ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get back in the swing of things with Retro Atlanta! Take a peek at all the swell shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, January 11

Get really retro at the Alpharetta Branch Library during their screening of Mark Sandrich’s TOP HAT (1935) at 10:30am! Celebrate the birth of “The King” at the Lefont Theatre with their screening of Denis Sanders’ documentary ELVIS: THAT’S THE WAY IT IS (1970) at 7pm! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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 The Pork Bellys!

Tuesday, January 12

Rock out at 529 with Glen Iris and Out of the Fire! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South present their Tease Tuesday Burlesque 2nd Anniversary Show, featuring performances by Circus Bitties, Bunny Wigglebottom, Annette Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! The Boohoo Ramblers get to stompin’ at Blind Willie’s! Get old-timey with The Jakob’s Ferry Stragglers at Steve’s Live Music! Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm! Get the blues with Cody Matlock at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, January 13

Hey all you mischievous miscreants, make your way to The Earl for a night of old-school punk and mayhem with X___X, Obnox and Shocked Minds! Get cinematic French-style at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jean-Pierre Melville’s BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1955) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with the Georgia Crackers! Get your vintage Kansas City/West Coast swing fix with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Spend the night with the Pink Ladies at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with their screening of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978) at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or 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! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 14

Glam it up at The Earl for T.T. Mahoney’s Bowie In Sweats event, celebrating Bowie’s 69th birthday with Alexa Dexa, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters and The Compartmentalizationalists! Get your post punk dark-wave fix with The Soft Moon at Terminal West! Riff Trax Live gets intergalactic with a screening of Paul Verhoeven’s STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997) across Atlanta at 7:30pm [Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! ATL Collective presents Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” at Eddie’s Attic! Get experimental and rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Eat Lightning, Lilac Shades, Think Never and the Dirty Magazines! Bluegrass it up with The Band of Desperate Men and In the Wheelhouse at the Red Light Café! Railroad Earth delivers a night of rockin’ bluegrass at the Variety Playhouse! Get down and dirty with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Jazz it up with Jeff Lorber and Andy Snitzer at Suite Food Lounge! Yacht Rock Revue dishes out a night of rockin’ retro tunes “unplugged” at Venkman’s! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 15

Get your throwback to the ‘70s rock fix at The Star Bar with Bigfoot, Beitthemeans and The Stacktone Slims! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue gets down with a night of ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul at Venkman’s! Get the blues with Mike Farris at the Buford Community Center! It’s Friday Night Jazz at the High Museum, so come on out for a night with Mike Walton! Get your second helping of Railroad Earth at the Variety Playhouse! Hop on down to the Red Light Café for Sadie Hawkins’ Last Pasties Standing event! Atlanta Boogie gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Steve’s Live Music delivers a night of “The Material Girl” with The True Blue Madonna Experience! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Northside Tavern for a night with Stoney Brooks! 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! Get down with The Rhythm Yard at Darwin’s Burgers & 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!

Saturday, January 16

The Star Bar dishes out a hootenanny and a half during their All-Star Benefit for Greg, featuring Deke Dickerson, the Blacktop Rockets, Rodeo Twister, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Slim Chance & the Convicts, plus Kool Kat Julea Thomerson will be spinnin’ your favorite classic country and rockabilly tunes! Catch Robert Mulligan’s classic, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) on the big screen at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Norman Frank & The Ghost Dance and The Dirty Doors! Get old-timey with Tray Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband at Venkman’s! Back in the Saddle, Gwen Hughes and Matthew Kaminski present “The Other Side of Johnny Mercer” at the Red Clay Theatre! Get the blues at night two of Mike Farris at the Buford Community Center! Eighties it up at Wild Wing Café (Gainesville) with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Get revved with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Rock out at the Variety Playhouse with The Grapes and The Jeff Mosier Band! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins dishes out a night of rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! The Steel City Jug Slammers dish out a night of Delta blues and old-time jug music at the Crimson Moon Café! It’s a night of ‘30s-‘50s jazz standards at the Red Light Café with The Moonlighters Jazz Band and the “Little” Big Band Atlanta! Get bluesy with Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Blue Roads at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 17

Catch a screening of George Ray Hill’s classic, BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) during TCM’s “Big Screen Classics” series in theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Get your bluegrass, punk ‘n’ folk fix at the Masquerade with Gallows Bound, Blood on the Harp and I Want Whiskey! The Shoal Street Stranglers folk it up at the Crimson Moon Café! Cristian Puig dishes out a night of Flamenco at the Red Light Café! Get some soul and blues it up with Fatback Deluxe 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!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

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.