ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you old-school lovin’ kiddies! Check out what we’ve found for you this week! From sleaze slingin’ to surfin’ shenanigans to horrorific hootenannies, we’ve got it all! Get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, September 14

Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Or get your 80s fix at Community Smith with their screening of John Hughes’ SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984), at 8pm, during their “Movie Mondays in the Garden” series! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out a night of blues with Little G. Weevil and Pead Boy & the Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, September 15

Rock out with Bobby Whitlock (Derek & the Dominos) at Eddie’s Attic! Kool Kat Quintron’s Weather Warlock invades EyeDrum with Old King Cole Younger! Catch Berhard Wicki’s DIE BRUCKE (The Bridge) (1959) at Goethe-Zentrum at 6:30pm! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Blues Traveler! Make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of George Sidney’s KISS ME KATE (1953) at 9:30am! Or get some summer lovin’ at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Randal Kleiser’ s GREASE (1978), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get your soul, pop ‘n’ blues fix with Chelsea Shag at the Red Light Café! The Hollidays dish out a night of rock ‘n’ soul at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil 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 16

Sleaze it up with The Dirty Magazines and Uncle Van & the Buzzards of Fuzz at 529! Rock out with Andrew W.K. and Girls Own Love at Terminal West! Get funky with Voodoo Visionary at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or funk it up with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Blind Willie’s gets down and dirty with their BB King tribute! Get folksy with Richard Shindell at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Get spellbound at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) during their screening of Chris Columbus’ HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER’S STONE (2001) at 2pm! Get your second helping of summer lovin’ at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Randal Kleiser’ s GREASE (1978), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! 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 17

Tonight begins a celebration of independent southern cinema, with the Y’allywood Film Fest, offering up a grab bag mix of goodies and shenanigans at The Mammal Gallery and EyeDrum, running through Sept. 19! Get old-time and bluegrass it up with the Dry Branch Fire Squad at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! Get your blues fix with The Slatterys at Blind Willie’s! It’s a night of folksy blues with Bubba-San’s Bait Shop & Sushi Band at Steve’s Live Music! 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 18

Kool Kat Sen Artie Mondello, slinger of sleaze, and The Delusionaires dish out a night of shakin’ shenanigans with Tiger! Tiger! and Midnight Larks at The Star Bar! Or surf down to Sunbrimmer Records (Avondale Estates) for Southern Surf StompFest’s official pre-show with Moonbase (Keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview with Chad Shivers!), Genki Genki Panic and Vacations! Boogie on down to Piedmont Park for Music Midtown, running through Sept. 19, and featuring Elton John, Alice in Chains and more!

Get some soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics at Terminal West, with Velveteen Pink and Claws! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Five-Eight, James Hall, the Electric Bonfires and Time Before the War in the Music Room. Or rock out folk-style in the Atlanta Room with Adam Klein & the Wild Fires, the Kenny George Band and Goldwing! Catch Woody Allen’s ALICE (1990) at the Toco Hills-Avis G. Williams Library at 1:30pm. Willlie Sugarcapps gets old-timey at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Americana fix at the Red Light Café with Chris Porter, Johann Greco and Kristen Englenz! Seth MacFarlane dishes out a night of jazz standards and a swingin’ good time at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Funk it up with Common Ground Collector at the High Museum! Get your rock ‘n’ blues fix with the Rockaholics at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Michelle Malone dishes out her rockin’ Americana at Steve’s Live Music! Get down with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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!! The Northside Tavern gets the blues with Stoney Brooks! 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 19

Rock out surf-style at the first ever Southern Surf StompFest, presented by Chad Shivers (see our Kool Kat interview with Chad soon!), catching a wave at Little Tree Art Studios, featuring El Capitan & the Band with No Name, Ouroboro’s Boys, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, The Beech Benders, The Surge!, The Gold Dust Lounge, The Mystery Men?, Aqualads, and DJ Dusty Booze spinning surf, rockabilly and ‘50s/’60s rock between sets! Then mosey on down to Kavarna for the after party featuring Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s surf-rock outfit, The Compartmentalizationists (“Sutures” CD release); Band, James Band; and Gemini XIII! Catch Day 2 of Music Midtown, featuring performances by Van Halen, Lenny Kravitz, Hall & Oates, Billy Idol, Panic! At the Disco, Catfish & the Bottlemen and more!

Spook on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their History, Mystery & Mayhem tours! Get haunted at the Masquerade and get your horror rock fix with Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures at Monster Prom III! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at the Dixie Tavern! Rock out blues-style with Brother Hawk, Reuben’s Bell and The Georgia Flood at The Earl! Pokey Lafarge delivers a night of early jazz, ragtime and western swing at Eddie’s Attic! Old-timey outlaw rockin’ shenanigans ensue at Smith’s Olde Bar with Reverend Hylton, Honeywood and Sweet Grass Sally! Make your way to the Gwinnett Center for JapanFest, running through Sept. 20, featuring a celebration of Japanese culture, from dance to martial arts to tasty food and drink! Get mellow ‘70s-style with Red Head Diamond at Steve’s Live Music! George Hughley gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Honkytonk it up at the Crimson Moon Café with Roxie Watson! The Glenn Phillips Band and Cindy Wilson (B-52s) get down at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Blues it up with Ike Stubblefield 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 20

Kick off the Halloween season with the “Master of Suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock as TCM presents his horrorific classic, PSYCHO (1960) 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]! Or get witchy at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) during their screening of Chris Columbus’ HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER’S STONE (2001) at 2pm! Indie Craft Experience (ICE) Salvage 2015 promises a great day of vintage fun with 50+ vendors, local food, a DJ, swag bags for the first 100 attendees! Gypsy jazz it up with Stephane Wrembel at Steve’s Live Music! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Barefoot Movement! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with 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! (LAST CHANCE!)

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