ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro massacres this spooky season with all the haunting and bone-chilling madness your little black hearts desire! We’ve got horror flicks! We’ve got sinister seduction and the unruly undead! We’ve got ghosts and goblins and monsters, oh my! Become one with the creatures of the night this week and rock out with a helluva lot of spooktacular shenanigans!

Monday, October 17

Get your horror punk fix at 529 with Children of October, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and Graveyard Gospel! Or rock out with He Is Legend and the Undead Viking Mafia at The Earl! The Plaza Theater screens John Carpenter’s 1982 classic, THE THING through Oct. 20!Make your way to Blind Willie’s as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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! 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 Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, October 18

Roll, roll, roll in the hay with Gene Wilder at theatres across Atlanta with a special killer screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) at 7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Joan Osborne! Tango on down to the Red Light Café for the Trio of the Tango Orchestra Club! Blues it up with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! And you won’t want to miss the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Classics Series, with a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) at 7pm! Rock out with Echo & The Bunnymen at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night with Elvis Costello and Larkin Poe! Folk rock it up with Cass McCombs at The Earl! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get down with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 19

Celebrate 40 years of Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER (1976) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm, with a Q&A from the Tribecca Film Festival [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); and Regal Atlantic Station 18]! Folk it up with Willie Watson and Aoife O’Donovan at The Earl! Get some soul with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Get some Georgia Soul with Kook Kat Ruby Velle at Venkman’s! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays! Or catch a screening of Warren Beatty’s DICK TRACY (1990) during Emory Cinematheque’s Comics & Graphic Novels Series at 7:30pm! Get intergalactic at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) at 7pm! 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, October 20

Get your Old Wave fix in Hell at the Masquerade with a night of ‘80s New Wave and more! The Earl dishes out a night of psychedelic Motown with Diane Coffee and Ron Gallo! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Sinsear! The All-Star NRBQ Alumni get down at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Star Bar will be raisin’ a ruckus with Shantih Shantih and Megan Jean & The Klay Family! Catch a little Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get down and dirty with John Long at Blind Willie’s! Psyche it up with Mondo Drag, The Well and Crypt Trip at The Drunken Unicorn! Take a glamorous road trip with Out Front Theatre Company’s presentation of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE MUSICAL, making a splash through Nov. 6! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s and swank it up with Bogey & The Viceroy! 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! 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, October 21

For a wicked good time, stagger on over to The Plaza Theater for the Premiere Screening of Sam Suchmann and Mattie Zufelt’s SPRING BREAK ZOMBIE MASSACRE (2016), featuring Kool Kat Madeline Brumby, our ghoulish gal pal Allison Maier, shenanigans with the Silver Scream Spook Show and more! Or gore it up with screenings of John McNaughton’s HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1990) and Joseph Sargent’s NIGHTMARES (1983), running through Oct. 22! BOOgie on down to the Red Light Café for the 2nd Annual Spookeasy ElectroSwing Atlanta featuring Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, ghastly go-go dancing and DJ Doctor Q! If ghastly things are your preference, haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, spooking it up this weekend (Oct. 21-23) and next weekend (Oct. 27-30)! Get mischievous and rock out at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Fiend Without a Face and Bad Friend! Catch a ride with the spirits during the 4th Annual Owl-O-Ween Hot Air Balloon Festival in Kennesaw through Oct. 22, featuring performances by The Imperial OPA Circus, Tayo & The City Rockers, Chill Affinity, The Highbeams, Small Town Capone, The Stoneberrys, AJ Ghent and more! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Sportsline in Lawrenceville! Groove on down to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with Phish! Kick it up with the Atlanta Lyric Theatre’s presentation of “A CHORUS LINE” running through Nov. 6! Get sinister with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during Club Famous’ DARK 80’s: New Wave Music Video Dance Party! Get spooky during Atlantic Station’s Spooky Film Festival featuring a screening of M. Night Shyamalan’s THE SIXTH SENSE (1999) at dusk! Funk it up with Zach Deputy and David Robert King at Eddie’s Attic! Get some soul with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at the High Museum! Stomp on down and blues it up at the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Michelle Malone, Caroline Aiken and Dede Vogt! Get funky with Dumpstaphunk and Funk You at the Variety Playhouse! Get sweet and low down with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at Northside Tavern! Monster mash on down to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for a Monster Prom Halloween Concert! Get some soul with Kyshona Armstrong at Venkman’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, October 22

Rock out and get horrorfied at Sweetwater Bar & Grille for Horror-Rock Night featuring Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, La Basura Del Diablo, Wolfspider and Graveyard Gospel! Or get mischievous at Kavarna with Air Wolves, Brawful, Blue Tower and Crypt 24! It’s a night of post-grunge, punk ‘n’ rock ‘n’ soul at The Earl with the Seratones, Kool Kats The Joy Kills and Black Linen! Rock on down to 37 Main for a night with Fan Halen! Get your Americana fix with Ray Wylie Hubbard and Jordan Rager at Eddie’s Attic! Bonnie Raitt gets down at the Fox Theatre! Lydia Loveless dishes out a night of old-time country Patti Smith-esque rock ‘n’ roll at Terminal West! Do the time-warp on down to Aurora Cineplex in Roswell for a screening of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 12am! Groove on down to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for an encore night with Phish! Spook on down to Vinyl for a Rock and Roll Halloween Party featuring Kickin Edgar and The Benders! Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get down with The Cazanovas at the Northside Tavern! Make your way to Venkman’s for the Soul of Sting!  The Wild Hares get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, October 23

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre spooks it up with a screening of Lon Cheney’s silent classic, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925), accompanied by Kool Kat Ron Carter! Johnny has a cure for what ails ya, so come on out and catch TCM’s Big Screen Classics screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at Venkman’s! Get intergalactic at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) at 2pm! Geek on down to Joystick Gamebar for Nerdlanta Live! Catch an encore show with Ray Wylie Hubbard and Jordan Rager at Eddie’s Attic! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And get the rockin’ blues with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, spooking it up this weekend (Oct. 21-23) and next weekend (Oct. 27-30)!

Netherworld Haunted House haunts through Nov. 1!

Take a glamorous road trip with Out Front Theatre Company’s presentation of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE MUSICAL, making a splash through Nov. 6!

Kick it up with the Atlanta Lyric Theatre’s presentation of “A CHORUS LINE” running through Nov. 6!

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

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

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.