ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in ATLRetro has Kool Kats galore! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, August 13

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday! Time travel to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Isao Takahata’s GRAVEYARD OF THE FIREFLIES (1993) at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); 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 Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Funk it up with Tower of Power at City Winery! Get experimental with Kraus and No Life at the Drunken Unicorn! Get the blues with Clark Ashton at Blind Willies! 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!” 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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, August 14

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of Robert Altman’s THE PLAYER (1992) at 7pm, featuring a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! Get Texas countrified and swing on by Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Lyle Lovett & His Large Band with special guest Francine Reed! Get sizzlin’ with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South as they hit the books during their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Back to School event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Get a second funky helping of Tower of Power at City Winery! Folk it up with Skout at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a Q&A with Dave Lory, Jeff Buckley’s Manager and author of FROM HALLELUJAH TO THE LAST GOODBYE! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down with Andrew Black at Blind Willies! 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! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, August 15

Get campy and catch a screening of Beeban Kidron’s TO WONG FOO (1995) presented by WUSSY MAG at The Plaza Theater at 8pm (doors at 7pm)! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Wax on and wax off at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John G. Avildsen’s THE KARATE KID (1984) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Isao Takahata’s GRAVEYARD OF THE FIREFLIES (1993) at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); 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 Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Glam it up with Steel Panther at the Buckhead Theatre! Or get your Americana fix with Lori McKenna and Dustin Christensen at City Winery! Rock out at The Earl with DeGreaser, Glove, Twisty Cats and Muted! Get some grit, soul and rock ‘n’ roll with Magnolia Moon, Hush Money and Whiskey Tango at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Electromatics dish out a night of Chicago/West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a screening of Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! 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 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, August 16

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater sells their souls for rock ‘n’ roll with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Brian De Palma’s PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) at 9:30pm! Rock out ‘70s-style with Rare Birds and Blackfox at The Star Bar! Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the ELVIS ’68 COMEBACK SPECIAL at theatres across Atlanta at 7:30pm [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)]! Get folksy with Nate Currin at Eddie’s Attic! The BadAsh Allstar Team dish out their ELO Jam at the Red Light Café! Smith’s Olde Bar gets down with a night of dirty ol’ rock ‘n’ roll with World is Watching, Kyle Troop & The Heretics, Judah Kim & The Assasination and Edelwood! Get some rockin’ soul with Fire & Knife Duo at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Make your way to Venkman’s for The Atlanta Jazz Orchestra! Get groovy with Kendall Street Company and C2 & the Brothers Reed at Vinyl! 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 killer island cocktails! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns get down 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, August 17

Get hellacious and rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Hanging Judge, Redneck Nosferatu and The Jasons! Get your southern retro electro rock fix with Stop Light Observations at Terminal West! Catch a live taping of The Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast at the Variety Playhouse! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck records live at Avondale Towne Cinema! The Marietta Theatre Company presents NUNSENSE through Sept. 1! Strike a pose and vogue it up at Mary’s for Madonna-Rama, celebrating the Grand Dame of Pop’s 60th birthday! Spend the night with Trombone Shorty, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Galactic at Chastain Park! Rhett Miller rocks out at City Winery! Folk it up with Michael McDermott and Halcyon at Eddie’s Attic! Get jazzy with Marquis Hare at the High Museum! The Purple Madness pays tribute to Prince at MadLife Stage & Studios! Experience Black Moth Super Rainbow at the Masquerade! Folk it up with Boo Reefa at Tin Roof Cantina! The Good Times Brass Band gets down at Venkman’s! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out some golden oldies with their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19! Big Shoes pay tribute to Little Feat at The Vista Room! Get rocked with Godsmack and Shinedown at Lakewood Amphitheatre! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern!  Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out their R&B Revue! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets the blues 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, August 18

Rock on down to The Star Bar for the Upbeat! Benefit (founded in memory of Atlanta’s Tony Dinnewith), benefitting local independent musicians, with a hellacious line-up featuring The Scragglers, Bad Spell, Codeine Haze, Screamin’ Demons, Blowdown, Captain & Maybelle, Dusty Booze & The Babyhaters and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! Toto invades Atlanta Symphony Hall! Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics dish out a night of Georgia soul at the Red Hare Brewing Company in Marietta! Allied Ink Tattoo with Kool Kat Chris Hamer of UrbnPop host their first ever Punk Rock Flea Market, from 4pm – 9pm! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for their Led Zeppelin Jam III! Get your magic fix at ATL Craft’s Bewitching Bazaar at 7pm! Or get witchy at Markster Con’s TriWizard Ball at Fado Irish Pub! Spend the night with Kool Kat Fred LeBlanc with Cowboy Mouth at the Buckhead Theatre! Get countrified with Mac McAnally at City Winery! Criminal Records dishes out some gritty psychedelic garage rock with Kool Kats Gringo Star during their album release party! Bluegrass it up with Adam Wakefield & Nick Hagelin at Eddie’s Attic! Departure pays tribute to Journey at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheatre! Indie rock it up with Jonah Matranga at the Masquerade! The Chi-Town Transit Authority pays tribute to Chicago at the Red Clay Theatre! Get down with Escape Vehicle, Sugarfoot and Free Hat at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your ‘60s and ‘70s rock fix with The Rainmen and Penny Western at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a 10am screening of Disney’s THE LION KING (1994) at Venkman’s followed by ATL Collective reliving the hit from The Doobie Brothers! Blues it up with Albert White and Shelton Powe at the Northside Tavern! Get down and dirty with the Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues 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, August 19

Get the blues with Southern Avenue and The Vegabonds at Park Tavern! Get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or get adventurous at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 12pm! Get countrified with Mac McAnally at City Winery! Todd Nance & Friends and Back to Memphis get down at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Harvest Moon! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get down with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out some golden oldies with their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More music and dance revue, boogying down through August 19! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Marietta Theatre Company presents NUNSENSE through Sept. 1!

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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.