ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Why not elect to shake a tail feather in ATLRetro this week?! Come see what shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, November 7

The Masquerade delivers a night of surf-punk ‘n’ dirty doo wop with The Frights and FIDLAR! Rock out with Dweezil Zappa at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Red Light Café for Vinyl Night! Glam it up at The Plaza Theater for their screening of Stephen Kijak’s documentary, WE ARE X (2016), through Nov. 10! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! 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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 8

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Stripsgiving edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for a screening of Wolfgang Petersen’s AIR FORCE ONE (1997) at 7:30pm! It’s a night of old-time scofflaw folk, so rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Muckers, Tail Light Rebellion and The Soundbites! Rock on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for their Election Night Rage Against the Machine tribute! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of the blues with the Nick Johnson Trio! 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, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 9

Get bloody fangtastic with a 20th Anniversary screening of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Guided by Voices and Surfer Blood! Rock out with The Boxer Rebellion and Hey, Anna at Terminal West!  Psyche pop it up with Shana Falana at 529! Kool Kat Ruby Velle & Scott Clayton dish out a night of soul at Venkman’s! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! Discover the saucy secret at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with their screening of John Avnet’s FRIED GREEN TOMATOES (1991) at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Warren Miller’s BEYOND THE EDGE (1986) at 7pm, screening at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth)! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for an encore screening of Wolfgang Petersen’s AIR FORCE ONE (1997) at 7:30pm! Frankie’s Blues Mission gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, November 10

Get your swamp tech fix with Kool Kat Quintron and Miss Pussycat at The Earl! Rock on down to The Star Bar for Jabroni Fest (Nov. 10-12) featuring the Burners, Spray Tan, New Junk City, Karbomb, Shehehe, Kool Kats The Joy Kills, Destroy Orbison, Ganges Phalanges, Jaws the Musical and so much more! Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge every other Thursday for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! Get your dark folk fix with John the Revelator, Sans Abri and Kate Coleman at the Red Light Café! Bluegrass it up with the Georgia Mountain String Band at Eddie’s Attic! Psyche folk and jangle pop it up with Robyn Hitchcock at City Winery! Check out Pink Talking Fish’s fusion of Pink Floyd, Talking Heads and Phish tunes at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get funky with The Soul Rebels and Chelsea Shag at Vinyl! Get a taste of Bumpin the Mango at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Get down with Kristen & The Honey Badgers at Blind Willie’s! 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, November 11

Get some soul and funk it up with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics, Dyn-O-Mite! and Glen Pridgen at The Earl! Rock out at the Variety Playhouse with The Dillinger Escape Plan, Car Bomb, Cult Leader and O’ Brother! Get funky New Orleans-style with New Orleans Suspects at City Winery! Groove on down to Venkman’s for  a night with Yacht Rock Schooner! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at The Pointe in Conyers! Do the Time-Warp on down to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for a late-night screening of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975)! You’re your way to Javavino as Video Video Nasty presents their Zombie Video event featuring live music by Stun Runner! Get old-timey and stomp on down to Nik’s Place for a night with Kool Kat Caleb Warren and Blood on the Harp! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows bring down the house at Blind Willie’s! Get the blues with Roy Lee Johnson at the Northside Tavern ! Get the Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up under the dinosaurs with The Mar-Tans 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, November 12

Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp featuring The Mystery Men?, The Flying Faders and the Subatomics! The Earl celebrates 2o years of Corndogorama, so rock on down for some killer tunes with Smithsonian, PLS PLS, Subsonics, MammaBear, Sara Rachele, Shadowlands, RRest, Highriders, Blake Rainey & His Demons, Memes, Ben Trickey and more! Get your Roaring Twenties fix with the 3rd Annual Great Gatsby Gala at Spring Hall! Get down with Sheila E at Center Stage! It’s a night of rockin’ psyche blues at the Variety Playhouse with The Chris Robinson Brotherhood! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with the Blues Stotts Festival featuring Brandon Santini, Markey Blue, The Larry Griffith Band, Jontavious Willis and No Solution! Stomp on down to Northside Tavern for the Home Brew Hootenanny featuring Cool John Ferguson, Essie Mae Brooks and more! It’s a night of New Orleans funk and Ragtime stomp at The Vista Room ATL with Hoodoo Moon and The Jugtime Ragband! The Deljou Art Group gets you ready for the holidays art-style with their annual Grand Holiday Public Sale through Nov. 13! Rev it up with Roxie Watson at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to Venkman’s for a night with Gurufish, Banjolicious and Ryan Zimmerman! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Blues it up with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, November 13

Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles and Hillbilly Casino at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your jazzy folk fix with George Winston at the Variety Playhouse! Celebrate 20 years of Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM (1996) at theatres across Atlanta, screening at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Buckhead Backlot 6; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Colonial 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with Delta Rae! Gypsy jazz it up with Annie Sellick at Crimson Moon Café! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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.