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 Kool Kats galore and a rockin’ menu of Atlanta’s pre-21st century shenanigans that we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, August 24

Get your ‘70s euro punk and swamp rock fix at The Earl with GG King, Ballroom, the Vincas and Bataille! Get your sleazy rock ‘n’ roll fix at The Drunken Unicorn with Valient Thorr, Bigfoot and Frick! 529 delivers a night of art rock euro glam with Del Venicci, Heaters, Concord America and Buffalo Rodeo! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their screenings of Satyajit Ray’s classic APU TRILOGY with separate screenings of PATHER PANCHALI (1958); APARAJITO (1959); and THE WORLD OF APU (1960), running through Aug. 27! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Fatback Deluxe gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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!’ 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 25

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 George Lucas’ THX 1183 (1971) at 7pm! Hannibal the Cannibal gets cookin’ at Movies ATL 14 with their screening of Jonathan Demme’s SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) at 7pm! Get some soul with Gladys Knight and The O’Jays at Chastain Park! It’s Americana Open Mic Night at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down as Beedle Andrews dishes out a night of bluegrass, folk, blues, jazz and more! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! Blues it up with the Cody Matlock Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Cadillac Assembly gets down and dirty 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 26

Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Electromatics dish out a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 27

It’ll be a night of maniacal mayhem and rockin’ surfbilly at The Star Bar with Dex Romweber, The Compartmentalizationalists and Bad Friend! Get your southern gothic and rockin’ folk fix at Eddie’s Attic with Grayson Capps, Lowland Hum and The Collection! Get old-timey and folk it up with Malcolm Holcombe and Justin Hylton at Red Light Café! Catch Spike Lee’s SCHOOL DAZE (1988) at Morehouse College (Shirley Massey Building) at 5pm! Rock out with The Cry!, Dinos Boys, The Lost Element and Vito Romeo at 529! Get your vintage rock ‘n’ roll fix at Terminal West with The Dirty Guv’nahs! Gypsy jazz it up with Annie Sellick & the Hot Club of Nashville at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ Americana with Heather Luttrell! 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 28

The Star Bar delivers an old-time hootenanny with I Want Whisky, the Darnell Boys and the Georgia Mountain String Band! Clashinista and Zen Arcade invade The Earl with rockin’ tributes to The Clash and Huskar Du! Get your classic comedy fix at the Variety Playhouse with Gallagher’s “Jokes on You” tour with Artie Fletcher and Bob Nelson! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Motorheads! It’s ‘80s night with DJ Quasi Mandisco at The Family Dog! Terminal West delivers the Seven Handle Circus’ farewell show with Kate & Corey! Rock out with Tony Levitas at Steve’s Live Music! Get smokin’ with JP Soars & the Red Hots at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Eighties it up at Craze Tavern with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Hottie Hawgs BBQ delivers a night with Radio Cult! The Jason Pastras Trio gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event delivers a night of Chicago and West Coast blues with the Electromatics under the dinosaurs! Get jumpin’ with Rick Estrin & the Nightcats 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, August 29

Kool Kat. Rev. Andy and his Psychobilly Freakout Revival invades The Star Bar with The Loveless, Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, The Mystery Men?, The Go-Go Killers and more! The 13th Annual Grant Park Summer Shade Fest kicks off with retro influenced performances by The Paulines, Kick the Robot, Jimmy Galloway, Wrenn, Lowdive, Stonerider, Jason & the Scorchers, Penny Serenade, The Backyard Birds, The Locksmyth, the Front Porch Session Players and more! Get your Bowie glam rock-esque fix with Jerome Newton & the Band Who Fell to Earth with Musee du Coeur at Kavarna! Get cosmic at Eyedrum with their “Rooftop Cinema” screening of John Coney’s SPACE IS THE PLACE (1972)! Aisle 5 honkytonks it up with The Quaildogs, The Pollies and Coma Girls! Kool Kat VJ Anthony presents his ‘80s New-Wave Music Video Dance Party at Famous Pub! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet, followed by Geoff Achison & the Souldiggers at Eddie’s Attic! It’s tribute night at 529 with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana), Accident Prone (Jawbreaker) and Karbomb (NOFX)! Fire it up two times with Cigar Store Indians at Steve’s Live Music! Get bluesy with the Cody Matlock Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of rockin’ roots with Donna Hopkins at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with John Primer & the Real Deal at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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 30

Get really retro, silent cinema-style at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their screening of William A. Wellman/Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast’s WINGS (1927), at 3pm! The 13th Annual Grant Park Summer Shade Fest gets nostalgic on Day 2 with Adron, Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics, the Johnny Hyde Quartet, Chuck Prophet, The Skylarks, A Drug Called Tradition, Scarlett Mistress, Marshall Ruffin, James Hall and more! It’s a night of ‘80s hair metal at Philips Arena with Motley Crue! Get your old-time country fix at Park Tavern with Lindi Ortega and The Secret Sisters! Get jazzy with Sweet Lu Olutosin at Steve’s Live Music! Blind Willie’s hosts their annual Luau for Leukemia! The Earl dishes out a night of ‘70s psychedelia with Kool Kats Spirits and the Melchizedek Children, The Good Life and Big Harp! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night with Neil Cribbs! 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.