ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro is the Kat’s meow this week, kicking off the new year with a whole lotta shakin’ shenanigans!

Monday, December 26

Get some soul with David Ryan Harris at Eddie’s Attic! 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, December 27

Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up 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, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 28

Get country punked with An English Place, Tom Cheshire and Ben Trickey at The Star Bar! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night of acoustic Beatles with Nick Niespodziani (Yacht Rock Revue) & Tim Smith! Jazz it up with a Burroughs/Ellington duo at the Elliott Street Pub! Blind Willie’s gets down with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get rootsy with Faithless Town, Sailing to Denver and Matt Megrue at The Earl! 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! 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, December 29

Make your way to The Vista Room for a night with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton! Rock out with Parker Gispert (The Whigs) at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night of acoustic Beatles and a special set of BOWIE with Nick Niespodziani (Yacht Rock Revue) & Tim Smith! Get groovy with Perpetual Groove at Terminal West! Get countrified with Gillian Welch at the Variety Playhouse! Get down with Kristen & the Honey Badgers at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with Marcus Johnson at City Winery! Jam with the Disco Biscuits at the Tabernacle! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of island tunes and tasty Tiki 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, December 30

Get bizarre with Videodrome and JavaDrome as they present another rare treat with a screening of Timothy Carey’s THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER (1962) at 8pm! Get down and dirty at the Elliott Street Pub with Candybox Underground Burly-Q, featuring Kool Kat Roula Roulette, Annette Coquette, Ariel Allegro, Candi LeCoeur, Kat Asstrophy, DJ Doctor Q and more! Rock out with Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ and Dan Baird & Homemade Sin at Center Stage! Get brassy with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at Venkman’s! Get to the root of it all with Donna Hopkins and Ralph Roddenberry at the Crimson Moon Café! Funk it up with Moontower at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a groovy encore of Perpetual Groove at Terminal West! Or jam it up with the Disco Biscuits for a second night at the Tabernacle! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Rock out with Metal McDonald and Dang Dang Dang at The Earl! Shimmy on down and retro-glam it up at City Winery with a night of Wasabassco Burlesque! Make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Runaway Gin! Get the blues with Ron Cooley & the Hard Times 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, December 31

It’s New Year’s Eve, folks!  Out with the old and in with the new!  Although, we here at ATLRetro prefer the old, so we’ve put together a swell Throwback to the 20^th Century New Year’s Eve Guide, that will lead the way as you boogie on down to your final destination in 2016 (keep your eyes peeled)! Ring in the New Year in style and toast 2017 in ATLRetro! We wish you a very vintage and rockin’ Happy New Year!

Sunday, January 1

Welcome to 2017! Gypsy jazz it up with Jared & Amber at Eddie’s Attic! Get the blues with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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! (LAST CHANCE!)

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.