ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro is the bee’s knees This Week! Come shake it up in Atlanta and check out what we’ve found for you on the retro menu!

Monday, June 4

Rock out at The Earl with Chrome (Helios Creed), Sash the Bash and Caesium Mine! Spend the night with the “Dude” and catch a free screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at City Winery at 7pm! Eddie’s Attic dishes out a night with John Pizzarelli! Folk it up with J. A. Etchison, Emilye and Two by Two Celtic at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or catch a screening of Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, through June 6 at The Plaza Theater! Spend the night with Shania Twain at the Infinite Energy Center! 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 the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willies! 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, June 5

Hang with Kool Kat Brian Lonano and friends and catch a special screening of his most recent film BFF GIRLS (2017) at The Plaza Theater! Cheap Trick and Poison invade the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Get the rockin’ blues with Joan Armatrading at City Winery! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or folk rock it up with Jesse Marchant and Oryx & Crake at The Earl! David Ramirez brings his Bootleg Tour to Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of classical guitar with David Cohen at Java Monkey! The High Divers rock you at the Red Clay Theatre! Get some soul with Larry Griffith 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 Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 6

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 50th Anniversary screening of Mel Brooks’ classic comedy, THE PRODUCERS (1968) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Jazz it up with the Sal Gentile Trio at the Elliott Street Pub! Rock out at The Star Bar with Wet Jeans, The Instructors and Sound Medicine! Have an adventure and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or groove on down to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) and catch a screening of Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) 7:15pm! Sunflower Bean dishes out a post-punk revival with The Nude Party at Aisle 5! Spend the night with John Fogerty and ZZ Top at Chastain Park! Get the rockin’ blues with Joan Armatrading at City Winery! Will Turpin (Collective Soul) gets down at Eddie’s Attic! The Balkun Brothers and Jive Revival rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Catch a double feature of Adam McKay’s STEP BROTHERS (2008) and Joseph Ruben’s THE GOOD SON (1993) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get rocked blues-style with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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, June 7

Get the power of Grayskull as a night of hilarity ensues with Cineprov at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff Gary Goddard’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (1987) at 7:30pm! The Purple Principle pays tribute to Prince at Avondale Towne Cinema! Or groove on down to Venkman’s as Yacht Rock Revue performs PURPLE RAIN in celebration of Prince’s birthday! Get the rockin’ blues with Joan Armatrading at City Winery! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get folksy with Jill Sobule and Carolina Story at Eddie’s Attic! Or get the rockin’ roots with the Donna Hopkins Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Funk it up with The New Mastersounds at Terminal West! The Hunts folk it up at Vinyl! Get a killer clue and make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their annual MURDER! AT THE STRAND, through June 10! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Blues it up with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 8

Hey all you miscreants! You won’t want to miss a night with Rotten Stitches, Freakshow Sinema, Die 985 and The Inhalants at The Highlander! Melvin Van Peebles’ SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG (1971) opens at The Plaza Theater, or get your Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood fix with a screening of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of cool grooves with the Mudbone Turner Band! Get rocked with Martin Bisi and Xambuca at The Earl! Rock out with Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters at Chastain Park! Folk it up with Karla Bonoff at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Robby Hecht and Caroline Spence at Crimson Moon Café! Jam on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Dead Affect! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! Spend the night with The Rockaholics at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Roy Lee Johnson 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, June 9

Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for the 8th annual Tunes from the Tombs 2018 (12p – 8pm), featuring 3 retro-tastic stages of live music! The Main Stages gets down with Drivin’ N Cryin’, AJ Ghent, the Heather Gillis Band, Caleb Caudle and The Bitteroots! Shakin’ on the North Public Grounds  Stage will be the Mermaid Motor Lounge, Ansley Stewart, Michael Zaib and Book Club! And you won’t want to miss the Lion Square Beer Garden Acoustic Stage featuring Wesley Cook, Avery Gipson, Greg Fortune and Caleb Caudle! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! Rock out at The Star Bar with Kool Kats The Joykills, Seagulls, Burrito Banditos, Kool Kats Shehehe, Ganges Phalanges, Hermits of Suburbia and El Chupaskabra! Or rock out with Beitthemeans, Bigfoot and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures at Mule Camp Tavern! Get retrotastic with Davina & The Vagabonds at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center! Rev on down to Big Tex for a night with Kitty Rose & The Ramblers! Harry Connick Jr. brings the Big Easy to Chastain Park! Get bluegrassy with Circus No. 9 at Crimson Moon Café! Get old-school with the Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Rock out ‘70s style with Mark Michelson at Red Light Café! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Spend the night with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 10

Fathom Events presents a wild double feature with screenings of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995), followed by Jake Kasdan’s JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (2017) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Riot grrrl it up with The Regrettes and Destroy Boys at the Masquerade! Get your Americana fix with Abe Partridge and Grant Peeples at the Crimson Moon Café! Get weirdly dark at The Earl with John Denver Death Plane, GOYA, Gnomonaut and Big Mountain! Bluegrass it up with Chatham County Line, Robby Hecht and Caroline Spence at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Johnny’s Hideaway! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Indie pop it up with Belle and Sebastian at the Tabernacle!  Make your way to the Woodruff Art Center’s Family Fun event live music and a free performance of the Alliance Theatre’s production of WINNIE THE POOH! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM (1996) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get really retro at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, jousting through June 4! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Fox Theatre presents HAMILTON, through June 10! (LAST CHANCE!)

Emory Arts presents their exhibition The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940-1975 in the Schatten Gallery, through June 17!

Noni’s Bar & Deli hosts their Cinema Paradiso film event, screening two films beginning at 10pm, through June 28!

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.