ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Kick off April in ATLRetro! Come see all the swell shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, April 2

Groove on down to City Winery as Ray Howard pays tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire! 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!

Tuesday, April 3

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema challenges death as they kick of their new Classics Series with a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s THE SEVENTH SEAL (1958) at 7pm! Casey Abrams dishes out a night of rockin’ blues ‘n’ jazz at Eddie’s Attic! 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, April 4

Catch a screening of Charles Walters’ classic, EASTER PARADE (1948) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with A Very Loud Death, Eddie Rascal and Monk Tesh at The Star Bar! The Bill Frisell Trio dishes out a night of folk jazz at City Winery! Get jazzy with the Sal Gentile Trio at the Elliott Street Pub! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) presents a screening of Elia Kazan’s classic EAST OF EDEN (1955) at 7:15pm! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, April 5

ATL Collective featuring Booker T. Jones brings the Funk to the People at the Buckhead Theatre, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of James Brown’s historic 1968 Boston concert! Get your Americana fix with Max Gomez at Eddie’s Attic! The Ladies of ‘60s Soul Keisha and Kourtney Jackson get down at Venkman’s! Rock out with PLS PLS, the Bygods and The Boy Jones at The Star Bar! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and 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, April 6

Led Zepplified performs “The Led Zeppelin Radio Hits” at Avondale Towne Cinema! Experience STOMP, the “International Sensation” at the Fox Theatre through April 7! Bit Brigade geeks it up and performs The Legend of Zelda with The Bronzed Chorus and Double Ferrari at The Earl! Get some soul with Bob Sima at Eddie’s Attic! Get rocked with Wishbone Ash at City Winery! Rock out with the White Animals at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Dark Star Orchestra pays tribute to the Grateful Dead at the Buckhead Theatre! Get your Tim Curry fix at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their screening of Jonathan Lynn’s CLUE (1985) at 8pm! Jackie Venson dishes out a night of rockin’ blues at The Drunken Unicorn! The Electromatics dish out a night of Chicago/West Coast blues at Elliott Street Pub! Get cozy with Mountain Heart at Venkman’s! Or get the blues with the Sugarray Rayford Band at The Vista Room! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets the rockin’ blues at the 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, April 7

The BadAsh AllStar Team brings you A Night of Prog Rock Live #3 at Avondale Towne Cinema! Dweezil Zappa brings his “Choice Cuts!” World Tour 2018 to the Variety Playhouse! For Sale performs The Replacement’s LIVE AT MAXWELL’S at 529 with ‘Kool Kat Adam McIntyre and The Pinx! A night of hilarity ensues as The Plaza Theater warlords it up with Cineprov’s screening/riffing of Terry Marcel’s PRISONERS OF THE LOST UNIVERSE (1983) at 9:30pm! Folk it up with Collins Drive, The Brookses and Lindsay Petsch at the Red Light Café! Get the hip-swingin’ blues with Curtis Harding at The Earl! Rockabilly it up with Roxie Watson at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with Kenny Lattimore at City Winery! Funk it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with GuruFish, Zangaro and FunkCake! The Dark Star Orchestra pays an encore tribute to the Grateful Dead at the Buckhead Theatre! Folk it up with Kim Richey and The Skipperdees at the Red Clay Theatre! The Strand Ole Opry brings you The Music of Bob Dylan at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Pop on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with the StarBenders! Carlin Taylor pays tribute to Marvin Gaye at Venkman’s! Boogie on down to The Vista Room for a night with Joe Krown and Marcia Ball! Blues it up with Little Joey Hoegger followed by Cody Matlock at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, April 8

The James Hunter Six dish out a night of blue-eyed soul at City Winery! Goth it up in Hell at the Masquerade with Sirenia, Threat Signal, Valinor Excelsior, Niviane and Paladin! Boogie down with a screening of John Badham’s SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or hang out with the Pink Ladies as TCM Classics presents a 4oth Anniversary screening of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; 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); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Folk rock out with Dave Hause at Eddie’s Attic! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Learn some history with the Gwinnett Parks Foundation’s Historic Walking Tours every Saturday through April 21!

ABBA on down to the Aurora Theatre for their presentation of MAMMA MIA! Running through April 22!

The Horizon Theatre Company presents FREAKY FRIDAY: A NEW MUSICAL, through April 22!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts Wednesday of the month!

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.