ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow! Get revved and rock out in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, January 18

Rock out with the Subsonics and Debbey Richardson (Magic Bone) at 529! Get possessed with a gargantuan love of art at Lefont Theatre’s screening of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s documentary, PEGGY GUGGENHEIMM: ART ADDICT (2015) [see our Retro Review here]! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! 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! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of BBQ with a side of The Pork Bellys!

Tuesday, January 19

Gypsy jazz it up with the Gonzalo Bergara Quartet at Steve’s Live Music! Spend the night with the dinosaurs during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or catch George Ray Hill’s THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT (1964) at the Decatur Library at 10am! The Imposeurs play R.E.M. at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Make your way to Pallookaville for Tuesday Night Trivia at 7pm! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, January 20

Catch a screening of George Ray Hill’s classic, BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) during TCM’s “Big Screen Classics” series in theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Get cinematic French-style at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Claude Chabrol’s LES COUSINS (1959) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get a second chance to catch Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Madonna, the “Material Girl” invades Philips Arena! It’s a night of adventure at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at 7pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Battlefield Collective! Get the Chicago/West coast blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or 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! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 21

It’s a night of mayhem and rockin’ madness at Terminal West with Reverend Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson and Nashville Pussy! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Rock out and pay tribute with Built For Speed (Motorhead) and Pretty Vacant (The Sex Pistols) at The Star Bar! Bluegrass it up with The Bluegrass Playboys and Dusty Roads at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! Yacht Rock Revue dishes out a night of rockin’ retro tunes at Venkman’s! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 22

Get down and dirty with Bad Friend, Bold Ashes and Russian Roulette at The Star Bar! A night of mystery and suspense ensues at SCADShow with their screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE LADY VANISHES (1938) at 7pm! Folk it up during The Kennedys’ 20th Anniversary Triple CD Release Party at the Red Clay Theatre! Sadie Hawkins presents The Men’s Room: A Burly Brolesque & Virile Variety Revue at the Red Light Café! Rock on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Nils Lofgren! Get folksy with Dylan Leblanc and Anthony Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! Get your traditional jazz fix with Madoca during Colbeh Persian Kitchen’s “Live on the Square” event! Steve’s Live Music rocks out with Tribute! Groove on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Swami Gone Bananas! The “Ambassador of the Blues” James Armstrong gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues with The Bobby Thompson Project at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, January 23

It’s a colossal fight of monstrous proportions at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with a screening of Ishiro Honda’s KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962) at 8pm! Andrea Colburn performs “Sad Songs & Switchblades” (CD Release party) with Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents and Cold Heart Canyon at The Basement! The Actors Express murders with their opening night presentation of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at 8pm killing through Feb. 28! Rock out with Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) & the BFGs and Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown at the Variety Playhouse! The Vegabonds and the Dead 27s dish out a night of Zeppelin-esque rock and southern soul at Aisle 5! Get some old-school soul with the Ben Wade Band and The Ormewoods at the Red Light Café! Boogie on down to the Opera Nightclub for Clash of the Decades: Music Video Dance Party with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Glen Iris, The People and Springwild! Shake a tail feather on down to the Little Vinyl Lounge for their “Twistin’ in the Lounge” event and boogie the night away as Dusty Booze dishes out the weirdest and kookiest ‘50s/’60s rock ‘n’ roll! Julie Christensen (Divine Horsemen) folks it up at the Red Clay Theatre! Make you way to Venkman’s for their Brunch with Dusty’s Ragtime & Silent Movies event! Blues it up and get funky with Funky Bluester at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get absurd and rock out with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton at the Northside Tavern! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for their Bob Dylan Tribute Jam! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with The Cazanovas! Blues it up 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 transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, January 24

Go on an adventure to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at 2pm! The Georgia Crackers deliver a night of vintage ‘20s string tunes at Steve’s Live Music! Get some soul and blues it up 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 Actors Express murders with their presentation of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at 8pm, killing through Feb. 28!

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

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!

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.