ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get spooked in Retro Atlanta this week! The days creep closer and closer to that most haunted pinnacle of fright and terror and we’ve dug up all the spooktacular events just for you! The monsters and spooks have been let loose, so don’t be a fraidy cat; get out and get Retro!

Monday, October 3

Forget the Monday blues and let Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night bring out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! The Plaza Theater horrifies with screenings of Lew Lehman’s THE PIT (1981); Robert Wise’s AUDREY ROSE (1977); David Harman’s PHANTASM (1979); and Stuart Gordon’s FROM BEYOND (1986) through Oct. 6! And don’t forget to catch Ron Howard’s documentary, THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, THE TOURING YEARS (2016)! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Get your psyche/surf/garage rock fix with The Growlers at Terminal West! 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! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, October 4

Gloom boogie it up with Death Valley Girls and more at 529! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get down with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 5

Get experimental with The Legendary Pink Dots at the Drunken Unicorn! Rev it up at B3 Bar & Grill’s Special Edition Rockabilly Wednesday Cruise-In & Bike Night, featuring a helluva rockin’ Johnny Cash tribute band, The Cold Hard Cash Show! Roll, roll, roll in the hay with Gene Wilder at theatres across Atlanta with a special killer screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) at 8pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Catch a screening of Tim Burton’s EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7:30pm! 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! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with Blitzen Trapper! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! Get heavy with Slayer and Anthrax at The Tabernacle! Or catch a screening of Kenji Misumi/Robert Houston’s SHOGUN ASSASSIN during Emory Cinematheque’s Comics & Graphic Novels Series at 7:30pm! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! 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, October 6

Get rocked back to 1973 with Kool Kat Adam McIntyre & The Pinx with the Electric Six at The Earl! The Star Bar will be raisin’ a ruckus with Roadkill Debutante, Black Cat Rising, Scumboy and more! Catch a little Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get folksy with Caroline Aiken and Frank Hamilton at the Red Light Café! Get down to Terminal West for a night with The Dandy Warhols and Savoy Motel! The Variety Playhouse returns with a night foot stompin’ Americana with The Oh Hellos and Penny & Sparrow! Get some soul with Sweet Betty & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s and tiki it up with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! 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! 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! 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, October 7

The horror! The horror! Atlanta kicks off its Halloween celebrations with a bang! Spook up the weekend with a whole lotta horror classics by haunting on down to the third annual Monsterama Convention, “The Golden Voyage of Monsterama – 2016” invading the Marriott Perimeter Center and haunting all your senses through Oct. 9! Experience three horrorific tracks (Main, Literary and Maker) while perusing the monsterific vender tables. Catch some killer guests including James Marshall (TWIN PEAKS – see our Kool Kat interview soon!); Zach Galligan (GREMLINS; WAXWORK); Caroline Munro (AT THE EARTH’S CORE; STARCRASH); Suzanna Leigh (LUST FOR A VAMPIRE); Trina Parks (DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER; THE BLUES BROTHERS); horror history expert and documentarian, Kool Kat Daniel Griffith of Ballyhoo Motion Pictures; Kool Kat Shane Morton, ghost host with the most, a.k.a. Professor Morte; glamour ghoul Kool Kat Madeline Brumby and so much more! Rock out to some Victorian chamber metal with Valentine Wolfe! Get lei’d monster-style at the Cthuluau! And don’t forget to catch a helluva lot of monstrous screenings including a super rare Kolchak Double Feature (THE NIGHT STALKER/THE NIGHT STRANGLER) in 16mm and more! So, come on down for the horror that is the Monsterama and get your classic horror fix! Get terrified at The Plaza Theater with their screenings of George A. Romero’s MONKEY SHINES (1988) and David E. Durston’s I DRINK YOUR BLOOD (1970)! Or make your way to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS (1963) at 8pm! And you won’t want to miss Netherworld Haunted House’s horrorific 20th season, gorrifying through Nov. 1!

Get down with Metroscene, the Midnight Larks and The Preakness at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get the folksy blues with The Wood Brothers and Patrick Sweany at the Buckhead Theatre! Get your rock ‘n’ soul fix with The Rockaholics at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Atlanta Symphony Hall delivers a night with Kansas! Funk it up with the Brass-a-holics at Vinyl! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues with Kool Kat Brooks Mason and The Georgia Flood at the Northside Tavern! Get folksy under the dinosaurs with the Alex Guthrie Band 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, October 8

Day 2 of the Monsterama Convention kills it with some haunting cinematic and television history with Professor Morte’s Silver Scream Spook Show’s screening of Luigi Cozzi’s STARCRASH (1978) with special guest Caroline Munro! Spook it up with Campfire Monster Stories with the Southern Storytellers Guild! Get creaturific and boogie down at the Monster Prom! And get your fangtastic fill of sci-fi and horrorific classics including E. Elias Merhige’s SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (2000); F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922) featuring a life soundtrack performed by Valentine Wolfe; Roger Vadim’s BARBARELLA (1968); Robert Rodriguez’ FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996), an adults-only screening of Denis Sanders’  INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS (1973) and so much more! The Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock invades SCADShow with a screening of his classic, REAR WINDOW (1954) at 7pm!

Shiver ‘n’ shake with Kool Kat Kitty Love’s Cheeky Belles Halloween Burlesque extravaganza at Taverna Plaka Atlanta! Rock out Fallacy Fest 2016-style at The Star Bar with Ravagers, Shocked Minds, DAGGERS, Paralyzer, Tournament and more! Or get mischievous with Ledfoot Messiah and The Issues at The Highlander! Surf on down to Kavarna as Kool Kat Chad Shivers and Southern Surf Stomp! presents Zarinah & The Zaratans, The Wheel Knockers and Forbidden Waves! Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s final Animated Classics series screening with Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA (1988) at 11am! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at the Northside Tavern! Celebrate Venkman’s 1-year Anniversary with Yacht Rock Revue unplugged! Geek on down to Battle & Brew for their Halloween Cosplay Night at 8pm! Get funky with Video Video Nasty’s inaugural show celebrating the weird and wild with Rainbows & Vomit: The Films of Max Margulies & Naoko Masuda at Java Vino! Rave to the Grave at Club Famous, with a night of old school underground techno! The Fab Four rocks a tribute to The Beatles at Center Stage! Get the rockin’ blues with Michelle Malone at Eddie’s Attic! Sana Blues gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Bluegrass it up with Jason Kenney and BJ Wilbanks at the Red Light Café! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the Glen Pridgen Band and Seth Winters! 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, October 9

Get sinister at the Masquerade with Wednesday 13, One-Eyed Doll, Gabriel and the Apocalypse, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and Crypt 24! Or rock out at the Buckhead Theatre with Bad Religion, Against Me! and Dave Hause! Swing on by the Red Light Café and rev it up with the Rhythm Dragons and Rockabilly Kitty Rose! It’s your last chance to catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s final Animated Classics series screening with Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA (1988) at 11am! It’s day 3 and your last chance to get your classic horror fix at the Monsterama Convention! Or spook on down to the Fox Theatre as they get haunted during their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, chilling your bones through Oct. 30! Honkytonk it up with The Honeycutters at the Crimson Moon Café! Folk it up with Darlingside at Eddie’s Attic! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And get the rockin’ blues with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

Heads are rolling at Synchronicity Theatre’s presentation of Howard Brenton’s ANNE BOLEYN, running through Oct. 16!

Netherworld Haunted House haunts through Nov. 1!

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

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!  
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.