ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get exploited and come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week! We’ve got the Atlanta Film Festival, classic cinema, saucy shenanigans, rock ‘n’ roll, the blues and more!

Monday, March 28

Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah dishes out a night of rockin’ garage blues with the release of a new 7” at 529, with Deadly lo-fi! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of David Butler’s ROAD TO MOROCCO (1942) at 10:30am! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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!” Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Polka it up with Blast-Off Burlesque as they celebrate Dyngus Day with classic live Polka at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, March 29

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets bizarre and kicks off their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DR. (2001) at 7pm! Rock out with a night of prog rock in the French persuasion at Aisle 5 with Magma, Muuy Bien and deadCAT! Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL every last Tuesday of the month! Spend the night with the Goblin King at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Or celebrate 75 years of the Tuskegee Airmen with a special 7pm screening of Denton Adkinson’s IN THEIR OWN WORDS: THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN (2012) at theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and AMC Southlake 24 (Morrow)]! Broadway it up at the Fox Theatre’s presentation of “Kinky Boots” featuring tunes by Cyndi Lauper, running through April 3! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! 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, March 30

The Clermont Lounge kinks it up with a night of horror punk with The Living Deads and Cadillac Junkies! Get cinematic and time travel with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Alain Resnais’ JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (1968) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Heather Nova! Get the blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Spend one last night with the Goblin King at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Honeywood! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with 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! 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, March 31

It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva night of surf rock and rockabilly with The Mystery Men? and Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers! Folk it up with Angie Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! Or make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Alex Guthrie & The Pussywillows! Catch MORE LIGHT: Media Art from Atlanta at Eyedrum! 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! 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, April 1

Tonight kicks off the 40th Annual Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF), running through April 10, delivering a smorgasbord of independent films and classics throughout the city! Alright, alright, alright! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for the ATLFF’s screening of Richard Linklater’s DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) at 9:30pm (free with RSVP)! Folk it up with The War & Treaty, Band of Lovers and Fairshake at the Red Light Café! The Earl rocks out retro-style with Rockin’ Bones, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause and James Hall! Spend April Fools Day at The Star Bar and rock out with The Wild Injuns, Fiend Without a Face, Whiskey Dick and Night Terrors! Swami Gone Bananas gets groovy at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get your ‘70s folk rock fix with America at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Rainmen dish out a night of ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll at Steve’s Live Music! Get artsy pop culture-style at DooGallery at their “Beats ‘n’ Brushes” event featuring Arthur M. Ball of Above Average Art! Get funky NOLA-style with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at the Northside Tavern! Honkytonk on down to Blind Willie’s for the Golden State Lonestar Revue! Blues it up with JP Blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event gettin’ down under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms! 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, April 2

It’ll be double the exploitation, double the bloody ruckus at the red carpet world premiere of Kool Kat James Bickert’s FRANKENSTEIN CREATED BIKERS at The Plaza Theater! Honkytonk it up at The Star Bar during their Tribute to Merle Haggard featuring Slim Chance & The Convicts, The Downer Brothers, Dry Gulch, Wade Sapp, Georgia Slim & The Crankbaits, Al Shelton and more! Catch ATLFF’s screening of Victor Nunez’ RUBY IN PARADISE (1993) at the High Museum at 7pm! Make your way to Piedmont Park for the 3rd Annual Atlanta Persian Festival, featuring Persian art, food, dance and more! The Atlanta Beltline Boil dishes out life performances by the Darnell Boys, All the Locals, Radiolucent, the Wasted Potential Brass Band and more! The Artifice Club presents the KURIOS Pub Crawl beginning at Twain’s, featuring a special performance by The Ghosts Project! Shimmy down with Kool Kat Kitty Love and Cheeky Belle’s 3rd Annual Flashback event featuring acts celebrating every decade going back to the ‘30s at Taverna Plaka! Celebrate ten years of the Elliott Street Pub with their Decade Party! Geek it up at Hair of the Dragon V, Atlanta’s premier costume photo party at Studio Space Atlanta! Eighties it up at the Basement during their Heyday – ‘80s Dance Party! Get some soul with Francine Reed at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! Get your stringband/rockabilly fix with Roxie Watson at Eddie’s Attic! Nameless Nameless pays tribute to Nirvana at Venkman’s! Funk it up at Terminal West with Earphunk and the Georgia Soul Council! Head over to Center Stage for a night with Belinda Carlisle! Stomp on over to the Brookhaven Cherry Blossom Festival and catch The Whiskey Gentry and The Southern Gothic! Bluegrass it up with the Sweetwater Creek Bluegrass Band and Honey Be Nice at the Red Light Café! Rock out Radar at Steve’s Live Music! 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, April 3

Catch the 40th Annual ATLFF’s 25th Anniversary screening of Jon Avnet’s FRIED GREEN TOMATOES (1991) and after party at The Plaza Theater at 12pm! Rock on down to Steinbeck’s in Decatur for their Smoke & Glory Cook-Off featuring live performances by Kool Kat Spike Fullerton’s Russian Roulette Band, The Lizardmen and Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers! Get folksy at the Red Light Café with Bay Station, The Stoplight Roses and Stephen Chopek! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

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

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

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.