ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, January 7

Spend the night with Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven at City Winery! Get folksy at the Red Light Café with Fairshake, Bergenline, Rowdy Leaf and Roseville! 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 night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 8

Shimmy it up with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South during Tease Tuesday Burlesque: 5th Anniversary Show at the Red Light Café! Boogie down to City Winery for a night with Le Chic paying tribute to Nile Rodgers! Folk it up at Eddie’s Attic with james of mosaics and Book Club! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s! 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! Spend the night with Ira Malkin & The Vipers at Blind Willies! Get down with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, January 9

Catch a “No Resolutions” double feature of William Friedkin’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) and The Coen Brothers’ NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Or sci-fi thrill it up with a Flashback Cinema screening of James Cameron’s ALIENS (1986) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)]! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) screening of Michael Curtiz’ MILDRED PIERCE (1945) at 7:15pm! Rock out with Richard Lloyd (Television) at City Winery! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! Boogie down with Art Holliday at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willies dishes out a rockin’ night with Cody Matlock! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, January 10

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra celebrates Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday with an ALL BERNSTEIN event featuring an extravaganza of tunes from WEST SIDE STORY and more at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Stomp on down to the Clermont Lounge for the Ghost Riders Car Club’s (Kool Kat Spike Fullerton)! Psyche rock it up with Yawning Man, The Buzzards of Fuzz and Fantomen at 529! Jazz it up with Trina Broussard at City Winery! Get down with The Haraway Brothers (Will and Lee of The Sundogs) and Chris Stalcup at Eddie’s Attic! Get the rockin’ blues with Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues and Roger “Hurricane” Wilson & The Hurricane Homeboys at Madlife Stage & Studios! Rock out with Nobody’s Darlings and Sloane at The Star Bar! Space Jesus invades Terminal West! Groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue (Led Zeppelin vs. The Who)! The Aurora Theatre presents A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2, through Feb. 10! 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, January 11

Cow punk it up with Alejandro Escovedo & Don Antonio at City Winery! Or rock out with Eric Gales at Terminal West! The Earl kicks off their 20th Anniversary rockin’ shindig with CARBONAS, Predator, Ryan Dinosaur and Wash! Doo-wop it up in Bremen for a night with The Drifters at Mill Town Music Hall! Get folksy with Seth Glier at the Red Clay Theatre! Sweet Melissa & The Ramblin’ Men pay tribute to the Allman Brothers at the Red Light Café with Back to Memphis paying tribute to The Band! Space Jesus invades the Variety Playhouse! Groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue (Led Zeppelin vs. The Who)! Groove on down to Aisle 5 for a night with Voodoo Visionary and Travers Brothership! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at the Northside Tavern! Or blues it up with John Nemeth at Blind Willies! The Rockaholics get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 12

Honky-tonk it up with Slim Chance & The Convicts at Kavarna! A night of hilarity ensues as Steve Martin and Martin Short invade the Fox Theatre! Get rocked at The Star Bar with Five Eight, The Ladies of…, and Darling Machine! Jazz it up at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with Toni Byrd and Her Big Band’s Tribute to Natalie Cole! Power funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation and Tastebud at Smith’s Olde Bar! Catch a screening of Joe Johnston’s HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS (1989) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 1pm! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra celebrates Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday with an ALL BERNSTEIN event featuring an extravaganza of tunes from WEST SIDE STORY and more at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get your Americana fix with Alex Guthrie at the Crimson Moon Café! Geek it up with Bit Brigade and Thorax at The Earl! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for The Chip McGuire Band and The Ain’t Sisters! Folk rock it up with Fruition at Terminal West! Rock out with The Muckers at Tin Roof Cantina! Jazz it up with Matt Wauchope and Terrence Prather at Venkman’s! The Northside Tavern gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission and the Rockaholics! Boogie down with The Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Roots rock it up with Delta Moon at Blind Willies! 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, January 13

Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Victor Fleming’s GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)]! Rock out with Ozello, thelightsequence, Mahalo and the Soda Jerks at Smith’s Olde Bar! The National Ballet Theatre of Odessa presents SWAN LAKE at the Fox Theatre! The Real Deal Blues Band gets down at Blind Willies! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! Or blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2, through Feb. 10!

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.