ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week! Rev it up, rock it out and get hep to the jive with a rockin’ menu of Atlanta’s pre-21st century shenanigans that we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, June 22

Jump ‘n’ jive with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Get adventurous at the Stonecrest Library in Lithonia with their screening of Martin Campbell’s THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998) at 2pm! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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 some ‘90s blues and soul with Joan Osborne at Eddie’s Attic! Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, “True Crimes” edition 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! 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 23

Spend the night with Ol’ Blue Eyes during Movies ATL 14’s screening of John Frankenheimer’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) at 7pm! Blues it up Brit-style with The Steepwater Band and American Roommates at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern delivers a night of ‘80s time travel with their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues 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 24

Make your way to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as SCENE MISSING Presents: Dr. Strangelanta, featuring music, comedy and all around shenanigans based on the films of Stanley Kubrick, at 9pm! 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]! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern delivers a second night of ‘80s time travel with their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or try to save the world at Movies ATL 14 with their screening of James Cameron’s THE TERMINATOR (1984) at 7pm! You won’t want to miss the Serenbe Playhouse’s presentation of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” running through June 28! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of rockin’ folk with Kevn Kinney (Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryn’) and Peter Case! Rock on down to the Masquerade for Local H and Aeges! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of 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! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! 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 25

Honkytonk it up at The Star Bar and help wish our pal Kool Kat Julea Thomerson a rockin’ farewell, along with Slim Chance & the Convicts, Chickens and Pigs, Dry Gulch, Vito Romeo, Colangelo, Rodeo Twister, Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club and more! Make your way to Terminal West as ATL Collective presents Jeff Buckley’s “Grace” at 9pm! The Capitol City Opera Company dishes out their Dinner & a Diva Series with “The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan” at Petite Auberge! Get some rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Red Light Café delivers a bluegrass pickin’ party! Heather Luttrell gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so get some ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue! 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 26

Brian Wilson delivers some good vibrations at the Fox Theatre with Rodriguez! Pay tribute to The Smiths and The Clash at Terminal West with Smithsonian and Clashinista! Mambo on down to the Red Light Café for Speakeasy Electroswing Atlanta’s Summer Salsa Night featuring performances by Benjamin Elizabeth, Sin Tillating, Lucy Purr, Annette Coquette and DJ Doctor Q! Goth it up old-school style at the Famous Pub with Kool Kat VJ Anthony and his Coffin Classics: Digging Up the Best of Goth event! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles rev you up at Motorheads in McDonough! The Earl delivers a night of ‘70s-esque rock with the Sealions, MammaBear and Hot Gaze! Get old-timey with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen, I Want Whisky and Raven Claw Hammer at The Star Bar! Stomp on over to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Ray Wylie Hubbard and Brandy Zdan in the Music Room! Or make your way to the Atlanta Room for Oliver’s Antics, Time Sawyer, Starting Fires and The PG’s! Rock out with Capitol Arms, Kool Kats The Joy Kills, Sister Helen and Bear Girl at The Drunken Unicorn! Get the Chicago/Delta blues with The Breeze Kings at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Jazz it up with Callanwolde Fine Arts Center’s Jazz on the Lawn event with Joe Gransden! Or get classy with chanteuse Natalie Cole at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! It’s ‘80s night with DJ Quasi Mandisco at The Family Dog! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Jazz ‘n’ folk it up at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event under the dinosaurs with Mr. Blue Sky! The Ori Naftaly Band dishes out the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Blues it up with Sana Blues 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 27

The Star Bar dishes out some red-hot rockabilly with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, Beau & the Burners and Motel Ice Machine, and you won’t want to miss the hot rod car show in the parking lot! “The Dude” bowls over the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their Midnight Bowling and Cocktail Party! David Bowie it up at the Aurora Cineplex with their screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at 11:59pm! Groove on down to the Elliott Street Pub for a night with Kool Kats Spirits and the Melchizedek Children and Hello Ocho! Get some rockabilly blues with Atomic Boogie at the Dallas Public House! Get comfy with Indy at SCADShow’s screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 7pm! Rock on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Roger “Hurricane” Wilson and White Winged Dove! Get your fill of Cracker with two shows at Eddie’s Attic! The Sundogs and The Liberators pay homage to old-school blues ‘n’ psyche rock at Smith’s Olde Bar! Boogie on down to the Opera Nightclub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Clash of the Decades music video dance party! Folk ‘n’ rock it up with Monk Parker, Book of Colors and Ben Trickey at The Drunken Unicorn! Boogie woogie on down to Kavarna for their Last Call Blues Dance! Or 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! Get your fill of ‘80s and ‘90s salon pop music at Mary’s! Get some soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics and some old-school funk with Lettuce at Terminal West! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at The Family Dog! Shake it up with Escape Vehicle at the Red Light Café! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Big Bill Morganfield dishes out the blues at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get some rockin’ soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with Dark Water Rising! Get your outlaw blues fix with Blue Roads 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, June 28

Eddie’s Attic dishes out their Out on the Weekend Neil Young Tribute with Brian Collins, Eliot Bronson, Jared & Amber, The Bitteroots, Doria Roberts, The Southern Gothic, Rex Hussman, Mike Killeen and Kristen Englenz! Folk it up at the Red Light Café with the Good Graces, Love Me Till My Heart Stops and Garner Sloan! Or get folksy at Park Tavern with Little Tybee and Carolina Rose! Mipso delivers their Appalachian string band tunes at the Crimson Moon Café! Rock out at Aaron’s Lakewood Amphitheatre with Def Leppard, Styx and Tesla! Get jazzy Flamenco-style at the Variety Playhouse with Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra! Or jazz it up with Emile Worthy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Bluegrass it up with Humdinger at Smith’s Olde Bar! 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! (LAST CHANCE!)

Serenbe Playhouse presents Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” through June 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

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!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

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.