ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Take a peek at the Retro menu this week and get your old-school kicks with Kool Kats galore! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, September 7

Blues it up at Park Tavern during WRFG’s 30th Annual Labor Day Blues & BBQ event, featuring performances by Albert White (Honoree), Chickenshack, Lola, Blind Cadillac, JP Blues and more! Or head to detention at Community Smith with their screening of John Hughes’ THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985), at 8pm! It’s your last chance to get your geek on with Dragon*Con 2015, so come on by and catch all the comic, horror and sci-fi shenanigans winding down in Atlanta today! 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! 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! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out a night of blues with the Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, September 8

Wink, wink – nudge, nudge, it’s Monty Python night at the Fox Theatre, with their 40th Anniversary screening of Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones’ cult classic, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975), followed by a Q&A with Terry Jones, at 7:30pm! 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: Nerdtastic event featuring performances by Rosie Rivet-her, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Get your old-time rockin’ country fix at Eddie’s Attic with Jimmy Webb! Or 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! Cody Matlock gets down and dirty at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! 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, September 9

Rock on down to Terminal West for a night of old-school punk with X and Dead Rock West! Get your ‘60s psychedelic rock metal fix at Center Stage with Uncle Acid & the Dead Beats, with Ruby the Hatchett and Ecstatic Vision! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! You’re your way to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of Garry Marshall’s PRETTY WOMAN (1990) at 7:30pm! Help pay tribute to the Rocket Man, Elton John with the BadAsh Allstar Team at Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! Get funky with The Georgia Flood’s rockin’ blues 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, September 10

Get your garage surf rock fix at The Star Bar with The Evil Streaks, The Mystery Men? and Rad Rex! The Rialto Center for the Arts gets old-school with Theatrical Outfit’s presentation of “Memphis”, running through Sept. 20! Get down and dirty and help the Clermont Lounge celebrate during their 50th Anniversary Party with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club, Captain & Maybelle and more! 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 your rockin’ lady blues fix with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Geoff Achison gets the blues at Steve’s Live Music! Bluegrass it up with the Adam Ezra Group and Buttered Bourbon at the Red Light Café! 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, September 11

Rock ‘n’ rev on down to the Masquerade for a night of mayhem and mischief with the Reverend Horton Heat, The Adicts, The Creepshow and Kool Kat Rev. Andy! Kick off the fall season with Old Fourth Ward’s Fall Festival, running through Sept. 12, and promising tasty food, lantern parades and performances by The Space Time Travelers (groove/funk); Marshall Ruffin (blues); The Whiskey Gentry (punk country) and more! Or get your psych-garage surf rock fix at The Earl with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Michael Rault and the Reverends! Blues it up and celebrate 25 years of Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, running through Sept. 13, with Willy Jackson, the Slab Remains the Same, Fatback Deluxe, The Backyard Birds and Felix and the Cats! Slink on down to the Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s BLACKOUT: Goth Industrial Dance Night, featuring Dark 80s, synth pop, post-punk and more! Geek it up at the Red Light Café with Blacklist Burlesque’s Game of Thrones Burlesque event! The Variety Playhouse delivers a night of ‘90s experimental post-rock with Godspeed You! Black Emperor! Rock on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night of tributes with Almost Billy Joel! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Get your Djanjo Reinhardt gypsy jazz fix with Kool Kat Amy Pike and Bonaventure Quartet while sippin’ a few cocktails under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Rock out roots-style with Uncle Lucius at Eddie’s Attic! The Red, White & Blues Band gets the blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get folksy with Jason Kenney & Caromia at the Crimson Moon Café! Get your old-school country rock fix with Dwight Yoakam at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Pay tribute to BB King with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at the Northside Tavern! Honkytonk it up at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with the Cosmic American Derelicts! 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, September 12

It’s day 2 of Old Fourth Ward’s Fall Festival, so come on down for a day of retro performances with Moontower (funk/disco); Secondhand Swagger (soul/funk); the Jugtime Ragband (ragtime/Dixieland); Water Seed (funk/soul); the Georgia Soul Council (honkytonk) and more! It’s night 2 of celebrations at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, The Hollidays, Rough Draft, Frankie’s Blues Mission, Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue and more! Rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Atlanta Room with Kool Kat Ray Dafrico and the Ray City Rollers, Kenny Howes and Love is Loud! Or make your way to the Music Room for a night of tributes with Tribute and Rumours! Get your indie retro rock fix at The Star Bar with The Donkeys and Jessica Lee Wilkes! Funk it up with Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band and Heavy Chevy at Aisle 5! Or get funky with Earphunk and The Main Squeeze at Terminal West! Kool Kat Spirits and the Melchizedek Children dish out a night of ‘70s psych rock with Mamiffer at 529! Outr pals at Pallookaville dish out their Artist Bazaar, from 12-4pm! Learn about the history of beer while meeting some new spirited pals at Oakland Cemetery’s Malts & Vaults tour! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for The History of Tiki & Trader Vic’s event! Delta Moon dishes out a night of Americana blues ‘n’ roots at Blind Willie’s! Get your ‘70s soul fix double-time at Eddie’s Attic with Angie Stone! Michelle Malone dishes out her rockin’ Americana at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down and dirty with Joe McGuinness at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Cowpunk it up with the Bathhouse Janitors at the Red Light Café! Rock on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Cowboy Mouth and the El Caminos! Get down and dirty with Diedra & the Ruff Pro Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with the Cody Matlock Band 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, September 13

Rock out in Hell with The Atomic Bitchwax’s ‘60s psych rock/’70s riff rock at the Masquerade with Mos Generator and Against the Grain! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Folk it up with The Good Graces at the Crimson Moon Café! Rock out roots-style at Red Light Café with Letters to Abigail and Kate & Corey! It’s Sultry Sunday at Steve’s Live Music! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Day 3 of Fat Matt’s Rib Shack’s 25^th Anniversary celebration brings you Atlanta Boogie, the Kerry Hill Band, Sana Blues and Snake Legs! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Alliance Theatre presents ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, running through Sept. 20!

The Rialto Center for the Arts gets old-school with Theatrical Outfit’s presentation of “Memphis”, running through Sept. 20!

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.