ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s on the Retro menu this week! From a whole ‘lotta revved up rock ‘n’ roll, to hillbilly hootenannies galore, to all the jazz and blues your rockin’ little heart could desire! And you won’t want to miss all the classic cinema we’ve found for you! So get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, May 11

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 folksy ‘90s style at the Variety Playhouse with Ani DiFranco! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Acid Mothers Temple, ST 37 and Guerilla Toss! 529 delivers a hoppin’ hootenanny with Ryley Walker, Moses Nesh and Steven Mann! Matt Pless, The Couch Hopper Band and The Black Buttons rock out at WonderRoot! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Funk it up with Greg Hester at Blind Willie’s! Catch Adam Carolla and Nate Adams’ documentary, WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN (2015), screening at The Plaza Theater through May 14! Shake a tail feather at the Red Light Café with live Flamenco featuring Carlos Menchaca, Cristian Puig and Julia la Luna, presented by Berdole Flamenco! 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 12

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Werner Herzog’s AGUIRRE THE WRATH OF GOD (1972) 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: May Day! event featuring Annette Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Get rowdy and rock on down to Terminal West for Primal Scream and The Head! Get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s extraterrestrial classic, E.T. (1982) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Celebrate 20 years of Live’s “Throwing Copper” with Ed Kowalczyk at the Variety Playhouse! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots 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! The Boohoo Ramblers deliver a night of foot stompin’ Americana 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 13

Splatter Cinema along with Kool Kat Blake Myers and Enjoy the Film (Kool Kat Ben Ruder) deliver a night of murderous mayhem at Cinevision Screening Room with their screening of Mary Harron’s gore-tastic flick, AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) at 8:30pm! And don’t forget to come early for some chilling lobby shenanigans (Keep your eyes peeled for our Retro Review soon)! The Earl delivers a night of ‘80s Brit post-punk reeking of the Talking Heads with Imagination Head, Highlander and Book of Colors! It’s a night of lonesome cowboys and dustbowl folk with Ben Trickey, David Dondero and Pete DeLorenzo at 529! Get funky with Sugarfoot at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s your last chance to get intergalactic at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s extraterrestrial classic, E.T. (1982) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or get girly and make your way to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of P.J. Hogan’s MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING (1997) at 7:3opm. Rock out blues-style with The Cazanovas 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 14

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Dusty 45s, The Mystery Men? and The Sideburners (upstairs), or stomp on downstairs for Hannah Aldridge and Betsty Franck! Blues it up with Ruthie Foster at SCADShow! Uncle Vann & the Buzzards of Fuzz, The Organ Machines and Bathhouse Janitors treat you to a night of surf rock and cow punk at Union EAV! Get rocked folk-style at The Earl with The Great Peacock and Book Club! Get your early UK punk rock (and more) fix at 529 with Zex, Bathrooms, Omotai and Waste Layer! Bluegrass it up with Benny Galloway & the Sleepy Cowboys and The War & Treaty at the Red Light Café for Bluegrass Thursday! Make your way to Philips Arena for a night with Bette Midler! Jazz it up country-style with Suzy Bogguss at the Red Clay Theatre! Get funky and get the blues with Tab Benoit, The Pimps of Joytime and The Dead 27s at Terminal West! Get some soul with Nik West at Suite Food Lounge! Get sultry every Thursday at St. James Live! with their South City Jazz event! Jam it up with Honeywood 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! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets red hot 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 15

Terminal West delivers a night of psych-rock with Reptar, the Breathers and Hello Ocho! Get your early American, Broadway and movie themes fix during Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s Symphony on the Square event at 7pm! Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love presents Curation & Cinema at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, which delves into the art of cinema curation, Film Love history and accompanied by Andy Warhol’s silent 1964 film of Taylor Mead and additional screenings of shorts, 8mms, the trippy and avant-garde and a few 1980s home movies! Consider the Source delivers a night of sci-fi middle-eastern prog rock ‘n’ funk at Aisle 5! It’s a night of ‘80s industrial metal at the Masquerade with Ministry! Then make you’re your way to the Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Ministry After Party at 10pm! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Avenue of the Giants, Passionate Mayhem and the Pelvis Breastlies (all-female Elvis tribute)! Glam it up at the 120 Tavern & Music Hall with The Prophets of Addiction, Dusty Booze, The Night Terrors and Asphalt Valentine! Jazz it up with Alex Lattimore during the High Museum’s Friday Night Remix! The Crimson Moon Café dishes out a night with Jesse & Noah! Spend the night with Butch Walker at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Blues rock it up with The Brotherland at The Family Dog! Get some vintage swagger and Kansas City/West Coast blues jump with Atlanta Boogie at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get some rockin’ soul with The Rockaholics at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Stoney Brooks delivers the blues at the Northside Tavern! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues has the Bruce Katz Band! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs rocks out with The Barry Richman Band and his Allman Brothers tribute! 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! 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 16

Go back in time for a cosmic reunion at the Georgia Renaissance Festival’s Time Warp Weekend at 10:30am! The East Atlanta Beer Fest rocks out with 230 different beers, tasty treats from our pals at Pallookaville and King of Pops and tunes by the Wasted Potential Brass Band and more! Or get some tasty treats and vittles at A Taste of the Highlands 2015 from 2-5pm with live music from the Sweet Auburn String Band and The People’s Republic of Jambodia! Get jazzy with the Melvin Jones Quintet, Theresa Hightower and more at the Atlanta Beltline Jamboree from 2-8pm! It’s a hootenanny and a half during the Shaky Boots Festival, stompin’ down to the KSU Sports/Entertainment Park through May 17, with The Whiskey Gentry and more! And haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their Malts & Vaults: Where Beer Meets History tour, from 7-8pm!

Get your old-school punk (Stooges/Bowie/MC5-esque) fix at Union EAV with Bloodplums (album release), The Love Agenda and Hot Wives! Or rock on down to 97 Estoria for Estoriafest 2015 featuring the Sealions, Easy Magick (members of Dinos Boys & Barreracudas), This Piano Plays Itself, Wyldlife, A Drug Called Tradition and more! Rock out with Pat Dinizio (The Smithereens), Nine Times Blue, Navajo Joe and Kenney Howes upstairs at The Star Bar! Or bluegrass it up with Alex Commins & Todd Prussin downstairs! Get your punk country fix at the Red Light Café with Lexi Street, wWAYLon and Will Mitchell! Rock out with The El Caminos, The Western Sizzlers and the Night Terrors at Smith’s Olde Bar! Getty jazzy at the Gwinnett Center with their The Art of Jazz event featuring The Jacques Lesure Group! Make your way to Terminal West for a night with Sonia Leigh, Lisa Goe & the Flashtastiks, Jacob Thomas Jr. and The Wheeler Boys! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Unknown Lyric gets classic at The Family Dog! Fatback Deluxe delivers some ‘40s-‘60s classic blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern for “Magic Fred’s Birthday Bash” featuring Eddie Tigner, Albert White and The Cazanovas! Get the blues with Stacy Mitchart and Bobby Thompson at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers an early show with The Nearly Normal String Band and Louis Robison during their “Fiddler’s Green” Coffeehouse Concert followed by Tony Levitas & Friends! Houserocker Johnson & 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 17

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre screens Charlie Chaplin’s silent classic, THE GOLDRUSH (1925), with an organ accompaniment from Kool Kat Ron Carter, with a pre-show organ sing-a-long, during their “2015 Silent Films” series at 3pm! Get your acid rock ‘n’ blues fix at Vinyl with Bo Ningen and Alchemy! Stomp on down for day 2 of the Shaky Boots Festival with Old Crow Medicine Show, The Devil Makes Three, Cracker and more! Those Darlins deliver some retro rock ‘n’ roll at Park Tavern! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Steve Earle & the Dukes and The Mastersons! It’s a night of rockin’ stompin’ blues at The Earl with Chickens and Pigs! Get jazzy with Virginia Schenck at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with the Kris Youmans Band during Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch! Then shimmy on back in the evening for Awalim & Aziza Nowal’s Spring Bellydance Showcase! Jazz it up with Lisa Oakley and Deb Bowman at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Curtis Jones & Primal Roots delivers a night rowdy bluegrass at the Crimson Moon Café! 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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Check it out kool kats and kittens! This week in Retro Atlanta is chock full of rockin’ retro performances and shakin’ shenanigans! Boogie down at the Shaky Knees Festival! Spook it up at the 25^th Anniversary World Horror Convention! And you won’t want to miss out on all the rock ‘n’ roll shows harkening back to the 20^th century, a week full of jazz ‘n’ blues and the big screen full of old-school flicks! Get off that couch and live la vida retro!

Monday, May 4

Geek it up at Battle & Brew in Sandy Springs and may the fourth be with you during their STAR WARS Day celebration, featuring film screenings, tasty food and themed drinks! 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Bill Sheffield delivers a night acoustic roots and blues 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! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Make your way to The Plaza Theater as they screen Jeff Bredemeier’s documentary, DANTE’S DOWN THE HATCH (2014) about Atlanta’s landmark restaurant where you could dine inside an old pirate ship with live jazz and ferocious crocodiles (See our Retro Review here) at 7:20pm, through May 7! 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 5

Get rebellious at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Randal Kleiser’s classic, GREASE (1978) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Funk it up at Aisle 5 with EMEFE, Bird City Revolutionaries and Omega Level! Get rootsy at Terminal West with Mandolin Orange and Ryan Gustafson! Get really retro at the Shakespeare Tavern as the Atlanta Chamber Players present “Grand Finale” featuring Philip Glass’ “String Quartet No. 5” and more! 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! Blues it up with Andrew Black 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 6

Wishbone Ash delivers a night of old-school rockin’ Brit rock ‘n’ blues at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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! Dale & the ZDubs rock out reggae-style at Smith’s Olde Bar! Vogue on down to the Village Theatre for the SONG MISSING Presents: MADONNATLANTA event featuring performances based on Madonna songs with Noel Stephen & the Material Girls, Blast-Off Burlesque and more! Jazz it up at St. James Live! during their grand opening red carpet event, featuring a 16-piece band, and will deliver blues, jazz, R&B and classic soul throughout the week! It’s your last chance to catch Randal Kleiser’s classic, GREASE (1978) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil 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! 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 7

Tonight begins the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend and 25th Anniversary World Horror Convention (WHC) at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, which runs through May 10 and promises to be weird and horrorificly pleasing! Spook on down for some blood curdling panels, spooky live entertainment and a whole lotta creepy shenanigans! Live long and prosper while celebrating Leonard Nimoy as Cineprov riffs his STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984) at The Plaza Theater at 7:30pm! Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers fire it up with a little prohibition pandemonium in downtown Alpharetta during Taste of Alpharetta along with von Grey! Or get your garage rock ‘n’ blues fix with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah with special guests at The Star Bar! It’s a night of glam rock ‘n’ pop at 529 with The Gooch Palms, Death Valley Girls, Coma Girls and The Marrows! Voltaire delivers a night of murder ballads with his skeletal orchestra with Ego Likeness and Finite Automata at the Masquerade! Blues it up with Roger “Hurricane” Wilson at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Rock on down to Union EAV for a night with Lux Noise, Killing Kuddles, Chandelier and the Drobotics! Boogie on down to the Rialto Center for the Arts for The Wonder Years – a dance tribute to Stevie Wonder! Blues it up with Andrew Black at the Buckhead Tavern! For a night of psyche-rock and dream pop, make your way to the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for Houston in the Blind, Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden, Earl Burrows and Angela Wolff. Or retro rock on down to the Atlanta Room for Goldwing and the Kenny George Band! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your ‘50s and ‘60s surf and rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & 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 8

Night one of the 3-day 2015 Shaky Knees Festival has arrived at Central Park, chock full of retro-inspired tunes spanning five stages! Rock on down and catch Surfer Blood (surf rock), Black Pistol Fire (rock/blues/punk), John Grant (The Czars; folk rock), the Wavves (surf rock/punk), The Kooks (post-punk revival), Manchester Orchestra (rock), TV on the Radio (retro rock), The Mountain Goats (folk), Mastadon (sludge metal), the Pixies (‘80s/’90s alt-rock), Brand New (Beach Boys/The Cars-esque), The Strokes (post-punk revival) and more! And for late night Shaky Knees shenanigans, rock on down to the Masquerade for Portugal. The Man and Small Reactions in Heaven; and The Dead Milkmen in Hell! Day 2 of the WHC is chilling with spooky retro-inspired lit panels, Kool Kat Daniel Griffith exploring the world of B-movie history and documentary filmmaking, the Lovecraft legacy, a screening of Kool Kat James Bickert’s DEAR GOD! NO! (2011), a Stephen King hour, a whole lot of horror, noir, weird fiction, a filmmaker’s lounge, a mass author signing (open to the public) and the night ending with Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. Prof. Morte and Silver Scream Spook Show’s Creepy Costume Ball! Crawl on down, if you dare! And stomp on down to Grant Park for the Pick’n Grant Park Atlanta BBQ Festival, running through May 9, with performances by Michelle Malone and more!

Eighties it up at the Craze Tavern with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! The Marcia Ball Band gets rowdy with some roadhouse blues at the Variety Playhouse! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his The 80s: New Wave Music Video Night at Famous Pub! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Grits & Soul and Rye Baby! Get funky with Earsight, Heavy Chevy and The Space Time Travelers at Smith’s Olde Bar! Retro rock on down to The Basement for a night with Olivia Jean! Or funk it up with Funky Bluester at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Catch Adam Carolla and Nate Adams’ documentary, WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN (2015), screening at The Plaza Theater at 5pm! Get your heavy classic rock fix at The Earl with Graveyard and Brother Hawk! Folk it up with Dar Williams for two shows at Eddie’s Attic! Get groovy with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern! Get some rockin’ soul with The Rockaholics at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Red Head Diamond gets mellow ‘70s-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Funk it up and boogie under the dinosaurs with The Mar-Tans at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Blues it up with Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Shuffle Junkies deliver a night of rockin’ blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! 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 9

Rock out for Day 2 of the Shaky Knees Festival with Hey Rosetta! (indie folk), Field Report (folk), Mariachi El Bronx (punk, mariachi), The Whiskey Gentry (bluegrass punk), Palma Violets (garage), Viet Cong (post-punk), The Devil Makes Three (bluegrass), The Black Lips (psych-garage), Fidlar (garage/surf), Flogging Molly (folk/punk), Built to Spill (‘90s indie), Interpol (post-punk revival), Neutral Milk Hotel (psych-folk), Social Distortion (punk), Milky Chance (psych-folk), Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (rock), Wilco (folk rock), ZZ Ward (blues rock), The Avett Brothers (roots folk) and more! Shaky Knees late night will be held at the Masquerade with Diamond Rugs and New Madrid in Purgatory and Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls in Hell! Day 3 of the WHC brings a horrorific good time with Jason Brock’s THE ACKERMONSTER CRHONICLES (2013), with a Q&A to follow with the filmmaker and William F. Nolan (“Logan’s Run”); panels discussing Flannery O’Connor and more, readings by Jack Ketchum and more; Kool Kat Blake Myers and the Buried Alive Film Festival crew screenings; along with Kool Kat Eddie Ray’s SATANIC PANIC 2: BATTLE OF THE BANDS (2014); and so much more! Day 2 of the Pick’n Grant Park Atlanta BBQ Festival brings you Yes Ma’am, the Front Porch Session Players, Jimmy Galloway, Lowdive, Grant Green Jr., the Wasted Potential Brass Band and more!

Surf on down to Kavarna for Southern Surf Stomp featuring Kinky Waikiki, The Mystiki Men? (The Mystery Men?) and The Barrow Boys! Rock on down to 529 for the Swingin’ Utters, The Warning Shots and Antagonizers ATL! Get some rhythm and soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Geek it up at Battle & Brew for their STAR WARS Cosplay Night! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola! Get folksy with Marc Cohn with two shows at Eddie’s Attic! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of psychedelic space rock with Strange Planet, GreyMarket and Bearknuckle in the Atlanta Room! Or rock on down to the Music Room for a night with The Kinky Aphrodisiacs and Satsuma! Get funky with a night of rockin’ blues and rockabilly at the 120 Tavern and Music Hall with David T & Friends, Atlanta Boogie and The Sparkletones! Get revived with John Fogerty (Credence Clearwater Revival) at the Gwinnett Center! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at The Family Dog! It’s a Harmonica Blowout at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a Led Zeppelin Tribute Jam with Mark Michelson & friends during their “Classic R&R” series! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s your second chance this week to catch Adam Carolla and Nate Adams’ documentary, WINNING: THE RACING LIFE OF PAUL NEWMAN (2015), screening at The Plaza Theater at 5pm! 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 10

It’s Day 3 and your last chance to rock out at the Shaky Knees Festival with Matthew E. White (rock/jazz), Nikki Lane (modern Wanda Jackson/rockabilly), The Damnwells (indie), the Preservation Hall Jazz Band (N.O. jazz), the Old 97s (garage), The Mowglis (rock, doowop, ‘60s), The Sheepdogs (old-time rock), Best Coast (‘50s/’60s pop), Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls (folk/punk), the Heartless Bastards (blues rock), Dr. Dog (psych-rock), Spiritualized (space rock), Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (funk/jazz), Ryan Adams (folk rock), Xavier Rudd (Aboriginal folk), Old Crow Medicine Show (roots), Minus the Bear (indie), Tame Impala (psych rock) and more! It’s your last chance to get your fill of horror literature and weird fiction at the WHC! ZZ Top and Jeff Beck will rock you out retro-style at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Get your afro-beat fix at the Variety Playhouse with Lagbaja! For a night of Django Reinhardt gypsy jazz, make your way to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for the Rhythm Future Quartet! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for their Bluegrass Brunch with Johnny Campbell & the Bluegrass Drifters! 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 Fabrefaction Theatre Company presents the timeless Broadway musical, PETER PAN, running through May 10! (LAST CHANCE)

The Alliance Theatre presents Pearl Cleage’s BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY through May 10! (LAST CHANCE)

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get hep to the jive and see what’s on the Retro menu in Atlanta this week! We’ve dug up a whole lotta shakin’ shenanigans, so boogie on down, take a peek and live la vida Retro!

Monday, April 27

Geek it up with 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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 soul with Greg Hester at Blind Willie’s! 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, April 28

Snuggle up with Al Capone at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Brian De Palma’s gangster classic, THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or get deviant at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of John Cameron Mitchell’s HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH (2001) at 10pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Rock out at the Tabernacle with Godsmack and Hellyeah! Folk it up with Ben Sollee at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Fire it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Cadillac Assembly 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, April 29

Rock out punk-style at The Earl as they screen Scott Crawford’s SALAD DAYS: A DECADE OF PUNK IN WASHINGTON, D.C. [’80-‘90] (2014) followed by Minor Threat cover band, Salad Days! Get funky at the Elliott Street Pub with Myles Brown! Get old-timey and stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Elephant Revival and Cicada Rhythm! Funk it up with Jerry on the Moon at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s your last chance to get criminal at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Brian De Palma’s gangster classic, THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Jazz it up at the Wolf Creek Branch Library (Atlanta-Fulton) during their Jazz Night Out event featuring a tribute to Nina Simone with LaTosha Brown at 6pm! Or get jazzy Latin-style at Java Monkey with Wild Rice! The Tabernacle rocks out with The Offspring and Jawws! It’s a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s 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! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, April 30

Get down and dirty at the Clermont Lounge with Kool Kats, The Joy Kills, Crazy Big Lady, Koskee and the Dirty Magazines! Get your gritty garage-grass ‘n’ hillbilly fix at The Earl with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and Strung Like a Horse! Rock on down to The Basement for a night with Doesin, Scarlett Mistress, the Great American Noise Jihad and The 200s! ARTStation presents “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, running through May 3! Get old-timey at the Red Light Café with The Duhks and the Bottom Dollar String Band! The Weight rock out at the Variety Playhouse, slingin’ The Band tunes! Make your way to Eyedrum for a night with Jon Mueller and Ben Agustin! Get folksy with Don Flemons and The Steel Wheels at Eddie’s Attic! Or folk it up with Seryn and Songs of Water at the Red Clay Theatre! 529 delivers a night of garage rock and indie surf with Rad-Isaurus Rex, Antarcticats and Good Mother! Get funky with Brown Sabbath (Brownout) and Heavy Chevy at Terminal West! Geek it up at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center as they present The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses Master Quest! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of smokin’ island tunes! Jazz it up with The Nick Longo Band during Oakhurst’s Jazz Nights! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Lazer Lloyd! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & 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 1

Make your way to The Star Bar for Songs of Love & Hate: The Music of Leonard Cohen featuring Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, Book of Colors, Michael Bradley, Ryan Peoples, Molly Harvey and more! Yacht Rock Schooner delivers a night of Steely Dan at Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Geek it up at the Masquerade with Markster Con’s Bash of the Empire IV STAR WARS party with Kool Kat VJ Anthony, featuring costume contests, rockin’ tunes and a vendor area including Kool Kat Chris Hamer of Urbnpop! Stomp down to The Earl for a night with The Bros. Landreth, Hare & the Hounds and The Skylarks! Blues it up with Tito & the Chicken Raiders at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Red Clay Theatre delivers a night with Chuck Cannon and Eliot Bronson! Bluegrass it up with the Porch Bottom Boys and Megan Saunders & the Driftless at the Red Light Café! Steve Winwood gets down at the Fox Theatre! Make your way to Union EAV for their Vinyl Potlock Party featuring vinyl, vintage video games and rockin’ tunes! The Buggs deliver a rockin’ tribute to The Beatles at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Georgia Flood gets bluesy and funks it up at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so boogie on down under the dinosaurs while sippin’ a few cocktails! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Frankie’s Blues Mission is smokin’ hot at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Make your way to The Plaza Theater as they screen Jef Bredemeier’s documentary, DANTE’S DOWN THE HATCH (2014) about Atlanta’s landmark restaurant where you could dine inside an old pirate ship with live jazz and ferocious crocodiles (See our Retro Review here) at 7:20pm! 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 2

The Star Bar gets old-timey with I Want Whisky, Lily & the Tigers and the Bottom Dollar String Band! Rock out retro-style at The Earl with Radio Birds, Slow Parade and Cicada Rhythm! Pay homage to the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 in Old Fourth Ward during their Fire in the Fourth event from 2-10pm, featuring fire installations, performances, live music with Mr. Blue Sky, the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable, The Ruby Red Band, Mausiki Scales & the Common Groove Collective and more! Webb Wilder and The Cazanovas boogie on down at Life University in Marietta! Haunt on over to the Historic Oakland Cemetery and experience their Cryptophonic Tour from 2-7pm! Or experience the Old Atlanta Prison Farm Tours at 10:30am and 1:30pm! The Drunken Unicorn delivers a night of psyche, punk and surf rock with the Blazers, Buffalo Buffalo and The Organ Machines! Folk it up with Paper Bird and Faye Webster at Vinyl! Get legendary and blues it up with the Robert Cray Band and Shemekia Copeland at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with The Doobie Brothers and Don Felder! Get your dark ‘80s Goth fix at Famous Pub with Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s BLACK OUT: Goth Industrial Night! Blues it up with the Red, White & Blues Band at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Elvis Perkins! It’s a night of rockin’ soul at the Red Light Café with Diane Durrett and Soul Suga’! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Michelle Malone and Trish Land! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Hannah Thomas and Travis Meadows! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night with Too Slim & the Taildraggers! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night with Playing on the Planet and a Stevie Wonder tribute with The BadAsh Allstar Team! Get the blues with Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Geek it up at Kings Market Shopping Center in Roswell with their Vintage Computer Festival running through May 3! Make your way to The Plaza Theater as they screen Jef Bredemeier’s documentary, DANTE’S DOWN THE HATCH (2014) about Atlanta’s landmark restaurant where you could dine inside an old pirate ship with live jazz and ferocious crocodiles (See our Retro Review here) at 7:20pm! 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 3

The Earl rocks out with Crocodiles, Del Venicci and Shark Week! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out their Bluegrass Brunch with Delta Cane followed by a night with Ryan Montbleau, Emily Kopp and Lauren St. Jane! Rock out with Tesla at the Tabernacle! Get old-timey at Grocery on Home with River Whyless and Frank Fairfield! Doo-wop it up at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with The Midtown Men! The Honeycutters deliver a night of Appalachian honkytonk at Eddie’s Attic! And 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 Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015! (LAST CHANCE)

The Fabrefaction Theatre Company presents the timeless Broadway musical, PETER PAN, running through May 10!

The Alliance Theatre presents Pearl Cleage’s BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY through May 10!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

So many goodies on the retro menu this week! We’ve got all the honky-tonkin’ ‘billy that’ll rev you up all week long! We’ve got classic cinema galore! And come on out for all the rockin’ garage, punk and old-school shows you could ever want, including the King of Surf Rock, Dick Dale; Bob Dylan; The Who and Joan Jett! Be the Kat’s meow and rock out in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, April 20

Stomp out those Monday blahs with a night of the old-school rockin’ blues of Denny Laine (Wings/Moody Blues) at Eddie’s Attic! Folk it up with Lily & the Tigers, Valley Maker and Gary Eddy at Mammal Gallery! Or make your way to Grocery on Home for a night with Alicia Witt, the Ghost of Paul Revere and Max Garcia Conover! The 20th Anniversary edition of F. Gary Gray’s ‘90s classic FRIDAY (1995) screens at several local theatres [Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake 24 (Morrow); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)] at 7:30pm! Get geeky with 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! 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! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of roots ‘n’ soul with Brandon Reeves! 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, April 21

It’s a night of folk rock and gypsy jazz at the Red Light Café with The Ragbirds and Carly Gibson! Folk it up with Willie Watson and Lauren Shera at Eddie’s Attic! The Georgia Tech Jazz Ensemble rocks out to the tunes of Radiohead, Soundgarden and Steely Dan at the Ferst Center! Holly Golightly on down to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Blake Edwards’ classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Anthony Asquith’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1952) at 10am! And catch the 20th Anniversary screening of F. Gary Gray’s FRIDAY (1995) at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville) at 7:3opm! 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! Fire it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some soul with The Hollidays 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, April 22

Get vintage and stomp on down to Aisle 5 for a night with Miss Tess & the Talkbacks and Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen! Folk it up with Darlingside and Bombadil at Eddie’s Attic! SCENE MISSING Magazine presents Atlantarantino, at the Highland Inn Ballroom, delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on Quentin Tarantino films! Emory Cinematheque screens John Boorman’s eerie tale, DELIVERANCE (1972) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Blake Edwards’ classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! And it’s your last chance to catch TCM’s presentation of the 50th Anniversary of Robert Wise’s classic, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) screening in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Merchant’s Walk Stadium Cinemas 14 (Marietta); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake 24 (Morrow); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Get funky in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Wasted Potential Brass Band! Or hillbilly it up in the Music Room with Cash O’Riley, Wyatt Espalin and Maya Neiada! For a night of scrappy punk and cosmic sludge, rock on down to 529 for MTN ISL, Muuy Biien and Bataille (formerly Georges Bataille Battle Cry)! Blues on down t0 Blind Willie’s for a night with The Boohoo Ramblers! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, April 23

Surf on down to The Earl for a night with the legendary ‘King of the Surf Guitar’, Dick Dale (See ATLRetro’s feature here) and Moonbase! The Who, with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, invades the Gwinnett Center! The “Master of Suspense” invades the Palmetto Branch of the Atlanta Public Library with their Alfred Hitchcock Film Fest from 2pm-7pm, featuring his THE 39 STEPS (1959) and PSYCHO (1960)! Get old-timey at the Variety Playhouse with The Earls of Leicester! Rock out with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and The London Souls at Smith’s Olde Bar! Never grow up and make your way to the Fabrefaction Theatre Company for their presentation of the timeless Broadway musical, PETER PAN, running through May 10! Blues it up at The Star Bar with “Brassier Blues” featuring Julie Gribble, Katie Martin, Halle Johnson, Allie Lee, Mandi Strachata, Barb Carbon and Skye Paige! Get really retro at the Rialto Center for the Arts as Georgia State University ensembles present an evening of Finnish music celebrating the 150th anniversary of Jean Sibelius’ birth, with a reception to follow provided by the Atlanta Finland Society! Jazz it up with Bryan Bromberg at Suite Food Lounge! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Secret Sisters and Dean Fields! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of smokin’ island tunes! Jazz it up with Frank Barham during Oakhurst’s Jazz Nights! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with City Hotel, American Hologram and the Georgia Mountain String Band! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of rockin’ Americana with Emily Kate Boyd! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & 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! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. And catch the 20th Anniversary screening of F. Gary Gray’s FRIDAY (1995) at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville) at 7:3opm!

Friday, April 24

Make your way into the Final Frontier during Treklanta, Atlanta’s annual sci-fi con dedicated to space opera and Star Trek, running through April 26, at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, celebrating the life of Leonard Nimoy! Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta presents Jack Willis’ films chronicling the Civil Rights Movement [LAY MY BURDEN DOWN (1966) and THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962)] at Emory’s White Hall at 7pm! Rock out at 529 (day shows) and The Earl (night shows) for Atlanta Mess-Around 2015! Daytime shows at 529 include Hector’s Pets, Paint Fumes, Slugga and the Zoners! Then make your way to The Earl for Pissed Jeans, GG King, Obnox, Whatever Brains, GHB and Wymyns Prysyn! The Dude invades the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their Midnight Bowling and Cocktail Party!

Get old-school and folk it up with Bob Dylan at the Fox Theatre! The Red Light Café delivers a night of rowdy bluegrass with Heyday Revival and special guests, Joe Dunn & Ajay Chavez and hosted by Salome Cabaret’s Big Gay James and more! Yacht Rock Revue performs the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” and more at the Variety Playhouse! Get revved at Motorheads in McDonough with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles! Rumors and their Fleetwood Mac tribute rock out at The Star Bar! Get funky with Zach Deputy at Smith’s Olde Bar! Stomp on down to Java Monkey for a night with Blackfoot Daisy! Swami Gone Bananas rocks out ‘70s-style at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! The Villain Family, Mr. Blue Sky and Andrea Colburn deliver a night of garage country and folksy jazz at 529! Get some old-style southern blues at the Crimson Moon Café with Dave Boyd! 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! Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows get red-hot at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of Americana and blues with Heather Luttrell! The HoboHemians deliver a night of old-time ‘20s and ‘30s jazz at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so shake a tail feather under the dinosaurs while sippin’ a few cocktails! Blues it up with Atlanta Boogie 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, April 25

It’s that time of year again, folks! Rock on down to the 44th Annual Inman Park Spring Festival, running through April 26, featuring 3 stages of live music, home tours, a street parade, an artist’s market and more! Rockin’ retro performances include, Book of Colors, Mr. Blue Sky, the Myles Brown Band, 10 Degrees Off, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers, Brian Ashley Jones, Cooper Tisdale, Kool Kat Amy Pike and Bonaventure Quartet, the Georgia Soul Council, Diamond Thief, A Moment Electric, R. Garcia and more! And it’s day 2 of Atlanta Mess-Around 2015, so rock on down to 529 for the Barreracudas, OBN IIIs, Giorgio Murderer, The Secret Prostitutes, Uniform and Easy Magick! Night shows follow at The Earl with the Flamin’ Groovies, Gentlemen Jessie & His Men, Blaxxx, NOTS, PAMPERS and The Gaye Blades!

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys and El Capitan & the Band With No Name! Or rock on down to Union EAV for a night of the nitty gritty with Woven In, Swank Sinatra, Denderea Bloodbath, The Gnar Wave Rangers and mtvghosts! Get funky and avant-garde at the Goat Farm Arts Center with Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra with James Harrar’s collaborative artist think-tank, Cinema Soloriens! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Moonlighters and the Scott Draffin Quartet! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their “Members-Only” screening of Jim Henson’s THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at 7pm! Get your horror punk fix with Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures as they pay tribute to The Ramones at the Mule Camp Tavern in Gainesville! Or get your horror surf fix with Genki Genki Panic at the Burnt Hickory Brewery in Kennesaw! 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! Punk out Cramps-style at Kavarna with Air Wolves! Stomp on down to the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with American Hologram followed by Chuck Mead and Kool Kat Cletis & His City Cousins! Or get your classic rock fix in the Music Room with 68-75 and the Gasoline Brothers! For a night of dirty rock ‘n’ roll, head on down to the Elliott Street Pub for Nathan Kalish & the Wildfire! Jimbo Mathis & the Tri-State Coalition delivers a night of old-time blues and country at the Red Clay Theatre! The Family Dog delivers a night of Americana and folk with the Tyler Nail Trio! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Jimmy Webb! Folk it up with Kate & Corey and The Good Graces at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get the blues with Francine Reed & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with Damon Fowler! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with The Stooge Brothers 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, April 26

Swing on by day 2 of the 44th Annual Inman Park Spring Festival featuring rockin’ performances by Flat Rock Swing, Black Lion, Larkin Poe, Sweet Claudette, Michelle Malone, the Rocket 88s, The Backyard Birds, The Rainmen, Webb Wilder, Ike Stubblefield, Sea Ghost, Woven In, Momcat, Man Up, Yancey, Plague of Pilgrams and more! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar for their Bluegrass Brunch with the Porch Bottom Boys! Stick around for a rockin’ night with Eddie Spaghetti (Supersuckers), Sean Thomason and Taylor Hollingsworth! Get some soul with Moonchild at Vinyl! Get your old-school radio drama fix with the premiere of Season 3 of HARRY STRANGE RADIO DRAMA on www.ksuradio.com at 10pm! Hula on down to The Lawrence and get your ‘50s and ‘60s surf and rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Jazz it up with Joe Alterman, Houston Person and The Hot Sardines at the Rialto Center for the Arts! Blues it up at Grocery on Home with Water Liars and Marshall Ruffin! Rock over to the Masquerade for a night with Buckcherry, Sons of Texas and Needeep!, For a night of rockin’ blues, come on down to Steve’s Live Music dishes out a Spring Cabaret featuring the students of funky folkster, Heidi Pollyea! Get some soul and tasty vittles at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Fatback Deluxe! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents Don Farrell’s “My Fair Lady” through April 26! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Shakespeare Tavern presents Andrew Houchins’ adaptation of Thornton Wilde’s “Our Town” running through April 26! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

The Fabrefaction Theatre Company presents the timeless Broadway musical, PETER PAN, running through May 10!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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

Monday, April 13

Rock on down to Vinyl for a night of rockin’ blues with Howlin’ Rain and Marshall Ruffin! The Resurgence Theatre Co. presents THE TAMER TAMED by John Fletcher at the Shakespeare Tavern, running through April 17! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their screening of GREY GARDENS (1976), directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Houde and Muffie Meyers at 7pm! Get geeky with 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member big band gets to swingin’ at the Georgia Ensemble Theatre with his “One O’Clock Jump – The Sounds of Count Basie” concert! 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!’ Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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, April 14

The Suffers and Black Linen deliver a night of classic American soul and rock ‘n’ roll at The Earl! Swing on by Eddie’s Attic, gypsy-style for a night with Caravan of Thieves and Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen! 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 Tuesday Laveau, Annette Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Spend an evening with Peter O’Toole at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema during their screening of David Lean’s classic tale, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) during the “Midtown Classics” series at 7pm! Or get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots, Barbwire Bluegrass and One Fret Down 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! Fire it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! 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, April 15

The tax man got you down? Let Retro Atlanta wipe it all away! The Goblin King invades the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Jim Henson’s ‘80s fantasy, LABYRINTH (1986) at 7pm! Flamenco down to the Red Light Café as Berdole Flamenco presents Vicente Griego and Joaquin Encinias! It’s your last chance to get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Blues it up country-style with Tito & the Chicken Raiders at Blind Willie’s! The Earl delivers a night of retro rock with JD McPherson and John Paul Keith! Get funky with The 200s at the Elliott Street Pub! Or for your retro pop fix, make your way to Mammal Gallery for a night with Madeline, El Hollin and Femignome! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, April 16

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Bloodshot Bill dish out a ruckus and a half at The Earl! Honkytonk it up with Jesse Dayton Hardcharger at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your ‘50s and ‘60s surf and rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Get your ‘80s glam metal and retro rock ‘n’ roll fix at the 120 Tavern & Music Hall with Faster Pussycat, Bigfoot and The Damned Angels! Gareth Asher gets some soul at the Buckhead Tavern! Rock on down to Mammal Gallery for a night with the Memes, Floral Print, Blis and Small Reactions! Funk it up with Kung Fu, Twiddle and Funk You at Terminal West! Jazz it up with The Upbeatniks with Kodac Harrison during Oakhurst’s Jazz Nights at the Solarium! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with Bradford Lee Folk & the Bluegrass Playboys, 44 Smokeless and the Whoa Nelly Bluegrass Band! Russ Still & the Moonshiners deliver a night of traditional country and blues at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & 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, April 17

Rock out during this year’s 3-day Sweetwater 420 Fest at Centennial Olympic Park with a whole rock harkening back to the 20th century, running through April 19! Tonight’s lineup includes Beats Antique, Cold War Kids and more! Then make your way to Terminal West for an after party featuring a Pink Floyd tribute, Pigs on the Wing! Or rev on over to Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Motorama Pre-Party, hosted by Kool Kat Reverend Andy of Garage71 Internet Radio and featuring The Blacktop Rockets and more! Groove on down to the Red Light Café for a night of seduction during Sadie Hawkins’ Last Pasties Standing: Disco All-Star Invitational, featuring a sultry line-up of Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Scarlett DeWolfe, Kool Kat Roula Roulette, The Chameleon Queen, Ada Manzart, Sin Tillating, Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Kool Kat Talloolah Love and more!

Make your way to The Plaza Theater as they screen Jef Bredemeier’s documentary, DANTE’S DOWN THE HATCH (2014) about Atlanta’s landmark restaurant where you could dine inside an old pirate ship with live jazz and ferocious crocodiles (See our Retro Review here)! Or make your way to the Toco-Hill-Avis G. Williams Library as they screen Robert Mulligan’s classic, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at 1:30pm! Rock out with Hot Tuna Electric at the Variety Playhouse! Five-Eight and James Hall rock out at The Star Bar! Celebrate 30 years of Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ at the Buckhead Tavern! Jazz it up with Michael Abene at the Rialto Center for the Arts! Rock out with Bryan Adams at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! The Drunken Unicorn delivers a night of rockin’ punk and ska with Ye Flask, Trial by Stone, Chilled Monkey Brains and Ganges Phalanges! Rock out blues-style at The Family Dog with The Brotherland! Curtis Harding delivers his gritty, sweat-dripping, hip swingin’ blues at the High Museum! It’s an evening of classic soul from the ‘60s and ‘70s at Atlanta Symphony Hall with Capathia Jenkins and Darius deHaas! The Breeze Kings deliver a night of Chicago and West Coast blues with Carlos Capote at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get old-timey with the Georgia Crackers at the Crimson Moon Café! New Wave it up at the The Jungle Club during Fixation Smoke & Mirrors! The Yuppie Scum Band rocks out at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Francine Reed dishes out the bleus at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern gets the blues with Stoney Brooks! Fire it up with JP Soars & the Red Hots at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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 with the Wild Hares 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, April 18

It’s National Record Store Day! So make your way to Atlanta’s favorite independent record stores, including Criminal Records, Wax N’ Facts and Fantasyland Records and check out all the rockin’ shenanigans they have in store! The Music Room will be hosting a classic vinyl silent auction as well, so come on out and celebrate vinyl! Rock on down to day 2 of the Sweetwater 420 Fest in Centennial Olympic Park featuring Marc Broussard, The Wood Brothers, Anders Osborne, Gov’t Mule, Primus, MarchFourth Marching Band and more! After the festivities, groove on down to the Loft for a night with Cosmic Charlie, paying tribute to the Grateful Dead! Shake a tail feather at the Red Light Café during DJ Doctor Q’s Saturday Speakeasy Electroswing event, featuring Ada Manzart, Claire Voyant, Lucy Purr, Sadie Hawkins and dance lessons by Down South Swing! Or surf on down to Kavarna for Southern Surf Stomp at 8:30pm featuring Eddie Angel (Los Straitjackets), The Penetrators and Rodeo Twister! Get really retro in Fairburn and celebrate 30 years of the Georgia Renaissance Festival, running through June 7! Rock out for positive social change during ChangeFest 2015 at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, featuring rockin’ tunes by The Glenn Phillips Band with special guest, Cindy Wilson (B-52s); Robert Schneider of The Apples in stereo, new-wave legends, The Swimming Pool Qs, the Starboarders and more!

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre delivers an adventurous marathon of Steven Spielberg’s epic INDIANA JONES TRILOGY, with screenings of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 2pm, THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) at 5pm and THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) at 9pm! Dweezil Zappa performs his “Zappa Plays Zappa” show for the “One Size Fits All” 40th Anniversary at the Variety Playhouse! Get funky with Pimps of Joytime and Spectralux at The Drunken Unicorn! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire you up at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at the Elliott Street Pub! For a night of down and dirty rock ‘n’ roll, head on over to The Star Bar for Kool Kats The Blackfoot Gypsies, Stonerider and Brother Hawk! Tribute rocks out at 120 Tavern & Music Hall with Allman Brothers tunes! Bluegrass it up with Bluebilly Grit at the Crimson Moon Café! Get the blues with Randall Bramblett at Eddie’s Attic! Donna Hopkins delivers a night of rockin’ roots with Dyn-O-Mite at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Its night 2 featuring classic soul from the ‘60s and ‘70s at Atlanta Symphony Hall with Capathia Jenkins and Darius deHaas! Get jazzy with Earl Klugh at the Ferst Center! Kool Kat Mary Fahl performs at the Red Clay Theatre! Stomp on down to The Family Dog for a night with the Boohoo Ramblers! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get bluesy at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with Bobby Messano! The Northside Tavern celebrates Sean Costello with performances by Blues Fish with Robert Lee Coleman, the Cody Matlock Band, The Hollidays and more! Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue fires it up 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, April 19

It’s day 3 and your last chance to rock out at the Sweetwater 420 Fest! Come on down for a day with The Revivalists, Delta Rae, 311, The London Souls, the Wailers and more! Or stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for ATL Collective and their presentation of Ray Charles’ “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music,” with two shows! TCM Presents the 50th Anniversary of Robert Wise’s classic, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) screening in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; Merchant’s Walk Stadium Cinemas 14 in Marietta; 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 spend the day with the Goblin King at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at 2pm! Make your way to The Marlay House for the Atlanta Tolkien Fans April Meet-up! The BadAsh Allstar Team pays tribute to Stevie Wonder at the Red Light Café! For a night of rockin’ blues, come on down to the Variety Playhouse for The Waterboys! It’s Sultry Sunday with Michelle Marshall at Steve’s Live Music! The Bluegrass Flashmob bluegrasses it up at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jazz it up Diana Krall at the Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get some soul and tasty vittles at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Fatback Deluxe! Bluegrass it up at the Crimson Moon Café with Front Country! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theatre presents Phillip DePoy’s gothic murder mystery, EDWARD FOOTE, haunting through April 19! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents Don Farrell’s “My Fair Lady” through April 26! The Shakespeare Tavern presents Andrew Houchins’ adaptation of Thornton Wilde’s “Our Town” running through April 26!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey kiddies! Spring has sprung, so come on out and see what’s on the Retro menu this week! ‘Tis the season for outdoor festivals promising rockin’ shindigs and shakin’ shenanigans! And of course we’ve got all the red hot jazz ‘n’ blues you could ever want, a week full of classic cinema and so much more! So, get up and get out in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, April 6

Boogie on down to Octane Coffee for stoked!, featuring a night of classic punk and rock ‘n’ roll! Or polka it up at Pallookaville as they and Blast-Off Burlesque present Atlanta’s only Dingus Day Celebration featuring a Polka dance party with accordionist Vincent Aleandri and DJ Barbilicious spinning Polka hits! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! 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, April 7

Get tempted with the best of ‘em at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s screening of Martin Scorsese’s THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) during the “Midtown Classics” series at 7pm! Or go where no man has gone before, to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Eddie’s Attic dishes out a night of old-school doo-wop, R&B and soul with The Impressions! Groove on down to The Earl for a night with The Bright Light Social Hour and The Tontons! Funk on down to Aisle 5 for a night with The 200s, Progger and The Indie Revenge! Get really retro at Pallookaville with Jim Stacy’s culinary anthropological series, “Eat Like An American Colonist” at 7:30pm! 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! Get folksy with the Wrinkle Neck Mules at Smith’s Olde Bar! Fire it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ roots with Joe McGuinness! 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, April 8

Holly Golightly to the Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta during their screening of Blake Edwards’ BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) at 7:30pm! Take a voyage to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Jazz it up with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! 529 rocks out with Glen Iris, Rope, Moonbase and SWOTS! Rock on down to Aisle 5 for New Car Caviar: A Jamgrass Tribute to Pink Floyd! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, April 9

Rev on down to Tannery Row Artist Colony as Garage71 Studio brings you a vintage motorcycle display and their Deep Eddy Vodka Artist Series, featuring Kustom Kulture Art and pin-stripe artist, Charles Tyre, and so much more! Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghostriders Car Club fires it up at the Clermont Lounge! Rock out with some punk cabaret at the Variety Playhouse with An Evening With Amanda Fucking Palmer (Dresden Dolls)! Jazz it up with Kebbi Williams during Oakhurst’s Jazz Nights at the Solarium! Get to the root of it all with Heather Luttrell at Blind Willie’s! The Earl delivers a night of rockin’ folk with Book Club and Hope for agoldensummer! Get old-timey and bluegrass it up with Whiskey Shivers and the Stovetop Ramblers at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down and dirty at 529 with The Dirty Magazines, Alias for Now, Sex Snobs and Spray Tan! Get retro theatre-style as the Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents Don Farrell’s “My Fair Lady” by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, running through April 26! Have a saxxy good time with Pamela Williams, the “Saxtress” at Suite Food Lounge! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with The Fustics and Brillig! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of fiery 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, April 10

Spring has sprung and so has the 3-day 79th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival in Piedmont Park, featuring live music, an artist’s market, festival food, rides, games and more! Make your way to the main stage for a rockin’ good time with Dangerous Basement, The Space Time Travelers, Freddy’s Finest, Angelina Sheri, The Harlem Albright Band, Eric Thomas & Elevate the Quest and more! Geek it up and get your Sherlock Holmes fix at this year’s 221B Con promising a weekend chock full of Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who, H.G. Wells, The Hobbit, fan fiction and more, being held at the Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center and running through April 12!  The Star Bar delivers a night of retro rockin’ R&B and Delta psyche with Bipolaroid, A Drug Called Tradition and Jessica Lee Wilkes! Catch Jack Clayton’s cinematic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, THE GREAT GATSBY (1974) at Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Boogie on down with Yacht Rock Revue and their 6th Annual Reagan Rock Prom at Park Tavern! It’s a night of blues rock and soul at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Last Waltz Ensemble, Liz Brasher and The Georgia Flood! Swing on by Vinyl for a stompin’ good time with The Dustbowl Revival and City Hotel! Get musical at the Shakespeare Tavern with Andrew Houchins’ adaptation of Thornton Wilde’s “Our Town” running through April 26! Rock out with Radio Cult with Bambi Lynn at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with Jordan Igoe and the rock n roll soul siren, Rosey! Fancy it up with GSU’s Opera Theatre & Symphony Orchestra at the Rialto Center for the Arts as they present LA BOHEME by Giacomo Puccini at 8pm, running through April 12! The Variety Playhouse dishes out a night of roots rock with James McMurtry! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Heather Luttrell! Blues it up with Selwyn Birchwood at Blind Willie’s! Get folksy with Mipso at Eddie’s Attic! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Diedre & the Ruff Pro Band get the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Electromatics will have you shakin’ a tail feather under the dinosaurs as they deliver a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! It’s a night of indie folk at the Tabernacle with The Decemberists! Blues it up with Larry Griffith 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, April 11

Make your way to Piedmont Park for day 2 of the 79th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival featuring live music by Rhonda Thomas, the JP Blues Band, The Tin Man, the Natti Love Joys, Gareth Asher & the Earthlings, the Lefty Williams Band, Cigar Store Indians and more! Or spring onto Ponce for their 4th Annual Spring Festival on Ponce at the Olmsted Linear Park featuring 125 local artists, live acoustic music, gourmet food trucks and more, running through April 12! Oink on down to the Masquerade for Hogs & Hops Atlanta, featuring beer ‘n’ BBQ and rockin’ tunes by The Geeks and the Sweet Auburn String Band!

It’s a night of rockin’ punk poets at The Star Bar with their I’M BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT: A Tribute to Lou Reed event, featuring The Skylarks, Blake Rainey & His Demons, Bottlekids, Noel Summerall and Weary Heads! Rock on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with The Bangles and A Fragile Tomorrow! Make your way to the Lefont Theatre for their screening of GREY GARDENS (1976), directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Houde and Muffie Meyers at 10:30am! It’s a night of punk, blues and voodoo funk at Union EAV with Sonic Graffiti, Momcat and Bully Pulpit! Disco it up at Kavarna with the Susi French Connection! Get bluesy in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with the AJ Ghent Band and Greg Humphrey’s Electric Trio! Or stomp on over to the Atlanta Room for a night with Tedo Stone, Kip Bradley and Cicada Rhythm! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their Malts & Vaults: Where Beer Meets History tour, from 7-8pm! Costume it up at Battle & Brew in Sandy Springs at their Disney Cosplay Night, with photo-ops, costume contests and more! Or boogie on down to the Famous Pub in your best immortal get-ups for RITUAL’s Gods & Goddesses Party! Radar delivers a night of rock ‘n’ roll at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with a reunion show! Blues it up with Eddie Shaw & the Wolfgang at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with the Elgin Wells Group at the Red Clay Theatre! Get folksy for night 2 of The Decemberists at the Tabernacle! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with The Cazanovas! Get funky with Swami Gone Bananas and Vanilla Gorilla at the Northside Tavern! Diedre & the Ruff Pro Band get the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Bluegrass it up with Nu-Blu at the Crimson Moon Café! It’s a night of hill country and juke joint blues at The Family Dog with The John Sosebee 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, April 12

Eddie’s Attic delivers their Gospel Brunch, featuring Eric “Ricky” McKinnie (Blind Boys of Alabama), Harold Holloway & Co. and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck with the Atlanta Horns, at 11:30am! Then stick around for two rockin’ sets with Edwin McCain at 6pm and 8:3opm! Or brunch it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Cedar Hill! It’s your last chance and day 3 of the 79th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival, so come on down and get funky with Alana Royal, Them Wagoneers, Crane and more! Support local artists and craftsmen/women at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s Lovecrafts: Treasures from the Deep event running from 1pm to 6pm! Bluegrass it up with Front Country and City Mouse at the Red Light Café! Get traditional, Celtic-style at Steve’s Live Music with the Cape Breton Trio! Get some soul and tasty vittles at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Fatback Deluxe! 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 Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents the “Gilda Radner Research and Translation Center”, an unofficial academic-ish platform for the analysis of Radner’s life and comedy, running through April 11! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Alliance Theatre presents Phillip DePoy’s gothic murder mystery, EDWARD FOOTE, haunting through April 19!

The Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents Don Farrell’s “My Fair Lady” through April 26!

The Shakespeare Tavern presents Andrew Houchins’ adaptation of Thornton Wilde’s “Our Town” running through April 26!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

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!

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 dishes out all the funk, jazz, shenanigans of the circus variety, classic films, rockin’ shindigs and smokin’ hot blues you can handle! So get off that couch and live la Vida Retro!

Monday, March 30

Get geeky with 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! Catch Sidney Lumet’s classic, 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library’s “Brown Bag Lunch Film Series” at 12pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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!’ Blind Willie’s delivers a night of funk ‘n’ soul with Greg Hester! 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, March 31

The Plaza Theater kinks it up with John Waters’ PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) at 7:45pm, kicking off their John Waters Festival, running through April 4! Get some sci-fi thrills at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of John Carpenter’s, THE THING (1982) at 10 pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of George Lucas’ AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) during their “Midtown Classics” series at 7pm! Get epic with Charlton Heston at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Cecil B. DeMille’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s your second chance to “Brat Pack” it up with a screening of John Hughes’ ‘80s classic, THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) at 7:30pm at movie theaters across Atlanta (Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Carmike 12 in Snellville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow and Regal McDonough Stadium 16)! 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! Funk it up with T Bird & the Breaks and The Breeze Kings at Smith’s Olde Bar! Stomp on down to 529 for a night with Joshua Fletcher, Adam Klein & the Wild Fires and Goldwing! Folk it up with Damien Rice at the Tabernacle! Blind Willie’s fires it up with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! 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, April 1

Haunt down to the Alliance Theatre for the world premiere of Atlanta playwright and author, Phillip DePoy’s gothic murder mystery, EDWARD FOOTE, running through April 19! Get bizarre at The Plaza Theater with their screening of John Waters’ FEMALE TROUBLE (1972) at 7:45pm, followed by PECKER (1998) at 9pm! Or get murderous with Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER (1986) at Emory’s White Hall at 7:30pm! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Get smooth at the Village Theatre with SONG MISSING PRESENTS: Hallanta & Oates, delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on Hall & Oates tunes at 9pm! Get your retro rock, funk ‘n’ blues fix at The Earl with Think Never, Hobbiest, The Dirty Souls and Liz Brasher & Her Band! Funk it up with a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Part the Red Sea at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Cecil B. DeMille’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza 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! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, April 2

Get hellacious at 7 Stages during Liquid Sky’s hell-raising event, “Dante’s Inferno”, featuring high-flying circus shenanigans with The Imperial OPA, Cirque Freaks and Inspire Aerial Arts, firin’ it up through April 5! The John Waters Festival continues with The Plaza Theater’s screening of DESPERATE LIVING (1977) at 7:45pm! Get artsy, punk rock-style at The Star Bar with Starbenders, Darling Norman and BlackFox! Mischief and mayhem ensues at the Masquerade with The Ataris, The Biters and wWAYLon! Rock out at The Earl with Chuck Prophet and The Tim Lee 3! For a rockin’ night of French chamber pop make your way to Mammal Gallery for Gage Gilmore, Peter Webb, Floral Print and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer! Folk it up at the Red Light Café with Jeremiah Daly, Logan Vath and Anthony Aparo! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of fiery island tunes! Blues it up with John Ginty at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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, April 3

The Star Bar rocks out and revs it up with Slim Chance & the Convicts, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, The Rainmen, The Blacktop Rockets, The Lizardmen and Kenny Howes & the Wow! Kool Kat Rev. Andy with Garage71 Internet Radio slings a night of rockabilly, old-school punk, ‘80s metal and more, with a BonesArt exhibit at the Diesel Filling Station! It’s prohibition-era pandemonium at The Earl with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers’ Two Night Stand with The Darnell Boys! The John Waters Festival continues at The Plaza Theater with a screening of POLYESTER (1981) at 7:45pm! Groove down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular! It’s a night of ‘60s psychedelic pop and ‘70s-esque rock at the Red Light Café with Wussy and The Fairshake! 529 delivers a rockin’ shindig with Concord America, Shampoo, Monsoon and Daddy Issues! Bluegrass it up with Barry Waldrep at the Crimson Moon Café! The Drunken Unicorn delivers a night of garage rock ‘n’ indie pop with Coma Girls, Spines and Gold-Bears! Bluegrass it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with the Jason Kenney Trio! Trullie Brae gets the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get funky with Zydefunk and Laura Reed at the Northside Tavern! Rock out at Mammal Gallery with Man Up, Yancey, Wieuca, the Great American Noise Jihad and Femignome! Hottie Hawgs BBQ gets bluesy with Tito & the Chicken Raiders! Boogie down at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event while sippin’ a few cocktails with Platinum Band Atlanta! 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, April 4

Surf on down for a night of shakin’ shenanigans at the Drunken Unicorn with Sex BBQ (check out our Kool Kat interview soon!), Young Rapids and Mammabear! The Plaza Theater closes out the John Waters Festival with their screening of HAIRSPRAY (1988) at 4pm! Rock out at The Star Bar with The All Night Drug Prowlin’ Wolves, The Forty-Fives, Zoners, Skin Jobs, Blake Rainey & His Demons, Bully and Hot Ram! Stomp down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Ordinary Bitters and the Todd Prusin Experience! Get absurd and rock out with the madness that is, Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton at Good ‘Ol Days Pub! It’s night 2 of Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers’ Two Night Stand, delivering a night of Dixieland jazz with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen at The Earl! Barry Waldrep & Friends bluegrass it up at Eddie’s Attic! The Red Light Café delivers a night of jazz and spoken word with Kodac Harrison and The Upbeatniks, followed by the Yonrico Scott Band with Joseph Patrick Moore and Nick Rosen! Get funky with the Jeff Sipe Trio and Curtis Jones & Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Aisle 5 delivers a night of psychedelic funk fusion and vintage ‘70s rock with The Orange Constant and the Atlas Road Crew! Get hardcore and old-school at the Masquerade with Biohazard, Sworn Enemy and Cross Me! EG Kight delivers her southern-fried blues at the Crimson Moon Café! Boogie down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Banks & Shane! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins fires it up at the Northside Tavern! 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, April 5

Surf on down to 97 Estoria for a night of monstrous mayhem with Daikaiju! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers their Bluegrass Brunch with the Decatur Bluegrass Association (D.B.A.)! And get the blues with Snakelegs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The 35th Annual Atlanta Fair is being held at Turner Field through April 5! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents the “Gilda Radner Research and Translation Center”, an unofficial academic-ish platform for the analysis of Radner’s life and comedy, running through April 11!

The Alliance Theatre presents Phillip DePoy’s gothic murder mystery, EDWARD FOOTE, haunting through April 19!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

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!

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 kiddies! Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow and is chock full of goodies, with cult classics to a whole ‘lotta honkytonk shenanigans, blues and rock n roll! Forget Blueberry Hill, guys and gals! Get your thrills in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, March 23

Get your ‘90s British psychedelia and alt-rock fix with Swervedriver at Terminal West! Or rock down to the Drunken Unicorn for a night with Cinema Novo, Eula and Sheeba Darwin! Folk it up with Sara Louise, Moses Nesh and Lebo Jenkins at the Mammal Gallery’s Cropland Ramble! Get geeky with 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! Catch Jonathan Demme’s PHILADELPHIA (1993) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library’s “Brown Bag Lunch Film Series” at 12pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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 roots ‘n’ soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! 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, March 24

Rock out at The Earl with Sabadoh, Qui and The Preakness! Get really retro at Pallookaville with Jim Stacy’s second in his culinary anthropological series, “Eat Like A Native American” at 7:30pm! Feufollet and Megan Jean & the KFB deliver a night of rockin’ Americana, avant-garde punk ‘n’ Cajun tunes at Eddie’s Attic! Take a trip through the universe with the award-winning astrophysicist, author and host of FOX’s COSMOS, Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Fox Theatre! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Bob Rafelson’s FIVE EASY PIECES (1970) during their “Midtown Classics” series at 7pm! 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! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern has made an offer you can’t refuse with their screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER (1972), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for the world premiere screening of Danielle Bernstein’s IMBA MEANS SING (2015), with a pre-show performance by Yacht Rock Revue with the Atlanta Music Project Choir! Jazz it up gypsy-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands! The Hollidays deliver a night of rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll 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, March 25

SCENE MISSING Magazine presents My Neighbor Atlantotoro, at the Highland Inn Ballroom, as part of the 2015 Atlanta Film Festival, delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on films of Studio Ghibli at 9pm! Get spooked and spend the night with Alfred Hitchcock as TCM presents REAR WINDOW (1954), screening at several Atlanta-area theatres at 2pm and 7pm (Hollywood Stadium 24; Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville and Newnan’s Regal Georgian Stadium 14)! Folk it up with a little traditional Irish and Celtic tunes at the Variety Playhouse with Lunasa! It’s a night of experimental jazz guitar and painting at Eddie’s Attic with Nels Cline, Norton Wisdom and Sam Amidon! Mr. Blue Sky, Zach & Davis and Vinyl Refuge deliver a night of jazz, blues and soul at Smith’s Olde Bar! Fleetwood Mac rocks out at Philips Arena! The Electromatics deliver a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Punk on down to The Basement for a night with Swingset, The Landmines, The Mad Doctors, Microwave and Bully Pulpit! Funk it up with a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern has made an offer you can’t refuse for a second time with their screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER (1972), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza 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! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, March 26

Celebrate 30 years with the “Brat Pack” with a screening of John Hughes’ ‘80s classic, THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) at 7:30pm at movie theaters across Atlanta (Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Carmike 12 in Snellville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow and Regal McDonough Stadium 16)! Bluegrass it up with Smokey’s Farmland Band at the Red Light Café! Father John Misty and King Tuff rock out at the Variety Playhouse! Baroque rock it up at The Earl with Hare & the Hounds, Ben Trickey and Sara Rachele! It’s a night of old-school-inspired punk at Smith’s Olde Bar with Bloodplums, Olio and Bearknuckle! Stomp down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Danielle Howle and The Ain’t Sisters! Get jazzy with Miles Tackett & the 3 Times at the Drunken Unicorn! Or funk it up with Incognito featuring Maysa at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so get your taste of a little ‘60s/’70s Jamaican soul with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue! The BadAsh Allstar Team deliver a tribute to Sting and The Police at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & 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, March 27

Have a devilish good time at 7 Stages for the 2015 Atlanta Film Festival’s screening of Kool Kat Eddie Ray’s SATANIC PANIC 2: BATTLE OF THE BANDS (2014) at 6:30pm, followed by Splatter Cinema’s presentation of Mario Bava’s BLACK SUNDAY (1960) at 10pm, with pre-screening lobby shenanigans! Or for something a little less sinister, get your dino fix at Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) at 8pm! Rock out and get some soul at the Little Vinyl Lounge with The Lamentations, Jed Drummond, Matt Greenia and Kool Kat Amber Taylor (Sexual Side Effects)! Or blues it up at the Fox Theatre’s 11^th Annual Blues Festival, featuring Theodis Ealey, Mel Waiters, Shirley Brown, Latimore and Sir Charles Jones! Make your way to the Toco-Hill Avis G. Williams Library for their screening of Woody Allen’s RADIO DAYS (1987) at 1:30pm! Honkytonk it up with Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, The Bohannons and Hans Condor at The Earl! Cosmic Charlie delivers a rockin’ tribute to the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd at the Variety Playhouse! The Cazanovas deliver some rockin’ blues at the Dallas Pub House! Get your ‘80s fix with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Sportstime Bar & Grille in Duluth! Eighties it up at the Famous Pub for their ‘80s Music Video Dance Party! Get funky with Dynamo at the Red Light Café! It’s a night of retro rock at Union EAV with Love Letter, Hip to Death and Avi Jacob! Riot grrl it up at the Masquerade with The Shondes! Rock out science punk style at the Ferst Center with Leucine Zipper & Zinc Fingers! Jazz it up with Kenosha Kid at the Elliott Street Pub! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of rockin’ folk and Americana with The Ain’t Sisters, Danielle Howle and Underhill Rose! Blues it up with Larry Griffith and Hill Roberts at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s a Blues Rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack while The Nighthawks get some soul at Blind Willie’s! Hottie Hawgs BBQ dishes out a night of ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll with Swami Gone Bananas! Boogie down at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event while sippin’ a few cocktails with Lethal Rhythms! 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! 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, March 28

Pig out to some rockin’ tunes at the Masquerade Music Park for Baconfest 2015 with The Dirt Poets, Thimblerig Circus, Blast-Off Burlesque, Kool Kat Rich DeSantis’ Honkytonk Extravaganza and more! Or get dolled up for Pit Bulls & Poodle Skirts: An Evening for Puppy Love for Bullseye Rescue at DooGallery, with rockin’ tunes by Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids, pin-up contests and a shimmy ‘n’ shake with Mary Strawberry! Jazz it up with the Atlanta Finland Society as they present a night of Finnish culture and the jazz guitar stylings of Olli Hirvonen at Front Page News! Or get immersed at The Goat Farm Arts Center with their screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s NOSTALGHIA (1983) with an art installation by Igor Korsunskiy at 8pm! Make your way to SCADShow for their screening of Agnes Varda’s CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out old-time style with Delta Moon, The Bitteroots, Big Daddy Love, Soul Mechanic and Penny Western! Flappers welcome at The Basement for their Roaring Twenties Party featuring Waking the Bates, The Roycrofters and the DAMS! Shake a tail feather at Kavarna with their Last Call Blues Dance at 8:3opm! Get down and dirty with The Cazanovas at Good ‘Ol Days Pub in Cumming! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Eric Norman and The Ain’t Sisters! Martin Sexton gets some soul at the Variety Playhouse! Get funky with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Francine Reed & the Shadows sing the blues at Blind Willie’s! Hannah Thomas and Cooper Carter deliver a night of Americana and blues at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of jazz and western swing with Hot Club of Cowtown! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Eric Taylor! Or folk it up with the Jason Kenney Band at the Crimson Moon Café! Jesco White, the “Dancing Outlaw” boogies down at 529 with Six Shot Revival! Meat & 3 deliver a night of classic rock at The Family Dog! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade rock out ‘80s-style at the North River Tavern in Sandy Springs! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night with the Gina Sicilia 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, March 29

Red Light Café folks it up with Boo Reefa, Julian Morena, The Brookses, Zac Jimenez, Stephanie Koziej and Gas Hound! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers their Bluegrass Brunch with Honeywood! Al Stewart gets folksy at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with Uncle Sugar at the Northside Tavern! Rock out at The Earl with Wymyns Prysyn, Buck Biloxi and The Fucks, Heavy Lids and Earth Girls! And get the blues with Snakelegs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

OnStage Atlanta dishes out the infamous horror rock musical, “Little Shop of Horrors”, horrifying through March 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

The 39th Annual Atlanta Film Festival, being held at The Plaza Theater, runs through Mar. 29 (LAST CHANCE!)

The 35th Annual Atlanta Fair is being held at Turner Field through April 5!

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents the “Gilda Radner Research and Translation Center”, an unofficial academic-ish platform for the analysis of Radner’s life and comedy, running through April 11!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

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!

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 Fueling 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

‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta is scorchin’ hot with Kool Kats galore and all the rockin’ good times you’ve been cravin’! Get your fill of red-hot blues, tasty tease, hootenannies and more! Get off that couch, get hep to the jive and live la vida Retro!

Monday, March 16

Get your suspense, adventure and danger fix at the Highland Inn Ballroom with The Rookery Radio Hour Live! event for two nights, featuring a live recording of comedy sketches done in the style of old-time radio at 8pm! It’s a night of surf rock and ‘70s pop at 529 with Delicate Steve, Del Venicci and Breathers! Get geeky with 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! Catch Stanley Kramer’s INHERIT THE WIND (1960) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library’s “Brown Bag Lunch Film Series” at 12pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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, March 17

Rock on down to The Star Bar for their “Whiskey In the Jar-O” celebration of Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott with Gunpowder Gray, Night Terrors and more! Get psychedelic and space rock it up with The Church and The Sharp Things at Terminal West! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Peter Bogdanovich’s adaptation of Larry McMurty’s 1966 novel, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) during their “Midtown Classics” series at 7pm! It’s your last chance to get your suspense, adventure and danger fix at the Highland Inn Ballroom with The Rookery Radio Hour Live! event featuring a live recording of comedy sketches done in the style of old-time radio at 8pm! Get adventurous with Harrison Ford at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s classic, INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or get really retro with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland at the Decatur Library during their screening of Charles Walters’ EASTER PARADE (1948) at 10am! Bluegrass it up with Cabinet at Eddie’s Attic! Punk out Irish-style at the Masquerade with The Tossers, DDC, Antagonizers ATL and Rotten Stitches! 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, March 18

Gypsy jazz it up with a little garage blues in the mix at The Earl with Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Momcat! Buckwheat Zydeco delivers a night of Cajun zydeco, blues and roots at Terminal West! Jazz it up with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! 529 delivers a night of country punk and hill country blues with FLAP, Tijuana Hercules and Duet for Theramin & Lap Steel! Follow the yellow brick road all the way to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 7pm! Funk it up with a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some bluesy soul at Eddie’s Attic with Truett Lollis and Crane! Get your rockin’ blues fix at Smith’s Olde Bar with Studio Le Bradshaw, The Gypsies and Rose for Tomorrow! Blues it up with Little G Weevil at Blind Willie’s! Emory Cinematheque screens Ross McElwee’s SHERMAN’S MARCH (1985) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! Take a trip to Cairo with Harrison Ford at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s classic, INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, March 19

Shimmy on down and get a taste of smokin’ neo-burlesque revival and cabaret from around the world with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her Syrens of the South as they bring you the 5th Annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest being held this year at 7 Stages, running from March 19-22! It’s a tantalizing four-day event that promises bawdy burlesque performances, variety shows, vaudeville, workshops and a vendors with all things pin-up and retro! Headliner for this year’s fest is Queen of Burlesque, Miss Exotic World 2014, Midnite Martini! So, come on down for a night filled with shakin’ shenanigans and tantalizing tease! Tonight’s events include the Newcomers Showcase, featuring performances by Anne Atomic, Electra Mourning, Ada Manzart, Tippy Tappage and more!

Rock out at The Star Bar with The Hotels, Ma Holos, The Nico Missile and Koko Beware! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Blood on the Harp, Lily & the Tigers and Moses Nesh! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so come on down for a night with Jason Waller, Hailey Whitters and Stephanie Lambring! The Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum presents their screening of Christine Herbes-Sommers’ documentary RACE: THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION (2003) at 7pm! Jazz it up with Brian Lenair at the Suite Food Lounge! It’s a dirt road revival at Eddie’s Attic with Kristy Lee! Get retro swing, folk ‘n’ blues style at Smith’s Olde Bar with Gravy and Bosley! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down and get your ‘50s and ‘60s surf and rock ‘n’ roll fix with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Or blues it up with Liz Mandeville 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, March 20

Tease on down to night 2 of the 5th Annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest at 7 Stages for their Free Range Burlesque International Show Case featuring performances by Vince V. Vice, Agatha Frisky, Kisa von Teasa, headlined by Midnite Martini, emceed by the World Famous Bob and more! Shake a tail feather on down to the Red Light Café for Speakeasy Electro Swing Atlanta’s event and the official Southern Fried Burlesque Fest after party, featuring performances by Nikki Nuke’m, go-go girl, Trini Quinn and music by DJ Doctor Q! Or take a trip to “a dead end-end place in a Spanish speaking town surrounded by desert,” brought to life by Tennessee Williams and Helen Pickett with the Atlanta Ballet, during their performance of his 1953, “Camino Real”, running through March 22 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center (See our Kool Kat feature on Alessa Rogers [“Esmeralda”] soon)! And tonight is the opening night of the 39th Annual Atlanta Film Festival, with screenings being held at The Plaza Theater, running through Mar. 29 (ATLRetro coverage coming soon)!

Get old-school punk-style at The Star Bar with The Queers, Richie Ramone and The Atom Age! ATL Collective presents the 1967 debut album of Leonard Cohen, “Songs of Leonard Cohen” with two shows at Eddie’s Attic, featuring Dwayne Shivers, Lonnie Holley and Marshall Ruffin! We ain’t afraid of no ghosts and neither is the Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Pack up your ghost hunting gear and make your way to The Strand for their screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 8pm! Make your way to The House with Eyes’ EAV Movie Club as they present their Mystery Movie Night, featuring a classic movie of choice heckled by comedians at 8pm! The Variety Playhouse gets folksy and delivers a night of blues with G Love & Special Sauce with Matt Costa! Bluegrass it up with Del McCoury and David Grisman at The Buckhead Theatre! Jazz it up Latin-style at the High Museum with Willie Ziavino & the C.O.T. Band! Get your ‘80s fix with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Gainesville! The Uncle Mike Band delivers a night of classic rock and ‘80s funk at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get the blues with Nick Moss at Blind Willie’s! Smith’s Olde Bar gets revived and delivers a night of southern gothic roots rock with Lincoln Durham and Kyle Cox! Boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Alexis Suter Band! Hottie Hawgs BBQ dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with Men in Blues! 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! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with The Sly Dog Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out with The Brotherland at The Family Dog! 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, March 21

Shimmy on down for night 3 of the 5th Annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest at 7 Stages for their hottest main event, the Southern Fried Burlesque Pageant Competition along with a farewell performance by last year’s SFBF Queen, Jeez Loueez! And get nice ‘n’ toasty with their Southern Scorcher Showcase featuring Dee Flowered, Bunny Wigglebottom, Flame Cynders and more! It’s a rockin’ blues extravaganza at the Northside Tavern for two days as Chicken Raid 2015 invades with all proceeds to benefit the Frank Edwards estate! Blues it up with the best of them, including Brandon Reeves, the Wasted Potential Brass Band, Scene of the Crime, Mandi Strachota, Joshua Jacobson, Cody Matlock, Shelton Powe, Essie Mae Brooks & Family, Chicken & Pigs with Skye Paige, Sammy Blue, Albert White, Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & the ATL Horns, Eddie Tigner and Lola in a piano showdown, Roy Lee Johnson, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins and more!

Doo-wop it up with a night of rockin’ shenanigans at Mammal Gallery with The King Kahn & BBQ Show, Milk Lines and Paint Fumes! Ride a wave on over to Kavarna for the Southern Surf Stomp featuring the Aqualads, Genki Genki Panic and Built for Speed! Yacht Rock Schooner gets smooth and ‘70s as they play a Steely Dan show at Terminal West! Get to the root of it all at the Red Light Café with the Donna Hopkins Band, the Alex Guthrie Band, the Divine Love Mission and Gibson Wilbanks! It’s your second chance to ‘80s it up this weekend with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Suwannee! Get revved with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! It’s a night of Irish tunes at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with The Irish Brothers followed by some ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll with The Rainmen! Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Honkytonk it up at Eddie’s Attic with Joe Ely! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Eric Sardinas and 68-75! The Black Lillies deliver a night of boot stompin’ Americana at Grocery on Home! Or Stomp on down to Hottie Hawgs BBQ for a night with the Poverty Level Band! Get the blues with Bryan Lee at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, March 22

It’s day 2 and your last chance to blues it up at Chicken Raid 2015 at the Northside Tavern with performances by The New Radio Ramblers, Tito & the Chicken Raiders, Spike Driver, the Blues Dude, Swami Gone Bananas, Larry Griffith, Essie Mae Brooks & Family, the Rockaholics, Robert Lee Coleman, The Breeze Kings, Uncle Sugar, Ross Pead, Eddie Tigner and more! Jazz it up with George Winston at the Variety Playhouse! The Buddy O’Reilly Band delivers two rockin’ Irish/Celtic Americana shows at Eddie’s Attic! It’s your last chance to follow the yellow brick road all the way to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 2pm! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with In the Wheelhouse in the Bar Room! And stick around to rock out in the Music Room with Black Pussy, the Savagist and Halmos! Make your way to Park Tavern for a night with Gareth Asher & the Earthlings! Get alternative and rock on down to Terminal West for a night with the Juliana Hatfield Three and their 21st Anniversary Tour! And get the blues with Snakelegs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

OnStage Atlanta dishes out the infamous horror rock musical, “Little Shop of Horrors”, horrifying through March 28!

The 39th Annual Atlanta Film Festival, being held at The Plaza Theater, runs through Mar. 29!

The 35th Annual Atlanta Fair is being held at Turner Field through April 5!

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center presents the “Gilda Radner Research and Translation Center”, an unofficial academic-ish platform for the analysis of Radner’s life and comedy, running through April 11!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

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! 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 Fueling 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

This Week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you! From honkytonk hootenannies to rockin’ garage, glam ‘n’ punk, we’ve got you covered!

Monday, March 9

Make your way to the Shakespeare Tavern for Kool Kat Nicolette Emanuelle’s The Dead Poets Lounge event featuring a combination of literature, circus arts, acting, and live music to bring the poems of dead poets to life at 7:30pm! Rock out at 529 with Ukiah Drag, Wymyns Prysyn, GG King and Polish Nails! Get geeky with 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! Catch Alan Pakula’s THE PELICAN BRIEF (1993) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library’s “Brown Bag Lunch Film Series” at 12pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Swing on by the Georgia Ensemble Theatre for the “Sounds of the Big Band Era” event with Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member Big Band!  Folk it up with Hiss Golden Messenger and William Tyler at The Earl! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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!’ It’s a night of acoustic roots ‘n’ blues at Blind Willie’s with Bill Sheffield! 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, March 10

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: Spring Fling event featuring a whole ‘lotta pipin’ hot performances at 9pm! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Stanley Kubrick’s PATHS OF GLORY (1957) during their “Midtown Classics” series at 7pm, featuring a pre-show intro and a post-film Q&A session! It’s a night of fast draws and wild rides at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of George Ray Hill’s classic, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Rock out at 529 with Lowbanks, Buffalo Rodeo and The Illiterates! 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! Curtis Jones & Primal Roots bluegrasses it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Stomp on over to Blind Willie’s for the Boohoo Ramblers! 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, March 11

Get your gypsy Americana rock fix at the Red Clay Theatre with Scythian! Funk it up with a night of rockin’ blues with The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or get your retro rock ‘n’ surf fix at WonderRoot with Man Up Yancey, Wild Front, It’s Not Your Fault and The Organ Machines! Blues it up with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! It’s your last chance to catch George Ray Hill’s classic, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as Kool Kat Rich DeSantis and his band Honkytonk get smokin’ hot during their Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza 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! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, March 12

Folk it up with some funky rockin’ Americana at The Star Bar with Birdcloud, wWAYLon, The Ain’t Sisters and Gashound! Or bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with Coldheart Canyon, Keena Graham (Blood On the Harp) and Sofia Lute! The Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum presents their screening of Christine Herbes-Sommers’ documentary RACE: THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION (2003) at 7pm! It’s a night of absurd hilarity at 7 Stages with director Del Hamilton’s take on George Tabori’s “Mein Kampf”, running through Mar. 15! Get old-timey at the Elliott Street Pub with the Muleskinner MacQueen Trio! Garage rock it up at 529 with Shepherds, Paperhaus, COMA GIRLS and Mythical Motors! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Get rootsy at Eddie’s Attic with Penny & Sparrow! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of swanky soul and rock ‘n’ roll with Bogey & the Viceroy Quartet! It’s a night of “brass kickin’ roots rock” and funky grooves at Smith’s Olde Bar with Sol Driven Train, Voodoo Visionary and The McNifficent 7! 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! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of roots, rock ‘n’ reggae with Jump Babylon! 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, March 13

Get your fill of monsters and mayhem at the Masquerade with our pals at Wrestling With Pop Culture’s (Kool Kat interview with Jonathan Williams here) “Culture Shock” event hosted by Needless Things’ Phantom Troublemaker and Ghouella Deville, promising an extravaganza of wrestling, music and more! You won’t want to miss their special Friday the 13th frightening feature match with Monstrosity Championship Wrestling stars and side-show shenanigans with Captain & Maybelle! Get gore-ified at the Sweetwater Bar & Grille during their Friday the 13th Horror Rock Show, featuring Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures, Fifty Two Ways and Crypt 24! Or rock on down to The Star Bar for a night of punk tribute bands with Horror Business (Misfits), Banned in ATL (Bad Brains), Salad Days (Minor Threat) and Everybody & the Whatevers! Or for something a little less sinister, get your fill of ‘50s pop culture at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with I Love Lucy Live, running through March 15! It’s a night of retro funk ‘n’ soul at Aisle 5 featuring Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics, Magnolia Sons, Lady Daisey and Batsauce! John Mellencamp and Carlene Carter deliver a night of rock ‘n’ Americana at the Fox Theatre! Get revved in slow motion at the American Tavern in Loganville with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt’s solo acoustic show! Folk it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Howlin’ Brothers and Tall Tall Trees! The Jamie Laval Trio delivers their St. Patrick’s Day Show at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s a night of rockin’ Americana at The Earl with The Last Bison and Cereus Bright! Boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Lola! Hottie Hawgs BBQ dishes out a night of Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson! Get geeky and make your way to the Famous Pub for Markers.Con’s Infestation 4: Halfway to DragonCon event! Have twice the fun boogyin’ under the dinosaurs at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The T.S. Woodward Trio delivering a little post-ragtime jazzy blues followed by a little foot stompin’ bluegrass with The Shoal Creek Ramblers! Get psychedelic with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with The Unusual Suspects 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, March 14

Hey kiddies of all ages! Joelanta & the Great Atlanta Toy Convention invades the Atlanta Marriott Century Center for 2 days only! If you love vintage toys, stop-motion animation, comics, cosplay, pop culture and more, you won’t want to miss this two-day toy extravaganza including dealers tables, celebrity guests including GI Joe comic writer, Larry Hama, live music by Radio Cult and the Possum Kingdom Ramblers, panels with Needless Things’ El Phantasmas and more!

The Star Bar delivers a night of rockin’ garage ‘n’ glam with The Subsonics, Black Linen and the PowWows! Honkytonk on down to Kavarna for a night with Kool Kat Julea & Her Dear Johns, Kelsey Waldon and Kira Annalise! Or rev on down to Thunder Tower West Harley Davidson for their St. Patty’s Day Party hosted by Kool Kat Reverend Andy Hawley of Garage71 Internet Radio, featuring the best beard contest, kilts and wenches! And stick around for some rockin’ tunes with King Daddy Polecats! Catch a wave down to the Drunken Unicorn for a night of surf rock with the Antarcticats, The Organ Machines and The Future Babes! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles will rev you up at the Irish Bred Pub! The Center for Puppetry Arts screens Henry Selick’s film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1996) at 7pm! Bluegrass it up at Eddie’s Attic with Roxie Watson, Boy Named Banjo and Forlorn Strangers! Rock on down to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for White Winged Dove, paying tribute to Fleetwood Mac! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for The Good Gracious Show featuring Gareth Asher, Hannah Thomas and more! Escape Vehicle delivers a St. Patrick’s Day Party & Jam at the Red Light Café! Get your bluesy roots fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Hannah Zale and Julie Holmes! It’s a night of holler-folk and stomp at Grocery on Home with The Ghost of Paul Revere and Caleb Caudle! Boogie woogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for their Dueling Pianos event! The Northside Tavern gets down and dirty with The Cazanovas! Blues it up with Sweet & Salty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Honkytonk it up with Whitey Morgan & the 78s at the 120 Tavern & Music Hall! Get folksy with Seth Livengood at the Crimson Moon Cafe! 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.