ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get revved up in Retro Atlanta this week and check out what’s on the retro menu!

Monday, September 21

Get your 80s fix at Community Smith with their screening of Howard Deutch’s PRETTY IN PINK (1986) 8pm, during their “Movie Mondays in the Garden” series! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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, “Freaky Fashion Edition”, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club 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 Pead Boy & the Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, September 22

Get dark ‘n’ old-timey at the Red Light Café with Renee Is a Zombie, Big Brutus and Dendera Bloodbath! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe! The Cody Matlock Band gets down 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 Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! 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 23

Get bizarre Lynch-style at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as SCENE MISSING Presents: Blue Velvetlanta, featuring music, comedy and all around shenanigans based on David Lynch films at 9pm! TCM presents AlfredHitchcock’s 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]! Blind Willie’s gets folksy with Caryn Womack and Galen Crader! Get your jailbreak Americana fix at Eddie’s Attic with MIPSO! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear deliver a night of soul ‘n’ folk at Vinyl! 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 with Dry Gulch! 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 24

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre celebrates 80 years with their Symphony on the Square event at 8pm, featuring a night of big band era and Broadway tunes, a tribute to Elvis, and music from “Les Miserables”, “Westside Story” and more! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! Rock out and get the blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Or pay tribute to the Grateful Dead bluegrass-style with The Grass is Dead at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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 25

Honkytonk it up at The Star Bar with their Tribute to Waylon Jennings, featuring one helluva line-up with Kool Kat Cletis & His City Cousins, Slim Chance & the Convicts, Migrant Worker, Dry Gulch, Wade Sapp, Al Shelton & the Skylarks and the Hothouse Peaches! The year’s Hell on Wheels kicks off tonight with the Reverend Hylton! Or get your vintage car/motorcycle and custom culture fix at the East Atlanta Roll, kicking off this year’s East Atlanta Strut! Get old-school country-style with Willie Nelson at Chastain Park! Rock out at The Earl with Sham 69, The Dirty South Revolutionaries and Antagonizers ATL! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Deep South Deli & Pub in McDonough! Or get smooth ‘70s-style with Yacht Rock Revue at Park Tavern during their final Summer Sunset Concert! The Music Room gets down with their Soul Train Tribute Party, celebrating 35 years of soul, funk, disco and ‘80s! Or new-wave it up with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at Famous Pub during his ‘80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party! Help Joe Gransden & His Big Band celebrate 100 years of Frank Sinatra at the Peachtree Road UMC! Or catch The Rat Pack Now, paying tribute to Frank, Dean and Sammy, at the Red Clay Theatre! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with ATL Collective as they deliver The Beatles’ “Rubber Soul”! Folk it up with Brian Collins at Eddie’s Attic! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre screens Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 8pm! Get to the root of it all with The Southern Gothic and The Blue Dogs at Terminal West! Celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Hottie Hawgs BBQ gets down with the Rockaholics! Blues it up with Big Bill Morganfield and Levee Town at Blind Willie’s! Boogie down with Lethal Rhythms at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ 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! Tonight’s screening celebrates 40 years of Frank-N-Furter fun, so come on out for a night of the freaky ‘n’ bizarre and pick up a goodie bag!

Saturday, September 26

Rumble on down to Hell on Wheels in Buford and say ‘hey’ to Kool Kat Right Reverend Andy Hawley of Psychobilly Freakout (Garage 71 Internet Radio)! Come hell or high water, there are no excuses to miss this rockabilly rumblin’ extravaganza featuring a rockin’ musical line-up with Reno Divorce, Blood on the Harp and Rodeo Twister; vintage venders 2the 9’s Retro and Jezebel Blue [see our Shop Around feature here]; side-show shenanigans with Captain & Maybelle, monster art; Kool Kat Tori Rodriguez’ Bettie Page Fitness Pin-Up Pageant and so much more! Or strut your stuff at the East Atlanta Strut – Music & Arts Fest 2015, featuring an extravaganza of rockin’ retro tunes with Jackwagon, Bloodplums, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Bear Knuckle and so much more! Swing on down to the Red Light Café for Atlanta Speakeasy ElectroSwing Fire & Flow Night with DJ Doctor Q, featuring performances by Kyo Flow, Foxy Roulette, Down South Swing, fire dancers and more! Or shake a sultry tail feather on down to Smith’s Olde Bar’s Music Room for The Candybox Revue: Assorted Mix event, featuring Burly-Q performances by Ariel Allegro, Annette Coquette, Tesla Goyle, Flame Cynders, hosted by Mistresses of Ceremonies, Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil and Kool Kat Ursula Undress!

Get wild with Contraband Cinema as they present Noel Marshall’s ROAR (1981) at Zoo Atlanta’s World of Wild Theatre at 7pm! Continue The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s 80th anniversary celebration with their Silent Comedy Shorts event at 2 pm, featuring the films of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd; all accompanied by a live theatre organ! And luck be a lady tonight as The Strand presents their Classic Casino Night featuring tribute performances of The Rat Pack at 6:30pm! For one night only, The Plaza Theater screens John McDermott’s documentary, JIMI HENDRIX: ELECTRIC CHURCH (2015)! Rock out with Sonny Vincent, Shocked Minds and Zin Vetro at The Star Bar! It’s your last chance to celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at the Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! 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! Strung Like a Horse and Megan Jean & the KFB dish out a night of gritty garage punk grass in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your ‘60s/’70s rock fix at Kavarna with The Rainmen! Make your way to Chastain Park for a night with Janet Jackson! Little G. Weevil gets the blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Boogie down to the Opera Club for VJ Anthony’s Clash of the Decades Dance Party! Bluegrass it up with Greensky Bluegrass at the Variety Playhouse! Eighties it up at Wild Wing Café (Suwannee) with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Get yoru rockin’ blues fix with Brandon Santini at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get jazzy with Norman Frank & the Ghost Dance at Steve’s Live Music! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Blues it up with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 27

Swing on by the Red Light Café for a night of Gypsy swing with Velvet Caravan and Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet! Yo la Tengo rocks out acoustic-style at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s day 3 and your last chance to get revved at Hell on Wheels! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents “An American Salute to the Classics” at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Get your sci-fi fix at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Joss Whedon’s SERENITY (2005) at 6pm! 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

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.