ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta is the bee’s knees 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, March 2

529 will erase those Monday blues with a night of electronic funk and rock a la Talking Heads with Highlander, This Piano Plays Itself and Acapoco! Get nostalgic at The Mammal Gallery with their Everything Is Terrible! The Legends Show at 8pm, featuring thousands of forgotten VHS tapes mixed up and released for your enjoyment! 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! 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs!

Tuesday, March 3

It’s a night of midnight madness of David Lynch-ian proportions at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of ERASERHEAD (1977) during their “Midtown Classics” series (See our Retro Review here) at 7pm! Or get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Rob Reiner’s ‘80s classic, THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get really retro at Pallookaville with Jim Stacy’s first in his culinary anthropological series, “Eat Like An Ancient Roman” at 7:30pm! Rock out at the Masquerade with ‘90s rocker Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts, The Last Internationale and Stocklyn! Let WonderRoot shake you up with a rockin’ night featuring the Great American Noise Jijad, Koko Beware, Nude Tayne, Jitters and Novus! 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! 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 4

It’s a night of psychobilly, surf and grungy rockin’ bluegrass at The Drunken Unicorn with Fiend Without A Face, Brief Lives, Look Alike and Word Travels Fast! Emory Cinematheque screens Robert Aldrich’s classic, THE LONGEST YARD (1974) featuring Burt Reynolds, during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! It’s your last chance to pirate it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Rob Reiner’s ‘80s classic, THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Noah Baumbach’s KICKING AND SCREAMING (1995) at 7pm! 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! Jazz it up Latin-style at Java Monkey with Wild Rice! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Kevn Kinney (Drivin’ N’ Cryin’) and Tim Knol! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes (Check out our Kool Kat interview this week with Rich DeSantis!) 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 5

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! Take a trip to Valhalla and Viking it up at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club with Blast Off Burlesque and their Viking Bingo party delivering a night of Bingo, dancing and surprise performances! Come dressed in your rockin’est Viking getups, win some prizes and get your B-I-N-G-O shenanigan fix! Rock out at The Star Bar with Kool Kats, The Joy Kills, The Landmines, Blue Tower and COMA GIRLS! Or get your fill of the greaser and pin-up life at the Kustom Kulture Art Show with Garage71 Radio, featuring a night of Pin-Up and Tattoo Flash Art at the Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford! Get sinister with a night of ‘80s and ‘90s metal at the Masquerade with Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Aeon and Tribulation! Adia Victoria delivers a night of “back porch blues swamp” at The Drunken Unicorn with Black Linen! Get funky with Dumpstaphunk and AJ Ghent at Terminal West! Or folk it up at the Red Clay Theatre with Shaun Mullins and Michelle Malone! Stomp on down to Galactic Quest in Lawrenceville for a hoppin’ CD Release shindig with Possum Kingdom Ramblers! It’s a night of Americana and string band goodness at the Red Light Café with The Plate Scrapers, Todd & Alex and Jesse & Noah! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes! Get some soul at Smith’s Olde Bar with Kristin Diable and Anderson East! 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! Get ‘yer outlaw old-school country and rock fix at The 120 Tavern & Music Hall with David Allan Coe, Von Kiss and Willie Heath Neal! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! 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 6

Swing on by Blue Mark Studios as they and the Artifice Club bring you a night of Electroswing, circus and sideshow shenanigans at 8pm, with performances by the Blue Moon Circus (Kentucky), DJ Vourteque (Chicago), Kool Kat Talloolah Love and DJ Doctor Q! Folk it up with little fiery antics at the Red Light Café with the Moonshadow Marauders, the Poverty Level Band, Threadbare Skivvies and Randy Burnette of the Imperial OPA Circus! Surf it up at The Earl with La Luz, The Shivas, Small Reactions and Shantih Shantih! It’s a night of retro rock and foot stompin’ blues at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Atlanta Room with A Moment Electric, Six Time Losers and Momcat! Or rock out in the Music Room with Dank (formerly Dank Sinatra) and The Kinky Aphrodisiacs! Get funky and acoustic with Chadwick Stokes at Vinyl! Jazz it up with Grant Green, Jr. at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to Java Monkey for a night with the Barrow Boys! Spend a night with Kevn Kinney (Drivin’ N’ Cryin’) and Tim Knol at the Crimson Moon Café! Shawn Mullins and Michelle Malone folk it up a second night at the Red Clay Theatre! Hottie Hawgs BBQ delivers a night of country blues with Tito & the Chicken Raiders! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of funky blues with Biscuit Miller & the Mix! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of ragtime and folk with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen and Sailing to Denver! Funk it up at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The Mar-Tans! Blues it up with Robert Lee Coleman at the Northside Tavern! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, March 7

Get revved at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles and Hillbilly Casino! UnionEAV delivers a night of gritty rock ‘n’ roll with Swank Sinatra, Seagulls, karbomB, Ganges Phalanges and Pretty Please! Blues it up with JJ Grey & Mofro and the People’s Blues of Richmond at The Buckhead Theatre! Get your rock and psyche fix at the Masquerade with Capsula, Behold the Brave, Novus and Fake Flowers! Jonathan Toubin delivers his “Soul Clap & Dance Off” spinning a night of ‘60s soul at The Earl! Stomp on down to the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Will Kimbrough and The Van Lears at 6pm followed by Folk Soul Revival and Owner of the Sun at 9pm! Or get funky in the Atlanta Room with Rollie and El Quattro at 6:30pm followed by The Dirty Souls, Liz Brasher and Circus Dog! Jazz it up with Virginia Schenck at the Red Light Café! Get chaotic at The Highlander with the Moreland Wrecks, Squadron and Night Terrors! Folk it up at Kavarna with The Ain’t Sisters, Claire Campbell (Hope For A Goldensummer) and Bless These Sounds Under the City! Eliot Bronson and Dean Fields deliver a night of rockin’ Americana at Eddie’s Attic! Eighties it up at the Dallas Public House with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy fiddle it up with a night of traditional Celtic tunes at the Ferst Center! Get your blues rock fix at The Basement during Brother Hawk’s Big Medicine Festival with a red-hot line-up featuring Brother Hawk, Stonerider, Big Jesus, Tedo Stone, Trae Vedder (Death on Two Wheels), Radio Birds, Bear Fight, Madre Padre and Moonbase! Get some soul with Kyshona Armstrong at the Elliott Street Pub! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Rock out with Bush at the Tabernacle! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for their “Winter Classic R&R” series with Absynthe Makes the Art Garfunkel at 6pm, followed by Brian Ashley Jones’ twangy blues at 9pm! It’s a night of red-hot blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with RJ Mischo! Or blues it up with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! Get folksy with Shawn Mullins and Chuck Cannon at the Red Clay Theatre! 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 8

Smith’s Olde Bar has your Sunday covered, starting you off with their Bluegrass Brunch with Cedar Hill in the Bar Room, followed by a night of rockin’ garage and blues with Patrick Sweany, Joe Fletcher and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah in the Atlanta Room! Calling all vivacious vintage gals! Get saucy at Garage71 Studios with Grease Inc, Magazine in Buford at their Spring Pin-Up Boot Camp with Ms. Memphis Monroe, at 11am, with a full day of learning hair and make-up basics and all things vintage! Get nostalgic with a little space rock ‘n’ grunge at the Masquerade with Dreamers, Born Cages, The Kickback and Mammabear! It’s a night of traditional Scottish tunes at the Red Light Café with The Tannahill Weavers! Stomp over to Eddie’s Attic and catch Carolina Story followed by Soul Suga and Diane Durrett! And you won’t want to miss another night with Shawn Mullins and Chuck Cannon at the Red Clay Theatre!

Ongoing

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

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! And every Wednesday, stomp on down for Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza, delivering a night of live band classic country karaoke!

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

Spring is just around the corner, guys and gals! And while we wait, why not get hep to the jive this week in Retro Atlanta! Come see what we’ve found for you. From  ‘60s rockin’ blues to classic films to a whole lotta funky shakin’ shenanigans!

Monday, February 23

Let The Earl shake those Monday blues with Blake Rainey & His Demons, Ben Trickey and Dang Dang Dang! Or get your retro-rock fix, harkening back to The Monkees and pre-disco Bee Gees, with Hartle Road at 529! 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! Get some soul and funk out at Blind Willie’s with Greg Hester! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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!’ Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ! And make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of Mary Dore’s 2012 documentary on the “movers & shakers” of the feminist movement from ’68-’71, SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY, screening through Feb. 26!

Tuesday, February 24

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their “Midtown Classics” series with Terrence Malick’s BADLANDS (1973) (See our Retro Review here) at 7pm! Or get immortally dark at the Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of Robert Zemeckis’ DEATH BECOMES HER (1992) at 10 pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern screens Michael Curtiz’ classic, CASABLANCA (1942), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Surf on down to the Masquerade for a rockin’ night with The Expendables, Ballyhoo! and Katastro! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Roxie Watson! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rock ‘n’ soul with The Hollidays! 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 Crosstown All Stars dish out a night of stompin’ rock ‘n’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! 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, February 25

SCENE MISSING Magazine presents Raising Atlantizona at the Highland Inn Ballroom, delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on Coen Brothers movies, at 9pm! It’s your last chance to catch Humphrey Bogart at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of CASABLANCA (1942), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Folk it up at Eddie’s Attic with The Vespers with special guest, City Mouse! Or get your retro-rock fix with Lucero, Ryan Bingham and Twin Forks at The Buckhead Theatre! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Jazz it up with Jacob Deaton at the Elliott Street Pub! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of Chicago and West Coast blues with the Electromatics! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes (Keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview soon!) Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission 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, February 26

Swing on over to Eddie’s Attic for a jazzed-up night with Annie Sellick & the Hot Club of Nashville! Get your ‘60s blues rock fix with SIMO, the Gasoline Brothers and 68-75 at Vinyl! Funk it up at Terminal West with CBDB and Jerry On the Moon! Get Victorian at the 57^th Fighter Group Restaurant for the Pre-AnachroCon Party at 7:30! Kristen Englenz delivers a night of rockin’ Americana at Java Monkey! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes! Rock over to The Earl for their screening of Bill Perrine’s 2014 documentary, IT’S GONNA BLOW: SAN DIEGO’S MUSIC UNDERGROUND (1986-1996), followed by Dan Sartaine! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of classic rock with The Free Byrds and The Dirty Doors! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with Tito & the Chicken Raiders and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! 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! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! 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, February 27

For those who prefer alternate history to reality and Victorian-era lifestyles and fantasy, travel back in time to the 18^th Century Rococo and Revolution-Themed AnachroCon 2015, a 3-day event celebrating historical reenactments, Steampunk, science-fiction, classic horror, literature, fashion and a cornucopia of indulgences! So, catch a train and head on over to the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, where you’ll catch informative panels discussing Steampunk as Victorian science-fiction, time travel, Gothic literature, vintage tales of terror (Lovecraft, Poe, Stoker), ghost stories and the classic monster flicks of Universal and Hammer and a vendors room chock full of goodies, including our pals at Horror in Clay (see our Shop Around feature here)! And don’t miss out on performances by The Ken Spivey Band, Valentine Wolfe, the Vauxhall Garden Variety Players, Atlanta Baroque Dance and more!

Get rocked at The Star Bar with Hammerhead Fest IV: Weekend at Burnouts with two nights of rockin’ mayhem! Tonight’s lineup includes Attractive Eighties Women, Bigfoot, Dropout, Magoo’s Heroes, Shehehe and Divided Heaven! Willie Nelson delivers a night of old-school country at the Tabernacle! Or make your way to Union EAV as Blood Drunk Records presents the BDR Arcade, featuring video games and rockin’ tunes with Ebony Eyes and Antarcticats! It’s a night of gypsy jazz at the Variety Playhouse with Al di Meola! Bluegrass it up with The Gibson Brothers at the Red Clay Theatre! Get your fill of southern rock, funk and soul at Vinyl with the Royal Southern Brotherhood and the Lefty Williams Band! Rock out at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with the Rockaholics! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues deliver a night of blues, soul and jazz with Fatback Deluxe and Leonard Blush! 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! Jam it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Tribute, homage to the Allman Brothers Band! Get your rockin’ blues fix at 120 Tavern & Music Hall with Whiskey Bent, featuring John Popper (Blues Traveler)! The Chieftains deliver over 50 years worth of traditional Irish music with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of blues and Americana with Lindsay Rakers and Jackson County Line! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles rev it up at Motorheads in McDonough! Blues it up with Billy George at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get bluesy with Jarekus Singleton at Blind Willie’s! Funk on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event for a night of rockin’ blues and funk under the dinosaurs! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, February 28

Get your second rocking’ helping of Hammerhead Fest IV: Weekend at Burnouts at The Star Bar with Death of Kings, Hatestomp, Gunpowder Gray, Spray Tan, The Vaginas and Bottle Kids! And it’s day 2 of AnachroCon 2015, dishing out anything and everything Victorian, steampunk, Rococo fashion and more!

It’s a night of ‘60s-era rock ‘n’ roll at the Masquerade (Purgatory) with The Woggles, The Blacktop Rockets, The Mystery Men? and The Lizard Men! Or make your way to Hell for a night with Helmet and his “Betty” 20th Anniversary Show! Get your retro-rock fix at Kavarna with the Floating Coats, Dangerous Basement and Bill Taft performing “Hamlet”! Stomp on down to the Drunken Unicorn for a night with I Want Whisky, the Darnell Boys and Book of Colors! 529 delivers a night of “Reagan-era” punk rock with Ralph (Final Show!) Spend the night with the “Piano Man”, Billy Joel at Philip’s Arena! Mammal Gallery presents a night of rockin’ Americana with Brock’s Folly, Blood on the Harp and Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen! Eighties it up at Craze Tavern in Duluth with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! 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! Folk it up at the Red Light Café with Kevin Jackson (Jackson County Line) and Daniel Parrish followed by The Porch Bottom Boys’ jazzy bluegrass blues! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles deliver a night of rockin’ mayhem at the B3 Bar & Grill’s 2 Year Anniversary Party! Get bluesy with the West Side Blues Band at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get lucky at Park Tavern as Yacht Rock Revue shamrocks you with a set of U2 covers and your favorite smooth sounds! Wrenn retro-pops it up at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room with Sara Rachele! Or make your way to the Atlanta Room for a night with The Chris Massey Band, Geoff Ferris & the Wheels and Buck-O-Five! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his Clash of the Decades: ‘80s vs. ‘90s Music Video Party at the Opera Nightclub! The Family Dog delivers a night of rock ‘n’ soul with The Hollidays! Blues it up with Gracie Curran & the High Falutin’ Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Cody Matlock! Michelle Malone rocks out at Steve’s Live Music! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get bluesy with Big Bill Morganfield 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, March 1

Step right up folks! It’s day 3 and your last chance to experience the Victorian life and alternate history at AnachroCon 2015! Get psychedelic at The Earl with Desert Noises and Sol Cat! The Red Light Café delivers an early old-time outlaw Americana show with Reverend Hylton and Brian Revels, followed by the BadAsh Allstar Team’s (BAAT) tribute to Hall & Oates, Duran Duran and Tears for Fear! Bluegrass it up with Chatham County Line at Eddie’s Attic! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers their Bluegrass Brunch with Control Burn in the Bar Room. Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! Stephen “The Blues Dude” gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

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

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!

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

Retro Atlanta is the bee’s knees this week with rockin’ shenanigans, flicks of yore to a whole ‘lotta of honky-tonk, blues and rock n roll! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill and the weather’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live la vida Retro!

Monday, February 16

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival brings you Barry Levinson’s AVALON (1990), screened in 35mm, celebrating its 25th Anniversary at the Lefont Theatre at 7:50pm! Jazz it up NOLA-style with Harry Connick, Jr. at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! 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! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 17

Spend the night with Orson Welles at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of his classic masterpiece, CITIZEN KANE (1941), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Lou Breslow’s YOU NEVER CAN TELL (1951) at 2pm! Shimmy down southern-style to the Red Light Café for the Mason Dixie Burlesque Tour featuring Atlanta’s own, Sadie Hawkins and performances by Hazel Honeysuckle, Ula Uberbusen, Deanna Danger and more! Or pop on over to the Variety Playhouse for a night of vintage ‘60s jazzy film tunes with Kat Edmonson and Robert Ellis! Get the blues folk-style with The Sweeplings and Marshall Ruffin at Smith’s Olde Bar! Swear and Shake get to stompin’ at the Red Clay Theatre with special guest The Sea, The Sea! Petite Auberge delivers a night of opera with Capitol City Opera Company’s “Dinner & A Diva” series with their “Valentine’s Day Love Songs” edition! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns get down and dirty with their Mardi Gras Party at Blind Willie’s! 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 Crosstown All Stars dish out a night of stompin’ rock ‘n’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Get your Cajun honky-tonk fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Hair of the Dog’s Mardi Gras Party! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 18

Emory Cinematheque screens Giulio Paradisi’s sci-fi classic, THE VISITOR (1979) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! It’s your last chance to catch Orson Welles at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of his classic masterpiece, CITIZEN KANE (1941), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or take the family to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Chris Noonan’s BABE (1995) at 7pm! Groove on down to the Variety Playhouse for the Dark Star Orchestra! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! Stomp on down to the Mammal Gallery for a night with Cute Boots, Susto, Ruby the Rabbitfoot and Tedo Stone! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Little G. Weevil! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission 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, February 19

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center delivers a night of classic Hollywood glitz during their 2015 Atlanta Film Festival Preview Party & Fundraiser! So, get dolled up, get glamorous and start off the 39th Annual ATLFF with a bang! And don’t miss the official feature film selection preview being held at The Plaza Theater prior to Callanwolde’s glitzy gala! 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! Rock over to The Earl for a night with the Starbenders and Chevy Galore featuring Michelle Malone and Linda Bolley! Get your fill of some traditional Scottish tunes at Eddie’s Attic with Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas! Union EAV delivers a night of grungy ‘90s punk and garage rock with Bleach Garden, Uncle Van & the Buzzards of Fuzz and Bottle Kids! It’s a night of rockin’ roots with Donna Hopkins at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with Kelen Rylee and Sylvia Rose Novak! 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! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! 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, February 20

Get your retro film fix at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center with Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and his Film Love Presents: Fall-Apart Films event at 7pm, featuring rare archival material, including Albert Maysles/David Maysles’ MEET MARLON BRANDO (1965)! DJ Doctor Q and Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing get dark and risqué during their Blackhearts Ball at the Red Light Café, featuring dangerous dames, gritty gents and femme fatales; with performances by Sin Tillating, Lucy Purr, Sunshine Divine and more! Jazz it up with The Stanley Clarke Band at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out ‘90s-style at The Earl with The Grifters and The Preakness! Honkytonk it up at The Star Bar with Strung Like a Horse, Darling Norman and Hothouse Peaches! It’s a night of garage rock ‘n’ blues at Union EAV with Bloodplums, Hooka Hey and Poison Coats! Blues it up with Rumblefish at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! It’s a night of ‘80s guilty pleasures at Famous Pub with their Dark 80s: Guilty Pleasure dance party with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Jazz it up with Hotlanta Dixieland Jazz at the High Museum during their Friday Night Music Remix event! Get eaten alive at OnStage Atlanta during their presentation of the infamous horror rock musical, “Little Shop of Horrors” at 8pm, horrifying through March 28! Skank on down to The Highlander for their “Reggae/Punk/Ska/Glam” dance night! It’s a night of funky jazz at the Elliott Street Pub with Jessie Davis! Hop across the pond to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Please PleaseRock Me! Get bound at The Jungle Club with their Fixation: Bound for Love event, featuring theatrical entertainment, fashion fantasy, synth pop and new-wave! Get mellow ‘70s-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Red Head Diamond! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles rev it up at the Foundry Grillworks in Newnan! Blues it up with Willie Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Francine Reed & the Shadows jazz it up at Blind Willie’s! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! Get bluesy with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Bluegrass it up with Jim Lauderdale at Eddie’s Attic! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Sean Chambers! 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, February 21

Splatter Cinema and Enjoy the Film (Kool Kat Ben Ruder) deliver a night of murderous mayhem at Cinevision Screening Room with their 35mm screening of Jonathan Demme’s ‘90s deliciously deviant thriller SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) at 8:30pm! And don’t forget to come early for some chilling lobby shenanigans! Get geeky with Kool Kat Sketch MacQuiner and more at the Atlanta Science Fiction & Fantasy Expo being held at the North Dekalb Mall in Decatur! Surf on down to Kavarna for Southern Surf Stomp! dishing out a rockin’ lineup with Crazy Aces, El Capitan & the Band With No Name and Flat Cat! Rock out at 120 Tavern & Music Hall with drivin’ n’ cryin’, Warner E. Hodges (Jason & the Scorchers) and Blackfoot Gypsies (keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview)! It’s day 1 of the 28th Annual Oyster Fest at The Steamhouse Lounge with a rockin’ line-up featuring Steady Common, Jerry on the Moon, Secondhand Swagger, Radiolucent and The Black Cadillacs! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Katharine Cole and Roxie Watson! Blues it up with Tinsley Ellis at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Oi! Oi! Oi! on down to the Drunken Unicorn for Patriot, Hub City Stompers, Antagonizers ATL and DDC! Rock out folk-style at the Red Clay Theatre with Zangaro’s album release show, with Avenue of Giants, The Bitteroots and The Lost Boys! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Ron Cooley! Or blues it up with Barry Richman at Steve’s Live Music! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Folk it up with Tom Rush at Eddie’s Attic! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out a whole lotta blues in the Music Room with Chris Duarte and the JP Blues Band followed by the Phish cover band, Strange Design! Or for some old-school rock ‘n’ roll, make your way to the Atlanta Room for a night with Back on the Freakout and Slambango! Funk it up with the Rebirth Brass Band and Flow Tribe at Terminal West! Get bluesy with Big Joe & the Dynaflows at Blind Willie’s! The Stella Vees deliver a night of rockin’ blues 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, February 22

Get really retro at The Strand Theatre during their screening of King Vidor’s silent classic, THE BIG PARADE (1925) at 3pm, accompanied by organist Kool Kat Ron Carter! Rock out at The Earl with Georges Bataille Battle Cry and A Place to Bury Strangers! It’s day 2 of 28th Annual Oyster Fest at The Steamhouse Lounge with City Mouse, Marshall Ruffin, The Western Sizzlers and The Sundogs performing “The Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers” show! The Possum Kingdom Ramblers dish out a night of rockin’ bluegrass covers with Which Dave at the Red Light Café! It’s Sultry Sunday, so jazz it up with Evan Christopher during his Mr. Clarinet Dinner Show at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up with John Hammond at Eddie’s Attic! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers their Bluegrass Brunch with the Stovetop Ramblers in the Bar Room. Stick around and get funky with Naughty Professor, The Heard and Those Cats! Geek it up on day 2 of the Atlanta Science Fiction & Fantasy Expo at the North Dekalb Mall in Decatur! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! Stephen “The Blues Dude” gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And take the family to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Chris Noonan’s BABE (1995) at 2pm!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theatre presents the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s “Tuck Everlasting”, running through Feb. 22! (LAST CHANCE)

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

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!

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

Hey all you lovers and hep vintage rockin’ romantics! It’s a week of love and lust and romance, oh my! So, if you’re searching for that Funny Valentine or would prefer to forget the day, we have everything your wretched little heart could desire! So, come on out and take a peek at what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!

Monday, February 9

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival brings you Jan Kadar and Elmer Klos’ THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (1965), screened in 35mm, celebrating its 50th Anniversary at the Lefont Theatre at 7:50pm! 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! Bill Sheffield dishes out his acoustic roots and blues at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Gresham Library for their screening of Richard Attenborough’s CRY FREEDOM (1987) at 2pm. Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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!’ Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 10

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday: Hearts & Heartbreakers edition getting’ naughty at the Red Light Café! Get your ‘70s/’80s punk power pop fix at 529 with Paul Collins’ Beat, Dinos Boys and Faithless Town! Rock out retro-style at The Earl with The Explorers Club, Jay Gonzalez (Drive By Truckers) and Vito Romeo! Hilarity ensues at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center with their “Gilda Radner Research and Translation Center”, an unofficial academic-ish platform for the analysis of Radner’s life and comedy, running through April 11! Phox delivers a night of psychedelic rockin’ soul at Terminal West with Field Report! Get swept away at the Wesley Chapel-William C. Brown Library with their screening of Michael Curtiz’s classic Bogart-filled Hollywood tale, CASABLANCA (1942) at 11am! Or make your way to the Brookhaven Library for their screening of Daniel Petrie’s classic, A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1961) at 5pm! Get rebellious with Paul Newman at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Stuart Rosenberg’s classic, COOL HAND LUKE (1967), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s a night of foot stompin’ Americana at Blind Willie’s with the Boohoo Ramblers! 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 Crosstown All Stars dish out a night of stompin’ rock ‘n’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & Primal Root at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 11

Get funky with George Clinton & the Parliament Funkadelic at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Emory Cinematheque screens Edward Zwick’s GLORY (1989) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! It’s your last chance to spend the night with Paul Newman at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Stuart Rosenberg’s classic, COOL HAND LUKE (1967), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s ladies night at the Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta with their screening of Amy Heckerling’s ‘90s classic, CLUELESS (1995) at 7:30pm! Rock out at Terminal West with Against Me!, Creepoid and Worriers! It’s rockin’ blues mayhem at Smith’s Olde Bar with Movers & Shakers, Hellhounds and Jimmy Real! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo dishes out a night of blues, jazz and southern soul at Blind Willie’s! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during Slim Chickens’ Honkytonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission 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, February 12

Sleaze it up at the Little Vinyl Lounge with the murderous ballads of Al Shelton and Kool Kat Sen Artie Mondello! Stomp on down for a raunchy ruckus of psychobilly proportions at the Clermont Lounge with Fiend Without A Face and the El Capitan Trio! Get jazzy at 550 Trackside in Lawrenceville with the smokin’ hot 17-piece band, Metro Jazz Club’s “My Jazzy Valentine” event at 8pm! Or, for the black-hearted, make your way to Mary’s for their Goth Nite St. Valentine’s Massacre dance party featuring classic goth anthems! Get your ‘80s indie rock fix with Lloyd Cole (Lloyd Cole & the Commotions) at Eddie’s Attic! Get jazzy rock-style with Wayne Krantz at Smith’s Olde Bar! The New Agrarians get folksy at the Red Clay Theatre with their album release and special guests, Granville Automatic! Or stomp down to The Music Room for a night with 100 Watt Horse, Charlie & the Foxtrots, Slow Parade, Dear Mr. Peasant and Mike Lasage! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with Kenosha Kid and Etienne de Rocher! 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! Heather Luttrell delivers a night of rockin’ Americana and blues at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas!

Friday, February 13

Friday the 13^th and Valentine’s Day Eve; get horror-filled and romantic in one fatal swoop! Rock out to some old-school punk tunes at The Star Bar with Horror Business (Misfits tribute), Road to Ruin (The Ramones tribute) and Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols tribute)! Or get smooth this Valentine’s Day Eve with Yacht Rock Schooner at Park Tavern in Piedmont Park! Paris on Ponce begins their 2-day Luscious Love Valentine’s Event presented by The Imperial OPA Circus, featuring 2 shows (8:30p/10:30p) with thirteen mischievous acts including vaudeville, burly-Q, circus fun and more! Get classically retro at Atlanta Symphony Hall with their “From the Heart” performance, delivering the “most romantic songs that celebrate Valentine’s Day” at 8pm! Or Holly Golightly on over to The Strand Theater for Blake Edwards’ adaptation of Truman Capote’s glamorous classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) with a pops pre-show at 7:30 pm!

Get absurd and rock out with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton & the Madrid Express at the Red Light Café with Johnny Knapp! Blues it up with Big Head Todd & the Monsters at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Toco-Hill-Avis G. Williams Library for their screening of Tony Scott’s CRIMSON TIDE (1995) at 1:30 pm! Honkytonk it up blues-style at The Earl with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, Interstate and The Wayward Souls! Garage rock over to Union EAV for a night with Snoot, The Marrows, Sleep the Owls and 72nd and Central! Jazz it up at Mammal Gallery for their screening of THE LIFE, LOVE & HATE OF A FREE JAZZ MAN AND HIS WOMAN (2012), Jorge Torres-Torres’ documentary on jazz musician, Arthur Doyle at 7:30! The Drunken Unicorn delivers a night beckoning back to the psyched up days of krautrock with Paperhaus, Shampoo and Shepherds! Get jazzy with Regina Carter and the Gary Motley Trio at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts! Led Zeppelin 2 rocks out at the Masquerade! Rock out with the Dirty Doors at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! It’s your second chance to catch Lloyd Cole (Lloyd Cole & the Commotions) at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with Mojo Davis at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their “Winter Classic Rock ‘n’ Roll” series with The Stoneberrys, paying tribute to The Rolling Stones! The Electromatics deliver a night of Chicago blues and a taste of ‘Ole Blue Eyes at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Get funky NOLA-style at the Northside Tavern during Zydefunk’s “King Cake” Party! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get rootsy with the Josh Garrett Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, February 14

It’s V-day folks and you know what that means! We’ve dug up a variety of rockin’ vintage shindigs taking place tonight, that we know will get your blood pumping and all set for that shot to the heart, so, keep your eyes peeled for our top picks and comprehensive guide for all things Retro and Valentine-y!

And for those looking to forget the whole day, take a peek at these rockin’ events! Get your garage rock fix at The Star Bar during the Rat Aid: Benefit for Haydon O’Neil & Kat Peters with The Nightporters and Scarred But Smarter! It’s a gritty rock ‘n’ roll revival at Smith’s Olde Bar with Swank Sinatra, Kool Kats The Joy Kills and Dams! Rusted Root delivers a night of rock ‘n’ jams at the Variety Playhouse! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of Dixie blues and jazz rock with Seminole Jackson! Get funky NOLA-style at the Northside Tavern with a second helping of Zydefunk! The Emory Jazz Fest presents their Big Band Night at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts! Make your way to the Charles D. Switzer Public Libary for their screening of Clyde Geronimi/Wilfred Jackson/Hamilton Luske’s animated classic, CINDERELLA (1950) at 3pm! Get bluesy with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Harper & the Midwest Kind delivers a night of world blues and roots 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, February 15

It’s a night of ‘60s era Dylan-esque folk with Food For Cougars, Gas Hound and The Brookses at the Red Light Café! The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival brings you Joan Miklin Silver’s HESTER STREET (1975), celebrating its 40th Anniversary at the Lefont Theatre at 1:55pm! It’s Sultry Sunday at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with a night of Frank Sinatra! Delta Moon delivers a night of blues rock and Americana at Blind Willie’s! Bluegrass it up with David Bromberg at Eddie’s Attic! Or stomp over to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Bryan Sutton Band! The Crimson Moon Café delivers their “Jazz it up Jam” with Rick Harris! Get your Precious fix at The Marlay House in Decatur during the Atlanta Tolkien Fans February Meetup at 1pm! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers their Bluegrass Brunch with the Kris Youman’s Band in the Bar Room! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And Stephen “The Blues Dude” gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theatre presents the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s “Tuck Everlasting”, running through Feb. 22!

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!

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

Hey all you Kool Kats and Kittens! Come see what’s on the menu this week in Retro Atlanta! We promise it’s the bees knees and that’ll we’ll have you boogyin’ the night away! We’ve got Big Band and Rockabilly and Horrific Monsters, Oh My! We’ve got all the cinema of yore you’ve been craving and don’t forget about our tried and true Blues and Jazz that’ll keep you on your toes! So, get off that couch and rock out Retro-style!

Monday, February 2

Let the geeky guys and debaucherous dolls of Blast-Off Burlesque start your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday night at 8:30pm! Hey all you rude boys and girls! Skank on down to the Masquerade for a night with Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake and Authority Zero! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Gresham Library for their screening of Edward Zwick’s GLORY (1989) at 2pm. Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 3

Get geeky and delve into the comic book panic of the ‘50s at the Onyx Theatre in Kennesaw with their world premiere performance of “Bloody Pulp: Crisis in the American Comic Book!”, running through Feb. 8! Or get your fill of dark humor and satirical shenanigans at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Mel Brooks’, BLAZING SADDLES (1974), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willie’s! 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 Crosstown All Stars dish out a night of stompin’ rock ‘n’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! 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, February 4

Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets bluesy at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s your last chance to laugh it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Mel Brooks’, BLAZING SADDLES (1974), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Stomp down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Mendingwall, Crash Dragon and Lebo & the Rattler! Get funky with Josh Hoyer & the Shadowboxers at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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 down and dirty with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission 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, February 5

Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with Ghost Riders Car Club delivers a night of rockin’ shenanigans at the Clermont Lounge! Get your ‘70s power pop ‘n’ rock fix at The Earl with The Head, A. Sinclair and Tedo Stone! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s, so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes! Folk it up at the Red Light Café with Rye Baby and Tara Mills! Bluegrass it up with Jim White and The Packway Handle Band at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a rockin’ night of Americana at Smith’s Olde Bar with Jordan Igoe, Alex Commins & Todd Prusin and Humdinger! Get down and dirty with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Spend the evening with As of Yet 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! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! 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, February 6

Get traumatized and HORROR-fied this weekend as the Days of the Dead Convention takes over the Sheraton Atlanta hotel for three days of ghastly gore-filled events, running through Feb. 8! You won’t want to miss terrifying vendors, including Kool Kat Chris Hamer of UrbnPop, Chambers of Horror, Noel Saabye’s Monster Pin-Ups and more; monstrous celebrity guests Butch Patrick, masked menace Kane Hodder of FRIDAY THE 13TH fame, Tony Todd, a HELLRAISER Reunion with Valentina Vargas, Doug Bradley and more; and a hell raisin’ Friday night party featuring Circus Envy & the Deadly Sins and Captain & Maybelle at midnight! So, get your fill of the blood-bath that is, Days of the Dead!

Rev it up with Kool Kat Reverend Andy Hawley of Garage71 Radio and EAV Radio at the Diesel Filling Station as he spins a night of hellacious ‘billy and old-school punk and metal, during his “Reverend Andy Meets the Belligerent Monkey” event! Or let Dale Watson fill yer ears with some old-time country at Smith’s Olde Bar, with special guests JD Wilkes & the Dirt Daubers! Get your second helping of Jim White and The Packway Handle Band at Eddie’s Attic! Shimmy on down to Center Stage for this month’s Clubesque: A Modern Cabaret event! Get eclectic with a rockin’ cello at the Red Clay Theatre with Montana Skies! Folk it up with MIPSO at the Crimson Moon Café! It’s a Valentine’s Cabaret at the Atlanta Lyric Theatre in Marietta with their presentation of “That Thing Called Love” at 7pm! Bluegrass it up with the Yonder Mountain String Band at the Variety Playhouse! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire you up at Mule Camp Tavern in Gainesville! Get your retro rock fix at The Earl with Radio Birds, Stonerider and Melodime! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Blues it up with Ted Bauman at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of vintage folk and Americana at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Little Country Giants and Steve Baskin! Get funky under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX with Secondhand Swagger! Grant Green, Jr dishes up some rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Jeff Jensen gets bluesy at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, February 7

It’s Day 2 to get spooked at the Days of the Dead Convention at the Sheraton Atlanta! Get your blood curdling fill of monstrous events including a HELLRAISER panel, Frog Brothers panel with Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander of THE LOST BOYS, Angus Scrimm, “Tall Man” in Don Coscarelli’s PHANTASM (1979) and don’t forget to haunt on over to the Monster Ball & Costume Contest that will have you rattlin’ your bones deep into the night!

Shenanigans ensue at The Star Bar because it’s HollyFest VII! Get your rockin’ fill with the music of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper devilishly delivered by The Mystery Men?, Johnny McGowan, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Cadillac Junkies, McPherson Struts, Rodeo Twister, Red Rocket Deluxe, The Tyler Nelson Experiment, Big Boss Man, The Cherry Bomb, The Side Burners, El Capitan and more! Or get rowdy with a bluegrass romp at the Red Light Café with Heyday Revival, Fuzz Face, wWAYLon and Brandon Gunter! Rock out ‘80s punk style with Evan Dando (Lemonheads) and Sara Johnston at The Earl! Delbert McClinton dishes out a night of stompin’ Americana at the Variety Playhouse! Geek it up at Atlantic Station during the Momo Con Presents: Cosplay & Ice Skating event! Boogie down to Smith’s Olde Bar for the Fare Thee Well Foundation’s 7th Annual Mardi Gras Ball featuring The Jugtime Ragband, Electric Codpiece, Hoodoo Moon and more! Get rootsy with Lindsay Loe & the Flat Bellys and Wild Ponies at the Red Clay Theatre! Blues it up with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern with the Rockaholics! Get your ‘80s fix at Kuzan’s in Suwannee with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The 24th Street Wailers deliver a night of Memphis soul and rockin’ swing 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, February 8

It’s Day 3 and your last chance to experience the rockin’ blood and horror fest, the Days of the Dead Convention! Today’s events include a panel covering Robert Hiltzick’s horror classic, SLEEPAWAY CAMP (1983) featuring Felissa Rose and Jonathan Tiersten and you won’t want to miss Samurai Sunday with a screening of Jimmy Wang’s MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE (1976)! So, come on and check out all the swell and retro horror goodness while you can!

Get sweet and sinful at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club during The Baphomettes’ My Bloody Valentine Bake Sale, getting bloody with girls in horns, booze and baked goods galore, from 2 to 6pm! Or tease on down to 7 Stages for Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the Syrens of the South’s 8th Annual Vixens Valentease Vaudeville Variety Show, doors at 7:45pm! Get soulfully sentimental at the Fox Theatre’s 9th Annual Pre-Valentine “Lovers & Friends” Weekend, featuring Eric Benet, Johnny Gill and El Debarge! Get jazzy with Nat George (star of the “Sam Cooke Story”) at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Or jazz it up with Francine Reed at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Jamie Cullum! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch with Cedar Hill in the Bar Room! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And Stephen “The Blues Dude” gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theatre presents the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s “Tuck Everlasting”, running through Feb. 22!

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

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/Contributing Writer

‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta is chock full of goodies! We’ve got rockabilly! We’ve got blues, jazz and all the honk- tonkin’ bluegrass you’ve been craving! So, If you need a rockin’ good time, come on out and live la vida Retro!

Monday, January 26

It’s a punk rock cabaret at The Earl with The World/Inferno Friendship Society, along with The Everymen and I Want Whisky! Get your hillbilly punk fix at 529 with Joseph Lazzari (Walk From the Gallows) and Steve Gilbert! Leon Russell gets down to the nitty gritty for night one at Terminal West with Dave Griffin! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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!’ Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, January 27

Geek it up and create your ideal gal at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John Hughes’, WEIRD SCIENCE (1985), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get your second helping of Leon Russell and Dave Griffin at Terminal West! Get the blues with Kristin’s Blues Station at Blind Willie’s! 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 bluesy with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! 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, January 28

SCENE MISSING Magazine presents Whedon Need No Education at the Highland Inn Ballroom delivering a night of writing, comedy and other performances based on Joss Whedon works, at 9pm! It’s your last chance to geek it up at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John Hughes’, WEIRD SCIENCE (1985), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Emory Cinematheque screens Monte Hellman’s COCKFIGHTER (1974) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! Roots rock ‘n’ blues it up at Eddie’s Attic with their “American B-Sides” show featuring Joe McGuinness, Marshall Ruffin, Andrew Black, Aaron Trubic, Alex Gordon and more! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo delivers a night of blues, jazz and soul at Blind Willie’s! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes, with special guest Wayne “The Train” Hancock delivering a set of his juke joint swing! Get some rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll 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, January 29

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! Rock out at the Masquerade for a night of old-school metal with Napalm Death, Voivod, Iron Reagan, Exhumed and the Black Crown Initiate! Get old-timey and bluegrass it up at Red Light Café with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen, the Hothouse Peaches and the Hunger Valley String Band! Or get jazzy with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo and Kayla Taylor at Zeal A Modern Eatery! Punk out at 529 with Rotten Stitches, the Moreland Wrecks, Drop Dead Nasty, Squadron and The Aggravated! Honky-tonk it up at the Elliott Street Pub with Crying Wolf! Or stomp down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Carly Gibson, BJ Wilbanks and Hannah Zale! Get your boogie shoes on because it’s Swing Night at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center! Get geeky at Union EAV at their Blood Drunk Arcade night with retro games and rockin’ tunes! Get funky with Cooper Tisdale at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Yarn dishes a night of rockin’ Americana at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! 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, January 30

Rock out at The Star Bar with a night the nitty gritty rock ‘n’ roll with Bigfoot, Catfight, Lust, Red Rocket Deluxe and Lost Otaku! The Stacktone Slims dish out some bluesy garage rock at Smith’s Olde Bar with Navajo Joe! Jazz it up with Diane Schuuer at the Ferst Arts Center! Or get jazzy with Frank Barham at the Elliott Street Pub! Get old-school at the Cobb Performing Arts Center for a night with the Australian Bee Gees Show! It’s a night of horror punk and rock ‘n’ roll at The Highlander with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Black Cat Attack, Antagonizers ATL and The Independents! Stomp down to the Red Light Café for a night with Brock’s Folly, Our Great Lifeboat and Jonathan Peyton! Rock down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with ZOSO, delivering selected works from Led Zeppelin! It’s a night of traditional folk at Eddie’s Attic with John McCutcheon! 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! ‘80s it up at the Sportstime Bar & Grille in Duluth with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of outlaw blues and classic rock with Blue Roads! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Danielle Howle and Carsie Blanton! Boogie down under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX with Lethal Rhythms! Fire up the blues with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at the Northside Tavern! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! The Texas KGB dishes out some rockin’ Americana at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, January 31

Get your low-down, nitty gritty sleaze surf fix at The Star Bar with Tiger! Tiger!, The Delusionaires (see our Kool Kat feature soon!) and special guests, Bad Friend! Moonbase dishes out some surf and prog rock with Gnomonaut’s space rock at The Basement! Viva Las Vegas! Elvis Lives!, the ultimate Elvis tribute invades the Fox Theatre! The Highlander delivers a night of rockin’ punk with Cadillac Junkies, Forsaken Profits and Random Conflict! Rock out horror punk-style at The Pointe in Conyers with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Gunpowder Gray and Bishop Lake! Get geeky and make your way to The Hair of the Dragon IV costuming photo studio party, produced by Markster Con at Studio Space Atlanta! ZOSO delivers their second night of Led Zeppelin tunes at the Variety Playhouse! Swing on by Emory University for the Emory Swing Club’s January Dance at 8pm! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of vintage art and rockin’ tunes as Studio Pins presents their Screen Stories Art opening, fusing classic Hollywood films and pop art along with rockin’ tunes by the Cigar Store Indians! Get revved up at Shawn O’Brian’s Roadhouse in Jackson with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles! Get to rockin’ at The Earl with The Rocket Boys, Cute Boots and Black Linen! Kristy Lee gets some soul at Eddie’s Attic! Folk icon, Arlo Guthrie honors the 50th Anniversary of blues classic, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” at the Ferst Center! Get funky and folksy in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Moontower, Sazerac, Sailing to Denver and City Mouse! Or bluegrass it up in the Atlanta Room with Lion & Company, The Vineyard and Rick Brantley! Fire up the blues with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at the Northside Tavern! Get your ‘80s fix at Wild Wing Café in Suwannee with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s hits with the Way Back Band! Blues it up with Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! Spend the night with blues hall of famer, Bobby Messano 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, February 1

Kool Kats Spirits & the Melchizedek Children dish out a night of ‘70s-style psychedelia with Must Be the Holy Ghost at 97 Estoria! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch with the Georgia Mountain Stringband in the Bar Room! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! Blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 Alliance Theatre presents the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s “Tuck Everlasting”, running through Feb. 22!

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

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

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/Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta is the bee’s knees this week! Let us rock you into submission with a week chock full of Kool Kats and hootenannies galore! We have everything you need to make your daily grind a long lost memory! Live la vida Retro with the rest of ‘em!

Monday, January 19

If the Monday blues have got you down, let Retro Atlanta show you some real rockin’ blues! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Greg Hester delivers a night of funky soul at Blind Willie’s! 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, January 20

John Belushi and his rowdy frat brothers invade the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John Landis’ comedy classic, ANIMAL HOUSE (1977), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or catch the film adaptation of Carson McCullers’, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (1968) dir. by Robert Ellis Miller at the Decatur Library’s screening at 2pm! Get really retro at the Fox Theatre for their presentation of the Broadway musical, “Newsies”, inspired by the Newsboys Strike of 1899, running through Jan. 25! Paul Vogler delivers an evening of island tunes at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get some rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Blind Willie’s! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets the blues with the Bob Page Trio! Get glamorous at Petite Auberge for Capitol City Opera Company’s “Dinner & a Diva” series, featuring tasty food and arias from “Madama Butterfly,” “Carmen” 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! Get bluesy with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! 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, January 21

Get your psychobilly and horror rock fix at the Masquerade with Wednesday 13, Eyes Set to Kill, Die So Fluid, Remnants of Hope and Crypt 24! The Earl delivers a night of ‘70s desert rock with Karma to Burn (K2B), Sierra and Volume IV! It’s your last chance to catch the John Landis’ ‘70s raunchy comedy classic, ANIMAL HOUSE (1977) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get to truckin’ during Emory Cinematheque’s presentation of Hal Needham’s SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977) during their “Movies Made in Georgia” series at 7:30pm! And go treasure hunting with Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta and Duluth at 7pm! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of soulful Americana with Toby Lightman and Sara Rachele! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Catch the world premiere of the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s “Tuck Everlasting” at the Alliance Theatre, running through Feb. 22! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! The Electromatics dish out some Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Get some rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll 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, January 22

Billy Idol invades the Tabernacle with a night of rockin’ ‘80s punk! Or get your surfer punk rock fix at 529 with the Night Birds, Dinos Boys, GHB and Wymyns Prysyn! Rock out at The Star Bar with a night of psyche-punk and rockin’ blues with The Marrows, Momcat, Man Up, Yancey and Woven In! It’s a night of rockin’ reggae and soulful blues at The Basement with Beauregard & the Down Right, Pasadena, Crave, Alchemy and Threadbare Skivvies! Dyn-O-Mite funks it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get “Lost in the ‘80s” with a Blue Light costume party in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or rock out ‘70s roots-style in the Music Room with Freelance Ruckus, the Kris Youmans Band and Rye Baby! Get folksy with Book Club’s record release with special guest Cicada Rhythm at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with Marcus Johnson and Tom Browne at Suite Food Lounge! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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! Get jazzy with The Slatterys at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! 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, January 23

The Basement delivers a night of ‘70s psychedelia with Kool Kats Spirits & the Melchizedek Children, HALMOS, The Dirty Magazines and Dead Register! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Speakeasy Electroswing Atlanta event with sultry performances by Carmen Corazon of Minette Magnifique, Benjamin Elizabeth, Nikki Nuke’m and more! Get adventurous with Buttercup and Wesley at The Strand Theatre with their screening of Rob Reiner’s classic, THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 8pm! Rock out with Kool Kats, The Joy Kills, Surrogates and Nones at Union EAV! It’s a night of old-school blues ‘n’ soul at Eddie’s Attic with Rudy Currence! Rock out folk-style at Smith’s Olde Bar with Ryan Montbleau, Mike Dillon and Shane Piasecki! Get to stompin’ with Merle Haggard as he delivers a night of old-time country at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get rootsy with Amelia White, Phil Madeira and Tommy Womack at the Red Clay Theatre! Bluegrass it up with Town Mountain, Kate & Corey and Hunter Callahan at Terminal West! Get the blues with Men in Blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! The Rockaholics deliver a night of rockin’ blues and soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Folk it up with Threadbare Skivvies, Cheer and Honeywood at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get your toes tappin’ under the dinosaurs with The HoBoHemians and their jazzy ‘20s/’30s tunes at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX! Boogie down at Famous Pub with Kool Kat VJ Anthony and his “80s Music Video Dance Night” at 10pm! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at Northside Tavern! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night with the Howlin’ Ebous and The Hollidays! 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, January 24

Get revived old-school style at the Masquerade with The Masquerade Writer Rock Revival featuring Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, The Backyard Birds, The Mystery Men? and the The Lizardmen! Or get your revved up rockabilly fix at Bonz Bar & Grill in Douglasville with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles! Get some soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics at The Music Room! 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! For a night of nostalgic rock ‘n’ roll, make your way to The Earl for the Clear Plastic Masks! Get to the root of it all with Dangermuffin at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out blues-style with Scarlett Mistress and Jackwagon at The Highlander! Hog Eyed Man with Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna deliver a night of old-time folk and Appalachian tunes at the Crimson Moon Café! Get the ragtime blues at Kavarna with Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen, Gibson Wilbanks and Mr. Blue Sky! Get some true Americana at the Red Clay Theatre with Jonathan Byrd & the Pickup Cowboys and Stacey Earl & Mark Stuart! Bluegrass it up with the Todd Prusin Experience and Circus Dog in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar. Or make your way to the Music Room for a night with Migrant Worker and The Tarlatans! PARADOCS deliver a night of classic rock at The Strand Theatre! Stomp over to the Red Light Café for a night with Cedar Hill, 3 Way Street and Anne Buckle! ‘80s it up at Wild Wing Café in Gainesville with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Here kitty, kitty! BLACKOUT Presents: Cats Hair Ball at Famous Pub featuring a goth and industrial dance night! Folk it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Spring with a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young tribute band during their “Winter Classic R&R” series! Or rock out at the Variety Playhouse with the Allman Brother tribute, Live at the Fillmore! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of jazzy rockin’ blues with Wavetree and Marty Manous! Get the blues with Big Bill Morganfield at Blind Willie’s! Get your roots rock fix with the Adam Ezra Group at The Family Dog! 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, January 25

Get ghoulish and horror-fied at Sons of Celluloid’s Big Ass Horror Bash/Days of the Dead Atlanta Pre-Party at the American Tavern in Loganville at 3pm! You won’t want to miss the haunting hearse show, beastly bands, including Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures, a screening of Atlanta’s own DEAR GOD, NO! (2011), dir. by James A. Bickert, featuring Kool Kat Madeline Brumby and Kool Kat Jett Bryant, classic horror screenings and more! For something a little less sinister, shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a night of Flamenco presented by Berdole Flamenco featuring Lakshmi Basile and Cristian Puig! Kool Kat Amy Pike with Bonaventure Quartet delivers a night of gypsy jazz during the Marcus Jewish Community Center’s (MJCC) “Jazz at the JCC” event! It’s “Sultry Sunday” at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Phillip Jazzdad Thomas! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch with Old Salt Union in the Bar Room! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! Blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Honeycutters dish out a rockin’ night of Appalachian honky-tonk at the Crimson Moon Café! And it’s your last chance to get adventurous with Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta and Duluth at 2pm!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theatre presents the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s “Tuck Everlasting”, running through Feb. 22!

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

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

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/Contributing Writer

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

Monday, January 12

If the Monday blues have got you down, let Retro Atlanta show you some real rockin’ blues! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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!’ Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get to the root of it all with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! 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, January 13

It’s a burly-Q birthday bash with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, getting sultry at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday: Burlesque Anniversary Show with pipin’ hot performances by Kool Kat Roula Roulette, Nikki Nuke’m, Mary Strawberry, Ada Manzhart, magic man and Clark Gable look-alike, Chad Sanborn and more! Sit back and chill with “The Dude” at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of the Coen Brothers’, THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or get really retro at the Wesley Chapel-William C. Brown Library in Decatur with their screening of Vincente Minnelli’s THE CLOCK (1945) at 11am! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Curtis Jones & Primal Roots deliver a bluegrass ruckus 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! Get bluesy with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, January 14

Get your boogie shoes on and get to swingin’ at the January HepCat’s Hop, “swing ‘n’ soul ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll” dance party at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant, every second Wed. of the month! Emory Cinematheque is back in full swing with their “Movies Made in Georgia” series, featuring Bruce Beresford’s DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989) at 7:30pm! Or get swept away at the Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta with their screening of James Cameron’s, TITANIC (1997) at 7:30pm! Take a trip with Dorothy and her pals down the yellow brick road as TCM presents Victor Fleming’s classic, THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at several local theatres, including UA Perimeter Pointe 10, AMC Avalon Forsyth 12 (Cumming), AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw), AMC Southlake 24 (Morrow), AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville), Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville), Regal Cinemas Avalon 12 (Alpharetta) and Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee) at 2pm/7pm! It’s your last chance to catch the Coen Brothers’ ‘90s classic, THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Blues it up with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets down and dirty blues-style with Lola! Get some rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll 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, January 15

Get glam and punk it up at The Star Bar with the Night Terrors, The Unsatisfied and Cadillac Junkies! The Earl delivers a night of baroque folk and Americana with River Whyless, Fire Mountain and City Mouse! Get some southern-fried soul with Secondhand Swagger and Alanna Royale at Vinyl! The Mar-Tans get funky with their NOLA funk and R&B at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! The Karp Foley Band delivers a night of blues, Americana and roots rock at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for Bluegrass Thursday with Dismal Creek! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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! Sweet Betty & the Shadows get bluesy at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! 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, January 16

Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley begs you to “Rock Until You Drop” at Diesel Filling Station as he dishes up a night of rockabilly, psychobilly, old-school punk, ‘80s metal and swing! Shimmy down to the Red Light Café for Sadie Hawkins’ improv burly-Q game show, Last Pasties Standing: Showtunes Showdown, with tempting tunes from your favorite musicals at 9pm! It’s a hootenanny and a half at the Dixie Tavern as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Yacht Rock Revue performs “Dark Side of the Moon” and a set of Beatles’ classics at the Variety Playhouse! It’s a night of gritty rock ‘n’ roll, garage and glam at The Earl with the Subsonics, Del Venicci, Landline and Sen Artie Mondello (The Delusionaires). Rock out with Black Leather Jet, the Jeff Shepherd Band and Liz Brasher at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Atlanta Room. Or get old-school blues-style in the Music Room with Escape Vehicle and the Glen Prigden Band! The Cumberland Collective delivers a night of rockin’ Americana and soul with Norman Frank at Eddie’s Attic! Film Love presents The New England Home Movie Tour, Atlanta Edition at Eyedrum, featuring handmade 16mm films, including films and slides of Whitney Biennial artist and experimental filmmaker, Luther Price at 8pm! Get mischievous at Vinyl with Them Wagoneers, Chamomile & Whiskey and Tin Man! The High Museum’s Friday Night Music Remix features a little Balkan brass street music with the Black Sheep Ensemble! Bluegrass it up with the Judge Talford Band at the Red Clay Theatre! Small Potatoes delivers a night of acoustic folk at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs followed by SLM’s “Winter Classic Rock ‘n’ Roll” series featuring The Buggs’ Beatles 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! Blues it up with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Tullamore Road delivers their rockin’ boogie blues at Northside Tavern! The Mick Hayes Band delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your Kansas City/West Coast blues fix at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Atlanta Boogie! 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, January 17

Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier is a hunk of burnin’ love at the Variety Playhouse with his Elvis Royale event featuring the Kingsized orchestra and Dames Aflame! Or get your French chamber pop fix at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, Love Letter and Andi! SCADShow delivers a French new-wave experience with their screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS (1960) with their 50^th Anniversary restoration! The Dirty Doors deliver tunes by the Doors at Steve’s Live Music during their “Winter Classic Rock ‘n’ Roll” series! Or get your Allman Brothers fix at The 120 Tavern & Music Hall with Tribute! Denim Arcade with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch dishes out some rockin’ ‘80s music at the North River Tavern in Sandy Springs! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles rock out circus freak-style at Dixie Tavern with special guests Captain & Maybelle! Stomp down to The Earl for Sons of Bill, The Skylarks and Kool Kat Drew Beskin (District Attorneys)! 529 delivers a rockin’ ruckus with Ben Trickey, Mishka Shubaly and Star Anna followed by a rockin’ tribute to the Clash, Clashinista! Boogie down to The Basement for their ‘90s D.A.N.C.E Party! Honky-tonk it up with Roxie Watson at the Crimson Moon Café! Kavarna delivers a hoppin’ hootenanny with the Shawn Wilcox Band! Get the blues with Delta Moon at Eddie’s Attic! Get folksy and stomp on down to the Red Light Café for Kristina Murray and Sailing to Denver! Blues it up with a CD celebration of the late Sean Costello’s “In the Magic Shop” at the Northside Tavern! Get down and dirty with Little G Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get sweet and low down with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Or head over to the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta for their screening of David Michener’s animated classic, THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE (1986) at 3pm! Blues it up with The Tone Prophets 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, January 18

The Cody Matlock Band hosts this month’s Atlanta Blues Society Meeting & Jam at the Red Light Café! Get your Precious fix at The Marlay House in Decatur during the Atlanta Tolkien Fans January Meeting at 1pm! It’s a night of old-school punk at the Masquerade with Pennywise, Anti-Flag, A Wilhelm Scream and Burns Like Fire! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch with The Porch Bottom Boys in the Bar Room! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! Blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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!

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

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

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta starts the year off with a whole lotta shakin’ shenanigans! Get your revved up rockabilly fix! Take a gander at all the Retro cinema! Come see what the kat drug in and live la vida Retro!

Monday, January 5

Rock out at 529 with Ganges Phalanges, Wicked Pretty, Nuka Waves, Get Damned and Broken Factory Windows! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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! Or boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s a night of acoustic roots ‘n’ blues at Blind Willie’s with Bill Sheffield! 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, January 6

It’s a Brat Pack invasion at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John Hughes’s ‘80s classic, THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Spend an evening of networking and socializing with pop artists galore at the Hodgepodge Coffee House & Gallery at the Comic & Animation Artist Meet-Up happening every first Tuesday of the month from 7pm to 9pm! 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 bluesy with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! It’s a night of rockin’ roots and Americana at Blind Willie’s with Joe McGuinness! 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, January 7

Get funky at the Village Theatre with Song Missing Presents: The Atlantans Formerly Known as Prince event featuring writing, comedy and performances based on Prince songs. Event begins at 9pm and features music by Noel Stephen & the Darlings! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Join in on the hi-jinks at The Plaza Theater as their Cineprov group riff’s Herbert Ross’ ‘80s classic, FOOTLOOSE (1984) at 7:30! It’s your last chance to catch John Hughes’ THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! The Cazanovas get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Sean McConnell delivers a night of folk and Americana at Eddie’s Attic, with special guest Scotty Cram! Get some rhythm, soul and rock ‘n’ roll 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, January 8

The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys and Gators in the Sawgrass deliver a night of foot stompin’ bluegrass at the Red Light Café! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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! Get the blues, Americana-style with Heather Luttrell at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! 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, January 9

Get revved with a rockabilly ruckus at Smith’s Olde Bar with Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Cigar Store Indians and Motel Ice Machine! Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen deliver a night of old ragtime blues and jazz with Blood on the Harp and Rye Baby at The Earl! Jazz it up gypsy-style at Eddie’s Attic with Kool Kat Amy Pike and The Bonaventure Quartet! Shimmy down to Center Stage and get your burly-Q fix with Clubesque: A Modern Cabaret! Red Light Café delivers a night of stompin’ Americana with Hannah Aldridge, Lilly Hiatt, Sara Rachele and Liz Brasher! Sip a few cocktails and boogie down because it’s a night of French chamber pop under the dinosaurs with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get shakin’ and take it back to the ‘80s at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Jendayi Bellydance and the World Bellydance Alliance’s ‘80s dance event! Rock out at Terminal West with Smithsonian dishin’ out their Smiths tribute along with Fauxgerty’s CCR tribute! Albert White gets down and dirty at Northside Tavern! Blues it up at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues at their IBC Sendoff Party featuring JP Blues, Blind Cadillac and GHP! Or get bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with The Unusual Suspects! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night of modern string band tunes with some old time roots with Ugly Cousin! Cajun it up at the Red Clay Theatre with Donna the Buffalo! Make your way to Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library in Decatur for their screening of Gus Van Sant’s GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997) at 1:30pm! 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, January 10

Surf on down to Kavarna for the Southern Surf Stomp featuring a night of sleazy, gritty surf rock with The Delusionaires, The Cherry Bomb, High Tide and more! Get retro jazzy at the Red Light Café with the Moonlighters Jazz Band! Rock out at the OHMPark Music Fest 2015 being held at The Earl and 529! The Earl rocks out with Twin Tigers, the Breathers, Warehouse, Semicircle and 100 Watt Horse. Or rock out at 529 with Kool Kats Spirits & the Melchezidek Children, This Piano Plays Itself, Slowriter and Highlander! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Strand Theatre! The Star Bar delivers a night of blue-eyed soul and blues rock with James Hall, The Locksmyth and The Boy Jones! Get magical in a land of enchanting beings and fantasy at the Center for Puppetry Arts with their screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s ‘80s classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at 7pm! Get geeky at Famous Pub during Markster Con and Dragon Fire Events’ Level Up Videogame Dance Party at 10pm! Or head over to the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta for their screening of Chris Buck/Kevin Lima’s TARZAN (1999) at 3pm! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Rye Baby in the Atlanta Room! Or bluegrass it up in the Music Room with The Wind & The Wave, Honeywood and Old Salt Union! Get your ‘80s fix with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at the Dallas Public House in Dallas! The Variety Playhouse delivers their 3rd Good Gracious Variety Show, featuring Little Country Giant, Lilac Wine, comedy by Dad’s Garage Theatre Co. and more! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Music with the Randall Bramblett Band and Heidi Pollyea! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! John Nemeth gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Or get the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with Cody Matlock and Barry Richman! The Barrow Boys deliver a night of Americana and surf at Java Monkey! Rock out with the Allman Brothers Tribute Band at 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, January 11

Get classically retro at the Fox Theatre with The State Ballet Theatre of Russia’s presentation of “Swan Lake” at 3pm! Rock out with Concrete Blonde’s Johnette Napolitano at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch with Cedar Hill in the Bar Room! Or shake it down to the Music Room for The Candybox Revue’s “Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice” burlesque and musical theatre revue featuring performances by Freya West, Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Candi LeCoeur, Kool Kat Roula Roulette, Ada Manzart and more! Get folksy at the Red Clay Theatre with Glen Phillips and Natalia Zukerman! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

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

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

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first 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/Contributing Writer

Kool Kats and Kittens! 2015 is finally here! So start the year off right and let Retro Atlanta show you what to do! We’ve got all the rockin’ swell events you won’t want to miss! So, get dolled up, get your dancin’ shoes on and live la vida Retro! Come see what we have in store for you this week!

Monday, December 29

Get adventurous this manic Monday with Bruce Willis at The Plaza Theater as they screen John McTiernan’s, DIE HARD (1988) through Jan. 1! Or jazz it up at the Lefont Theatre with their screening of Alan Hicks’ KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON (2014), documenting the life of legendary jazz musician, Clark Terry at 7pm! The haunted holiday season’s not over kiddies! Spook on down to the Stonecrest Library in Lithonia for their screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 1pm! Bluegrass it up with a rockin’ Americana three night stand at the Variety Playhouse with Railroad Earth! Stomp on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a night with the Melanie Denard Band! 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!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s with Frank & Blues! And blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 30

Get funky with Zack Deputy and Dapper Slap at Smith’s Olde Bar! 529 delivers a night of Steely Dan-esque dream pop and ‘70s psychedelia with Misery Loves Chachi, Teach Me Equals and Kool Kats, Spirits & the Melchizadek Children! Lounge it up at the Red Light Café with “Esotronik”, delivering a night of UK garage, house and groovy tunes! 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! 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 with Dan Sheffield! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Get your second helping of Railroad Earth at the Variety Playhouse! And The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 31

It’s New Year’s Eve, folks! Out with the old and in with the new! Although, we here at ATLRetro prefer the old, so we’ve put together a swell Throwback to the 20^th Century New Year’s Eve Guide, that will lead the way as you boogie on down to your final destination in 2014! Ring in the New Year in style and toast 2015 in Retro Atlanta! We at ATLRetro wish you a very vintage and rockin’ Happy New Year!

Thursday, January 1

Get funky at Terminal West this New Year with Funk You and Dank Sinatra! Make a wave at Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta with James Cameron’s epic tale, TITANIC (1997) at 7:30pm! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and Bill Sheffield deliver some rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern ! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 2

The Clibber Jones Ensemble, reminiscent of Frank Zappa rocks out at The Star Bar with Rad Giraffe and Mice in Cars! Get weird with an evening of “outertainment” at the Red Light Café with Dom Jalapeno, Will Dollinger (wWAYLOn), Carlton Heston and Kimlee Davis! Get some southern-fried soul and funk out at Smith’s Olde Bar with Tony Levitas and Deep Blue Sun in the Music Room. Or rock out with The Kinky Aphrodisiacs in the Atlanta Room! Rock out with a little garage and psychedelic rockabilly at the Drunken Unicorn with Outrageous Fun and Diamond Thief! Get really retro and classy at the Red Clay Theatre with Matthew Kaminski and Gwen Hughes as they present, “An Evening with Johnny Mercer”! Get experimental and avant-garde at Eyedrum with To Live & Shave in L.A. featuring composer/producer Tom Smith (Peach of Immortality/Pussy Galore) and Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra! Friend Without A Face revs you up with a night of rockabilly metal, bluegrass and psychobilly surf at 529! Get the boogie and funk it up at Mary’s with their Disco Hangover Party! Rock on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Spring for their “Winter Classic Rock ‘n’ Roll” series with a Bob Dylan Tribute Band! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Crimson Moon Café delivers an intimate evening of folk rock with Shaun Mullins! Experience traditional Chinese culture at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with Shen Yun, delivering 5000 years of Chinese civilization with classic dance, a live orchestra and beautiful costumes! Get romantically comedic at the Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library in Decatur with their screening of Roger Mitchell’s NOTTING HILL (1999) at 1:30pm! 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, January 3

Rock out in the new year with an evening of new-wave and post-apocalyptic power pop with The Swimming Pool Qs and Blasting Cap at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or get your classic garage fix with Five Eight, Metroscene and Time Before the War at The Star Bar! The Glands and Tenement Halls (Chris Lopez) deliver a rockin’ night at The Earl! Boogie on down to Kavarna for their Vinyl Soul Night! Jazz it up at the Red Clay Theatre with The Elgin Wells Group New Year’s reunion! It’s an evening of folk rock at Terminal West with the Indigo Girls! Get funky with Maze and Frankie Beverly at the Fox Theatre! Get traditional folk-style at the Red Light Café with “A Didgeridoo New Year” featuring Martin & Scott and Emma Salahuddin! Rick Booher & the Soul Machine deliver their funk and soul at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs followed by the ‘60s and ‘70s rock n roll of The Rainmen! Blues it up with Andy Makely and Atlanta Boogie at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! And make your way to the Charles D. Switzer Library in Marietta for their screening of Simon Wells’ BALTO (1995) at 3pm! 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, January 4

Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar’s Bluegrass Brunch with The Cohen Brothers Band! The Crimson Moon Café delivers a second helping of Shaun Mullins’ folk rock! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And it’s your last chance to get fabulous and vintage at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) with their exhibit, 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair!

Ongoing

Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibits 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair through Jan. 4! (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!

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

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first 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.