ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get rocked, get shocked and come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, August 21

It’s a night of gangs, girls and rock ‘n’ roll as The Plaza Theater screens Philip Kaufman’s THE WANDERERS (1979), through Aug. 24! The Fox Theatre dishes out some culture with their legendary Behind the Scenes Tours through Aug. 26! Sludge on down to The Earl for a night with EYEHATEGOD and Negative Approach! Get some soul with Durand Jones & The Indications at the Masquerade! Rock out old-school with Deep Purple and Alice Cooper at Chastain Park! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 22

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema claims their kingdom with their Classics Series screening of Kenneth Branagh’s HENRY V (1989) at 7pm! Or shake a tail feather and celebrate 30 years of Emile Ardolino’s ‘80s classic, DIRTY DANCING (1987) during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! The Real Deal Blues Band gets down at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 23

Get mischievous and rock out with Jack Oblivion & The Sheiks, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Deadly Lo-Fi at The Star Bar! Or raise a ruckus with Social Distortion at the Tabernacle! Honkytonk it up with Dale Watson at Smith’s Olde Bar! Have a jazzy good time with Joe Gransden at Valenza in Brookhaven! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or shake a tail feather and celebrate 30 years of Emile Ardolino’s ‘80s classic, DIRTY DANCING (1987) during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Retro Cinema series at 7:30pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Get your southern soul fix with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 24

Celebrate 5 Years of Nightmares with Horror in Clay at the Highlander (see our Shop Around feature here)! Get teleported to theatres across Atlanta for RiffTrax Live: DOCTOR WHO: THE FIVE DOCTORS (1983) at 7:30pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and Merchant’s Walk (Marietta)]! Rock on down to The Earl for Small Reaction’s LP Release Show, featuring Deep State and The Sticky & Smooth Variety Show! Folk it up with Michelle Shocked at City Winery! Grinder Nova rocks out and surfs it up at Trader Vic’s Mai Tai Thursday! Get smooth and sail on down to Venkman’s for a night of acoustic Yacht Rock Revue! Kristen & The Honey Badgers get down at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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, August 25

Film Love and Kool Kat Andy Ditzler presents How to Live in the City: The Story of the American Music Show at Whitespace Gallery! You won’t want to miss Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s screening of RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD (2017), a documentary by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana about American Indian rock guitarist Link Wray, through Aug. 31! Get old-timey at The Vista Room with Trey Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband with Back in the Saddle! Get possessed at Videodrome (JavaDrome) with a screening of Sam Firstenberg’s NINJA III: THE DOMINATION (1984) at 8:30pm! Street Fighting Band rocks out and pays tribute to The Rolling Stones at Good ol’ Days Irish Pub! Sample wines and jazz it up with Joe Gransden at the Georgia Aquarium’s 12th Annual Aqua Vino event! Get hellacious with Raven at The Earl! Get your Americana fix with Jim Lauderdale at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to The Star Bar for a night with the Young Antiques, Zen Arcade, The Highriders and The Accidents! Get to rockin’ with Rik Emmett (Triumph) at City Winery! Venkman’s dishes out The Music of Michael McDonald! Get the blues with Jontavious Willis at Avondale Towne Cinema! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with The Presmanes Brothers! The Cody Matlock Band dishes out the blues at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with Denise Kirkland at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of rockin’ bluesy mayhem with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns, featuring Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Northside Tavern! 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, August 26

Get sinister at Avondale Towne Cinema as Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte and his Silver Scream Spook Show presents a live Spook Show followed by a screening of Jacques Tourneur’s CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957) at 1pm and 10pm!End the summer with a bang at the 15th Annual Summer Shade Festival in Grant Park, through Aug. 27, featuring tasty food, an artists’ market and live retro tunes on two stages! Saturday’s lineup includes Blue Spirit Wheel, the Wheeler Boys, Mia Green, Jimmy Galloway, Grinder Nova, James Hall & The Steady Wicked, Grant Green, Jr. and Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics on the Boulevard Stage; with Moody Hollow, the Foe Killer Creek Band, Honeywood, Blue Mother Tupelo, Rockabilly Kitty Rose and the Front Porch Session Players on the Cherokee Stage! Jesse Colin Young (Youngbloods) folks it up at City Winery! Make your way to the Donald Nixon Centre for the Performing Arts (Newnan) for Joe Gransden and Carmen Bradford’s “Happy 100^th to Ella Fitzgerald” event! Get trippy and rock out with Interstellar Echoes as they pay tribute to Pink Floyd at The Vista Room! Or rock out with The Cherry Bomb and Learning to Count at Tin Roof Cantina! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at the Dawsonville Tavern! 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! Dwan Bosman with Morgan Bosman jazz it up at the Red Light Café! Groove on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Perpetual Groove! It’s an encore night of rockin’ bluesy mayhem with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns at Northside Tavern! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for Jackson County Line! Back N Black pays tribute to AC/DC at Venkman’s! Delta Moon gets rootsy at Blind Willie’s! Get down and dirty with The Vipers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some soul with Grant Green, Jr. at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, August 27

It’s your last chance to rock out at the final day of the 15th Annual Summer Shade Festival featuring a rockin’ musical lineup with Saturation, Indianapolis Jones, Greg Lee (Yacht Rock Revue), Adron, Michelle Malone and Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers on the Boulevard Stage; with Anti Trance, Yes Maam, Lord High Admirals, The Skylarks, Rust and the Matt Wauchope Trio on the Cherokee Stage! GKids Presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2017 with a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); Studio Movie Grill (Duluth) and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get the blues with Jackie Venson at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with Shooter Jennings and The Cordovas! Get down with Max & The Italians at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Catch the Andy Warhol exhibit at the High Museum through Sept. 3!

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.