ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Shake a tail feather this last week of 2017 and get warm and toasty in ATLRetro!

Monday, December 25

We hope you had a rockin’ retro Christmas this year!

Tuesday, December 26

Every Tuesday is Fat Tuesday at Louisiana Bistreaux, come on out and jazz it up with the Will Scruggs Trio! Get the blues with Andrew Black at The Wing Café & Tap House in Marietta! Jazz it up with Marcus Johnson at City Winery! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with David Ryan Harris! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with Gray & the Bad Boys! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 27

Rock on down to 529 for a night with An English Place, W8ing4UFOs and a screening of SAME OLD BUNK, the legendary Cabbagetown ‘90s movie! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Folk it up with The Indigo Girls at City Winery! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo dishes out a night of soul at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a screening of Vincente Minnelli’s classic, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Get down with Art Holliday at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! 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, December 28

Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema as Absynthe Makes the Art Garfunkel relives Paul Simon’s GRACELAND and NEGOTIATIONS & LOVE SONGS! Get funky roots-style with King Johnson at City Winery! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night island tunes and some killer cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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! Blues it up with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 29

Videodrome (JavaDrome) gets some gritty gang action at JavaVino with a screening of Jim Van Bebber’s DEADBEAT AT DAWN (1988) at 8:00pm! Rock on down to 529 for a night with Pylon Reenactment Society, Dot.s, Haunted Shed and more! Anthony David dishes out a night of soul ‘n’ mojo at City Winery! Spend the night with Glenn Phillips at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Brother Hawk, Big Jesus and Old Heavy Hands! Blues it up with Eli Cook at Eddie’s Attic! Jam on down to the Fox Theatre for a night with Widespread Panic! Or Def Jam it up with The Roots at The Roxy! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out a night of tributes with Behind the Sun (Red Hot Chili Peppers), El Scorcho (Weezer), Suck on Primus (Primus) and Gold Soundz (Pavement)! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse as Badfish pays tribute to Sublime! Or head on down to The Vista Room as New Sensation celebrates the music of INXS! Blues rock it up with Dani Mac & Company at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Cross the pond to Venkman’s for their Beatles, Burgers and Beer event, followed by The B-Sides: A Tribute to Aretha and Booker T! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns fire it up at the Northside Tavern! 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, December 30

Sleaze it up and rock out this New Year’s Eve-Eve at The Star Bar with Truckadelic, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters, ELZIG and LUST! Jazz it up and boogie down at The Velvet Note with Groove Centric and Paula Champion! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Guston’s in Kennesaw! Anthony David dishes out an encore night of soul ‘n’ mojo at City Winery! Jam it up for night two with Widespread Panic at the Fox Theatre! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns fire it up at the Northside Tavern! Folk rock it up with Band of Horses at The Roxy! Bird Dog Jubilee jams it up at Vinyl! Get the blues with Kerry Hill at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to Venkman’s for a Tribute to Rufus feat. Chaka Khan! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, December 31

It’s New Year’s Eve, folks!  Out with the old and in with the new!  Although, we here at ATLRetro prefer the old, so we’ve put together a swell Throwback to the 20th Century New Year’s Eve Guide, that will lead the way as you boogie on down to your final destination in 2017 (keep your eyes peeled)! Ring in the New Year in style and toast 2018 in ATLRetro! We wish you a very vintage and rockin’ Happy New Year!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Ballet presents the NUTCRACKER at the Fox Theatre, through Dec. 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

Center for Puppetry Arts presents your favorite traditional seasonal reindeer tale, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, jinglin’ through Dec. 31! (LAST CHANCE!)

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.