ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get spooked in Retro Atlanta this week! The days are creeping closer and closer to that most haunted pinnacle of fright and terror and we’ve dug up all the spooktacular events in Retro Atlanta this week! Atlanta gets Retro this week with monsters and spooks and gore, oh my! And don’t forget, Retro Atlanta always offers a retro-rockin’ good time! Don’t be a scaredy cat! Come on out and play! We can’t promise you’ll make it home alive, but we can promise you a horrifying good time!

Monday, October 12

Get terror-filled and catch Roger Corman’s MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) at The Plaza Theater, running through Oct. 15! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Jeff the Brotherhood and Stonerider! Or rock out and funk it up with Flow Tribe and Saturn Valley at Smith’s Olde Bar! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! The Little Vinyl Lounge is rockin’ with a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by the “Queen of Slide Guitar” Skye Paige! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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!’ Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, “Superstitions & Pagan Traditions” edition, 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 13

It’s a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Boolesque Spooktacular! event featuring performances by Ada Manzhart, Bunny Wigglebottom, Anna Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Or come to pieces at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Catch John Brahm’s THE LODGER (1944) at the Chamblee Library at 1pm! Or follow the yellow brick road to the Charles D. Switzer Library for their screening of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 12pm! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & the Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up 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 14

The Earl rocks out with Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Telekom and Twisty Cats! Get your ‘70s punk rock fix with the Barreracudas, Shocked Minds, Deaf Wish and GHB at 529! Get spooked and be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, through Nov. 1! Or catch “The Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” opening at the Center for Puppetry Arts, featuring a costume contest, games, creepy tales, devilish dances and more, creeping through Oct. 31! Evil ensues at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Tobe Hooper’s ‘80s horror classic, POLTERGEIST (1982) at 7:30pm! Or come come on down for your last chance to come to pieces at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get some soul with Liz Vice at Eddie’s Attic! Folk it up with Ben Sollee and Mother Falcon at Terminal West! Here’s looking at you kid! Make your way to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic CASABLANCA (1942) at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! 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! 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 15

Get your old-school post-punk goth rock fix in Hell with The March Violets at the Masquerade! Joe Jackson dishes out a night of old-school punk and new wave at Center Stage! Catch the opening reception for “The Atlanta Matriarchs of the Civil Rights Movement”, from 5-8pm at Mammal Gallery! Get old-timey with the Bumper Jacksons and Patrick Kinsley & a Fistful of Dollars at the Red Light Café! Folk it up with Patty Griffin at the Variety Playhouse! Get some soul with Aaron Neville at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Rock out with the Old 97’s and Banditos at Terminal West! Cooper Tisdale gets funky at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! 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 16

Get your down and dirty rockin’ scumbag revival fix with Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, The Hooten Hallers, The Atom Age and Phantom Killers at The Star Bar! It’s prohibition pandemonium at Matilda’s Under the Pines with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Sadie Hawkins’ Last Pasties Standing: One Hit Wonders event! Atlantic Station screens Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) during their “Spooky Film Fest” at dusk! Take a bite out of RITUAL’s 7th Annual Vampire Ball at Famous Pub! Make your way to the Arbor Place Mall Books-A-Million (Douglasville) for two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Joe McKinney’s signing of the latest in his Dead Land series, THE DEAD WON’T DIE, from 6-7pm! Prom it up at The Plaza Theater for their screening of Brian De Palma’s horror classic, CARRIE (1976) at 7pm! Get your jazzy folk fix with Rasheeda Ali & Mr. Blue Sky at the High Museum! Bluegrass it up with the Packway Handle Band at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Beatle Mania at Atlanta Symphony Hall with the Classical Mystery Tour! 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! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! The Rainmen dish out a night of ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll at Steve’s Live Music! Get the outlaw blues with Blue Roads at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Blues Hall of Famer, Lazy Lester & the Shadows! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! 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 17

Today is the day all you ghosts and goblins have been waiting for! Little 5 Points business district hosts its annual L5P Halloween Festival & Parade! So, come on out dressed to the bloody nines in your spookiest Halloween costume and get horrorifically haunted! Get fed! Get rocked! And get your flesh to the biggest Halloween parade in the south! The event wakes from the dead at noon and haunts until 11 pm, with an artists’ market, food venders, as well as two stages for live entertainment, The Finley Plaza Stage and the Main Stage. The spooktacular parade of horror runs from 4 to 6 pm on Euclid and Moreland and promises to spook even the bravest of the brave, so pick a spot and hold on tight! Get your faces rocked off with Kool Kats galore and more at the Finley Plaza Stage, with chilling retro-esque performances by the Starbenders, The Mystery Men?, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Rumours, Dry Gulch, Metal McDonald and The Dirty Doors! Or rock on down to the Main Stage for Kool Kats The Blackfoot Gypsies, Midnight Larks, The Coathangers and The Biters! Get ghastly, grotesque and rock out at the wildest Halloween party in town! Or cruise on over to the B3 Bar & Grill for their Mama Casino’s Midnight Mass Drive-In Creature Feature at 9pm! Or maybe get monstrous at Hellbender’s Harley Davidson in Marietta during their Monster Mash Anniversary Bash featuring live music, freakshows, a performance by Ghouella Deville, monster pin-ups and more!

Honkytonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Bottle Rockets and Mark Olson (The Jayhawks) in the Music Room! Or rock on over to the Atlanta Room for a night with the Stacktone Slims, Mike Borgia & the Problems and Aneurysm! Catch another book signing by Joe McKinney at the Canton Marketplace Books-A-Million from 4:30-6pm! Get a helping of the Classical Mystery Tour at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Buried Alive Film Festival and Contraband Cinema presents a screening of Shinya Tsukamoto’s TETSUO: THE IRONMAN (1992) at Eyedrum! Boogie on down and get zombified at the Variety Playhouse as Yacht Rock Revue presents a tribute to Michael Jackson’s THRILLER! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for their Rum Tasting Seminar event! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern! Zoo Atlanta begins their “Boo at the Zoo” event! Folk it up with Collins Drive at Kavarna! Get the blues with Steve “The Blues Dude” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Evil ensues once again at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Tobe Hooper’s ‘80s horror classic, POLTERGEIST (1982) at 7:30pm! Catch Don Henley at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Grant Green, Jr. gets the blues at Northside Tavern! 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 your ‘80s fix with The 80ators 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 jump, West Coast and Chicago blues with Toots & the Traffics! 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 18

The Red Light Café gets wildly frisky and risqué as they host the madness that is Freaksheaux to Geaux, the live musical and Vaudevillian extravaganza of debauchery that hails from the Big Easy and will be dispersing their twisted brand of flair! Their show will feature the Tinderbox Circus Sideshow, Atlanta’s very own Sadie Hawkins, and a rockin’ cornucopia of music and circus sideshows with a southern gothic twist! It’ll be a shocking night of shenanigans you won’t want to miss! Spend the night with Audrey Hepburn at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) during their 50th Anniversary screening of George Cukor’s MY FAIR LADY (1964) at 2pm/7pm! Polka on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night with The Georgia Polka Connection! Get the blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

“The Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” spooks at the Center for Puppetry Arts, through Oct. 31!

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!

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting 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.