ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you Kool Kat kiddies! Shake a tail feather in Retro Atlanta this week and take a peek at what we’ve found for you! We’ve got a whole lotta rockabilly rumble, classic cinema galore and all the rockin’ shenanigans you’ve been dying for! Get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, July 6

Get revved up and rock out old-timer style with a little rowdy ragtime blues at The Drunken Unicorn with The Pine Box Boys, Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen and Blood on the Harp! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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 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, July 7

It’s a night of sleazy blues-tinged rock at The Drunken Unicorn with Gunpowder Gray, U.S. Bastards and Alias for Now! Andrew Black dishes out the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out at The Earl with Jacco Gardner, EZTV and Dinner! You may need to get a bigger boat at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get post-apocalyptic at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s rescheduled screening of George Miller’s ‘80s classic action flick, MAD MAX: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) at 10pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Or catch David Lean’s classic, BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) at Movies ATL 14 at 8:15pm! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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! Get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 8

Get funky with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Northlake Festival Movie Tavern gives you a second chance to catch a screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Folk it up with Look Homeward at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or funk it up with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your bluesy “Wednesday Wind Down” at Centennial Park with Shirley Diamond and Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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! Catch Peyton Reed’s BRING IT ON (2000) at the Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta at 7:30pm. 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, July 9

Get some swanky soul and rock ‘n’ roll with Bogey & the Viceroy Quartet at Trader Vic’s for Mai Tai Thursday! Bluegrass it up with Bradford Lee Folk & the Bluegrass Playboys and Whoa Nelly at the Red Light Café! Or get old-timey at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Mark Miller and the Classical Mountain Fiddles! Get sweet and low down with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Shimmy and shake on down to Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series screening of Emile Ardolino’s DIRTY DANCING (1987) at dusk! Jazz it up with Marc Antoine and Steve Cole at Suite Food Lounge! Cineprov riffs Menahem Golan’s OVER THE TOP (1987) at The Plaza Theater at 7:30pm! 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, July 10

Surf on down to The Star Bar for a night with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, The Dirty Doors and Gimme Hendrix! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a little murder and mayhem with their screening of John Waters’ SERIAL MOM (1994)! Rock out at Union EAV with the Antarcticats, Ghost Foot, The Azalea Project and Outrageous Fun! For a rowdy folksy night, make your way to Vinyl for Killing Kuddles, Hyperspace and The Roadside! Hall & Oates get smooth at Chastain Park! Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton and Johnny Knapp invade the Red Light Café! Get the blues and jazz it up with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at the Northside Tavern! Dwayne Shivers and Kyshona get bluesy at Eddie’s Attic! Or blues it up with Sly Dog at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Buckhead Tavern delivers a night with Gareth Asher & the Earthlings! Get some rhythm and soul with The Hollidays at The Family Dog! Eighties it up at the Wild Wing Café in Gainesville with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Rock out with dangfly while sippin’ a few cocktails under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Get the delta blues with BJ Wilbanks at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, July 11

Rev on down to the American Tavern in Loganville for a Rockabilly Throwdown featuring a rockin’ good time with Cadillac Junkies, Blacktop Rockets, the Willie Heath Neal Band, Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles and a few of our favorite retro vendors: 2the9s Retro and Jezebel Blue (see our Shop Around feature here), and more! Or get your classic monster and sci-fi fix with Kool Kat Chris Hamer (Urbnpop!) and his Horror Business Solo Art Show at the Diesel Filling Station with Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley (Garage71) spinning a night of rockabilly, psychobilly, old-school punk, ‘80s metal and more! Surf on down to Kavarna for Southern Surf Stomp, featuring The Out of Limits, The Surge! and The Backyard Birds! Get a belly full of tasty treats and an earful of happening tunes at Piedmont Park’s Atlanta Street Food Festival featuring performances by Gritz & the Jelly Butter Band, Bird City Revolutionaries, the Wasted Potential Brass Band and Secondhand Swagger! Shimmy on down to Jerry Farber’s Side Door for Cheeky Belles’ Glamour Goddess event, with Kool Kat Kitty Love, Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Angelica Vice, JudyAnne Fox, Valkarie Jones and more!

The Star Bar dishes out a rockin’ scumbag revival with Nine Pound Hammer, Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters and Night Terrors! Spend the night with Vincent Vega at the Aurora Cineplex during their midnight screening of Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION (1994)! Rock out during the Woodstock Concert Series featuring Departure (Journey tribute) and Electric Avenue! Dino it up at SCADShow’s screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) at 7pm! Get melodically morose with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at Famous Pub during his BLACKOUT: Goth/Industrial Dance Night, featuring dark ‘80s, goth, dark wave and synth pop! Make some memories at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Gainesville with The Temptations! Bluegrass it up with Cedar Hill and Shaky Jane at the Red Light Café! The Family Dog gets old-timey with The Blue Ribbon Healers! Smith’s Olde Bar jams it up with Tribute! Roxie Watson dishes out a night of old-time bluegrass and country at Eddie’s Attic! Lola and the Blues Ladies get down and dirty at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Shake it up with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The BadAsh Allstar Team pays tribute to the Grateful Dead at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with Steve “The Blues Dude” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Or get some rockin’ blues with Big C & the Velvet Delta at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Ike Stubbefield at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! 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, July 12

Rock on down to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with the Barenaked Ladies, Violent Femmes and Colin Hay! Hot rod on down to the Three Taverns Craft Brewery for their Kustom Kulture Event featuring a revvin’ good time filled with hot rods, music and tasty food at 2:30pm! Groove on down to Aisle 5 for a night with The Southern Belles and The 200s! Blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Swami Gone Bananas gets psychedelic at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And it’s a night of indie art rock at the Masquerade with Mitski, Elvis Depressedly, Eskimeaux and Fox Wound!

Ongoing

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre doo-wops it up with The Motown Sound through July 26!

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, 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.