ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Atlanta is burnin’ with all things Retro this week! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, April 18

Rock out at The Drunken Unicorn with MDC, Deathwish, The Swingin’ Dicks and Nag! Get your New Wave fix at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Jonathan Demme’s STOP MAKING SENSE (1984) at 9:30pm, screening through April 21! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Henry Koster’s HARVEY (1950) at 10:30am! Get the blues with the Larry Griffith Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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, “Big Sexy” edition, 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 19

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets intergalactic and continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Orson Welle’s CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1933) at 7pm! Or catch Busby Berkely’s FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933) at the Decatur Library 9:30am! The Fox Theatre presents Pattie Boyd & Henry Diltz’ “Behind the Lens”! Bluegrass it up with Smokerise at Steve’s Live Music! Stomp on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Ain’t Sisters! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get your rockin’ blues fix with Walter Trout and Seth Winters at Smith’s Olde Bar! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of roots and Americana with Joe McGuiness! 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 20

Rock out and get folksy with Robyn Hitchcock at the Variety Playhouse! Get science-y and geek it up with Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Fox Theatre! Find your inner child and catch a screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm!  Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for Annie Sellick’s The Babbas! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get psyched ‘70s-style with Kool Kats Spirits & The Melchizedek Children at The Earl! Get some rockin’ soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with Dr. Strangelove at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or make your way to Terminal West for a night with Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and the Seratones! 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 The Mars Hill Porch Pickers! 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 21

Trader Vic’s delivers one helluva island party during their 40th Anniversary Celebration featuring Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, authentic hula dancers and more! Bend it like Bettie during Kool Kat Tori Rodriguez’ PiYo (& Pin-Ups) event celebrating the life of Ms. Page at Lift Yoga in Alpharetta! The Earl rocks out with the Roadkill Ghost Choir and Tedo Stone! Or catch Joel Kosche (Collective Soul) and The Howling Tongues at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jazz it up with David Liebman & The Expansions at the Red Clay Theatre! Get the country blues with Tito & The Chicken Raiders at the Red Light Café! Yacht Rock Revue gets intergalactic at Venkman’s and performs “DARK SIDE OF THE MOON”, followed by an acoustic set with Prince vs. David Bowie ! Blues it up with Liz Mandeville 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 22

Make your way to Atlanta Contemporary as Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta present “Politics, Narrative, Collage” at 7pm! Rock out during this year’s 3-day Sweetwater 420 Fest with a whole lotta rock harkening back to the 20th century, running through April 24! Tonight’s lineup includes Cypress Hill, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Hi Lo Ha and more! And get funky at Aisle 5 during the 420 Fest after party featuring Funk You! Make your way to the Landmark Theatre for their screenings of Dennis Hauck’s 35mm TOO LATE (2016)! Celebrate The Beatles at the Fox Theatre with Let It Be! Rock out with Sister Hazel and The Georgia Flood (see our Kool Kat article soon) at the Variety Playhouse! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Motorheads! Jam it up ‘80s-style with the BadAsh Allstar Team at Steve’s Live Music! Mother Falcon gets folksy at The Earl! The Star Bar gets down and dirty with Tchesh & Friends, Fiend Without a Face, Young Antiques, Bully, Bad Friend, The Scragglers and more! Get old-timey and bluegrass it up with I Want Whisky, Neo Tundra Cowboy and the Darnell Boys at Avondale Towne Cinema! Shake a tail feather during Sadie Hawkins’ The Men’s Room: Gentlemen’s Quarterly at the Red Light Café! Venkman’s celebrates 45 years of “LA WOMAN” with The Dirty Doors! Spend the night with Sammy Blue at the Northside Tavern! Nick Moss gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie under the dinosaurs with Dangfly! at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! 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 23

It’s a Rockabilly Throwdown in Kennesaw featuring live music with Atomic Boogie, Willie Heath Neal, Kool Kat Dave Weil and The Blacktop Rockets, Pin-Ups and more! Rock out at The Star Bar with Dr. Boogie, Gunpowder Gray, Stop Worrying About the Bomb (Ravagers) and more! The Heavy Pets pay tribute to The Beatles at Aisle 5! Honkytonk on down to Terminal West for a night with Hooray for the Riff Raff and Promised Land Sound! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! The Souls Grown Deep Foundation presents “To Honor Mr. Dial” at Grocery on Home! Rock on down to day 2 of the Sweetwater 420 Fest featuring Robert Randolph & The Family Band, the North Mississippi Allstars, The Roots, Tokyo Police Club, The Orange Constant, The Quaildogs, Funk You and more! Leftover Salmon gets down during the official 420 Fest after party at the Variety Playhouse! Swing on by the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electro Swing! The Fox Theatre presents “Ragtime the Musical” running through April 24! Folk it up with The Masarie Gang at Steve’s Live Music! Kool Kat Rev. Andy and Southern Ska Syndicate get to skankin’ at Kavarna!  Blues it up with Mr. Sipp at Blind Willie’s! Robert Lee Coleman gets the blues at the Northside Tavern! Or catch Jeff Jensen at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get some soul Salsa with Orquesta Macuba at Venkman’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, April 24

Bluegrass it up with Steve Martin/Martin Short and the Steep Canyon Rangers at the Fox Theatre! TCM presents Elia Kazan’s ON THE WATERFRONT (1954), screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]! It’d day 3 and your last chance to rock out at the Sweetwater 420 Fest, featuring Leftover Salmon, Manchester Orchestra, People’s Blues of Richmond, Bright Light Social Hour, The 200’s, Voodoo Visionary, Wrenn and more! Catch a screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Make your way to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with Van Morrison! 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! (LAST CHANCE!)

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.