ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you ATLRetro kiddies! Start some new holiday traditions this year and let us guide the way! Whether you’re lookin’ to escape or just needing to get out and breathe, we’ve got a cornucopia of holiday rockin’ fun lined up that will fill you to the brim with giddy! So, come on out and get Retro rockin’ holiday-style!

Monday, November 21

Shake a tail feather with The Chameleon Queen, Kool Kat New Orleans Jon and more at the Electric Glitterland Rock ‘n’ Roll Cabaret at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rock out with A Drug Called Tradition, Holy Wave, Reverends and Fake Flowers at 529! Catch a screening of Preston Sturges’ SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS (1941) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! Get your old-school country fix with Radney Foster at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck 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! 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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 22

Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Classics Series screening of Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) at 7pm! Rock out with The Naked & Famous, XYLO and The Chain Gang of 1974 at the Buckhead Theatre! Get old-timey with The VaudeVillians and Aaron Till at the Red Light Café! Make your way to the Tabernacle for a night with Jim James! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for a night with The 1975! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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, November 23

Get stuffed at Center Stage’s The Stuffing VII event with the Manchester Orchestra and more! Pay tribute to The Beastie Boys with Ill Communication and Behind the Sun at Smith’s Olde Bar! Retro it up with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Cirque Dreams Holidaze invades the Fox Theatre through Nov. 25! Make your way to City Winery as ATL Collective brings you Rumours and Tusk Hits! Rock on down to 529 for a night with Forsaken Profits, Rotten Stitches, Pleasures of the Ultraviolent and Pamela! Rock out with The Good Life, Field Mouse and Jake Bellows at The Earl! The Electromatics dish out a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Frankie’s Blues Mission gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, November 24

Burn off all the extra Turkey Day stuffing in ATLRetro! Boogie down Turkey Day Goth-style at 529! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of island tunes and tasty cocktails! 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, November 25

Bluegrass it up absurdist-style with the Packway Handle Band, City Mouse and Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with Glenn Phillips (Hampton Grease Band) at the Red Light Café! Grab your partner and make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage, running through Nov. 27! City Winery gets down with Who’s Bad!, a Michael Jackson tribute! The Last Waltz Ensemble pays tribute to Bob Dylan and The Band with Seth Winters and the Kris Youmans Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Eighties it up with Members Only at Venkman’s! Sleuth it up at the Historic Oakland Cemetery during The Harvest Hunt, running through Nov. 27! Kick off the ice skating season with the Park Tavern’s “Purple Party on Ice” featuring a night of Prince music videos and tunes! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows bring down the house at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, November 26

It’s a rockin’ ruckus at 529 with the Starbenders, Midnight Larks, Motor Earth and Bitter! Celebrate the holidays with Mannheim Steamroller Christmas at the Fox Theatre! Rock out with NOBUNNY, The Cowboys and Bad Spell at The Earl! Get your old-soul Americana and jazzy fix with The Clydes and Kyshona Armstrong at Venkman’s! Rock out with Departure as they pay tribute to Journey at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get your 90s alt rock fix with Edwin McCain at City Winery! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with EG Kight! Folk it up at Eddie’s Attic with Ellis Paul! Make your way to the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Malts & Vaults of Oakland event, where beer meets history! Todd Prussin bluegrasses it up at the Red Light Café! Get folksy with Shawn Mullins at the Variety Playhouse! Get down and dirty with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Blues it up with Juke Joint Jones at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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, November 27

Django Earnhardt delivers a little gypsy jazz and western swing at Venkman’s! Cross Moon River in style with a TCM Big Screen Classics screening of Blake Edwards’ BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) at theatres across Atlanta, screening at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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

Make a trek to the Island of Misfit Toys a.k.a. the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present Jon Ludwig’s adaptation of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, directed by Tim Sweeney, running through Dec. 31!

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.