ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

This summer, Retro Atlanta is smokin’ hot! So, come on out and see what we’ve found for you ‘This Week’!  Get vintage with a whole lotta revved up rockin’ ‘billy! Or catch a wave and boogie down hula-style! Or catch a few retro flicks! Or maybe, get your blues and jazz fix! Whatever you do, get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, June 16

Cure those Monday blues with a rockin’ helping of old-time bluegrass punk and folk at WonderRoot with I want Whiskey, The Marrows, Amen Lucy, Amen and Bottle Kids! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles get revved at Summit Racing in McDonough for their Monday Night Cruise! Get retro, kiddie-style at Pallookaville’s vintage cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, with their screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)! Get low down and dirty with Marshall Ruffin at Blind Willie’s! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month.  Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!  And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and some finger lickin’ BBQ! 

Tuesday, June 17

Get funky at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Main Squeeze and Those Cats! Or stomp on down to The Earl and catch Scott H. Biram, the “Dirty old one man band” delivering a night of blues, hillbilly and Americana country punk with Austin Lucas! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with NikkiTalley! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! The Hollidays deliver a night of rhythm soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! 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! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern.  And go where no man has gone before at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982), during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, June 18

Rock out N’awlins gypsy circus style at The Star Bar with the Dirty Bourbon River Show, Bad Friend and Six Ways to Sunday! For a night of David Lynchian rockabilly and boot stompin’ cow punk, rev on over to The Drunken Unicorn for Blood Oaks, Elsa Cross and Atomic Boogie! Get your fill of roots rock at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Faithless Town, The Woodstocks and Mango Tango! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night of bayou blues with Crawfish Supreme & the Blues Cocatoos! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of funky reggae blues with Ajeva, Five40 and TraePierce & the T-Stone Band in the Atlanta Room. Or boogie on down to the Music Room for Jonathan “Boogie” Long! Or have a rockin’ rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night of blues and funk with The Georgia Flood and some finger lickin’ BBQ! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Live long and prosper at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982), during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, June 19

Shake your groove thing and boogie on over to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for Blast Off Burlesque’s Super Sexy Swingin’ ‘70s Bingo Night featuring burly Q shenanigans, prizes and more! The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival kicks off tonight with Phil Alden Robinson’s classic,  FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) at 7:30 pm with their guided Fox Theatre Movie Tours starting at 5 pm! So, come on down to the Fox Theatre and learn all about movie palaces, movie innovations still being used today while taking  a gander at the projection room and don’t forget to chat up our very own Kool Kat Scott Hardin, projectionist since 1978! ATL Collective performs CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH, in its entirety at Eddie’s Attic with The Shadowboxers! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night of bluegrass with 16 Coaches! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of roots rock with Donna Hopkins! Rock on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with the King delivered by the Pelvis Breastlies! For a night of retro-inspired indie dream pop, make your way to The Earl for Misery LovesChachi, Highschool Sweetheart and Little Horn! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their “Performance on the Promenade” event at Piedmont Park with selections from Barber of Seville, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and more! 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! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s every Thursday! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Rock on down to Blind Willie’s for Heather Lutrell! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and some cool island tunes! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.  And it’s your last chance to voyage into the great beyond at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982), during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, June 20

Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night of garage rock and science punk with Tiger! Tiger!, Friendship Commanders and Leucine Zipper & ZincFingers! Honkytonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar and get your roots rock fix with Dangermuffin and the Blue Dogs! It’s a night of retro covers, from the Beatles to the present, at Big Tex with The Old New Acoustic Revue! Montana Skies deliver their cello and guitar eclectic orchestra at the Crimson Moon Café! It’s a night of rockin’ blues and country soul at the Red Clay Theater with Rhetta Butler & Company! Get your dirty swampy rock ‘n’ roll fix at The Earl with Tim & Eric’s Pusswhip Banggang and The El Caminos! Get funky with a little soul at the Red Light Café with Gibson Wilbanks and The Get Right Band! Xavier Rudd delivers a night of Australian and aboriginal folk, blues and reggae at The Variety Playhouse with Ash Grunwald! The Tone Prophets deliver a night of retro rock and blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for TheJarekus Singleton Band! Cha-cha on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event for Salsa Dance Night with the Salsambo Dance Studio! Stoney Brooks delivers a night of rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern while Ralph Roddenberry rocks out folksy Americana style at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock on over to The Drunken Unicorn for a little roots rock with Cody Marlowe & the DeadFlowers! The Strand Theater gets really retro with their presentation of ‘TheCivil War: A Musical Experience’, featuring performances inspired by the words of Lincoln, Frederick Douglas and Walt Whitman, running through June 21! Get your fill of your favorite MTV videos with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his Electro Light Electro Industrial Dance Night, invading Famous Pub with synth pop, electro & more! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, June 21

Get revved with Kool Kat Rev. Andy at his Rock ‘n’ Roll Riot at the Masquerade featuring the McPherson Struts slingin’ their rockabilly cow punk, a little saucy seduction with The Chameleon Queen and Musee du Coeur; 2th9s Retro, Jezebel Blue and more offerin’ up their vintage wares and a whole lotta ‘billy, so put on yer dancin’ shoes and rock on out retro-style!  Or make your way outside to the Masquerade Music Park for the AtlantaSummer Beer Fest 2014, offering up a platter of tasty brews, delicious food and retro-inspired tunes with Electric Avenue, Zero Town, Kara Claudy, Wesley Cook, Norman Frank & the Ghost Dance and Waking the Bates from 4pm to 9pm! Hula on down to Bottle Rocket ATL for their 4th Annual Bottle Rocket Summer Luau, Clam Bake & Urban Regatta, featuring Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! 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! Or spend the night with The King at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center during their “Heart of the King Tribute to Elvis” event, featuring top 70’s Elvis performer, Shaun Klush and Cody Ray Slaughter delivering his take on 50’s and 60’s Elvis! Honkytonk on down to Big Tex for a night with Kool Kat Phil Stair with Grim Rooster! It’s a night of retro rock at Eddie’s Attic with the Velvet Underground/Neil Young-inspired Five Eight, later followed by Those Darlins and The Head! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Tyler Talks to Doors, Collins Drive and TheStacktone Slims! It’s a night of Americana roots rock’n blues at the Red Clay Theater with Roxie Watson and the Michelle Malone Banned! The Family Dog delivers Jessy Carolina & the Hot Mess and their early American roots and jazz! Rock out with The Stooge Brothers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get a second helping of The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Northside Tavern gets the blues Chicago/Delta style with The Breeze Kings! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 22

Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Gypsy Jazz Brunch offering up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday! Get your ‘dunch’ on at The Earl with the Georgia Mountain StringBand! Help pay tribute to a legend at Eddie’s Attic as they present ‘My Hometown: A Bruce Springsteen Celebration’, featuring performances of his hits by Claire Campbell (Hope for Agoldensummer), Drew Beskin (KoolKats The District Attorneys), Chris Stalcup, the Flint Hill Specials, Nathan Beaver, Rex Hussman, Kristen Englenz, Mike Killeen, Spencer Smith and more! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a saucy southern burly Q extravaganza with The Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue! Stomp on down to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with the DecaturBluegrass Association (D.B.A.)! Men of Motown boogie down during their song and dance revival at The Strand Theater! And rock on down to Terminal West for The David Wax Museum! And spend the afternoon at the Fox Theatre’s Coca-ColaSummer Film Festival as they screen Ernest B. Shoedsack and Merian C. Cooper’s monster classic, KING KONG (1933) at 2 pm, with their guided Fox Theatre Movie Tours starting at 11 am!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Lyric Theatre spams it up during their presentation of Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ with music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, running through June 29!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat’, running through July 20!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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 gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

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.