ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Check out what we’ve dug up for you in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, April 25

Celebrate the man in purple with a screening of Prince’s PURPLE RAIN (1984), directed by Albert Magnoli at  theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18], screening through April 27! Get your New Wave fix at The Plaza Theater with their second week of screening Jonathan Demme’s STOP MAKING SENSE (1984) at 9:30pm, screening through April 28! Stomp down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers) & The Freight Train Band, The Ries Brothers and The Bitteroots! Blues it up with the Larry Griffith Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Andrew Black gets 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!” Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, April 26

It’s a night of hellacious rock ‘n’ roll at 529 with Argyle Goolsby & The Roving Midnight and our Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets intergalactic and continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Danny Boyle’s TRAINSPOTTING (1996) at 7pm! Or get some adventure at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Catch a screening of Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:30pm! And make your way to Union EAV for their Prince Tribute Party! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night with The Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair! Rock on down to Terminal West to catch The Joy Formidable and The Helio Sequence! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of rockin’ soul with The Hollidays! 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, April 27

The Tabernacle delivers a night of ‘80s glam metal with Steel Panther! Or pop ‘n’ rock on down to The Earl for a night with Delicate Steve, Dot.s, and Shepherds! TCM presents Elia Kazan’s ON THE WATERFRONT (1954), screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]! It’s your last chance to get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! SCENE MISSING Presents Monsters, ATL at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge, dishing out a night of comedy and music based on the films of Pixar! Get some rockin’ soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo delivers a night of blues, jazz ‘n’ southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Joe McGuinness! 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, April 28

Honkytonk ‘n’ rock on down to The Earl for a night with Banditos, Pony League and The Muckers! Prince invades Atlanta theatres tonight with Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) [The Plaza Theater – 9pm/Midnight; Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) – 7:30pm] so come on out and celebrate the life of a legend! Or make your way to SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and Film for their fashion film series featuring Deborah Riley Draper’s VERSAILLES ’73 at 6pm! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Rev on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Hayseed Dixie, Ex-Wives and Rodeo Twister! Venkman’s is abuzz with classics with Lightnin’ Ray, a funky time with The Mar-Tans and later a little classic burly-Q with Gleam (every fourth Thursday of the month), featuring Ada Manzhart, Nikki Nuke’m and Kool Kat Roula Roulette! It’s a night of classic rock and pop at Avondale Towne Cinema with Misery Loves Chachi, Digisaurus and Nobody’s Darlings! Get your Americana fix with Heather Luttrell at Blind Willie’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! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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, April 29

Catch a wave to The Star Bar for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! featuring Midnight Larks, The Flying Faders, El Capitan & The Band With No Name, and Antarcticats! Or experience Atlanta Mess Around 2016 at The Earl, rocking through May 1, featuring The Real Kids, Barreracudas, The Tough Shits, Death Index, MAMA, Thee Tsunamis, Wreckless Eric, Dinos Boys, Omni, Death Stuff and more! Yacht Rock Revue performs Prince’s “PURPLE RAIN” in Piedmont Park (Legacy Fountain)! Bob Yari’s PAPA: HEMINGWAY IN CUBA (2016) opens at the UA Tara Theatre (see our Retro Review soon)! Get your west coast swing fix with Toots Lorraine & The Traffic at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get funky with Good Times Brassband at Venkman’s! Honkytonk on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Benny Gray & The Trailer Park Cowboys and Winston Ramble! Get some soul with Chelsea Shag at Paris on Ponce! The Red Light Café delivers a night of old time bluegrass with Richard Smith with The Vaudevillians! Or get to the root of it all with Jeff Mosier and friends at Steve’s Live Music! George Hughley & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms 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, April 30

Come on down to the 45th Annual Inman Park Festival featuring a tour of homes, a street parade (2pm), tasty food and a rockin’ retro musical line up, running through May 1, featuring Soldado, The Orange Constant, 10 Degrees Off, Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics, the Ruby Red Band, Back in the Saddle, Adron and more! Rock on down for Day 2 of Atlanta Mess Around 2016 at The Earl featuring Buck Biloxi & The Fucks, The Golden Pelicans, Enoch Ramone & The Ebola Boys, The Gizmos, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Predator, Nervosas, Negative Scanner and more! Hula on down to Trader Vics for the music of Tiki seminar, “Exotica”! Get old-timey at the Fox Theatre with Old Crow Medicine Show and Brandi Carlile! Folk it up with Trout Steak Revival and City Mouse at the Red Light Café! Or get folksy with Caroline Aiken at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Tribute! The Stoneberrys dish out a night of The Rolling Stones at Steve’s Live Music! Blues it up with the Kerry Hill Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Tito & The Chicken Raiders dish out a night of country blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! 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, May 1

Rock on down to the Variety Playhouse for The Residents! Or Salsa on down to Candler Park for the Atlanta Taco Festival featuring local bands, games, Salsa dancing, luche libra wrestling and featuring live music by the Bird City Revolutionaries! Rock on down for Day 2 of the 45th Annual Inman Park Festival, featuring Donna Hopkins, The Breeze Kings, Swimming Pool Qs, Delta Moon, Geoff Achison, Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton, The Dirty Doors, Randall Bramblett and more! 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.