ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, January 15

Make your way to the Atlanta History Center and celebrate the life of MLK with their Martin Luther King, Jr. Day special programming including a screening of Alethea Brown’s documentary, A TREK TO THE RIVER’S EDGE (2014) at 1pm, and free admission. Get down with the Emerald Empire Band at The Vista Room! Get folksy at Avondale Towne Cinema with Lon Eldridge! Get jazzy with MAYSA at City Winery! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night of indie rock with Loudon Swain and Jason Manns! The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds containing the histories of thousands of Atlanta’s earliest black citizens, throughout Black History Month! Get your Australian psychedelic glam fix with Pond at Vinyl! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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 Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 16

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 70th Anniversary screening of John Huston’s classic, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Bluegrass it up with Boy Named Banjo at City Winery! Get a second chance to catch Loudon Swain and Jason Manns with The Deep Dark Woods at Eddie’s Attic! Get ‘90s jammy with The Laymen at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boo Hoo Ramblers! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 Little 5 Points 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 17

Have a bloody fantastic night with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at SCADShow at 6:30pm! Or make your way to The Plaza Theater for screening of Jamie Babbit’s campy BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (1999) at 7pm! It’s a night of nitty gritty rock ‘n’ roll with Black Pussy, The Stir and The Pussywillows at The Star Bar! You won’t want to miss the Swedish metal spectacle that is AVATAR at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock out with Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones with The High Divers at Terminal West! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Michael Preston at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get some soul with Rudy Currence at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get bewitched with a screening of Alfonso Cuaron’s HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Jam it up and get funky with Tastebud, Desmond Jones and Sono Lumini at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get jazzy 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 a night of acoustic 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 18

Rock out at The Star Bar for four mischievous nights of the Down South Showdown rocking out through Jan. 21 (Jan. 18-20 at The Star Bar, Jan. 21 at The Earl)! Night one rocks out with Dinos Boys, Gunpowder Gray, The Uppers, Nikki & The Phantom Callers and Sweet Things! Or sludge it up with The Buzzards of Fuzz, The Ides of June and Hot Ram at 529! Rocksteady on down to Terminal West for a night with Lee “Scratch” Perry and Subatomic Sound System! Rock out with Kool Kat Rich Desantis and The Street Fighting Band as they pay tribute to The Rolling Stones at City Winery! Or make your way to The Earl for a night with Reconciler, The Bantam Breaks and Paper Walls. Rock out folk-style with Willie Nile at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of geeky cow punk at the Masquerade with Go Robo! Go!, Blood Oaks, Like Mike, Hyperspace, and Resident One! Join the BadAsh Allstar Team for their Fleetwood Mac Jam at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with the Prince of Soul, Calvin Richardson, at Suite Food Lounge! Kristen & the Honey Badgers get down at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your Americana fix with Alex Guthrie at MadLife Stage & Studios! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of swanky tunes with Bogey & The Viceroy and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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 19

Cheese it up at The Plaza Theater as Cineprov dishes out a night of hilarity with a screening of Howard Ziehm’s FLESH GORDON (1974) at 7pm! Night two of the Down South Showdown at The Star Bar features a rockin’ lineup with Wyldlife, MAMA, Paint Fumes, Trouble Boys, Sick Boys, Bad Sons, Paralyzer and Fixed Faces! Yacht Rock Revue’s Greg and Bencoo dish out hits of the ‘70s with their Forever ’78 show at Venkman’s! Get some ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue at The Vista Room! Boogie down and swing on by the GTDA’s Swing Dance Masquerade at 8pm! Bluegrass it up with the Yonder Mountain String Band at the Buckhead Theatre! Get Victorian during Ritual’s Steampunk Party at Heretic! Get folksy and catch a screening of Jennifer LeBeau’s Bob Dylan documentary, TROUBLE NO MORE (2017) at The Plaza Theater, through Jan. 25! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Get jazzy with King Baby at the High Museum! Folk rock it up with Shawn Mullins at City Winery! Kavarna dishes out a night of tributes with The Stoneberrys (The Rolling Stones) and The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett)! It’s a night of rootsy soul with the Heather Gillis Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get geeky retro with Bit Brigade, Cinemechanica and Tiny Scissors at The Earl! Spend the night with Bumpin the Mango and Zangaro at MadLife Stage & Studios in Woodstock! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys! Get folksy with Peter Case and Dead Rock West at the Red Light Café! Surf on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Identikit, Nocturnal Animals, The Organ Machines and Silent Sun (downstairs) or jam it up at with Dead Affect and Mister Tie Dye (upstairs)! Runaway Gin pays tribute to Phish at Terminal West! Nameless Nameless dishes out a night of Nirvana at Venkman’s! Spend the night with Chris O’Leary at Blind Willie’s! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Stoney Brooks and Cody Matlock at Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up 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 20

Get bizarre Lynch-style as Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s Club Silencio returns to The Earl (album release) with Small Reactions! Spend the night with They Might Be Giants at the Variety Playhouse! Night three of the Down South Showdown at The Star Bar glams out and sleazes it up with The Heart Attacks, Beat Beat Beat, BroGro, Bad Mothers, BBQT, Cheap Fur, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Criminal Kids, Antagonizers ATL and Killer Hearts! Orchestra Noir presents A Masquerade in Paris at Paris on Ponce! Permanent Waves pays tribute to RUSH with Jackwagon at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get your dino fix with Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) in concert with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at 8pm! Rock out as Clashinista pays tribute to The Clash at 529! ATL Collective relives Erykah Badu’s BADUIZM at Venkman’s! Get down with the John Pagano Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a Burlesque Battle of the Babes! Get saucy and spend the evening with Sadie Hawkins at her Last Pasties Standing event! Spend the night with Escape Vehicle, Led Zepplified and the Sunny South Blues Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Terminal West gets down with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony! Get down with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the old school blues with Albert White at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, January 21

It’s your last chance to get rocked during the Down South Showdown at The Earl with RMBLR, Dirty Few, The Ridgelands, The Tip, Talking Dogs and Adam Anzio! You won’t want to miss a dinosaur-ous encore with Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) in concert with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at 8pm! Get old-school countrified with Little Country Giants, The Cleverlys and Paul Harris at Eddie’s Attic! Terminal West delivers an encore with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

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.