ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see all the retrotastic events we’ve found for you This Week in ATLRetro!

Monday, May 22

Get bizarre and make your way to The Plaza Theater for a screening of Jon Nguyen/Olivia Neergaard-Holm/Rick Barnes’ documentary, DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE (2016), screening through May 25! Get indie folked with The Mountain Goats and The Hot at Nights at Terminal West! Get rootsy with Brandon Reeves 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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 23

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series and disturbs with a screening of Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER (1976) at 7pm! Or rock out Icelandic-style with Sigur Ros at the Fox Theatre! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Bash & Pop (Tommy Stinson of The Replacements)! Asleep At The Wheel dishes out a night of old-time Texas country at City Winery! Get folksy with Angie Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! Or folk it up with Julia Finch and Kittens Slay Dragons at the Red Light Café! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get bluesy with the Nick Johnson Band 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! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, May 24

TCM Big Screen Classics celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Hal Needham’s SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977) 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); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get a second helping of Angie Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Masquerade for a night with Saintseneca! Get the rockin’ blues with Aiden Connell, The Love Agenda and The Wild Now at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rock out at The Star Bar with 20 Watt Tombstone, Stephen El Ray, Catfish & The Bottom and Sasha Vallely! ! Spend the night with Frank Sinatra at the Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth) screening of George Sidney’s ANCHORS AWEIGH (1945) at 7:15pm! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with The Electromatics at  Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! 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, May 25

Get rocked with Brit Floyd at the Fox Theatre! Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park continues with a free screening of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) at dusk! Get funky and rock out with Doesin, Flower, Cinema Novo and Gas Hound at The Earl! It’s a night of folksy blues with Randall Bramblett at Madlife Stage & Studios in Woodstock! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Kira Annalise & The Trainwrecks! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with Beau & Luci, Robot Jurassic, Horrible Idea and The Ain’t Sisters! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! 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, May 26

Raise a ruckus and get down with one helluva hootenanny and sleaze-fest with Kool Kats galore at Bubbapalooza 2017 at The Star Bar running through Sat. May 27, featuring a whole lotta nitty gritty with Kool Kat Dave Weil and The Blacktop Rockets, Rodeo Twister, Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello and The Delusionaires, The Mystery Men?, Slim Chance & The Stoned Mountain Folk, AM Gold, The Scragglers, Nikki & The Phantom Callers, Kool Kat Rev. Andy and Southern Ska Syndicate, Rockabilly Kitty Rose, ELZIG, The Wheelknockers, JJ & The Hustlers, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and The Compartmentalizationalists, Al Shelton, DJ Dusty Booze and more! Get dosed with a night cultish shenanigans at Videodrome’s JavaDrome screening of Frank Henenlotter’s BRAIN DAMAGE (1988) at 8:30pm! Or catch a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s HOLY BLOOD (SANTA SANGRE) (1989) at The Plaza Theater, screening through June 1! Get jazzy in Piedmont Park with the 40th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival running through May 28, kickin’ things off with The Pedrito Martinez Group and the Robert Glasper Experiment! Get shakin’ and shimmy on down to Elliott Street Pub’s “The 51” for The Candybox Revue Underground with Kool Kat Talloolah Love, DJ Doctor Q and so much more! Get down with Freddie Jackson at City Winery! Rock out with The Music Tapes at The Drunken Unicorn! Or rock on down to The Earl for a night with The Rock*A*Teens, Bad Sports and the All Night Drug Prowling Wolves! Spend the night with Reuben Bidez at Eddie’s Attic! Get your AC/DC fix with Back N Black at Madlife Stage & Studios in Woodstock! Funk it up with the Atlanta Funk Society at Venkman’s! Get cozy with The Dude at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s screening of The Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at 8pm! It’s a night of rockin’ Americana at the Red Light Café with the Bill Hart Band and the Carl Culpepper Band! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Spend the night with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for The Silvertones! 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, May 27

Creep on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for the Silver Scream Spook Show’s matinee (1pm) screening of Julian Roffman’s THE MASK 3D (1961), and an encore screening at 10pm, with Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte and more! Noir it up at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s screening of John Huston’s classic, THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) at 8pm! Or head to downtown Decatur for the Decatur Arts Festival featuring performing arts, literary events, tasty food and live music with Hollis Brown, Chelsea Shag, Paul Melancon, Underhill Rose, The Ain’t Sisters, the ConunDrums and more, through May 28! Skank on down to City Winery for a night with Kool Kat Rev. Andy and Southern Ska Syndicate! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10:30am and MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at 1pm! Retro-glam it up with the Wasabassco Burlesque Company at City Winery! Make your way to Piedmont Part for Day 2 of the 40th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival featuring The Allan Harris Band, Regina Carter, Randy Weston’s African Rhythm Quintet, Rene Marie, the Charles Lloyd Sky Trio and more! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to Summerville and get folksy and low-brow during Finster Fest 2017 at Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens, running through May 28! Don’t forget to get rocked and rolled at Day 2 of Bubbapalooza 2017 at The Star Bar! Blues it up with the Legendary Ike Stubblefield at The Vista Room! Haunt on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICS Goth Industrial Music Video Dance Party featuring Goth, dark 80s and more!! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Spend the night with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at the Northside Tavern! Selwyn Birchwood dishes out the blues at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, May 28

Head on down to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, encore screenings of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10:30am and MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at 1pm! Make your way to Piedmont Part for the final day of the 40th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival featuring Dwight Andrews, Joe Gransden’s Big Band, The Ojeda Penn Experience, Freddy Cole and more! Make your way to City Winery for Who’s Bad, the Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience! It’s your last chance to make it out to the Decatur Arts Festival, so come on out and catch Grant Green, Jr., Cody Matlock, Tray Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband and more! Rock out with Tim Kasher at The Earl! Celebrate three decades of the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club with their 30th Anniversary Extravaganza promising beer, bands and BBQ! Blues it up with Dr. Dixon & The Operators at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.