ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Are you hep to the jive? ‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta promises the jolt you’ve needed to kick Old Man Winter’s tail and spring into action like the good little misfits and miscreants you are! So come on out, make a little mischief and rock out with the rest of us! From juke joints to musicals to tantalizing burlesque, Retro Atlanta has it all! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, January 25

Get really retro at the Alpharetta Branch Library during their screening of Frank Capra’s classic, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) at 10:30am! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Rock out ‘90s industrial-style with Tool and Primus at the Gwinnett Center! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Get down and dirty and blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Catch a screening of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s LOVE & BASKETBALL (2000) at the Georgia Tech Student Center Theater at 7pm! 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! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues 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 26

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Rock out and pay homage to David Bowie with Jerome Newton & the Band Who Fell to Earth at 529! Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month! It’s a battle of rock ‘n’ roll proportions at the Red Light Café with the BadAsh Allstars and their Sun Records artists vs. Chess Records artists showdown! Bluegrass it up with Cedar Hill at Steve’s Live Music! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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 27

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” double-feature at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Francois Truffaut’s THE 400 BLOWS (1959) and ANTOINE AND COLETTE (1962) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Robert Earl Keen and The Roosevelts! Or folk it up with City Mouse, Frankie Boots and The Darnell Boys at Eddie’s Attic! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with The Whiskey Gentry! Kool Kat Scott Glazer & his Mojo Dojo dish out a night of blues, jazz ‘n’ soul at Blind Willie’s! 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 28

The Star Bar delivers a hootenanny and a half with The Hooten Hallers, Deadly Lo-Fi and Georgia Slim! Skank it up with Reel Big Fish, The Maxies and Suburban Legends at the Masquerade! Jim White and Kristin Diable dish out a night of bluegrass and Americana at Grocery on Home! Folk it up with The Brookses and The Glumson Brothers at the Red Light Café! The Variety Playhouse delivers a triple threat with three nights of ZOSO, the ultimate Led Zeppelin experience! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get your old-timey kicks with Kool Kat Caleb Warren & The Gents at Venkman’s! 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 29

Shake it up at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, the Night Terrors and Sonic Graffiti! Bluegrass it up with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out at Eddie’s Attic! Swing on by the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electro Swing! It’s a night of prohibition era pandemonium at Venkman’s with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers! Celebrate 60 years of Johnny Mathis at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Get mysterious during the ‘20s Haarlem Renaissance with Chesya Burke’s first novel; THE STRANGE CRIMES OF LITTLE AFRICA at Charis Books (see our Kool Kat interview soon)! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Robert Greenwald’s XANADU (1980), followed by an after party at Mary’s! Get funky with Voodoo Visionary, the Kinky Aphrodisiacs (King Koda) and The Night Shift at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to the Buckhead Theatre for a night with Art Garfunkel! Rock out with the Paradocs at the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! The Variety Playhouse delivers night two of ZOSO, the ultimate Led Zeppelin experience! Eighties it up at the Craze Tavern (Duluth) with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Jim White and Kristin Diable dish out a second night of bluegrass and Americana at Grocery on Home! Get your Chicago/West Coast blues fix under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with the Electromatics! Domino delivers their Van Morrison tribute at Steve’s Live Music! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with the Non Stop Blues Band! Get saucy and blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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 30

Rev on down to The Star Bar for Rockabilly Night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, Crazy Man Crazy and V-8 Death Car! Get intergalactic at the Fox Theatre with Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage, delivering 5-decades of Star Trek soundtracks at 8pm! Jazz it up at Venkman’s with their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch with the David Ellington Jazz Trio, followed by Saved by the Band dishing out ‘80s and ‘90s tunes! It’s a night of Big Band music at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with their presentation of “In the Mood: A 1940s Musical Review” at 2pm/8pm! Get old-timey at the Red Light Café with Don Gallardo, The Vaudevillains and The Waymores! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Tedo Stone, Oak House and Sydney Eloise & The Palms! Jazz it up with Ramsey Lewis and help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of “The In Crowd” at the Rialto Center for the Arts! It’s a night of ‘70s-era disco pop with the Susi French Connection at Eddie’s Attic! Get Cozy and boogie on down with DJ Cozy Shawn at 97 Estoria every Saturday night as he spins a night of classic vinyl! It’s your last chance to rock out with ZOSO at the Variety Playhouse! Get your ‘80s industrial and new-wave fix at the Famous Pub with Dark 80s: New-Wave Music Video Night with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! The Stoneberrys rock out to the tune of The Rolling Stones at Steve’s Live Music! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their I Knew You When: A Tribute to Billy Joe Royal event! It’s a night of rockin’ tributes at Smith’s Olde Bar with Rumours (Fleetwood Mac), The Dirty Doors (The Doors) and Refugee (Tom Petty)! Get to the root of it all with The Rosin Sisters at the Crimson Moon Café! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Randall Bramblett Band! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets the rockin’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Robert Lee Coleman at the Northside Tavern! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues deliver a night of blues, swing and soul with The 24th Street Wailers! Blues it up with George Hughley & the Shadows 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 31

Tiki it up The Earl with performances by Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists, Tag Team, A Drug Called Tradition, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor and Nest Egg! It’s a night of horrorific mischief and mayhem at Big Ass Horror Bash 2, the official Days of the Dead 2016(DOTD) pre-party, presented by Son of Celluloid and DOTD at the American Tavern in Loganville, featuring performances by Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Crypt 24, Graveyard Gospel and more! Or for something a bit less sinister, The Park Tavern presents, “Americana in the Park” with performances by Donna Hopkins, Cigar Store Indians, Milagro Saints, Roxie Watson and Russ Still & the Moonshiners! Get folksy and jazz it up with Lilac Wine during Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at the Crimson Moon Café with the Whispering Gypsies! Jamie Laval gets folksy at Steve’s Live Music! 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

The Actors Express murders with their presentation of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at 8pm, killing through Feb. 28!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

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 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.