ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow! Come see what we’ve found for you! From old-school rock, punk ‘n’ blues to a whole lotta classic cinema on the big screen! Come on out and live la vida Retro!

Monday, August 10

Get really retro and conspire with Orson Welles at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Carol Reed’s classic, THE THIRD MAN (1949), running through Aug. 13! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Barrelhouse Bob Page gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! 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!’ Eighties it up with Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, with a different theme 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! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their screening of Bao Nguyen’s LIVE FROM NEW YORK! (2015), exploring forty years of SNL at 7pm! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, August 11

It’s sci-fi madness at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s “Tuesday Sci-Fi Classics” series, so live long and prosper with their screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s ALPHAVILLE (1965) at 7pm! Get funky and jazz it up with Nellie McKay at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Back to School event featuring Rosie Rivet-her’s devious debut and more! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their ‘80s Dance Night! 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, August 12

Get adventurous and celebrate 30 years of Pee Wee with The Plaza Theater’s screening of Tim Burton’s PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE (1985) at 7pm! Karma Chameleon on down to the Fox Theatre for a night with Culture Club! Or get your 80s fix at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with their screening of Adrian Lyne’s FLASHDANCE (1983) at 7:30pm! Get some New Orleans funk ‘n’ blues with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or folk it up with Under the Willow at Red Light Café! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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, August 13

It’s a night of old-school punk at the Masquerade with The Dickies and Magoos Heros! Get smooth ‘70s style with an evening with Yacht Rock Revue at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Twin Trances, SWOTS, The Mumzees and Hip to Death! Or get your garage rock ‘n’ punk fix at The Earl with Ex Hex, In the Whale and Muuy Biien! Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club honkytonks it up at the Clermont Lounge! Folk it up with Passerine and Molly Conrad at the Red Light Café! Get funky with Dyn-o-mite at Steve’s Live Music! Follow the yellow brick road to Atlantic Station for their screening of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at dusk, during their Movies in Central Park series! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for some cool island tunes and a few cocktails! Blues it up with Amy Hart 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, August 14

Get your fill of old-school tunes and tasty vittles at the two-day Atlanta Bar-B-Q Festival 2015, with live performances by Heaven Davis (jazz/blues); the Gasoline Brothers (vintage R&R); and Larkin Poe (swampadelic soul)! Rock on down to The Star Bar for The Biters’ Record Release Show, with the Subsonics, Dinos Boys, Gunpowder Gray and more! Eighties it up at Suburban Tap (Marietta) with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Cumberland Collective! It’s a night of rock fusion at Aisle 5 with The Aristocrats and the Travis Larson Band! The Red Clay Theatre delivers a night of classic country with The Grascals! Heather Luttrell delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Elliott Street Pub! Celebrate Madonna at Mary’s during their annual Madonnarama event! Get some southern fried blues with EG Kight at the Crimson Moon Café! Blues it up with Pead Boy & Blue Devil at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Classical Mountain Fiddles bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Highbeams while sippin’ a few cocktails under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Folk it up with Passerine and Honeywood at Steve’s Live Music! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a night of rockin’ blues with Roy Lee Johnson and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! Get the blues with the Barry Richman Band 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, August 15

Splatter Cinema along with Kool Kat Blake Myers and Enjoy the Film (Kool Kat Ben Ruder) deliver a night of cannibalistic chaos at Cinevision Screening Room with their 35mm screening of Umberto Lenzi’s gore-tastic flick, CANNIBAL FEROX/MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY (1981) at 8:30pm! And don’t forget to come early for some chilling lobby shenanigans! It’s day 2 of the smokin’ Atlanta Bar-B-Q Festival 2015, so come on out for some tasty treats with The Dusty 45s (Americana/roots/rockabilly); Brother Hawk (blues/rock); and more! Surf on down to Kavarna for Southern Surf Stomp! featuring The Monterreys, The Cryptides and Bruce Joyner & Atomic Clock! Spook on down to Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Coffin Classics event, digging up the best of goth, dark 80s and industrial! Get old-timey and boogie on down to Mac McGee Irish Pub in Roswell for a night with (our upcoming Kool Kat) Caleb Warren and the Perfect Gentlemen! The Dixie Tavern in Marietta delivers “Luau Night: Surfabilly Madness!” with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles and The Fugitives! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for the Coca Cola Summer Film Festival’s Saturday Morning Cartoons screening at 10am, followed by a screening of Mel Gibson’s BRAVEHEART (1995) at 7:30pm! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Catfight, The El Caminos and Mouthbreathers! Kool Kat Kim Lenz & the Jaguars honkytonks it up with Andrea Colburn (Hothouse Peaches) at Smith’s Olde Bar! Stagger on over to The Plaza Theater for a screening of George A. Romero’s classic, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at 9:30pm! The Mablehouse Barnes Amphitheatre delivers A Van Morrison Experience during their South Cobb Arts Alliance Candlelite Concert! Shake a tail feather on down to Elliott Street Pub for The Chameleon Queen’s Carriage Contribution Benefit Variety Show! The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 8pm! Get your western swing fill at the Crimson Moon Café with Carolyn Martin! Blues it up with The Stooge Brothers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Bluegrass it up with Jim Lauderdale and Adam Klein at the Red Clay Theatre! Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) rocks out at Eddie’s Attic! Eighties it up at the Dallas Public House with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Frank Hamilton and Angela Easterling deliver a night of traditional folk tunes at Steve’s Live Music, followed by The Stoneberrys! Make your way to Trader Vic’s for their “Rum Tasting Seminar” from 5-6pm! Eddie Tigner blueses it up at the Northside Tavern! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with The Dappled Grays! Folk it up with Doria Roberts at the Variety Playhouse! 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, August 16

Get your new-wave and synth-pop fix at the Variety Playhouse with Howard Jones! Geek it up at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center for the Atlanta Comic Convention, from 11-5pm! It’s a night of shakin’ shenanigans at 7 Stages as Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South celebrate 8 years of tantalizing tease with their 8th Anniversary Show! Get rebellious as TCM presents a sing-a-long with Randal Kleiser’s classic, GREASE (1978) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; 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]! Jazz it up with Alex Lattimore and The Tyrone Jackson Trio at the Red Light Café! Kool Kat Gringo Star rocks out at Park Tavern! Blues it up with Steve 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

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.