ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you Kool Kats! Get off that couch and come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, August 17

Get funky with George Porter, Jr. & the Runnin’ Pardners along with Gravy at Terminal West! Get really retro and conspire with Orson Welles for another week at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Carol Reed’s classic, THE THIRD MAN (1949), running through Aug. 20, this week! And don’t forget to catch Satyajit Ray’s classic APU TRILOGY with separate screenings of PATHER PANCHALI (1958); APARAJITO (1959); and THE WORLD OF APU (1960), running through Aug. 20! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves 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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts 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! 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 18

Tonight kicks of the Fox Theatre’s presentation of MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL, featuring our Kool Kat Galem Williams, running through Aug. 23! It’s sci-fi madness at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s “Tuesday Sci-Fi Classics” series, so come on by and catch their screening of Terry Gilliam’s BRAZIL (1985) at 7pm! Satire it up with Mel Brooks’ SPACEBALLS (1987) at Movies ATL 14 at 7pm! Make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Mervyn LeRoy’s NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS (1958) at 9:30am! Or come out and play during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Bluegrass it up with Control Burn at Steve’s Live Music! Get some soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays 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 19

Jazz it up with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! The Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) delivers the land of Dahl with their screening of Danny DeVito’s adaptation of MATILDA (1996) at 7pm! Come out and play during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s your second and last chance to 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]! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Soft Cactus! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo dishes out a night of blues, jazz ‘n’ southern soul 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! 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 20

Rock on down to the Clermont Lounge for Kool Kats, The Joy Kills (final show!), GHB, Ledfoot Messiah and Ghost Foot! The Earl dishes out a night of retro rock and indie gloom with Slow Parade, Blue Blood and Goldwing! It’s a night of rockin’ garage blues and voodoo funk at The Star Bar with Sonic Graffiti, Momcat and Rad Rex! Fiend Without a Face slings a whole lotta bluegrass psychobilly surf with Bad Spell at 529! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Get creeped out at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Paul Norman’s ICE CREAM MAN (1995) at 7:30pm! Get some southern soul with Savannah Smith at the Red Light Café! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down 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 21

The Star Bar rocks out with Black Irish Texas, Antagonizers ATL and Rotten Stitches! Get your Big Band fix with the Douglas Cameron Orchestra at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Swing on down to the Red Light Café for Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing with DJ Doctor Q, featuring performances by Annette Coquette, Kool Kat Roula Roulette, Risky-Sour, Amelia Bareheart and more! It’s a night of old-school bluegrass and traditional honkytonk country with Marty Stuart at Eddie’s Attic, with 2 shows! Get jazzy with Jason Collier and Russell Gunn at the High Museum! Griffin House dishes out a night of retro rock at the Red Clay Theatre! Steve’s Live Music delivers a night of Gypsy jazz and Americana with 9 String Theory, Barynya, Jackson County Line and the Jason Kenney Band! Get your New-Wave fix at the Jungle Club with Fixation: Wet & Wild! Make your way to the Toco Hills-Avis G. Williams Library for their screening of Mike Nichols’ THE BIRDCAGE (1996) at 1:30pm! Rock out with the Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Rockoholics get blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! 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! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Get down and dirty with Dean Shot & the Solid Senders 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 22

Rev on down to Southern Devil Harley Davidson in Cartersville for The Rockabilly Rumble, hosted by Grease Inc. Magazine and Garage71 Radio, with performances by The Belmont Playboys and the Pelvis Breastlies! And you won’t want to miss all those rockin’ hot rods, rat rods, vendors and a smokin’ pin-up contest! Get old-timey with Kool Kat Caleb Warren and the Perfect Gentlemen along with Blood on the Harp and Reverend Hylton at The Earl! It’s punk rock tribute night at The Star Bar with Horror Business (Misfits), Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols), Road to Ruin (Ramones) and Salad Days (Minor Threat)! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Bonz Bar and Grille in Douglasville! Rock on down to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Wes Orshoski’s THE DAMNED: DON’T YOU WISH THAT WE WERE DEAD (2015), running through Aug. 23! Get your smooth rock fix at Park Tavern with Yacht Rock Revue! Rock on down to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with Yes and Toto! Or catch Air Supply at Chastain Park! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! 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! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at the Red Clay Theatre with Michelle Malone and guests! Get your funky folk fix at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room with The Bitteroots, The Wayward Souls, The Space Time Travelers and Mason Lutz & the Fuzz! Or swamp it up in the Atlanta Room with Zydeco Ya Ya! Rock out with Carlos Danger at the Red Light Café! ATL Collective presents The Allman Brothers’ “Eat A Peach” at Eddie’s Attic! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Blues it up with Bluefish at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Gracie Curran dishes out a night of blues, rock ‘n’ soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Buggs deliver their Beatles tribute at Steve’s Live Music! Delta Moon gets down at Blind Willie’s! Kool Kat VJ Anthony presents his Clash of the Decades dance party at the Opera Nightclub! 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 23

The Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) delivers the land of Dahl with their screening of Danny DeVito’s adaptation of MATILDA (1996) at 2pm! Kool Kat Ruby Velle dishes out an acoustic set of soul with Stephen Cogswell at the Crimson Moon Café! Rock out at Chastain Park with The Australian Pink Floyd Show and Led Zeppelin 2! Honkytonk on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Back in the Saddle! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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.