ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Resolve to rock out in ATLRetro This Week! Check out all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, January 2

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!

Tuesday, January 3

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their Noir Film Classics Series with a screening of John Huston’s THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) at 7pm! Rock out at 529 with The Organ Machines, Not Having Fun, Femignome and Vanilla Envelope! Get your roots rock fix with Donna the Buffalo and Butch Trucks & the Freight Train Band at City Winery! Get the blues with Ross Pead & Friends at Front Page News (L5P)! Eddie’s Attic presents The Music of “Troubadour”, celebrating 1950s Nashville! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! 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, January 4

Make your way to City Winery for the Holiday Hangover Blues Revue! Rock out with the Grammy Award-winning The Indigo Girls at Terminal West! Stomp on down to Venkman’s for a night with Keena Graham (Blood on the Harp), Rachael Petit (Cold Heart Canyon), Lindsay Rakers and Kim Bates! Swing on by the Graveyard Tavern for Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings! 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 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, January 5

Celebrate 20 years of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Perimeter Pointe 10; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Studio Movie Grill (Duluth) and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)! Hootenanny it up at The Vista Room with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton and the Alabama Bluegrass All-Stars! Bluegrass it up at the Crimson Moon Café for Mark Garrison’s Bluegrass Jam! Rock out with Vito Romeo and Brawful at The Star Bar! Get your Americana fix at the Red Light Café with Mike Fiorello and Hank Erwin! Get mischievous with Capital Arms, 32 Pints, Killing Kuddles and The Concussion Theory at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some Americana soul with Clay Evans and Connor Rand of The Cumberland Collective at Eddie’s Attic! 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, January 6

Hey! Ho! Let’s go to The Star Bar for the 2nd Annual Rock & Roll High School Ramones Tribute featuring Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, The Living Deads, Learning to Count, Cadillac Junkies, V8 Death Car, Martini Shakers, The Devil May Care, Drop Dead Nasty, The Aggravated, Mikey Clams, Red Rocket Deluxe, Bad Spell and more! Glam it up with PINUPS and The Backyard Birds at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get old-timey with The Steel City Jug Slammers at the Crimson Moon Café! Make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Escape Vehicle (upstairs), or head downstairs for Kenny Howes & The Wow! Get some soul with Chelsea Shag at the Tijuana Garage! Funk it up with the Atlanta Funk Society at Venkman’s! Rock out with The Muckers at The Vista Room! It’s a night of R&B legends at Eddie’s Attic as Amplify presents Marvin Gaye vs. Al Green! The Stranger pays tribute to Billy Joel at City Winery! Geek it up and get intergalactic with a screening of Mel Brooks’ SPACEBALLS (1987) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! 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, January 7

Celebrate Elvis’ birthday in style at Avondale Towne Cinema’s Elvis Jam! Get down and dirty with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Tiger! Tiger! and Invisible Teardrops at The Star Bar! Rock out roots-style with Steve Earle and Kevn Kinney at City Winery! Blues it up old-school style with Mac Arnold & The Plate Full of Blues Band at the Crimson Moon Café! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Callaghan and Granville Automatic! Get folksy with Dusty Roads and CJ Jones & the Spirit Bones at the Red Light Café! Get down with The Charlie Fog Band and The Bitteroots at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s a night of psychedelic southern rock with The Marcus King Band at Terminal West! Captain Trips & The Sunstroke Serenaders bring you the tunes of the Grateful Dead at The Vista Room! Rust dishes out a night of rockin’ Americana at Eddie’s Attic! Get to the root of it all with Midnight Revival at Venkman’s and stick around for the Common Ground Collective! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, January 8

Glam it up and make your way to Terminal West for A Celebration of David Bowie’s 70th Birthday, benefiting The Southern Poverty Law Center, featuring PINUPS, Jerome Newton & The Band Who Fell to Earth, Adron, The Preakness and more! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at Venkman’s! Make your way to the Red Light Café for Vinyl Night! Twentieth Century Fox celebrates the 60th Anniversary of Henry King’s classic, CAROUSEL (1956) at theatres across Atlanta (2pm/7pm) [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Get down with tunes of the ‘60s and ‘70s with Boomers Gone Wild at the Crimson Moon Café! Get to stompin’ with The Honey Dewdrops at Eddie’s Attic!  Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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.