ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what ATLRetro has in store for you This Week!

Monday, July 30

Rock out with The Dollyrots and The Hearsay at Smith’s Olde Bar! Spend the night with Jess Williamson, Twin Studies and Moses Nesh at The Earl! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willies! Get darkly folksy with Xasthur and Wino at 529! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, July 31

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of Jean Luc-Godard’s CONTEMPT (1963) at 7pm, which includes a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! BODEGA rocks out at The Earl with Fun Isn’t Fair! Spend the night with Pony Bradshaw at Eddie’s Attic! The Vans Warped Tour invades Lakewood Amphitheatre featuring The Interrupters, Reel Big Fish, Less than Jake, Chelsea Grin and so much more! Fiddle it up with Chris Wilcox & The Boys at the Red Light Café! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Stomp on down to Blind Willies for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! 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! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, August 1

Get retro-tastic at The Star Bar with Brian Revels, The Kernal and Book Club! Live long and prosper at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982) at 2:30pm/7:30pm!  Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) presents a screening of Paul Brickman’s RISKY BUSINESS (1983) at 7:15pm! Get down with OKCello at City Winery! Folk it up with Great Peacock and Tojo & Womz at The Earl! Get the blues with the Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Get your folk rock fix with Matt Nathanson and O.A.R. at the Roxy! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic 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, August 2

Cineprov dishes out a night of horrorific laughs at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff Claudio Fragasso’s TROLL 2 (1990) at 7:30pm! Or make your way to the Fox Theatre as they continue their Coca Cola Summer Film Festival with a screening of William Wyler’s FUNNY GIRL (1968) at 7:30pm! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Reverend Hylton, Frankie Boots, Stu Larson and Tim Hart! Spend the night with Pentley Holmes at Java Monkey! Get rocked with Boy Hits Car at the Masquerade! Honky tonk it up with Smokey Jones & The 3 Dollar Pistols and I Want Whiskey at Venkman’s! Get down with Atlanta’s own, Arrested Development at City Winery! 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 of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Blues it up with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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, August 3

Stomp on down to 529 for Nikki & The Phantom Callers’ 7” Release Party with special guests, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, the Invisible Teardrops and Roadkill Debutante! Bogey & The Viceroy swank it up with their Stevie Wonder Dance Party at The Vista Room! Or rock out with The Distractors at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch Lauryn Hill at Chastain Park! Or get down with Arrested Development at City Winery! Get brutal with Sadistic Vision at The Earl! Creedence Clearwater Revisited makes their way to the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheatre! Get Dixie-fied and swing on by the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Swingin’ Saddle Cats and Tray Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband! Funk it up with Brandon “Taz” Niederauer at Terminal West! Rock out with Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ at Venkman’s!  Catch a screening of the Coen Brothers’ O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) at 8pm at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! Tribute pays tribute to the Allman Brothers Band at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Get the rockin’ blues with Dani Mac & Co. at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! George Hughley & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up 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, August 4

EyeDrum brings their The Signal and The Noise series to The Plaza Theater with a screening of Robert Wiene’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1921) with a live one-of-a-kind musical performance by Paul Mercer, Gabe Monticello and Kool Kat Aileen Loy at 7pm! Or rev on down to The Star Bar with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho-Devilles, Little Lesley & The Barshots, Bucky Lastard and Slim & The Gems! Get snazzy with the Georgia Pinup Posse’s End of Summer Yard Sale at Garage 71 Studios in Buford at 10am! Join the fantasy and catch a screening of Jim Henson’s THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 8pm! Funk it up at Terminal West during The James Brown Dance Party! Get countrified with Will Kimbrough at Art Farm/Serenbe! Get to jammin’ with Jupiter Coyote at the Buckhead Theatre! Get jazzy with Melvin Miller at City Winery! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and The Bonaventure Quartet with Maggie Koerner at Eddie’s Attic! Get mischievous with a folksy punk fix with Tail Light Rebellion, Gateway to Hell and Car Crash Kid at The Highlander! Folk it up with Boo Reefa at Java Monkey! Kool Kat Rich Desantis and The Street Fighting Band pay tribute to The Rolling Stones at MadLife Stage & Studios! Rock out with Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ and Louise Warren at Venkman’s! Siamese Dream pays tribute to Smashing Pumpkins at The Vista Room! The Strand Ole Opry brings you their O Brother, Where Art Thou Concert at 8pm at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! The Blues Hearts get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, August 5

Hang with “The Dude” as TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get your ‘80s fix at Chastain Park with A Flock of Seagulls, Animotion, Berlin, Farrington & Mann, Naked Eyes, Nu Shooz and Wang Chung! Get down with Bettye Lavette at City Winery! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event! Get the blues with Eli Cook and Nora Jane Struthers at Eddie’s Attic! Get down with Snake Plissken at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get ghastly and catch a screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 12pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts Wednesday of the month!

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.