ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro goes back to school with some killer old-school shenanigans! Come shake it up and see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, August 20

Drink & Draw goes batty with Kool Kat Madeline Brumby as Batgirl, hosted by Jon Waterhouse, at My Parents’ Basement! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday! Or get adventurous at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 7:30pm! 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)]! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Black Cat Adventure Squad, Craigzlist Punks and Play Center! Make your way to The Vista Room for a night with the Emerald Empire Band! Get the blues with Bob Page at Blind Willies! 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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, August 21

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a Muppet-y screening of James Frawley’s THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) at 7pm, featuring a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! Get hep to the jive with Ganstagrass at City Winery! Folk it up with The Retrovales at Java Monkey! Get some soul and rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Sagas, Phantom Phunk and Indigo Innuendo! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down with Ira Malkin & The Vipers 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 22

Jeff Beck and Paul Rodgers rock out at Chastain Park! 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! Folk it up with The Great Peacock and Kalen Nash at The Earl! Raise a ruckus with Johnny Roquemore, Mike Aiken, Candy Fernaux and Brian Perry at the Red Clay Theatre! Funk rock it up with Cure My Enemy, The Dround Hounds and Nobody’s Darlings at The Star Bar! Rock on down to The Highlander for their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Geek it up at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Dungeons & Dragons 101: Learn to Play event! Get to the root of it all with Joe McGuinness 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: RETURN OF THE KING (2003) 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 23

Rock out with Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods) at City Winery! Get to Beer & Lounging at the Clermont Lounge with the Jacks River Band, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley and Sasha Valley of the Outlaw Women Band! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Boogie on down to the Fox Theatre’s Coca Cola Film Festival screening/sing-a-long of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978) celebrating 40 years at 7:30pm! Shenanigans ensue at theatres across Atlanta as RiffTrax takes on Peter Yates’ intergalactic space tale, KRULL (1983) at 8pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get folksy with Besides Daniel, Jonathan Peyton, The Brook & The Bluff and Michael Coast at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Early Favorites, Brewery Road and Peter Searcy & the Goodnight Noises! Get rocked with The Sleepers, Small Reactions and Twin Studies at The Star Bar! Adron dishes out a night of ‘60s neotropical soul with Pip the Pansy at Terminal West! Spend the night with Questionable at Best at Venkman’s! Funk it up with The Dip 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’ tunes with The Knotty Boys and killer island cocktails! The Juke Joint Dukes get old-school 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 24

The Highlander gets hell-bent with ELZIG, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and Rotten Stitches during the Road to Marred Up Fest! Get heavy Swedish-style with Yngwie Malmsteen in Heaven, or rock out in Hellwith Black Stone Cherry at the Masquerade! It’s a night of rockin’ tributes at The Star Bar with The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett & The Runaways) and Evil Women Rock (all female tribute to Black Sabbath)! As if! Amy Heckerling’s ‘90s classic, CLUELESS (1995) screens at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Get the hill country blues with Cedric Burnside and Ben Nichols at City Winery! Or Americana it up with Sarah Peacock at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down with Kool Keith at the Drunken Unicorn! Bluegrass it up with The Travelin’ McCourys at Eddie’s Attic! Get the rockin’ blues with The Groove Rockets at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! ATL Collective relives Alanis Morrisette’s JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Terminal West! Honky tonk it up with Whitey Morgan at the Variety Playhouse! Get rocked with Marty Manous at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Plaza Theater screens Lee Aronsohn’s 40 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MAGIC MUSIC MOVIE (2017), documenting the ‘70s Colorado jam band, Magic Music, through Aug. 30! It’s a blues showdown at the Northside Tavern with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Get the blues with Sandra Hall & The Shadows 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 25

Get retro rocked at The Star Bar as Little Steven’s Underground Garage presents a night with The Woggles, Barrence Whitfield & the Savages and Bad Spell! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers a special matinee screening of James Frawley’s THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) for the kiddies at 10:30am! Get retro rocked at Chastain Park with Denny Laine (The Moody Blues), Jeff Carlisi, Peter Beckett, Elliott Lurie, Albert Bouchard and Yacht Rock Revue! The Aviation Wing of Marietta present their Wings and Whitewalls day event featuring a retro car show, food trucks, a pin-up contest and live tunes by Kitty Rose & The Rattlers, Atomic Boogie and The Sideburners! The Highlander rocks out with the Marred Up Fest featuring Buck Swifty, Die 985, DDC, The Sideburners (Twice in one day!), Degradation and Dale Jepsen and the Nighthawks! Permanent Waves pays tribute to Rush at Avondale Towne Cinema! Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and more dish out their PJ in PJs: The Music of Polly Jean Harvey Pajama Party at The Earl! Haunt on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICS: Goth Industrial Darkwave Music Video Night featuring Goth, dark 80s and more! Sax it up with Dwan Bosman and special guest Morgan Bosman at the Red Light Café!  Opera on Tap Atlanta presents Mozart & Mimosas at Noni’s Bar & Deli! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for the Marietta International Film Festival screening films through Aug. 26! Shenanigans ensue at theatres across Atlanta as RiffTrax takes on Peter Yates’ intergalactic space tale, KRULL (1983) at 12:55pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Haunt it up with your heart at the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Love Stories: Summer Date Night event! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with The Texas KGB! Funk it up with AJ Ghent and Delta Moon at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘80s MTV-era synthpop fix with Electric Avenue at MadLife Stage & Studios! Forever Abbey Road pays tribute to the Beatles at the Red Clay Theatre! Rock out at the Variety Playhouse for a night with Dead Affect and Interstellar Echoes! Get the blues with Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! It’s a blues showdown at the Northside Tavern with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and Bill Sheffield! Get down and dirty with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 26

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 60th Anniversary screening of Joshua Logan’s SOUTH PACIFIC (1958) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [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); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Retro it up at Chastain Park with Rick Springfield, Loverboy, Greg Kihn and Tommy Tutone! Get some soul with Candi Staton at City Winery! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Presents Shalom Bollywood, celebrating the Jewish stars that that dominated early Indian cinema! Or get adventurous at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with a screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 12pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get down with Little G. Weevil at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

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 first 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.