ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week! Rev it up, rock it out and get hep to the jive with a rockin’ menu of Atlanta’s pre-21st century shenanigans dug up just for you!

Monday, July 4

Celebrate the 4th and jazz it up with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra at Pallookaville! Or rock out with The String Cheese Incident at Chastain Park! 97 Estoria dishes out a punk rock July 4th Party with Bad Spell and Zoners! 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! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, July 5

The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get down with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Catch a screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at City Winery at 7pm! Or get terrified at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with the BadAsh Allstar Team as they host The Grateful Dead Jam at Smith’s Olde Bar! 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, July 6

Get folksy and rock out with The Long Shadows, Pony League and Lane Steffler at The Earl! Celebrate 20 years of Mike Nichols’ THE BIRDCAGE (1996) at The Plaza Theater at 7:30pm! Jazz it up Americana-style with Max Hatt/Edda Glass at the Red Light Café, followed by The Gordon Vernick Quartet! 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! Blues it up with Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Larry Mitchell gets down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s your last chance to get terrified at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975), 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 The Ain’t Sisters! 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, July 7

Spend the night with Johnny at the Fox Theatre with their Coca Cola Film Festival screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at 7:30pm! The Clermont Lounge gets down and dirty with Cadillac Junkies, V8 Death Car, Pearl Button Radio and Captain & Maybelle’s circus shenanigans! Get old-timey at The Earl with Ben Trickey’s LP release party, along with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, Brandon Schmidt, and An English Place! Rock out with Flag, War on Women and The Dirty Nil at the Masquerade! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt  goes acoustic at Wild Wing Café! Catch a screening of Penny Marshall’s A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992) at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series at 8pm. Get some sugar with Sweet Betty & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get Rhythm & Soul in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! 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, July 8

Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of gypsy jazz with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for Gents in the Round with Reverend Hylton, Miguel Olascuagra, Kool Kat Caleb Warren and Jason Waller! Or go old-school folk-style at The Star Bar with Sailing to Denver, The Vivants and City Mouse! Make your way to Diesel Filling Station for Kool Kat Chris Hamer’s (UrbnPop) solo art show, “Exit Stage Left”! Get in the ring in Hell with our blog BFF, Wrestling with Pop Culture’s “Culture Shock II” featuring Monstrosity Championship Wrestling and more at the Masquerade! Or catch Whitford/St. Holmes in Heaven! Surf on over to The Earl for a night with Daikaiju, CHEW, and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists! Club Famous is throwing a hellacious night of hula during RITUAL’s Gothic Luau with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at 10pm! Saved by the Band gets down at Venkman’s!  It’s a night of ‘70s rock at Avondale Towne Cinema with Dirty Harriet and Red Head Diamond!  Boogie on down to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More! event, running through July 10! Jazz it up with Joey Sommerville at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center’s “Jazz on the Lawn” event! Make your way to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Barry Richman Band! Houserocker Johnson gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Lethal Rhythm! 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, July 9

Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp, featuring Crazy Aces, The One & Only Bill Davis and The Flamethrowers! Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with Kool Kat Dave Weil and The Blacktop Rockets, the Lizardmen and the Beech Benders! Get your boogie on with the ghosties at the Masquerade during the Ghostbustin’ Dance Party, with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Rock out with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Stix Bar & Grill! Mark Michelson & Friends deliver a night of classic rock and metal jam at the Red Light Café! Roxie Watson gets down and dirty at Eddie’s Attic, followed by the legendary Kool Kat, Col. Bruce Hampton! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Grazing Here (Peachtree City)! Folk it up with Cereus Bright and William Wild at Grocery on Home! Rock out with Wolfspider and Burns Like Fire at The Highlander! The Mulligan Brothers folk it up at the Red Clay Theatre! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Isao Takahata’s POM POKO (2012) in 35mm at 10am, and Hayao Miyazaki’s THE WIND RISES (2013) at 1pm! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Dusty Roads! Get the blues with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Big Bill Morganfield 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, July 10

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Isao Takahata’s POM POKO (2012) in 35mm at 10am, and Hayao Miyazaki’s THE WIND RISES (2013) at 1pm! Flamenco on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Cristian Puig, Julie Moon and more! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Shawn Mullins! Get some rockin’ soul with Patrick Sweany at Park Tavern! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

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

Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonks you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ!

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.