ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get a taste of what’s on the Retro menu This Week! We’ve got all sorts of surf rockin’ shenanigans, tastes of tiki, post-apocalyptic pandemonium and all the blues, folk and good ‘ol rock ‘n’ roll you’ve been craving! Come see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, September 12

Live long, prosper and catch a screening of Adam Nimoy’s FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK (2016) at The Plaza Theater, running through Sept. 15! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield 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! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, September 13

Geek it up and let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Nerdtastic! edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! It’s a night of garage rockin’ blues at the Buckhead Theatre with The Kills and Kim and the Created! Get folksy with Barnaby Bright at Grocery on Home! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982) at 7:30pm! Bob Page dishes out the blues 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, September 14

Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982) at 7:30pm! The New Stew pays homage at City Winery! Jazz it up folk-style with Cicada Rhythm at Eddie’s Attic! Get the rockin’ blues with Kool Kat Brooks Mason and The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Stomp down to Venkman’s for a night with The Ormewoods! Or catch a screening of Roger Vadim’s BARBARELLA (1968) during Emory Cinematheque’s Comics & Graphic Novels Series at 7:30pm! Get your Goblin King fix with a 30th Anniversary screening of Jim Henson’s classic, LABYRINTH (1986) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); and AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw)]! Get down and dirty with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! 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, September 15

Get the vaudeville blues and boogaloo it up with C. W. Stoneking at The Earl! Honkytonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Derailers, Kool Kat Dave Weil and The Blacktop Rockets, and Across the Wide! Rock out with the Lennon Jones Band at the Red Light Café! Folk it up with Sarah Peacock and the Way Down Wanders at Eddie’s Attic! Or get Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine in the Little Vinyl Lounge! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down and rocksteady it up with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue at Trader Vic’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Hop the pond and catch a screening of Ron Howard’s documentary, THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, THE TOURING YEARS (2016) at The Plaza Theater! Venkman’s dishes out a night with The Pussywillows followed by Secondhand Swagger! Boogie down with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! 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, September 16

It’s a pre-tiki extravaganza at Trader Vic’s with Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp Exotica Pre-Party, featuring Kinky Waikiki and the Dangling Tassels! Get jazzy with Longhorn and Samadha at the Red Light Café! Dive back into the rock of the ‘50s-‘70s with The Way Back Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get to honkytonkin’ with Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Chickens & Pigs and The Wheel Knockers are The Star Bar! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Alpharetta! Get your Gene Wilder fix at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES (1974) at 5:15pm! Blues on down to the Northside Tavern for Lil’ Joe’s BB King Tribute! Get psychedelic at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with Widespread Panic! 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!  Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with George Hughley & The Shadows! 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, September 17

Rock out surf-style with the big kahuna, Kool Kat Chad Shivers and his kickin’ cohorts at the rockin’est shindig in Avondale Estates, the Southern Surf StompFest, catching a wave at Little Tree Art Studios, featuring Daikaiju, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, The Surge!, The Mystery Men?, Insect Surfers, The Intoxicators, Phatlynx, The Monterreys, SEAWHORSE, The Penetrators and more! Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Brian Bird’s THE IRON GIANT (1999) at 11am! Rev your post-apocalyptic engines folks and make your way to the L5P Fury Road Big Wheel Race at 2pm (keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat Interview with The Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s “Hippie”)! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern! Venkman’s starts your day with a Cartoon Brunch, featuring a screening of Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989), followed by Sailing to Denver, and then Members Only for dessert later in the night! It’s your last chance to get your Gene Wilder fix at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES (1974) at 5:15pm! Folk it up with Blake Rainey, Gashound, Ben Trickey and Jason Waller at Avondale Towne Cinema! Boogie on down to Piedmont Park for Music Midtown (running through Sept. 18) and catch today’s line-up: The Coathangers, Leon Bridges, Band of Horses, Big Boi, Mayer Hawthorne, Beck and more! Elton John, Alice in Chains and more!  Eighties it up for a cause during the Breakfast Club 5K and Fun Run at Little Mulberry Park in Lawrenceville! Celebrate 30 years of JapanFest at the Infinite Energy Center, featuring music, dance, anime, food, beer and so much more! Make your way to the Korean Community Center in Norcross and experience the 2016 Atlanta Korean Festival, beginning at 10am! Rock out at Chastain Park with Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Cheap Trick! Shiver ‘n’ shake on down to The Star Bar for a night with Tiger! Tiger!, The GTV’s, The Woolly Bushmen and Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello! Slink on down to Club Famous for Blackout: Goth Industrial Night! Rock out with Delta Moon and Five Eight at Eddie’s Attic! Samba on down to the Red Light Café for Speakeasy Electro Swing Atlanta’s Summer Salsa Night, hosted by Kool Kat Persephone Phoenix, performances by Lola Deveaux and Annette Coquette and so much more! Get some soul with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Stoney Brooks at Northside Tavern! 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, September 18

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) at theatres across Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and Bonaventure Quartet at Venkman’s! It’s your last chance to catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Brian Bird’s THE IRON GIANT (1999) at 11am! Boogie on down to Piedmont Park for day two of Music Midtown and catch today’s line-up: The Shadowboxers, Peter Bjorn & John, Pete Yorn, Corrine Bailey Rae, Nathaniel Rateliffe & The Night Sweats, The Lumineers, Alabama Shakes, The Killers, and more! Get your retro ‘n’ vintage fix with Indie Craft Experience’s (I.C.E.) Fall Salvage – Vintage Market at the Yaarab Shriners! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And get the rockin’ blues with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

7 Stages gets mischievous with their presentation of Bertolt Brecht’s classical musical, THE THREE PENNY OPERA, running through Sept. 24!

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

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.