ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow! Take a peek and see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, May 9

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, May 10

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Michelangelo Antonioni’s ZABRISKIE POINT (1970) at 7pm! The Atlanta Chamber Players gets retro as they perform “Pierrot Lunaire” with Lucy Shelton at SCADShow! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: May Flowers edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Be at the top of the class at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! 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, May 11

Rock out with Collective Soul at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get a second chance to be at the top of the class at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986), 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! 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, May 12

It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get a second helping of Collective Soul at Smith’s Olde Bar! 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, May 13

Day one of the 3-day 2016 Shaky Knees Festival has arrived at Centennial Olympic Park, chock full of retro-inspired tunes spanning five stages! Rock on down and catch Saintseneca, Kaleo, Craig Finn, Brian Fallon, Baroness, The Struts, Jane’s Addiction, The 1975 and more! It’s Friday the 13th and The Star Bar kills it with a night of punk tributes: Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols), Road to Ruin (Ramones), Horror Business (Misfits) and Salad Days (Minor Threat)! 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, May 14

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Blasters, Kool Kat Dave Weil and Blacktop Rockets and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists! Day two of the Shaky Knees Festival brings you Strand of Oaks, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, JJ Grey & Mofro, Shakey Graves, Deer Tick, The Vaccines, Huey Lewis & The News, The Decemberists and more! Or rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for RatAid 2016, featuring Scarred But Smarter, The Swimming Pool Qs, Kool Kat Ray Dafrico and The Nightporters and Pylon Reenactment Society! Make your way to the 2016 Kirkwood Spring Fling and catch The Glumson Brothers, CC Booker III, Secondhand Swagger, the Atlanta Funk Society, Cadillac Jones, Small Reactions, Kool Kats Gringo Star and more! Catch a screening of Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) at the Fox Theatre at 7:30pm! Kool Kat Chad Shivers delivers his Southern Surf Stomp! at Kavarna, surfin’ it up with Tiger! Tiger!, The AmpFibians, The Surge! and DJ Dusty Booze! Shimmy on down to Taverna Plaka for Kool Kat Kitty Love’s Cheeky Belles: Glamour Goddess Revue! 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, May 15

Get your fill of BBQ, Bands and Booze during the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s 29th Anniversary Party, featuring Whoa Nelly, Uncle Daddy & The Kissin’ Cousins, Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello, The Evils, Heather Luttrell, The Scragglers, Wasted Potential Brass Band, Boohoo Ramblers, Kool Kat Aileen Loy and Till Someone Loses and Eye, Brawful, Lust and more! Horror it up with Buried Alive Film Fest’s “Beast of Atlanta” event and catch a few screenings and mingle with local indie horror filmmakers at the Joystick Gamebar! Catch Day 3 of the Shaky Knees Festival featuring Murder by Death, Adia Victoria, The Orwells, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Deftones, The Head & The Heart, At the Drive-In and more! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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.