a hidden paradise, in the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! 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, June 17

Get adventurous with Atreyu at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at 7pm! Funk it up with The Get Right Band and Dr. Strangelove at Aisle 5! The BadAsh Allstar Team (BAAT) pays tribute to Billy Idol, Heart and Blondie at the Red Light Café! Jazz it up with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Gypsies! Little G. Weevil gets the blues 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! 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, June 18

The Star Bar delivers a night of glam rock and sleazy blues with The Tip (record release party), Gunpowder Gray, the Damned Angels, Vito Romeo and Adam Anzio! The Fox Theatre’s 2015 Coca Cola Summer Film Festival continues with Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) at 7:30pm! Get old-school punk style with Punk Rock Tribute Night at Smith’s Olde Bar with Horror Business (Misfits), Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols), The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jet) and Road to Ruin (Ramones)! Or rock on down to 529 for a night with Air Wolves, Frick, Swing Set and Awkward Sounds! The Earl delivers The Baseball Project (with members of R.E.M.) and AM Gold (with Kool Kat Jet Bryant and Jim Stacy)! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Paul Thorn, the “Mark Twain of Americana”! Boogie on down to Vinyl for a night with Exwhy and The Dead Woods! The Red Light Café delivers a night of folksy bluegrass with My Brother’s Keeper and Casey Camp! Get saucy and blues it up with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of smokin’ hot island tunes with Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier and Tonga Hiti! 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, June 19

The Sonics and The Forty-Fives deliver a night of garage rock ‘n’ proto punk at The Earl! Swing on by the High Museum for a night with Joe Gransden! Rock out at The Star Bar with The Wet Ones, Hip to Death, The Marrows, Air Wolves and Hot Gaze! It’s a down and dirty retro rock revival at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Dreaded Marco, Ledfoot Messiah and Goodbye June! The “Monsters of Rock” invade the Masquerade with Back N Black (AC/DC tribute) and Retallica (Metallica tribute)! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for two additional shows with Paul Thorn, the “Mark Twain of Americana”! Groove it up slowly to Park Tavern for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Stoney Brooks delivers the blues at the Northside Tavern! It’s a night of juke joint blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with The Scissormen! Blues on down to Hottie Hawgs BBQ for a night with Little G. Weevil! Make your way back to the ‘50s through the ‘70s with the Way Back Band 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, June 20

It’s a night of garage punk and rock ‘n’ roll at The Star Bar with Jack Oblivion & the Shieks, Highriders and the Mystery Men?! Stomp on down to 529 for a night with Blake Rainey & His Demons, Tom Cheshire and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer! The Fox Theatre’s 2015 Coca Cola Summer Film Festival continues with Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 7:30pm!Let Hysteria Machines Productions put a sultry spell on you at the Shakespeare Tavern during their Sexspelliarmus: Whimsical Wizarding Burlesque Revue Part II! Go way back at the Center for Puppetry Arts with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) at 8pm! Get spooked during Dok Lazlo’s “Mad Alchemy Walking Tours” with his Haunted History Tour of Marietta Square from 7:30-11pm, with a free tarot reading after party! Learn about Atlanta’s prohibition during the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Malts & Vaults event! Get funky with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre in Mableton! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles rev you up at Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Polka it up at Chastain Park with Weird Al Yankovic! Cloudship delivers a night of Americana at the Elliott Street Pub! The Atlanta Rhythm Section rocks out at Eddie’s Attic with two shows! Get old-timey with the Front Porch Session Players at The Family Dog! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Blues it up with Corey Harris at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! The Bush League delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with Ron Cooley & the Hard Times at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get rootsy with Sparky & Rhonda Rucker, followed by the James Taylor tribute band, Taylor Made, at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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, June 21

You may need to get a bigger boat for the 40th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975), screening in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; Movies ATL 14; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville]! It’s your last chance to hang with Atreyu at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at 2pm! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Cloudship! It’s a garage rock revival at Park Tavern with The Whigs! Get some ‘90s blues and soul with Joan Osborne at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with .44 Smokeless at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s Sultry Sunday at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, so get jazzy with Tommie Macon and Charles Fellingham as they bring you the tunes of Sinatra & Fitzgerald! Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And slither on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Snake Legs!

Ongoing

Out of the Box Theatre presents Peter Hardy’s “Sally and Glen at the Palace” through June 27!

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.