ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you! From honkytonk hootenannies to rockin’ garage, glam ‘n’ punk, we’ve got you covered!

Monday, April 11

Get your garage rock fix at the Variety Playhouse with Deerhunter! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Fred Zinnemann’s HIGH NOON (1952) at 10:30am! Get the blues with the Larry Griffith Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or catch Bob Page gettin’ down 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!” Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, April 12

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets intergalactic and continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Nicolas Roeg’s THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976) at 7pm! Get old timey at The Earl with The Dustbowl Revival and Kool Kat Caleb Warren & The Gents! Rock on down to The Plaza Theater for their screening of QUEEN: A NIGHT IN BOHEMIA at 8pm! Get some action at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday: April Showers edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Frankie’s Blues Mission gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! 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, April 13

Get cinematic and time travel with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jacques Rivette’s LE PONT DU NORD (1981) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and the Bicycle Eaters and Kenny Howes & The Wow! Stomp on down to Grocery on Home for a night with Jon Dee Graham (The Skunks)! Or rock out at The Plaza Theater with their screening of QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL at 8pm! Get some rockin’ soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Hillbilly it up at the Masquerade with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, My Dixie Wrecked and The Muckers! Bluegrass it up with Chatham County Line at Eddie’s Attic! Get some action for a second time at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Von Grey! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with 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! 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, April 14

Honkytonk it up at the Clermont Lounge and help celebrate 50 rockin’ shows with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club! You’re your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of QUEEN: HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY at 8pm! Get old timey and folk it up with the Locust Honey String Band and Fort Defiance at the Red Light Café! Get jazzy with Hot Ice Live at Venkman’s! Get funky with The Velvet Stones and The Space Time Travelers at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva night of surf rock and rockabilly and tasty cocktails! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’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! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, April 15

Rock out at The Star Bar with The Coathangers (album release party), Paint Fumes, Bad Spell and Paralyzer! Geek it up during TREKLANTA, Atlanta’s Star Trek and Space Opera Con, getting intergalactic through April 17! Duran Duran invades Philips Arena! Funk it up with Kung Fu and Naughty Professor at Aisle 5! Skank on down to the Atlanta Motorama Pre-Party with the Southern Ska Syndicate! Shake a tail feather with Sadie Hawkins at the Red Light Café during her burlesque improv showdown, Last Pasties Standing! The Variety Playhouse dishes out a night with Rumours! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Jackson County Line, Bucky Motter and The Good Graces! Blues it up with Mike Lowery at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some soul with the Smokin’ Novas at Eddie’s Attic! Catch some rockin’ ‘80s/’90s covers with Saved by the Band at Venkman’s! Folk it up with Casey Camp & Co. and The Boy Jones at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch Jude Amazon during The High Museum’s Friday Night Jazz series! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Craze Tavern! Stoney Brooks gets the blues at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Jarekus Singleton 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! 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, April 16

Cash’d Out and guests pay tribute to the “Man in Black” Johnny Cash at The Star Bar! The Arts at Oakland presents Illumine, an evening of light and art in the gardens at 6pm featuring a live performance by The Shoal Creek Stranglers! Boogie on down to Club Famous for ‘80s Music Video Dance Night with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Space is the place with day 2 of TREKLANTA! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for a night with Jethro Tull! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Get some tasty vittles at Historic Grant Park’s Food-O-Rama from 11am-8pm! Get jazzy with Norman Frank at Venkman’s! Or blues on down to the Northside Tavern for their annual Tribute to Sean Costello! Spend the night with Bryan Adams at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! 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, April 17

Get va-va-vintage at Yaarrab Shriners with a Salvage Spring 2016 event, featuring 50+ venders! It’s day 3 and your last chance to catch this year’s TREKLANTA! The Red Light Café delivers Burly-Q with a twist with the Luxotica Lounge Cabaret! Groove on down to the Fox Theatre for A Night with Janis Joplin! Catch Acoustic Hot Tuna at the Variety Playhouse! Gypsy jazz it up with Rhythm Future Quartet at Steve’s Live Music! Django Earnhardt dishes out some gypsy jazz at Venkman’s! 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

Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience invades The Georgia Ensemble Theatre through April 24!

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

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.