ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey kiddies! Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow! Shake a tail feather and come see what we’ve dug up for you this week! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, October 5

Kick off the spook season at the Highland Inn Ballroom with The Rookery Radio Hour LIVE “Night of the Werewolves” – a Halloween spooktacular! Rock out at The Earl with The Shrine and Gunpowder Gray! Get your Kubrick fix at The Plaza Theater with their screenings of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980), running through Oct. 8!Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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, October 6

Get your sleazy vintage surf noir rock and roll fix at The Earl with Shannon & the Clams, Cool Ghouls, Midnight Larks and Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters! Get monstrous at Chamblee Library’s screening of James Whale’s classic FRANKENSTEIN (1931) at 1pm! Shake a tail feather on down to the Fox Theatre for Broadway’s JERSEY BOY, a musical tale about Franki Valli and The Four Seasons, running through Oct. 11 (see our Kool Kat interview soon)! Get your ‘70s psych fix in the Basement with Kool Kats Spirits and the Melchizedek Children, Seluah, Chew and A Drug Called Tradition! Bluegrass it up with Cedar Hill and Classic Mountain Fiddles at Steve’s Live Music! Take a crack at Richard Park’s MIAMI CONNECTION (1987) during Riff Trax Live 2015, screening in theatres across Atlanta [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! The Imposeurs play Elvis Costello at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Or get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 7

It’s Beatles mania at Eddie’s Attic as AM1690 presents: Beatles in the Attic featuring The Buggs! Rock out with Electric Six (formerly The Wild Bunch) and Yip Deceiver at The Earl! It’s a night of horror-themed geek trivia at Battle & Brew! Emory Cinematheque presents Kakaku Kidotai’s GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) at 7:30pm! Or catch John McTiernan’s THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7:30pm! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo gets jazzy and dishes out a night of blues and southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Get your rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ 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, October 8

Get your old-school punk fix with The Vibrators, Burns Like Fire, The Riggs and Kool Kat Rev. Andy at the Masquerade! Get down and dirty with a night of old-time ragtime blues and Dixieland with Kool Kat Caleb Warren & the Gents and Waits & Co. at the Clermont Lounge ! Rock out at The Star Bar with Go!Zilla, Shantih Shantih and Metal McDonald! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! Get funky with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and The Space Time Travelers at Aisle 5! Get your New Orleans’ funk fix with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get down with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with the Dave Hardin Band! Bluegrass it up with the DejaBlue Grass Band at Eddie’s Attic! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 9

Atlantic Station kicks off their “Spooky Film Fest” with Tim Burton’s EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) at dusk! Or catch Roger Corman’s MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) at The Plaza Theater, running through Oct. 15! Catch Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s premiere screening of Stanley Nelson, Jr.’s THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION (2015)! It’s tribute night at The Star Bar, so rock on down for a night with Rumours (Fleetwood Mac); The Dirty Doors (The Doors); and Refugee (Tom Petty)! Celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! The Variety Playhouse gets funky with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and Dumpstaphunk! The Northside Tavern celebrates John Lennon’s birthday with Tullamore Road! Get your Americana fix with The Roosevelts at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with Alex & Todd and Escape Vehicle at Steve’s Live Music! Atlanta Boogie dishes out a night of Kansas City and West Coast jump blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Rock out under the dinosaurs with Highbeams at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens 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, October 10

Rock out surf-style at Kavarna with Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp, featuring Fiend Without a Face, The KBK and Bad Friend! Nikki Hill dishes out a night of rock ‘n’ soul with Black Linen at The Earl! Party on down to the Ponce City Market for their “Party on Ponce” event, featuring The Indigo Girls, Shawn Mullins and more! Get dark and gloom on down to Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Coffin Classics: Goth, Dark ‘80s and Industrial music video party! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Mule Camp Tavern! It’s a night of murder, mystery and comedy at Georgia Ensemble Theatre with “One Mysterious Evening”! Pay tribute to The Allman Brothers at Northside Tavern! Get your folk rock fix at Eddie’s Attic with The Ballroom Thieves and Hannah Aldridge! Rock out with Warren Haynes at the Tabernacle! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with The Cazanovas! Get another chance to celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! Get the blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Mark Michelson pays tribute to Pink Floyd at Steve’s Live Music! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Dry White Toast! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, October 11

The Atlanta Film Fest presents a screening of Wim Wenders’ BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1999), at the Rialto Center for the Arts at 5:30pm! Rock out folk-style with Matt Nathanson at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with Tommie Macon & the Perfect Gentlemen at Steve’s Live Music! And get the blues with Fatback Deluxe at Blind Willie’s! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Opera presents Giocomo’s “La boheme” at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, running through Oct. 11! (LAST CHANCE!)

Chambers of Horror Haunted House terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering through Nov. 1!

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 1!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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!

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.