ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Surf on into ATLRetro This Week and come check out all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, September 11

[Monday’s events are subject to cancellation due to impending weather. Contact venues for event updates.] Get intergalactic and celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) at theatres across Atlanta (contact theatres for show times) [AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Parkway Point 15] through Sept. 13! Get sinister and celebrate 40 years of Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA (1977), bloodying it up at The Plaza Theater through Sept. 14! Get down with the Emerald Empire Band at The Vista Room! Come on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Sonia Leigh! 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!” Get the blues with Matthew Pendrick 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, September 12

[Tuesday’s events are subject to cancellation due to impending weather. Contact venues for event updates.] Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Mike Nichols’ adaptation of Joseph Heller’s CATCH-22 (1970) at 7pm! Get nerdy and naughty with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South during their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Nerdtastic event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with Kool Kat Noelle Shuck/Shehehe, Jenny Parrott and Banjolicious at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down with the Poverty Level Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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 DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get down and dirty with Gray & The Bad Boys at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, September 13

Rock out with Cheetah Chrome’s DEAD BOYS, The Cheifs and Kool Kat Ray Dafrico at The Earl! Or sleaze it up and make your way to The Star Bar for a night with Black P#ssy, The Crush and Hot Ram! Emory Cinematheque continues their Resist Fascism Series with a screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic CASABLANCA (1942) at 7:30pm! Rock on down to 529 for a night with Dinos Boys, Trouble Boys and Paralyzer! Folk it up with Ben Ottewell and Cortez Garza at City Winery! Get hell bound and make your way to the Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth) screening of Clint Eastwood’s UNFORGIVEN (1992) at 7:15pm! Live long and prosper and celebrate 35 years of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982) at theatres across Atlanta, 2pm/7pm [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); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)] Get the rockin’ blues with the Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Art Holliday, Inc. boogies down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Get down with Bob Page 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, September 14

Rock out with Andy Blade and Dinos Boys at The Star Bar! Spend the night with The Jailhouse Gypsies and Dave Tamkin at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with Andrew W.K. and 7-10 Split at Terminal West! Get the psychedelic folk blues with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood at the Variety Playhouse! Take the Atlanta Highway on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with The B-52’s and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt gets acoustic and rocks out at Porterdale Bar & Grill! Blues it up with Dwayne Shivers and Joe Pub at City Winery! Spend the night with A.J. Croce and Mike Ryan at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so rock on down to Trader Vic’s for a night with the Knotty Boys! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo dishes out a night of blues and southern soul 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, September 15

Surf on to Trader Vic’s ‘cause you won’t want to miss the shakin’ pre-bash shenanigans during  Pre-Party for SouthernSurf Stomp Fest 2017, featuring rockin’ tunes with the Aqualads, The Johnny Zoom Hi-Fi Show and The Dangling Tassels! Or take the Atlanta Highway on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with The B-52’s and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! Get your Americana fix with Ray Wylie Hubbard and Caroline Aiken at City Winery! Raise a ruckus at The Star Barwith the Heels, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley and Mishka Shubaly! Make your way to the Little Vinyl Lounge (The Star Bar) for Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s ANT LODGE Vol. 2 starring The Bicycle Eaters, Bill Taft, Georgie Harris and the Endless West Traveling Magic Show! Rock out with The Biters and Gunpowder Gray at The Earl! Get down with the Atlanta Funk Society at Venkman’s! Get jazzy with Melvin Jones at the High Museum! Thrash it up with Overkill, Crowbar and Havoc at the Masquerade! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Russ Still & The Moonshiners, Honey Hips and The dround hounds! Get your ‘90s Brit rock fix with Swervedriver at Terminal West! Get the psychedelic folk blues and a second night with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood at the Variety Playhouse! Rev on down to The Pointe in Conyers for a night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles! Get your North Mississippi Hill country blues fix with The Bush League at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Folk it up with Mike Kinnebrew and Eric Dodd at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with the Jason Pastras Trio at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Big Bill Morganfield dishes out the blues at Blind Willie’s! Get funky with Zydefunk 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, September 16

Rock out surf-style with the big kahuna, Kool Kat Chad Shivers and his kickin’ cohorts at the rockin’est annual shindig in Avondale Estates, the Southern Surf StompFest, catching a wave at Little Tree Art Studios, featuring Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, The Surge!, The Mystery Men?, the Aqualads, Genki Genki Panic, The Out of Limits, El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists, the Rondo Hatton Band, the Reverburritos, special guest DJ Dusty Booze and so much more to feed your kitschy vintage culture lust! Get Drawn & Disorderly with our pal and Kool Kat Chris Hamer (UrbnPop) and more at the Red Brick Brewing Company! Get intergalactic and make your way to a galaxy far away with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Star Wars and More: The Music of John Williams event at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Spend the night with the Man in Black at The Star Bar’s annual Johnny Cash Tribute Show & Diabetes Benefit! Jam on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for Dead Affect! Old-time it up with classic ‘60s and ‘70s country during The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s Strand Ole Opry! Get your classic soul fix with Lalah Hathaway and Avery Sunshine during the Fox Theatre’s Saturday Soul Series! Or swing on down to the Blue Mist Café in Marietta as the Camilla Sanders Jazz Quartet brings you Indigo Swing! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at The Wing Cafe in Marietta! Get groovy and head on over to the Buckhead Theatre for a Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Stephane Wrembel, Granville Automatic, Jesse Terry and Delta Moon! Raise a ruckus at Motorheads in McDonough with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles! Get funky with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his FASCINATED: Electro Disco Freestyle Funk Video Dance Party at Amsterdam Atlanta! It’s a Chicken Pickin’ Brunch with Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents at Venkman’s! Biscuit Miller & The Mix gets funky at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Forever Abbey Road pays tribute to The Beatles at the Red Clay Theatre! ATL Collective relives Phil Collins’ HITS at Terminal West! Bluegrass it up with The Infamous Stringdusters and Boy Called Banjo at the Variety Playhouse! Get down and dirty with Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with the Cody Matlock Band at Blind Willie’s! Get funky with Zydefunk at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, September 17

For a little hair of the surfy dog that bit ya, boogie on down to The Burnt Hickory Brewery (Kennesaw) for the Southern Surf StompFest 2017 After Party, featuring encore presentations of Genki Genki Panic, The Mystery Men? and The Out of Limits! Get down with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band at City Winery! Shimmy on down to 7 stages and celebrate a decade of salty shenanigans Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South with their 10th Annual Burlesque, Vaudeville and Variety Show at 7pm! Phone home and get intergalactic as TCM Big Screen Classics Presents a 35th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T.THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) at theatres across Atlanta, 2pm/7pm [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 Atlantic Station Stadium 18; AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth); AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Geek it up at Challenges Games & Comics during their Batman: TAS 25th Anniversary Marathon at 2pm! Get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out with The Cosmic Gypsies at Johnny’s Hideaway! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Get intergalactic with Wicket: The Musical at Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, geeking it up through Oct. 7!

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.