ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta delivers a week of rockin’ shenanigans and a cornucopia of Kool Kats galore! Get off the couch, boogie down, shake a tail feather and see what we’ve found for you this week!

Monday, July 20

Get scandalous with a screening of Billy Wilder’s classic film noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; 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; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe 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 21

It’s sci-fi madness at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s “Tuesday Sci-Fi Classics” series, so come on out for their screening of Michael Radford’s 1984 (1984) at 7pm! Or feel the need for speed at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get old-school at the Decatur Library with their screening of John Ford’s classic, SHE WORE A YELLOW DRESS (1949) at 9:30am! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their ‘80s Dance Night! Get the blues with Cadillac Assembly 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! Blues it up 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 22

Get down and dirty with a whole lotta sleazy rock ‘n’ roll at The Earl with Kool Kat Jayne County & the Electric Queers, Lust and Blast-Off-Burlesque! Make your way to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as SCENE MISSING Presents: Waltlanta, featuring music, comedy and all around shenanigans based on Disney films and music by Noel Stephen & the Prince Charmings, at 9pm! It’s your second and last chance to catch the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Bluegrass it up with the High Strung String Band at the Red Light Café! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Electromatics dish out the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with Jesse Malin, Sodajerk and Don Dilego! 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, July 23

Rock on down to 529 for Tribute Night with The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett), Built For Speed (Motorhead) and T’NT (AC/DC)! Or catch the BadAsh AllStar Team delivering their Steely Dan Tribute Jam at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get your rock ‘n’ folk fix at The Earl with The Ike Reilly Assassination, Blake Rainey & His Demons and Ben Trickey! Or get to the root of it all at the Red Light Café with Mystery Loves Company, Brit La Palm and Francesco! Make your way to Atlantic Station for their Movies in Central Park series’ screening of Stephen Herek’s 101 DALMATIONS (1996) at dusk! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a beach party that is Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Sweet Betty & The Shadows dish get down and dirty 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, July 24

Get horrorfied and rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Six Shot Revival, Slick, Calabrese and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! Or get your garage rock fix with Kool Kat Ray Dafrico and the Ray City Rollers with Georgia Slim at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Swing on down to the Red Light Café for Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing with DJ Doctor Q, featuring performances by Pixie-Vixen, Sunshine Divine, Ariel Allegro and headliner Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil! Rock out with Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ at Peachtree Park in Chamblee! Stomp on down to the Elliott Street Pub for a night with The Punknecks! The Agape Players present Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun” at the Gwinnett Center through July 26! Get your smooth rock fix with Yacht Rock Revue at Park Tavern! Get your Ska and reggae fix at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Lowdive! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Atlanta Boogie at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows gets down and dirty 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, July 25

Rev it up at The Rockabilly Reckoning, rockin’ out at the B3 Bar & Grill with car contests, pin-up contests, retro vendors and performances by Koffin Kats, Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, The Krank Daddies, Atomic Boogie, McPherson Struts, The Go Devils and so much more! Or join the walking dead during the 6th Annual Zombie Pub Crawl, hosted by Diesel Filling Station! Get extraterrestrial at SCADShow with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) at 7pm! Or get your horror sci-fi fix at the Center for Puppetry Arts with their screening of John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) at 8pm! Meet some new ghostly pals at the Historic Oakland Cemetery during their History, Mystery and Mayhem tours! Get your jazz ‘n’ spoken work fix at the Red Light Café with The Upbeatniks featuring Kodac Harrison! Blues it up hootenanny-style with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, The Wayward Souls and Chickens and Pigs at The Earl! Or rock out at The Star Bar with The Locksmyth, The Boy Jones, Springwild and Johnny Deferred Payment! Boogie down with the Susi French Connection for two shows at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Stomp on down to Nik’s Place in Marietta for a night with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his Clash of the Decades dance party at Opera Nightclub! ATL Collective presents Paul Simons’ “Graceland” at Terminal West! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at The Family Dog! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! The Dirty Doors rock out at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Electromatics dish out their Chicago and West Coast blues 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 26

Jazz it up with Deb Bowman at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Or skank on down to the Masquerade for the Ska Revival Tour 2015 in Heaven, featuring The A-OKs, Be Like Max, The Taj Motel Trio and Crabhammer! Or rock out with the Protomen and Hans Condor in Hell! Get revived as The Dustbowl Revival dishes out a night of Americana, swing and bluegrass at the Red Clay Theatre! Blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Swami Gone Bananas gets psychedelic at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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

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.