ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in ATLRetro is the bee’s knees! Come see all the swell shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, January 29

Celebrate 30 years of The Posies at City Winery! Get the blues with Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with Holey Miss Moley at Moonshadow Tavern in Tucker! 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! Spend the night with Lloyd Cole at Eddie’s Attic! 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 30

Get psyched for a night with The Rotten Mangos, Satisfiers of Alpha Blue and The Titos at the Red Light Café! Frankie’s Blues Mission spreads the word at Blind Willie’s! Cow punk it up with Alejandro Escovedo (The Nuns) at City Winery! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Thrash on down to 529 for a night with Leeway! 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 31

Get some soul and make your way to The Star Bar for The Bango & Smash Soul Night DJ Party featuring Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and the Malone Ranger! Catch a screening of Victor Fleming’s classic, GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get folksy with Tom Rush at Eddie’s Attic! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18! Emory Cinematheque continues their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with a screening of ABC’s ROOTS, Season 1, episode 2 at 7:30pm! Get campy and make your way to The Plaza Theater for screening of Jamie Babbit’s BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (1999) at 7pm! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with Cody Matlock 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 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, February 1

Captain & Maybelle hosts a hellacious killer kickoff Days of the Dead pre-party at the Clermont Lounge featuring a horrific lineup with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, ELZIG, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and more! Sinister mind control invades The Plaza Theater as Cineprov dishes out a night of hilarity with a screening of Dave R. Watkins’ STRAGGLERS (2004) at 7:15pm! Get folksy with Aimee Mann and Marshall Ruffin at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with The Pussywillows, Mister Tie Dye and Kilroy Kobra at The Earl! Get your American fix with Willie Watson at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up and get some soul with Kipper Jones at City Winery! Make your way to 7 Stages as they present THE FOLLOWERS: A RETELLING OF THE BACCHAE, running through Feb. 25! Yacht Rock Revue gets in the ring with their Led Zeppelin vs. The Who event at Venkman’s! Get your Barbara Streisand fix with Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 50th Anniversary screening of William Wyler’s FUNNY GIRL (1968) at Regal Perimeter Pointe 10! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for a night with the Lost Dog Street Band and Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes 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, February 2

Get traumatized and HORROR-fied this weekend as the Days of the Dead Convention kills it at the Sheraton Atlanta hotel for three days of ghastly gore-filled events, running through Feb. 4! You won’t want to miss monstrous retro celebrity guests Malcom McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE); Ernie Hudson (GHOSTBUSTERS); the cast of the KARATE KID franchise (Martin Kove, Ralph Macchio and William Zabka); Ray Wise (TWIN PEAKS); Meg Foster (THEY LIVE), C. Thomas Howell (THE OUTSIDERS); masked menace Kane Hodder of FRIDAY THE 13TH fame; the Independent Horror Film Fest, Sin & Salvation shenanigans featuring hellacious tunes from Graveyard Gospel and Bump in the Night Ghoulesque, The Dirty Dirty Con Con Gameshow and so much more! So, get your fill of the blood-bath that is, Days of the Dead!

Get sinfully seductive at 7 Stages for Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South’s 11th Annual Vixen’s Valentease Vaudeville & Variety Show! The BACKYARDBIRDS invade the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Blood on the Harp, Little Country Giants and the Casey Hood & Jared Pepper Duo! Or make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with BJ Barham (American Aquarium)! Rock out with Sash the Bash, Pretty Vacant and King of Queens at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down with the Atlanta Funk Society during the High Museum’s February First Friday event! Venkman’s dishes out a night with Saved by the Band! It’s déjà vu hilarity at Battle & Brew as they run a marathon screening of Harold Ramis’ GROUNDHOG DAY (1993), beginning at 2pm! Or catch a screening of Robert Mulligan’s classic TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Bluegrass it up with The SteelDrivers at the Buckhead Theatre! Little Joey’s Jumpin’ Jive gets down and returns to the Northside Tavern! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at The Wing in Marietta! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! 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, February 3

It’s Day 2 to get spooked at the Days of the Dead Convention at the Sheraton Atlanta! Get your blood curdling fill of monsters galore with Send in the Clowns with Captain & Maybelle; gore-ific panels including Women of Indie Horror featuring Kool Kat Dayna Noffke, Kool Kat Vanessa Wright, Lynne Hansen and Brooklyn Ewing; a 7pm screening of Wes Craven’s SCREAM (1996); “Terror from the ‘80s” secret films at 10pm and midnight; and one hell-bent horrorific after party with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and ELZIG!

The Star Bar gets to sizzlin’ with one hot Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper celebration, HOLLYFEST 10! Get your retro rock fix with Rodeo Twister, The Midnight Dukes, The Sideburners, Bad Friend, Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, The Cherry Bomb, Kitty Rose & The Rattlers, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley, Slim Chance & The Convicts, Joe St. Louis 5, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and more!  Cody Matlock rocks out at the Northside Tavern! The livin’ is easy in the Big Easy, so make your way to the Midtown Mardi Gras Block Party and funk it up through Feb. 4! Celebrate Black History Month at The Plaza Theater with their Histories & Legends: Exploring Black History Through Art & Motion event at 7:30pm! Get the rockin’ blues with Big Head Todd & The Monsters with Southern Avenue at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with The Bohannons, The Stacktone Slims and The Crush at The Earl! Get to twangin’ with Devil Makes Three at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock out with John 5 & The Creatures at The Drunken Unicorn! Spend the night with Radio Moscow at Vinyl! Venkman’s gets down with New Sensation, and INXS tribute! Pop on over to Avondale Towne Cinema for Kenny Howe & The Wow! Big Bill Morganfield dishes out a night of the rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, February 4

It’s Day 3 and your last chance to experience the rockin’ blood and horror fest, the Days of the Dead Convention!  Today’s events include horrorific panels including an Atlanta Author Horror Showcase; a 9am screening of James Bryan’s LADY STREET FIGHTER (1985) and more, so, come check out all the swell and retro horror goodness while you can! Catch a screening of Vincente Minnelli’s classic, GIGI (1958) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 80th Anniversary screening of Konrad Tom and Joseph Green’s MAMELE (1938) at Springs Cinema & Tap House! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

7 Stages presents THE FOLLOWERS: A RETELLING OF THE BACCHAE, running through Feb. 25!

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.