ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta delivers a week of rockin’ shenanigans and a cornucopia of Kool Kats galore! Get off the couch, boogie down, shake a tail feather and see what we’ve found for you this week!

Monday, July 20

Get scandalous with a screening of Billy Wilder’s classic film noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Blind Willie’s! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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! Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, July 21

It’s sci-fi madness at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s “Tuesday Sci-Fi Classics” series, so come on out for their screening of Michael Radford’s 1984 (1984) at 7pm! Or feel the need for speed at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get old-school at the Decatur Library with their screening of John Ford’s classic, SHE WORE A YELLOW DRESS (1949) at 9:30am! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their ‘80s Dance Night! Get the blues with Cadillac Assembly at Blind Willie’s! Surf on downstairs at The Star Bar to a hidden paradise, in the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 22

Get down and dirty with a whole lotta sleazy rock ‘n’ roll at The Earl with Kool Kat Jayne County & the Electric Queers, Lust and Blast-Off-Burlesque! Make your way to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as SCENE MISSING Presents: Waltlanta, featuring music, comedy and all around shenanigans based on Disney films and music by Noel Stephen & the Prince Charmings, at 9pm! It’s your second and last chance to catch the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Bluegrass it up with the High Strung String Band at the Red Light Café! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Electromatics dish out the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with Jesse Malin, Sodajerk and Don Dilego! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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 23

Rock on down to 529 for Tribute Night with The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett), Built For Speed (Motorhead) and T’NT (AC/DC)! Or catch the BadAsh AllStar Team delivering their Steely Dan Tribute Jam at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get your rock ‘n’ folk fix at The Earl with The Ike Reilly Assassination, Blake Rainey & His Demons and Ben Trickey! Or get to the root of it all at the Red Light Café with Mystery Loves Company, Brit La Palm and Francesco! Make your way to Atlantic Station for their Movies in Central Park series’ screening of Stephen Herek’s 101 DALMATIONS (1996) at dusk! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a beach party that is Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Sweet Betty & The Shadows dish get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, July 24

Get horrorfied and rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Six Shot Revival, Slick, Calabrese and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! Or get your garage rock fix with Kool Kat Ray Dafrico and the Ray City Rollers with Georgia Slim at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Swing on down to the Red Light Café for Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing with DJ Doctor Q, featuring performances by Pixie-Vixen, Sunshine Divine, Ariel Allegro and headliner Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil! Rock out with Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ at Peachtree Park in Chamblee! Stomp on down to the Elliott Street Pub for a night with The Punknecks! The Agape Players present Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun” at the Gwinnett Center through July 26! Get your smooth rock fix with Yacht Rock Revue at Park Tavern! Get your Ska and reggae fix at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Lowdive! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Atlanta Boogie at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! 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 25

Rev it up at The Rockabilly Reckoning, rockin’ out at the B3 Bar & Grill with car contests, pin-up contests, retro vendors and performances by Koffin Kats, Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, The Krank Daddies, Atomic Boogie, McPherson Struts, The Go Devils and so much more! Or join the walking dead during the 6th Annual Zombie Pub Crawl, hosted by Diesel Filling Station! Get extraterrestrial at SCADShow with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) at 7pm! Or get your horror sci-fi fix at the Center for Puppetry Arts with their screening of John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) at 8pm! Meet some new ghostly pals at the Historic Oakland Cemetery during their History, Mystery and Mayhem tours! Get your jazz ‘n’ spoken work fix at the Red Light Café with The Upbeatniks featuring Kodac Harrison! Blues it up hootenanny-style with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, The Wayward Souls and Chickens and Pigs at The Earl! Or rock out at The Star Bar with The Locksmyth, The Boy Jones, Springwild and Johnny Deferred Payment! Boogie down with the Susi French Connection for two shows at Eddie’s Attic! Or put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Stomp on down to Nik’s Place in Marietta for a night with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his Clash of the Decades dance party at Opera Nightclub! ATL Collective presents Paul Simons’ “Graceland” at Terminal West! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at The Family Dog! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! The Dirty Doors rock out at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Electromatics dish out their Chicago and West Coast blues at the Northside Tavern! 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 26

Jazz it up with Deb Bowman at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Or skank on down to the Masquerade for the Ska Revival Tour 2015 in Heaven, featuring The A-OKs, Be Like Max, The Taj Motel Trio and Crabhammer! Or rock out with the Protomen and Hans Condor in Hell! Get revived as The Dustbowl Revival dishes out a night of Americana, swing and bluegrass at the Red Clay Theatre! Blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Swami Gone Bananas gets psychedelic at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre doo-wops it up with The Motown Sound through July 26! (LAST CHANCE!)

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Take a peek at all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, July 13

Start your week off right with some classic cinema! The Salem-Panola Library (Lithonia) offers up Fletcher Markle’s THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY (1963) at 1pm! Or catch a screening of Robert Mulligan’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at the Charles D. Switzer Library (Marietta), with a pre-show discussion at 6pm! And get dehumanized at the West Cobb Regional Library (Kennesaw) with their screening of Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER (1982) at 6:30pm! It’s a night of rock and ‘60s pop at The Earl with Grand Vapids, Mail the Horse and Sydney Eloise & The Palms! Or rock out at the Masquerade with Guttermouth, Treephort and Rotten Stitches! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Or get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, July 14

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their “Tuesday Classics” series with Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (1982) at 7pm! It’s a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Patriot Acts event featuring Annette Coquette and more! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a little murder and mayhem with their screening of John Waters’ SERIAL MOM (1994)! Catch Howard Hawks’ SERGEANT YORK (1941) at the Charles D. Switzer Library (Marietta) at 12:30pm! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their ‘80s Dance Night! It’s “Bollywood Movie Night” at Chai Pani in Decatur, so make your way for their screening of Ramesh Sippy’s action-adventure film, SHOLAY (1975) at 9pm! Or get classically comedic at Movies ATL 14 with their screening of Billy Wilder’s SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) at 7pm! Get post-apocalyptic at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s rescheduled screening of George Miller’s ‘80s classic action flick, MAD MAX: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982)! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & the Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Boogie down with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with 4 Korners with Cody Matlock at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Alex Guthrie gets folksy at Eddie’s Attic! Surf on downstairs at The Star Bar to a hidden paradise, in the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 15

Jazz it up with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Rod “the Mod” Stewart invades the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Wax on and wax off at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) during their screening of John G. Avildsen’s KARATE KID (1984) at 7pm! Or catch Disney’s classic, CINDERELLA (1950) at the Stonecrest Library (Lithonia) at 1pm! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! Get folksy at Eddie’s Attic with The Honey Dewdrops and Caleb Stine! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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 16

The Fox Theatre’ 2015 Coca Cola Summer Film Festival delivers Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) at 7:30! Here’s looking at you kid, so come on down to Atlantic Station for their Movies in Central Park series’ screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at dusk! Or catch John Waters’ PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) at The Plaza Theater! Get your reggae fix at Terminal West with Morgan Heritage! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Mr. Blue Sky delivers some jazzy ukulele folk at Trader Vic’s during Mai Tai Thursday! Bluegrass it up with the Jon Stickley Trio and the Georgia Mountain String Band at the Red Light Café! Get funky at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room with Voodoo Visionary, Johnny Awesome and Percy Sledgehammer! Or rock out in the Atlanta Room with Riverside Voodoo and Chilhowee Royal! Jazz it up with Karen Briggs at the Suite Food Lounge! Blues it up with Tas Cru at Blind Willie’s! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, July 17

Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers dishes out prohibition era pandemonium at Paris on Ponce during their 4th Annual Bastille Day Celebration, with performances by the Thimblerig Circus, the Imperial OPA Circus and more, running through July 19! Rock out horror-style with Unknown Hinson and Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley at the Masquerade! Get funky with the Tedeschi Trucks Band and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen dish out a night of string jazz and ragtime blues at the High Museum’s Friday Night Music Remix event! Rock out and celebrate 35 years of Pulp at The Earl with Metroscene, Supermagical and Darling Norman! Or stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Eliot Bronson and Kristen Englenz! The Drunken Unicorn delivers a night with The Head, Jonas Sees in Color, Yard Dogs and The Marrows! Sadie Hawkins and friends shake a tail feather during her Last Pasties Standing – Girl Groups event at the Red Light Café! Spend an evening with Kate Pierson (B-52s) at the Variety Playhouse! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Music with Donna Hopkins, the Jess Goggans Band and The Pussywillows! Randall Bramblett delivers the blues at the Crimson Moon Café! Or rock out blues style at the Red Clay Theatre with the Freddy Jones Band! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Rock out at 529 with PLS PLS, Houston in the Blind and RRest! Meow with the best of ‘em as the Atlanta Lyric Theatre presents Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Cats” at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, running through July 19! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his 80s Music Video Night at Famous Pub! Stoney Brooks gets down and dirty at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Atlanta Boogie at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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 18

Have a monstrous good time with our pal Kool Kat Shane Morton during the Silver Scream FX Lab Grand Opening Public Tour, from 10am-6pm! Or catch Trader Vic’s The Art of Tiki & Trader Vic’s seminar discussing Tiki décor, art and mugs, at 5pm! It’s a night of mischief and mayhem at The Star Bar with Thelma & the Sleaze, Bad Spell, Midnight Larks and Daddy Issues! Catch Ridley Scott’s ALIEN (1979) at the Aurora Cineplex at 11:59pm! Get your classic rock fix at Terminal West with Allgood, The Bitteroots and Nine Times Blue! Make your way to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Cruisin’ at the Strand with the Creepers car show, from 2-8pm! The Brat Pack invades the Fox Theatre during their 2015 Coca Cola Film Festival screening of John Hughes’ THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) at 7:30pm! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern! The Plastic Pinks deliver a night of garage rock at 529! Or make your way to Aisle 5 for a night with Escape Vehicle and Jon Harris! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Folk it up with River Whyless at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of hill country blues at The Family Dog with the John Sosebee Band! Blues it up with Selwyn Birchwood at Blind Willie’s! The Rainmen dish out some ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get groovy with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern! 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 19

Catch a screening of Billy Wilder’s classic film noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! It’s your second chance to catch John G. Avildsen’s KARATE KID (1984) at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Get funky with some Georgian soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics, The 200s and The Main Squeeze at Park Tavern! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for The Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue with special guest Sadie Hawkins! Spend the evening with Leon Russell at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Swami Gone Bananas gets psychedelic at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre doo-wops it up with The Motown Sound through July 26!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you Kool Kat kiddies! Shake a tail feather in Retro Atlanta this week and take a peek at what we’ve found for you! We’ve got a whole lotta rockabilly rumble, classic cinema galore and all the rockin’ shenanigans you’ve been dying for! Get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, July 6

Get revved up and rock out old-timer style with a little rowdy ragtime blues at The Drunken Unicorn with The Pine Box Boys, Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen and Blood on the Harp! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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! Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, July 7

It’s a night of sleazy blues-tinged rock at The Drunken Unicorn with Gunpowder Gray, U.S. Bastards and Alias for Now! Andrew Black dishes out the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out at The Earl with Jacco Gardner, EZTV and Dinner! You may need to get a bigger boat at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get post-apocalyptic at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s rescheduled screening of George Miller’s ‘80s classic action flick, MAD MAX: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) at 10pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Or catch David Lean’s classic, BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) at Movies ATL 14 at 8:15pm! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Surf on downstairs at The Star Bar to a hidden paradise, in the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 8

Get funky with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Northlake Festival Movie Tavern gives you a second chance to catch a screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Folk it up with Look Homeward at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or funk it up with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your bluesy “Wednesday Wind Down” at Centennial Park with Shirley Diamond and Frankie’s Blues Mission! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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! Catch Peyton Reed’s BRING IT ON (2000) at the Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta at 7:30pm. 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 9

Get some swanky soul and rock ‘n’ roll with Bogey & the Viceroy Quartet at Trader Vic’s for Mai Tai Thursday! Bluegrass it up with Bradford Lee Folk & the Bluegrass Playboys and Whoa Nelly at the Red Light Café! Or get old-timey at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Mark Miller and the Classical Mountain Fiddles! Get sweet and low down with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Shimmy and shake on down to Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series screening of Emile Ardolino’s DIRTY DANCING (1987) at dusk! Jazz it up with Marc Antoine and Steve Cole at Suite Food Lounge! Cineprov riffs Menahem Golan’s OVER THE TOP (1987) at The Plaza Theater at 7:30pm! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, July 10

Surf on down to The Star Bar for a night with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, The Dirty Doors and Gimme Hendrix! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a little murder and mayhem with their screening of John Waters’ SERIAL MOM (1994)! Rock out at Union EAV with the Antarcticats, Ghost Foot, The Azalea Project and Outrageous Fun! For a rowdy folksy night, make your way to Vinyl for Killing Kuddles, Hyperspace and The Roadside! Hall & Oates get smooth at Chastain Park! Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton and Johnny Knapp invade the Red Light Café! Get the blues and jazz it up with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at the Northside Tavern! Dwayne Shivers and Kyshona get bluesy at Eddie’s Attic! Or blues it up with Sly Dog at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Buckhead Tavern delivers a night with Gareth Asher & the Earthlings! Get some rhythm and soul with The Hollidays at The Family Dog! Eighties it up at the Wild Wing Café in Gainesville with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Rock out with dangfly while sippin’ a few cocktails under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Get the delta blues with BJ Wilbanks at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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 11

Rev on down to the American Tavern in Loganville for a Rockabilly Throwdown featuring a rockin’ good time with Cadillac Junkies, Blacktop Rockets, the Willie Heath Neal Band, Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles and a few of our favorite retro vendors: 2the9s Retro and Jezebel Blue (see our Shop Around feature here), and more! Or get your classic monster and sci-fi fix with Kool Kat Chris Hamer (Urbnpop!) and his Horror Business Solo Art Show at the Diesel Filling Station with Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley (Garage71) spinning a night of rockabilly, psychobilly, old-school punk, ‘80s metal and more! Surf on down to Kavarna for Southern Surf Stomp, featuring The Out of Limits, The Surge! and The Backyard Birds! Get a belly full of tasty treats and an earful of happening tunes at Piedmont Park’s Atlanta Street Food Festival featuring performances by Gritz & the Jelly Butter Band, Bird City Revolutionaries, the Wasted Potential Brass Band and Secondhand Swagger! Shimmy on down to Jerry Farber’s Side Door for Cheeky Belles’ Glamour Goddess event, with Kool Kat Kitty Love, Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Angelica Vice, JudyAnne Fox, Valkarie Jones and more!

The Star Bar dishes out a rockin’ scumbag revival with Nine Pound Hammer, Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters and Night Terrors! Spend the night with Vincent Vega at the Aurora Cineplex during their midnight screening of Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION (1994)! Rock out during the Woodstock Concert Series featuring Departure (Journey tribute) and Electric Avenue! Dino it up at SCADShow’s screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) at 7pm! Get melodically morose with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at Famous Pub during his BLACKOUT: Goth/Industrial Dance Night, featuring dark ‘80s, goth, dark wave and synth pop! Make some memories at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Gainesville with The Temptations! Bluegrass it up with Cedar Hill and Shaky Jane at the Red Light Café! The Family Dog gets old-timey with The Blue Ribbon Healers! Smith’s Olde Bar jams it up with Tribute! Roxie Watson dishes out a night of old-time bluegrass and country at Eddie’s Attic! Lola and the Blues Ladies get down and dirty at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Shake it up with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The BadAsh Allstar Team pays tribute to the Grateful Dead at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with Steve “The Blues Dude” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Or get some rockin’ blues with Big C & the Velvet Delta at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Ike Stubbefield at the Northside Tavern! 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 12

Rock on down to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with the Barenaked Ladies, Violent Femmes and Colin Hay! Hot rod on down to the Three Taverns Craft Brewery for their Kustom Kulture Event featuring a revvin’ good time filled with hot rods, music and tasty food at 2:30pm! Groove on down to Aisle 5 for a night with The Southern Belles and The 200s! Blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Swami Gone Bananas gets psychedelic at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And it’s a night of indie art rock at the Masquerade with Mitski, Elvis Depressedly, Eskimeaux and Fox Wound!

Ongoing

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre doo-wops it up with The Motown Sound through July 26!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Rock out in Retro Atlanta this week and celebrate America’s 239th birthday! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you. From rockin’ surf, to down and dirty blues, to a whole lotta old-school garage, rock ‘n’ punk! And don’t forget to catch all the classics on the big screen! Get off that couch and live la vida retro!

Monday, June 29

Genki Genki Panic dishes out some rockin’ mischievous horror surf at the Kennesaw Food Truck Park! Get your rockin’ spoken word Lou Reed-esque fix with Hamell on Trial at Smith’s Olde Bar! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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! Beat the heat and catch Nick Park and Peter Lord’s CHICKEN RUN (2000) at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 11am, running through July 3! Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And for a night of tasty blues, make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, June 30

The Earl delivers ‘70s British punk legends, Slaughter & The Dogs, along with Dinos Boys and Magoos Heros! Get post-apocalyptic at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of George Miller’s ‘80s classic action flick, MAD MAX: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) at 10pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Or catch Martin Scorsese’s RAGING BULL (1980) at Movies ATL 14 at 7pm! The Charles D. Switzer Public Library screens Robert Mulligan’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at 12:30pm! Surf on downstairs at The Star Bar to a hidden paradise, in the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Get the blues with the Cody Matlock Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 1

The Red Light Café is scorchin’ with Southern Spitfires: An Evening of Burlesque with Deanna Danger, Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Gigi Holliday and Sadie Hawkins! 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! Folk it up with a little ‘60s pop at Eddie’s Attic with Book Club and Sydney Eloise & The Palms! Rock and roll ‘60s and ‘70s-style on down to The Plaza Theater as they screen John Pirozzi’s documentary, DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA’S LOST ROCK AND ROLL (2014)! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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 2

Get your garage rock ‘n’ punk fix at The Star Bar with The Cynics, The Forty-Fives, Black Linen and the Cherry Pits! Or rock on down to Union EAV for Kool Kat The Joy Kills, Karbomb, Shehehe and the Seagulls! Get some soul and blues it up with AJ Ghent and The Tin Man at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s a night of prog rock and funky psyche fusion with Indeedface, Chelsea Shag and Big Brutus at 529! Get old-timey at Terminal West with Larry Keel, Dangermuffin and the Jugtime Ragband! Get some action at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series screening of Roland Emmerich’s INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) at dusk! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a tribute to Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so surf on down for some rockin’ island tunes! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, July 3

The Star Bar delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Sonic Graffiti, SWOTS and Momcat! Or rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with James Hall, David Bowie tribute PINUPS and Angela Wolff! Doo-wop on down to Earl Smith Strand Theatre for The Motown Sound, a musical revue running through July 26! Jump in your TARDIS and take a trip to the Doctor Who Bash! presented by TimeGate, at the Perimeter Center West Barnes and Noble! Get the root of it all at Eddie’s Attic with Cody Marlowe & the Dead Flowers and Foxhollow! Royal Thunder and Wild Throne rock out at The Earl! Make your way to the Kennesaw Historic Train Depot for their pre-Independence Day salute to America with the Journey tribute, Departure! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers The Spirit of Rush! The Katie Martin Band and Hey! Alligator dish out a night of blues, folk ‘n’ soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up at the Northside Tavern with the Cody Matlock Band! 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 4

Happy Birthday, America! Come celebrate with us retro-style! Our pals at Pallookaville are throwing one helluva birthday bash with their Fourth of July Independepallooza, featuring the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra, the Thimblerig Circus, a parade and of course, a whole lotta corndog shenanigans! Or celebrate ‘90s grunge style at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with their Hawgapalooza – Grungefest, featuring Pure Ed, Bleach Garden, Randyl Bishop and some tasty BBQ! Bluegrass it up at Barrington Hall (Roswell) during their BBQ & Bluegrass event featuring the Smokerise Bluegrass Band! Or get the blues with The Alexis P. Suter Band and Beverly “Guitar” Watkins during the Brookhaven BBQ Bash! Decatur delivers their Fourth of July Pied Piper parade, fireworks and the Callanwolde Concert Band! Blues it up with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and friends with their laid back holiday bash at the Northside Tavern! And fly on by the Aurora Cineplex for their screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at 11:59pm! 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 5

The Variety Playhouse delivers a night of ‘80s British alt-rock with World Party! Or rock on down to Park Tavern for the Radio Birds, Radiolucent and Sara Rachele! Swami Gone Bananas dishes out his Grateful Dead Tribute at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre doo-wops it up with The Motown Sound through July 26!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

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.

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 that we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, June 22

Jump ‘n’ jive with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Get adventurous at the Stonecrest Library in Lithonia with their screening of Martin Campbell’s THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998) at 2pm! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Or get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Get some ‘90s blues and soul with Joan Osborne at Eddie’s Attic! Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, “True Crimes” edition at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And for a night of tasty blues, make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, June 23

Spend the night with Ol’ Blue Eyes during Movies ATL 14’s screening of John Frankenheimer’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) at 7pm! Blues it up Brit-style with The Steepwater Band and American Roommates at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern delivers a night of ‘80s time travel with their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Surf on downstairs at The Star Bar to a hidden paradise, in the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 24

Make your way to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as SCENE MISSING Presents: Dr. Strangelanta, featuring music, comedy and all around shenanigans based on the films of Stanley Kubrick, at 9pm! You may need to get a bigger boat for the 40th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975), screening in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; Movies ATL 14; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville]! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern delivers a second night of ‘80s time travel with their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or try to save the world at Movies ATL 14 with their screening of James Cameron’s THE TERMINATOR (1984) at 7pm! You won’t want to miss the Serenbe Playhouse’s presentation of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” running through June 28! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of rockin’ folk with Kevn Kinney (Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryn’) and Peter Case! Rock on down to the Masquerade for Local H and Aeges! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of Chicago and West Coast blues with the Electromatics! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, June 25

Honkytonk it up at The Star Bar and help wish our pal Kool Kat Julea Thomerson a rockin’ farewell, along with Slim Chance & the Convicts, Chickens and Pigs, Dry Gulch, Vito Romeo, Colangelo, Rodeo Twister, Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club and more! Make your way to Terminal West as ATL Collective presents Jeff Buckley’s “Grace” at 9pm! The Capitol City Opera Company dishes out their Dinner & a Diva Series with “The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan” at Petite Auberge! Get some rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Red Light Café delivers a bluegrass pickin’ party! Heather Luttrell gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so get some ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 26

Brian Wilson delivers some good vibrations at the Fox Theatre with Rodriguez! Pay tribute to The Smiths and The Clash at Terminal West with Smithsonian and Clashinista! Mambo on down to the Red Light Café for Speakeasy Electroswing Atlanta’s Summer Salsa Night featuring performances by Benjamin Elizabeth, Sin Tillating, Lucy Purr, Annette Coquette and DJ Doctor Q! Goth it up old-school style at the Famous Pub with Kool Kat VJ Anthony and his Coffin Classics: Digging Up the Best of Goth event! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles rev you up at Motorheads in McDonough! The Earl delivers a night of ‘70s-esque rock with the Sealions, MammaBear and Hot Gaze! Get old-timey with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen, I Want Whisky and Raven Claw Hammer at The Star Bar! Stomp on over to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Ray Wylie Hubbard and Brandy Zdan in the Music Room! Or make your way to the Atlanta Room for Oliver’s Antics, Time Sawyer, Starting Fires and The PG’s! Rock out with Capitol Arms, Kool Kats The Joy Kills, Sister Helen and Bear Girl at The Drunken Unicorn! Get the Chicago/Delta blues with The Breeze Kings at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Jazz it up with Callanwolde Fine Arts Center’s Jazz on the Lawn event with Joe Gransden! Or get classy with chanteuse Natalie Cole at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! It’s ‘80s night with DJ Quasi Mandisco at The Family Dog! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Jazz ‘n’ folk it up at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event under the dinosaurs with Mr. Blue Sky! The Ori Naftaly Band dishes out the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Blues it up with Sana Blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, June 27

The Star Bar dishes out some red-hot rockabilly with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, Beau & the Burners and Motel Ice Machine, and you won’t want to miss the hot rod car show in the parking lot! “The Dude” bowls over the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their Midnight Bowling and Cocktail Party! David Bowie it up at the Aurora Cineplex with their screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at 11:59pm! Groove on down to the Elliott Street Pub for a night with Kool Kats Spirits and the Melchizedek Children and Hello Ocho! Get some rockabilly blues with Atomic Boogie at the Dallas Public House! Get comfy with Indy at SCADShow’s screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 7pm! Rock on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Roger “Hurricane” Wilson and White Winged Dove! Get your fill of Cracker with two shows at Eddie’s Attic! The Sundogs and The Liberators pay homage to old-school blues ‘n’ psyche rock at Smith’s Olde Bar! Boogie on down to the Opera Nightclub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Clash of the Decades music video dance party! Folk ‘n’ rock it up with Monk Parker, Book of Colors and Ben Trickey at The Drunken Unicorn! Boogie woogie on down to Kavarna for their Last Call Blues Dance! Or put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Get your fill of ‘80s and ‘90s salon pop music at Mary’s! Get some soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics and some old-school funk with Lettuce at Terminal West! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at The Family Dog! Shake it up with Escape Vehicle at the Red Light Café! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Big Bill Morganfield dishes out the blues at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get some rockin’ soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with Dark Water Rising! Get your outlaw blues fix with Blue Roads 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, June 28

Eddie’s Attic dishes out their Out on the Weekend Neil Young Tribute with Brian Collins, Eliot Bronson, Jared & Amber, The Bitteroots, Doria Roberts, The Southern Gothic, Rex Hussman, Mike Killeen and Kristen Englenz! Folk it up at the Red Light Café with the Good Graces, Love Me Till My Heart Stops and Garner Sloan! Or get folksy at Park Tavern with Little Tybee and Carolina Rose! Mipso delivers their Appalachian string band tunes at the Crimson Moon Café! Rock out at Aaron’s Lakewood Amphitheatre with Def Leppard, Styx and Tesla! Get jazzy Flamenco-style at the Variety Playhouse with Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra! Or jazz it up with Emile Worthy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Bluegrass it up with Humdinger at Smith’s Olde Bar! Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And slither on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Snake Legs!

Ongoing

Out of the Box Theatre presents Peter Hardy’s “Sally and Glen at the Palace” through June 27! (LAST CHANCE!)

Serenbe Playhouse presents Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” through June 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Shake it up in Retro Atlanta this week! Get your fill of red-hot blues, tasty tease, hootenannies galore and more! Get off that couch, get hep to the jive and live la vida Retro!

Monday, June 15

Garage rock it up at 529 with The Hussy, Lowbanks, The Mumzees and the Immaculate Collection! Blues it up with Fatback Deluxe 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! Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And for a night of tasty blues, make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, June 16

Come celebrate sixteen sweet years of Videodrome, Atlanta’s last remaining video store, with a Sweet Sixteen Party, rockin’ out at the Highland Inn Ballroom, which also includes a special screening of David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (1983) at 7pm! Make your way to the Decatur Library for a screening of Harry Keller’s THE BRASS BOTTLE (1964) at 9:30am! Get old-timey at Smith’s Olde Bar with City Mouse, Sour Bridges and Alex & Todd! Chelsea Shag gets some old-school soul at the Red Light Café! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Joe McGuiness delivers a night of roots and Americana at Blind Willie’s! Surf on downstairs at The Star Bar to a hidden paradise, in the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 17

Get adventurous with Atreyu at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at 7pm! Funk it up with The Get Right Band and Dr. Strangelove at Aisle 5! The BadAsh Allstar Team (BAAT) pays tribute to Billy Idol, Heart and Blondie at the Red Light Café! Jazz it up with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Gypsies! Little G. Weevil gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, June 18

The Star Bar delivers a night of glam rock and sleazy blues with The Tip (record release party), Gunpowder Gray, the Damned Angels, Vito Romeo and Adam Anzio! The Fox Theatre’s 2015 Coca Cola Summer Film Festival continues with Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE (1988) at 7:30pm! Get old-school punk style with Punk Rock Tribute Night at Smith’s Olde Bar with Horror Business (Misfits), Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols), The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jet) and Road to Ruin (Ramones)! Or rock on down to 529 for a night with Air Wolves, Frick, Swing Set and Awkward Sounds! The Earl delivers The Baseball Project (with members of R.E.M.) and AM Gold (with Kool Kat Jet Bryant and Jim Stacy)! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Paul Thorn, the “Mark Twain of Americana”! Boogie on down to Vinyl for a night with Exwhy and The Dead Woods! The Red Light Café delivers a night of folksy bluegrass with My Brother’s Keeper and Casey Camp! Get saucy and blues it up with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of smokin’ hot island tunes with Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier and Tonga Hiti! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 19

The Sonics and The Forty-Fives deliver a night of garage rock ‘n’ proto punk at The Earl! Swing on by the High Museum for a night with Joe Gransden! Rock out at The Star Bar with The Wet Ones, Hip to Death, The Marrows, Air Wolves and Hot Gaze! It’s a down and dirty retro rock revival at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Dreaded Marco, Ledfoot Messiah and Goodbye June! The “Monsters of Rock” invade the Masquerade with Back N Black (AC/DC tribute) and Retallica (Metallica tribute)! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for two additional shows with Paul Thorn, the “Mark Twain of Americana”! Groove it up slowly to Park Tavern for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Stoney Brooks delivers the blues at the Northside Tavern! It’s a night of juke joint blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with The Scissormen! Blues on down to Hottie Hawgs BBQ for a night with Little G. Weevil! Make your way back to the ‘50s through the ‘70s with the Way Back Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, June 20

It’s a night of garage punk and rock ‘n’ roll at The Star Bar with Jack Oblivion & the Shieks, Highriders and the Mystery Men?! Stomp on down to 529 for a night with Blake Rainey & His Demons, Tom Cheshire and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer! The Fox Theatre’s 2015 Coca Cola Summer Film Festival continues with Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 7:30pm!Let Hysteria Machines Productions put a sultry spell on you at the Shakespeare Tavern during their Sexspelliarmus: Whimsical Wizarding Burlesque Revue Part II! Go way back at the Center for Puppetry Arts with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) at 8pm! Get spooked during Dok Lazlo’s “Mad Alchemy Walking Tours” with his Haunted History Tour of Marietta Square from 7:30-11pm, with a free tarot reading after party! Learn about Atlanta’s prohibition during the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Malts & Vaults event! Get funky with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre in Mableton! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles rev you up at Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Polka it up at Chastain Park with Weird Al Yankovic! Cloudship delivers a night of Americana at the Elliott Street Pub! The Atlanta Rhythm Section rocks out at Eddie’s Attic with two shows! Get old-timey with the Front Porch Session Players at The Family Dog! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Blues it up with Corey Harris at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! The Bush League delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with Ron Cooley & the Hard Times at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get rootsy with Sparky & Rhonda Rucker, followed by the James Taylor tribute band, Taylor Made, at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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, June 21

You may need to get a bigger boat for the 40th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975), screening in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; Movies ATL 14; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville]! It’s your last chance to hang with Atreyu at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at 2pm! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Cloudship! It’s a garage rock revival at Park Tavern with The Whigs! Get some ‘90s blues and soul with Joan Osborne at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with .44 Smokeless at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s Sultry Sunday at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, so get jazzy with Tommie Macon and Charles Fellingham as they bring you the tunes of Sinatra & Fitzgerald! Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And slither on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Snake Legs!

Ongoing

Out of the Box Theatre presents Peter Hardy’s “Sally and Glen at the Palace” through June 27!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every 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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Take a peek at what’s on the Retro menu this week!  

Monday, June 8

Orson Welles it up at the Lefont Theatre’s screening of Chuck Workman’s documentary, MAGICIAN: THE ASTONISHING LIFE & WORKS OF ORSON WELLES (2014) at 7pm! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Or get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs!

Tuesday, June 9

Have a bloody fangtastic time at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema during their screening of Werner Herzog’s NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) during their “Werner Herzog Retrospective” series at 6:45pm! It’s a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque event featuring Ruby Redmayne, Cheri Mina Dupont, Annette Coquette, Franki Sin and more! It’s a night of vengeance and mayhem at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Movies ATL delivers a night of Bond, James Bond, with Guy Hamilton’s DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971), during their Carmike Cinemas Classics series at 7pm! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Or get the blues with Cadillac Assembly at Blind Willie’s! Rock out old-school style with the Pat Travers Band and 68-75 at Eddie’s Attic! Surf on downstairs at The Star Bar to a hidden paradise, in the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 10

Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo delivers a night of blues, jazz ‘n’ southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Sell your soul at the Red Light Café with Reverend Hylton & The Devil’s Hands and The Horse Traders! It’s your last chance for a night of vengeance and mayhem at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, June 11

It’s a night of dust-bowl era folk and rockin’ hillbilly at The Earl with Ben Trickey (7” release party), Jeremy Ray and Moses Nesh! Get some soul two times over with Booker T. Jones at Eddie’s Attic! The Red Light Café delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Danny Vinson & the Second Hand Devils, Herbie D & the Dangermen and Tiffany Huggins Grant! Make your way to Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series for their screening of Steven Brill’s HEAVY WEIGHTS (1995) at dusk! Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of swanky soul ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll with Bogey & the Viceroy Quartet! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 12

Get cinematic, live-theatre style with Out of the Box Theatre’s presentation of Peter Hardy’s “Sally and Glen at the Palace”, which takes place in a ‘70s movie theatre lobby, running through June 27! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Tiger! Tiger!, Friendship Commanders and Mattiel! Geek it up at the Sci-Fi Summer Con Atlanta 2015, taking place at the Holiday Inn North Perimeter, running through June 14! Or take a trip back to the ‘90s with Radar Atlanta’s Back to the ‘90s Comedy Party at Big House on Ponce! Glam it up at Famous Pub with Kool Kat VJ Anthony and his From Glam to Goth – Glitter in the Gutter event featuring glam, rock, punk and goth! Get to the root of it all with Migrant Worker at Aisle 5! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Sadie Hawkins’ Cheap Thrills: Burlesque on a Budget event! Get your Australian folk fix at the Variety Playhouse with Tommy Emmanuel! Rock out ‘90s-style at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre during Summerland Fest 2015, featuring Everclear, Fuel and The Toadies! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire you up at the Mule Camp Tavern in Gainesville! Blues it up with the “Ambassador of Blues”, James Armstrong at Blind Willie’s! Honkytonk it up with the Villain Family while sippin’ a few cocktails under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with Victor Wainwright! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of Russian gypsy tunes with Debauche! 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, June 13

Rock out at the Historic Oakland Cemetery during their “Tunes from the Tombs” event, featuring performances by Matthew Sweet, Michelle Malone, Little Tybee, Eliot Bronson, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers, the Sweet Auburn String Band, Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen, Blood on the Harp, Sourwood Honey, Max & Maggie, the Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers, Kool Kat Amy Pike & The Bonaventure Quartet and more! Get your fill of rockin’ science, artsy puppetry and “swamp tech” at The Earl with Quintron & Miss Pussycat (see our Kool Kat interview soon!), Predator, Enoch Ramone & the Ebola Boys and First! Get bizarre as Contraband Cinema presents their “Short, Strange & Southern Fried” screenings, examining the oddities of the south, including Kool Kat Blake Myers’ MUNCHING YOUR MOTHER FUCKING NUBS, which will be presented in 16mm, at Eyedrum! Kool Kats Spirits & the Melchizedek Children dish out their ‘70s psychedelia with Must Be the Holy Ghost at Live Free Tattoo! Celebrate 30 years of Steven Spielberg’s THE COLOR PURPLE (1985) at The Plaza Theater! Or steer clear of the water at SCADShow with their screening of Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) at 7pm! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10:30am, and his SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at 1pm! Dance the night away at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre during their screening of Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) at 8pm! Sailing to Denver and Ocean Street get rootsy and folksy during the Brookhaven Beer Fest 2015! Get some satisfaction at Smith’s Olde Bar with Stephen Skipper’s Rolling Stones Tribute Band! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for their “History of Rum & the Tiki Cocktail” seminar, covering the ‘40s to the ‘50s ($20 gets you a Tiki platter and cocktail samples)! Eighties it up at with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Suwannee! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get freaky at Red Light Café during the Southern Fried Side Show featuring El Capitan & the Band with No Name and shenanigans by Captain & Maybelle! It’s your second chance to get your Australian folk fix at the Variety Playhouse with Tommy Emmanuel! Rock out old-school style at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with Boston and Kansas! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Cinema Tavern in Villa Rica! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get revived with a little mischief at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with Sal’s Soulful Sinners! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a Billy Idol/Heart/Blondie tribute band! 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, June 14

Get jazzy ‘20s and ‘30s style with Mary Sigalas at the Red Light Café! Bluegrass it up with Tom Hill & the Midnight Suns at Smith’s Olde Bar! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gives you a second chance to catch their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10:30am, and his SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at 1pm! Celebrate 30 years of Steven Spielberg’s THE COLOR PURPLE (1985) at The Plaza Theater! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with the Richard Thompson Trio! Folk it up with In the Valley Below at Park Tavern! Swing on by Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Garrison Elliott! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Out of the Box Theatre presents Peter Hardy’s “Sally and Glen at the Palace” through June 27!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant! Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every 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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta is red-hot this week! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you! We’ve got all the ‘billy you could ever want; classic cinema on the big screen; rock in all varieties and of course a whole lotta’ down and dirty jazz ‘n’ blues! So get off that couch and come see what’s on the rockin’ Retro menu!  

Monday, June 1

Start the month with a swingin’ good time during Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their screening of George Sidney’s SHOW BOAT (1951) at 7pm! Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of rockin’ blues and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, June 2

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Werner Herzog’s MY BEST FIEND (1999) during their “Werner Herzog Retrospective” series at 6:45pm! Movies ATL delivers Anthony Minghalla’s THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996), during their Carmike Cinemas Classics series at 7pm! Or get devious and criminal at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s rescheduled screening of John Waters’ CECIL B. DEMENTED (2000) at 10pm following NerdCore Trivia! Or gump it up at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library in Marietta during their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ FORREST GUMP (1994) at 12:30pm! Get some soul and rockin’ roots at the Red Light Café with Abby Wren & friends, Sailing to Denver and Donna Hopkins! Make your way to Margaritaville with Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band at the Gwinnett Center! Get to the root of it all, Texas-style with Lee Roy Parnell at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Or surf on downstairs to a hidden paradise, at the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 3

Walk the line at the Village Theatre during the SONG MISSING Presents: I Walk the Beltline event featuring performances based on Johnny Cash songs with Noel Stephen & The Darlings Named Sue and more! Rock on down to Mammal Gallery for a night with Onchi, The Dirty Magazines and Two Hour Drive! Or stomp on down to 529 to catch Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen, Lily & the Tigers, Avi Jacob and Brock’s Folly! Get old-time and rock out folk-style at Vinyl with Sugar & the Hi Lows and Elenowen! Blues it up with Mike Farris at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Catch Wolfgang Reitherman’s classic animated tale, THE SWORD IN THE STONE (1963) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library in Marietta at 3pm! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, June 4

The Fox Theatre kicks off the 2015 Coca Cola Summer Film Festival with Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at 7:30pm! You’re gonna need a bigger boat at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series screening of Steven Spielberg’s summer classic, JAWS (1975) at dusk! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, the Shepherds, Nomen Novum and Hip to Death! Get folksy with Fruition and Dead Winter Carpenters at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Red Clay Theatre delivers a night with The Contenders! Get smooth with Barry Manilow at the Gwinnett Center! Bluegrass it up with Rust and The Wilhelm Brothers at the Red Light Café for Bluegrass Thursday! Get your ‘70s rockin’ jam fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Mark Michelson! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your island tunes ‘n’ cocktail fix! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 5

Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a rockin’ night with Bad Friend, Bruce Joyner & The Atomic Clock, Kenny Howe’s The Wow!, 68-75, The Rainmen, the Chris Massey Band and The Skylarks! Or get psyched at The Drunken Unicorn with Echo Courts, Shampoo, Pamela_And Her Sons and Marion Walker! Get your garage rock ‘n’ blues fix at 529 with Low Cut Connie, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Uncle Van & the Buzzards of Fuzz! The Red Light Café delivers the Barrow Boys and Blue Blazes! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire you up at the Deep South Deli & Pub in McDonough! Eighties it up at the Craze Tavern with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Bluegrass it up with the Jeff Austin Band with Jim White vs. the Packway Handle Band at Terminal West! Rock out with Lou Gramm (Foreigner) and an orchestra at Chastain Park! Jazz it up with Joe Gransden and his 16-piece big band with special guest Charissa Gransden at Eddie’s Attic with two shows! The Contenders and Guthrie Brown & the Family Tree deliver a night of folksy Americana at Grocery on Home! Make your way to Union EAV for their Vinyl Potlock Party featuring vinyl, vintage video games and rockin’ tunes! Get your ragtime jazz fix with The HoboHemians while sippin’ a few cocktails under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Get groovy with Swami Gone Bananas at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Groove on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night of old-time soul with Markey Blue! Catch Montana Skies at the Crimson Moon Café! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of Van Morrison tunes with Domino! 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, June 6

Today brings day one of Virginia Highlands Summerfest 2015, celebrating 30 years of art, food and rockin’ tunes, running through June 7! Come on down for performances by Sans Abri (pop roots), The Georgia Flood (rock/funk/blues), Cicada Rhythm (folk), Heavy Chevy (funk), The Halem Albright Band (jam) and The Southern Gothic (roots/Americana)! Get your fill of Orson Welles at the Lefont Theatre’s screening of Chuck Workman’s documentary, MAGICIAN: THE ASTONISHING LIFE & WORKS OF ORSON WELLES (2014) at 10:30am! Surf on down to Kavarna for Southern Surf Stomp featuring The Revomatics, The Compartmentalizationalists and Woven In! Swing on by Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Johnny Boyd and Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers! Get terrified with the dinosaurs at Aurora Cineplex during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) at 11:59pm! Rock down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with Ringo Deathstarr, *Repeat Repeat and Weisshund! Make your way to Terminal West for American Aquarium and Radio Birds! The Sock Hops deliver a night of ‘50s and ‘60s tunes at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre! It’s your second chance to catch Wolfgang Reitherman’s classic animated tale, THE SWORD IN THE STONE (1963) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library in Marietta at 3pm! Get some soul with Markey Blue at Red Light Café! The Fox Theatre screens Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) during the 2015 Coca Cola Summer Film Festival at 7:30pm! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Shawn O’Brian’s Roadhouse in Jackson! Get jazzy acoustic style with Elgin Wells at the Crimson Moon Café! Blues it up with Stephen the Blues Dude at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get crafty at the Georgia Freight Depot during the Indie Craft Experience featuring vendors of the vintage variety, including Kool Kat Chris Hamer of Urbnpop! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) at 10:30am, and his HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2005) at 1pm! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get funky with the Billy Thompson Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of Sting and The Police tunes with The Blue Turtles! 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, June 7

It’s day 2 of Virginia Highlands Summerfest 2015, so come on down for a day with Nathan Angelo (delta blues), Sailing to Denver (folk), Dumpstaphunk (funk) and more! Celebrate with the Fox Theatre during their Fox Theatre Block Party from 12-6pm, featuring a parade and live music! Catch performances by the Deja Blue Grass Band (bluegrass), Orquesta MaCuba (salsa), Francine Reed (blues, jazz), Tribute (Allman Brothers tribute), Bogey & the Viceroy (swanky soul) and more! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gives you a second chance to catch their “Ghibli Collection” 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) at 10:30am, and his HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2005) at 1pm! Jazz it up with David torn at the Red Light Café! Catch some bluegrass, folk and western tunes with Michael Martin Murphey at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out at the Masquerade with GBH, Total Chaos and Antagonizers ATL! Get your old-school soul and R&B fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Maryline Blackburn! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

The High Museum presents “Gordon Parks: Segregation Story” (‘50s Life Magazine photos) and “Leonard Freed: Black in White America”, (1963-1966) exhibits through June 7! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Georgia Renaissance Festival runs through June 7! (LAST CHANCE!)

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every 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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey all you Kool Kats! Shake a tail feather and come see what’s on the Retro menu this week! From classically absurd cinema to hootenannies galore to all that red-hot jazz ‘n’ blues, we’ve got it all!

Monday, May 25

Take a trip with Blast-Off Burlesque as they kick off your summer with a night of adults-only, “Summer Road Trip Americana” trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Or get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 26

Movies ATL delivers the Land ‘O Lynch with their screening of David Lynch’s absurdly weird BLUE VELVET (1986) at 7pm! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Werner Herzog’s SCREAM OF STONE (1991) during their “Werner Herzog Retrospective” series at 6:45pm! Or get devious and criminal at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of John Waters’ CECIL B. DEMENTED (2000) at 10pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Get your post-punk new wave fix at the Variety Playhouse with The Psychedelic Furs! Rock out blues-style at Eddie’s Attic with Joe Robinson and special guest, Hank Barbee! Rock out with Rush at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Or get your Billy Idol fix at the Tabernacle! 529 delivers a retro rockin’ night with Rad-Isaurus Rex, the Shivery Shakes and Highlander! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern gets cinematically retro with their screening of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get some soul at the Buckhead Theatre with The Tallest Man on Earth and Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Or surf on downstairs to a hidden paradise, at the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Get your fill of some vintage Kansas City and West Coast blues with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, May 27

Spend an evening with Chuck Palahniuk (“Fight Club”) during his book tour appearance promoting “Fight Club 2” – his graphic novel sequel at SCADShow! Make your way to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as SCENE MISSING Presents: Atlantans in a Half Shell, featuring music, comedy and puppetry based on the films of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, at 9pm! Get your rockin’ punk and scumbag revival fix at The Basement as Captain & Maybelle hosts Green Jelly, The Vaginas and Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern gives you one more chance to catch their screening of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Folk it up with Dan Navarro (Lowen & Navarro), Phil Madeira and Chuck McDowell at the Red Clay Theatre! Blind Willie’s dishes out Chicago and West Coast Blues with the Electromatics! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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, May 28

Geek it up as MomoCon 2015 kicks off their 4-day animation, anime, comics and video game fest at the Georgia World Congress Center, running through May 31! There are so many retro reasons to come on out, so get your fill of the Godzilla: 60 Years of the King panel, the “Oldies but Goodies” screenings from 3pm-12am, comic book artists, a huge dealers room, artists alley, workshops and more! Honkytonk it up at The Earl with Interstate, Two Sisters and Virginia Plane! Get cosmic with psych-jazz trio, Samadha at 529! Get down and dirty with The Dry Devils and Bathhouse Janitors at The Star Bar (Little Vinyl Lounge)! Bluegrass it up with the Georgia Mountain String Band at the Red Light Café for Bluegrass Thursday! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Black Lillies! Ian Siegal delivers his Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf-inspired blues with Little G. Weevil at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your island tunes ‘n’ cocktail fix! Heather Luttrell gets to the rockin’ root of it all at Blind Willie’s! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, May 29

Tonight begins the 2-day Candler Park Music & Food Festival filled with rockin’ tunes and finger lickin’ bites! So come on out to Candler Park cause they’re dishin’ out Leftover Salmon (bluegrass/rock/country/Cajun); The Infamous String Dusters (bluegrass) and Cosmic Charlie (Grateful Dead/Pink Floyd tribute)! It’s Day 2 of MomoCon 2015! You won’t want to miss a rockin’ performance by Go, Robo! Go, panels on The Simpsons, a Sailor Moon Gameshow, a Bullwhips with Catwoman workshop and more!

Swing it up western-style at Kavarna with Chris Scruggs, Rodeo Twister, The Mystery Men? and Kool Kat Julea Thomerson spinning some obscure vintage 45s! Get retro and folk it up with Jesse Nighswonger (Jesse & the Great Perhaps), Man up, Yancey, Noel Stephen & the Darlings and The Threadbare Skivvies at The Drunken Unicorn! Or swing on by the Red Light Café for Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing’s Circus Night with The Way to Egress! Cabaret shenanigans ensue with performances by Claire Voyant, Tippy Tapage, Candi LeCoeur, DJ Doctor Q and more! Or get some ‘50s and ‘60s soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics along with Adron at Terminal West! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for Fred Zinnemann’s (Roger & Hammerstein) OKLAHOMA (1955), running through May 31! Or get really retro and catch Fritz Lang’s M (1931) during the Goethe Zentrum/German Cultural Center’s “Germany in the 20th century through the films of German’s greatest directors” series at 6:30pm! Rock out Americana-style at The Star Bar (Little Vinyl Lounge) with Stephen Simmons and Molly Jewell! All you need is love, so make your way to the Variety Playhouse for Abbey Road Live! as they perform love songs of the Beatles! Rev on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Cigar Store Indians, The Bitteroots and The Darnell Boys! It’s ‘80s night at The Family Dog with Quasi Mandisco! Eddie’s Attic delivers Delta Moon! Boogie down and sip a few cocktails under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! John Sosebee dishes out a night of hill country blues and rockin’ jazz at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get the blues with the Kerry Hill Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns fire it up at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Marty Manous and a CD Release Party at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of classic rock ‘n’ blues with Jake and the Beanstalk and The Luxury Kings! Ian Siegal delivers his Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf-inspired blues with Little G. Weevil at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 30

The Candler Park Music & Food Festival brings you your second chance to rock out this weekend with Drive by Truckers (alt-rock/alt-country); Shovels & Rope (sloppytonk); J Roddy Walston & The Business (retro rock ‘n’ roll); the Roadkill Ghost Choir (folk rock); Southern Culture on the Skids (voodoo beach party hillbilly hootenanny); Seven Handle Circus (bluegrass/funk/soul) and Webster (rock/folk/funk)! It’s Day 3 of MomoCon 2015 and you won’t want to miss out on all the anime shenanigans, including their “Why Wonder Woman? A Feminist Icon” panel and so much more!

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at 10:30am, and his PRINCESS MONONOKE (1999) at 1pm! Get adventurous with Indy at the Aurora Cineplex (Roswell) during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 11:59pm! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their screening of George Sidney’s SHOW BOAT (1951) at 10:30am! Get folksy in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Joe Fletcher and Mitch Haney, followed by Electric Bonfire, Taylor Hollingsworth and The Stacktone Slims! Or get funky in the Music Room with Flow Tribe and Seth Winters! Michelle Malone and Wyatt Espalin deliver some rockin’ blues and Americana at Eddie’s Attic! Get jazzy with Joe Gransden at the Buckhead Tavern! Make your way to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with Mr. Gnome, the Starbenders and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters! Get folksy at Terminal West with Family & Friends, Faye Webster, Monsoon and City Mouse! Katharine Cole and Humdinger get down at the Red Light Café! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns fire it up at the Northside Tavern, with special guest Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Get your ‘90s alt-rock fix with The Dave Matthews Band at Aaron’s Lakewood Amphitheatre! Get spooky during the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s History, Mystery and Mayhem tour and event at 7pm! Rock out with The Johnson Party at The Family Dog! The Crimson Moon Café gets to swingin’, western-style, with Carolyn Martin! Celebrate 40 years with the Glenn Phillips Band (Hampton Grease Band) at the Red Clay Theatre! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Blues it up with Billy George at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rockin’ soul with Diane Durrett & Soul Suga! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night with The Sledgehammers (Peter Gabriel tribute) and The Rainmen! Albert Castiglia gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 31

It’s your last chance to geek it up at MomoCon 2015! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gives you a second chance to catch their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at 10:30am, and his PRINCESS MONONOKE (1999) at 1pm! Jazz it up with the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra and the Jazz Society of Atlanta featuring Jimmy Smith Jr. at the Red Light Café! Get cosmic at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with Brit Floyd and their “Space & Time World Tour 2015”! ATL Collective delivers a night of Stevie Wonder songs at Terminal West! The Earl delivers a night of folksy punk ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll with Continental and Rye Baby! Bluegrass it up with Controlled Burn at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Crimson Moon Café delivers a night of Kentucky bluegrass with the Kevin Prater Band! Catch the all-star western band, Back in the Saddle at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with Stephen the Blues Dude at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The High Museum presents “Gordon Parks: Segregation Story” (‘50s Life Magazine photos) and “Leonard Freed: Black in White America”, (1963-1966) exhibits through June 7!

The Georgia Renaissance Festival runs through June 7! William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This week in Retro Atlanta is chock full of red-hot jazz, redneck underground hootenannies, and Time Lords! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you! And don’t forget all the classic cinema and rowdy nitty gritty rock ‘n’ roll invading Retro Atlanta!

Monday, May 18

Monday blues got you down? Why not rock on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with JEFF the Brotherhood, the Zoners, Deep State and The Scraps! Join Blast-Off Burlesque as they start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Get to the root of it all with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 19

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO (1982) during their “Werner Herzog Retrospective” series at 6:45pm! Or get cinematically retro at the Decatur Library during their screening of John Ford’s MISTER ROBERTS (1955) at 10am! Check out Fathom Events’ Classic Music Series: R.E.M. by MTV playing at several Atlanta-area theatres at 7:30pm! Catch Devon Allman and 68-75 dishin’ out some good ole rock ‘n’ roll at Vinyl! Power pop on by Eddie’s Attic for a night with Indianapolis Jones, Peter Searcy and members of Yacht Rock Revue! Bluegrass it up with Cedar Hill, the Classy Chicks Trio and the Classical Mountain Fiddles at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Or surf on downstairs to a hidden paradise, at the Little Vinyl Lounge, for Summertime Tuesdays with Poolboy Pietro and Chase the Chum-Man Taylor! Get some soul with Joe McGuinness at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, May 20

Spend an evening with famed American photographer, Sally Mann at the Atlanta History Center! It’s a night of boot stompin’ Americana at the Red Light Café with Cortez Garza and Christopher Lockett! Psyche out at The Drunken Unicorn with Fake Flowers, Wayne Szalinkski, Buffalo Rodeo and Floral Print! Or get your (not) garage rock ‘n’ ‘70s Euro-punk fix at 529 with Gary Wrong and GG King! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get jazzy with Mace Hibbard at the Rialto Center for the Arts during the Atlanta Jazz Festival’s 31 days of Jazz event! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo blueses it up at Blind Willie’s! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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, May 21

Mac McCaughan (Superchunk) delivers a night of ‘80s indie rock and garage punk with Flesh Wounds and Gold-Bears at 529! Get ghostly and celebrate Gil Kenan’s homage and remake, POLTERGEIST (2015) during The Plaza Theater’s first ever 24-hour movie marathon! Get some soul with Mingo Fishtrap and The Congress at Vinyl! Ramble on down to Galactic Quest (Lawrenceville) for a night with the Possum Kingdom Ramblers! Get your punk fix at The Star Bar with SkinJobs, the Highriders and Dang Dang Dang! Catch Duwayne Dunham’s LITTLE GIANTS (1994) at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series at dusk. Folk it up with Studio Le Bradshaw and Mansell at Smith’s Olde Bar! Bluegrass it up with the Wayward Souls and Alex & Todd at the Red Light Café for Bluegrass Thursday! Rock out at WonderRoot with Groam, Momcat and The Black Buttons! Get sultry every Thursday at St. James Live! with their South City Jazz event! Get the blues with Geoff Achison (The Souldiggers) at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your island tunes ‘n’ cocktail fix! Blues it up with HouseRocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, May 22

It’s a Kool Kat honkytonkin’ redneck underground extravaganza tonight at The Star Bar! Stomp on down for night one of Bubbapalooza 2015 at 7 pm and get ‘yer hillbilly fix with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, Kool Kat Julea Thomerson & Her Dear Johns, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club, The Blacktop Rockets and Big Iron (featuring Jim Goad)! Check out ATLRetro’s Retro Review on Bubbapalooza’s 20th celebration here! It’s a weekend of time travel as Timegate 2015 kicks off as Atlanta’s premiere Doctor Who convention at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center through May 24! You won’t want to miss all the retro guests, music of the British Invasion by Louis Robinson & Friends and more! And jazz up your weekend with the 38th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival in Piedmont Park, free to the public and full of jazzy tunes covering three stages! Don’t miss out on Mad Satta and Thundercat kicking off this year’s festival on the Main Stage tonight!

“The Dude” bowls over the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for a second time this year with their screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their Midnight Bowling and Cocktail Party! Get retro and diva-tastic at Chastain Park with Diana Ross! Rock out with a cause at The Earl with MammaBear, Bearknuckle, Novus and DJ Jared Swilley (The Black Lips), benefitting Ignite the World! Take a nostalgic trip back to the ‘50s and ‘60s at Atlanta Symphony Hall with the Music of the Mad Men Era, conducted by Steven Reineke and featuring Nikki Renee Daniels and Ryan Silverman, at 8pm! Swing on by the Buckhead Theatre for a night with Scott Bradlee’s Post-Modern Jukebox! Or stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the Hackensaw Boys, the Jugtime Ragband and Book Club! Eighties it up at Wild Wing Café in Gainesville with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Bluegrass it up at Terminal West with The Steeldrivers with two shows (6:30/9:30pm)! Beau Soleil avec Michael Doucet Cajuns it up at the Red Clay Theatre! The Hollidays dish out a night of rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get funky with Blues Fusion Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of rockin’ boogie with Tullamore Road at the Northside Tavern! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of rockin’ jazzy blues with Wavetree! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of blues ‘n’ roots with Karp Foley! Francine Reed & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 23

Rev on down for Day 2 of Bubbapalooza 2015 at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Cletis Reid & His City Cousins, Kool Kat Phil Stair with Rocket 350, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Big Foot, Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, Bully, Chickens & Pigs, Willie Heath Neal, Hothouse Peaches, The Wheel Knockers and more! And make your way downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a little down ‘n’ dirty nitty gritty with Kool Kat Sen Artie Mondello, Whayas, The Skylarks and Kenny Howe! Hop in your T.A.R.D.I.S. for Day 2 of Timegate 2015 and get your fill of classic Doctor Who panels, a Q&A with ‘70s Doctor Who actress Katy Manning, RetroTV, The Ken Spivey Band, the Timegate Cabaret starring Lt. Moxie Magnus, the Timegate Masquerade and celebrate the anniversary of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975)! Jazz it up with Day 2 of the 38th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival! Catch The Rad Trads, Marcus Strickland “Twi-Life”, Otis Brown III and Derrick Hodge on the Main Stage! The International Stage delivers Dida Pelled, Banda Magda and Alfredo Rodriguez! Jessie Davis & the Nebraska Jones Experiment, Kenosha Kid and Wolfpack ATL get red-hot on the Locals Stage!

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) at 10:30am, and his MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at 1pm! Get rowdy at Garage71 Studios during their Gasoline & Brass Knuckles Punk Show featuring Drop Dead Nasty, Blue Tower, Crypt 24, Moreland Wrecks and Cadillac Junkies! Get debaucherous at the Red Light Café with The Dime Show Cabaret, presented by The Cirque du Lune, with performances by the Imperial OPA Circus and more! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire you up at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his Clash of the Decades: Guilty Pleasures Music Video Dance Party at Opera Nightclub! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Skank on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Slackers, The Duppies and Razorcomb! Rock on down to The Earl for The Preakness, Love Letter and Pete DeLorenzo! Get folksy with Claire Campbell, Kyshona Armstrong and HaTTrick at Kavarna! Take a second trip down memory lane at Atlanta Symphony Hall with the Music of the Mad Men Era, conducted by Steven Reineke and featuring Nikki Renee Daniels and Ryan Silverman, at 8pm! Eddie’s Attic gets rootsy with The Grahams! Lee Roy Parnell dishes out some Texas roots at the Crimson Moon Café! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Swami (Swami Gone Bananas) does the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get soulful with Grant Green Jr. at the Northside Tavern! Get the blues with Annika Chambers at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs blueses it up with The Electromatics featuring Jon Liebman! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 24

It’s your last chance to jazz it up in Piedmont Park during the 38th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival! Make your way to the Main Stage for Four Women: A Tribute to Nina Simone, the Nettwork Trio, Diane Schuur and the Pharaoh Sanders Quartet! Or catch Fernando Noronha, Jacky Ambroise & Strings, Emrah Kotan and Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra on the International Stage! And the Locals Stage gets jazzy with Joe Gransden & His Big Band, Mastery, Jeff Sparks and Tony Hightower! It’s your last chance to get geeky at Timegate 2015, so come on down for a screening of the 50th Anniversary of DOCTOR WHO & THE DALEKS (1965), starring Peter Cushing, a ‘70s glam fashion show and more! Rock out at The Earl with the Zoners, Rope and Bodyfather! Folk it up with Emisunshine at Eddie’s Attic! D.B.A. (Decatur Bluegrass Association) bluegrasses it up at Smith’s Olde Bar! Geoff Achison gets the blues at the Crimson Moon Café! Stomp down to Kavarna for a night with Blackfoot Daisy! Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gives you a second chance to catch their “Ghibli Collection” screenings with a 35mm screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) at 10:30am, and his MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at 1pm! Boogie on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for their Sultry Sunday ‘60s Party with Reggie Parks! Blues it up with Stephen the Blues Dude at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The High Museum presents “Gordon Parks: Segregation Story” (‘50s Life Magazine photos) and “Leonard Freed: Black in White America”, (1963-1966) exhibits through June 7!

The Georgia Renaissance Festival runs through June 7!

William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum’s, “Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendek in His Own Words and Pictures” getting wild through July 5!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every second Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every 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.