ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day, and 2016 finally arrives this week! So start the year off right and let Retro Atlanta show you what to do! We’ve got all the rockin’ swell events you won’t want to miss! Get dolled up, get your dancin’ shoes on and live la vida Retro! Come see what we have in store for you this week!

Monday, December 28

Get down and dirty with a night of ‘70s dive bar rock at The Earl with the Barreracudas, Thelma & The Sleaze and An English Place! Get witchy at Battle & Brew in Sandy Springs with 10 courses of brews and tasty treats during their Hogwarts Christmas Feast! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Hugh Hudson’s CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981) at 10:30am! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! The Plaza Theater has retro fantastic gifts to give with their screenings of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939); Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) and Jerry Zucker’s GHOST (1990), all screening through Dec. 31! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves 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!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia 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 Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of BBQ with a side of Dry White Toast!

Tuesday, December 29

Yacht Rock Revue dishes out a night of acoustic Beatles at Venkman’s! Catch a screening of Henry Koster’s classic, HARVEY (1950) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library at 12pm! Blues it up with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! 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, December 30

Get funky with Funk You and Heavy Chevy at Terminal West! Or funk it up with Dyn-O-Mite at Smith’s Olde Bar! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo dishes out a night of blues, jazz ‘n’ southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Rock out blues-style with Gregg Allman at Atlanta Symphony Hall! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with The Mars Hill Porch Pickers! Jam it up with Widespread Panic at the Fox Theatre! Absynthe Makes the Art Garfunkel rocks out to the tunes of Art Garfunkel at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Get funky and rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Georgia Flood! 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, December 31

It’s New Year’s Eve, folks! Out with the old and in with the new! Although, we here at ATLRetro prefer the old, so we’ve put together a swell Throwback to the 20^th Century New Year’s Eve Guide, that will lead the way as you boogie on down to your final destination in 2015 (keep your eyes peeled)! Ring in the New Year in style and toast 2016 in Retro Atlanta! We wish you a very vintage and rockin’ Happy New Year!

Friday, January 1

Stomp on down to The Earl for a night of old-time mischief and mayhem with Blood on the Harp, Reverend Hylton and 16 Coaches! Bluegrass it up with The Gibson Brothers, followed by the vintage rock of Tony Levitas at Eddie’s Attic! 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, January 2

Clown around and get two heaping helpings of Puddles Pity Party at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room! Or rock on down to the Atlanta Room for tribute night with Built For Speed (Motorhead); Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols); and The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett)! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for their screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) backed by ASO’s presentation of John Williams’ score played live at 8pm! Too Slim & the Tail Draggers get the rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your roots rock fix with Delta Moon at Eddie’s Attic, followed by a folksy twist with Caroline Aiken! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! 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, January 3

The Indigo Girls folk rock it up for a cause, benefiting Save the Libraries at Terminal West! It’s your last chance to make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for their screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) backed by ASO’s presentation of John Williams’ score played live at 3pm! 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 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.