ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow this week! From vintage old-time back porch hootenannies to ‘70s punk rawkin’ to psychedelic garage rock and all the blues and jazz you could ever want, Retro Atlanta is where it’s at! So, come on out and boogie on down in Retro Atlanta!

Monday, July 7

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 Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic tale, FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009)! Get some soul at Blind Willie’s with Brandon Reeves! 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!  The Beatles invade Lafont Theatre with their screening of Richard Lester’s A HARD DAYS NIGHT (1964)! Get old-school at Chastain Park with LionelRichie! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a bluesy helping of The Pork Bellies and some finger lickin’ BBQ!  And it’s your last chance to get monstrous at The Plaza Theateras they screen the 60th Anniversary restoration of Ishiro Honda’s GODZILLA (1954)!
 
Tuesday, July 8

Join forces with the infamous Ash as he battles the mediaeval dead at The Plaza Theater during Splatter Cinema’s screening of Sam Raimi’s cult classic ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992), at 9:30! And don’t forget to come early for some horrorific lobby shenanigans and classic horror trailers!  Or let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South seduce their way into your naughty little hearts at the Red Light Café at their Tease Tuesday: JulyEdition, with special guest Shay Blaze and performances by Nikki Nuke’m, Candi LeCoeur, Victoria Rose Nedley and so much more! Take a trip to the “Goon Docks” for swashbuckling adventures at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Richard Donner’s ‘80s classic, THE GOONIES (1985) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm! Spend the night with the Duke at the Midtown Art Cinema as they screen John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS (1956) at 7 pm! Skye Paige, “Queen of the Slide Guitar” and Danny B. Harvey deliver a night of rockabilly blues and country at Blind Willie’s! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with The Cohen Brother’s Band! Sweet Georgia’ Juke Joint gets down and dirty with the Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! 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 rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with JT Speed!

Wednesday, July 9

Punk on down to The Star Bar for Ravagers, The Jetbirds, Onchi and Spoilers! Or get folksy at Eddie’s Attic with Marc Cohn! The Mar-Tans deliver their New Orleans’ funk at Sweet Georgia’ Juke Joint! The Bob Page Trio delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! The Hollidays deliver a night of soul and rock and roll 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! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Or skip school and hang out with the Goonies at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Richard Donner’s ‘80s classic, THE GOONIES (1985) during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, July 10

Sex, Drugs & Bluegrass invade the Red Light Café with Nine Years Apart and Rye Baby! Get old-time with a little vintage bluegrass and string band ragtime with Blood on the Harp, Caleb Warren & His Perfect Gentlemen and Sailing to Denver at 529! Get garage rocked at The Star Bar with EasyBeat, Cosmoknox, Time Before the War and Vito Romeo! Lloyd’s RockSteady Revue delivers their ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul at Trader Vic’s! Rev on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club! It’s a night of old-time country and folksy Americana in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Scarlett Hill, Andy Lees, Lady of the Lake and Deborah Vanttaelst! Or get a tasty helping of the Megan Jean Band & the KFB’s Americana punk and avant-garde tunage in the Music Room with The Jauntee and Makayan! Get the Memphis blues at the Crimson Moon Café with the Daddy Mack Blues Band! Rock out with the ‘blues woman power’ of Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins at Blind Willie’s! The Barry Richman Band gets bluesy 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! 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! 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 seek the treasure at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Richard Donner’s ‘80s classic, THE GOONIES (1985) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, July 11

Get geeky and rock your TARDIS all the way to the Masquerade for MarksterCon’s Time Lord Party at 9 pm, featuring Steam Punk tunes by TheExtraordinary Contraptions, costume contests and rockin’ vendors including Kool Kat Chris Hamer of UrbnPop! Shimmy on down to Mary’s and celebrate all things French and Mary Antoinette during their Bastille DayBlow-Out event, featuring French pop and disco and an Oh-La-La Cabaret Show! Kool Kat VJ Anthony gets sinister at his Dark 80s With a Dose of the Cure event invading the Famous Pub at 10 pm! Make your way to the Diesel Fueling Station for the opening reception of Keith P. Rein’s Slaughterhouse Starlets art installation! Or witness the battle between good and evil at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery as they begin their two-day art exhibit, “The Visitor”, with art based on the 1979 Italian thriller by the same name, dir. by Michael J. Paradise (Guilio Paradisi)!

Funk on down to 529 for a night with Heavy Chevy and The 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with The Baseball Project and The Minus 5! Get twangy and blues on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Brian Ashley Jones and Jake &the Beanstalk! Rock out under the dinosaurs with The Pack at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! The Ori Naftaly Band delivers a night of the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your Beatle’s fix in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Please PleaseRockMe! Or honky-tonk on down to the Atlanta Room for a foot stompin’ night with The McNifficient 7, Divorce, Inc. and The Rotating Point Source! Get your ‘90s alt-rock fix at Chastain Park with The Goo Goo Dolls! Husky Burnette blueses it up at the Elliott Street Pub! Get funky at Big Tex with the Swamp Funk Quartet! Blues on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Stoney Brooks! Or taste the blues with a hint of soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Larry Griffith and a side of finger lickin’ BBQ! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get bluesy at Blind Willie’s! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Wesley Cook! Spend an evening with the greatest women in music at The Strand Theater during their song and dance revue, Diva! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, July 12

Rawk on down to The Star Bar for an evening with Bigfoot, Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, Bad Friend, Blacktop Rockets, Divorce, Inc., the Scragglers and more! Doors at 8 pm! It’s night two of the Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery’s “The Visitor” exhibit. Come on down as Contraband Cinema presents “The Mount Everest of insane ‘70s Italian movies,” THE VISITOR (1979) dir. by Michael J. Paradise, starring John Huston as an intergalactic warrior! Or go behind the scenes and spend the day at the 2nd Annual GooCon 2014 at Clayton State University, featuring events surrounding costuming, special effects make-up and props. Guests include Face-Off’s RJHaddy, Matt Silva, Tyler Green, Roy Wooley and more!

Surf on down to Kavarna for a night of old-school ‘50s and ‘60s rock with Phatlynx and Gemini 13! Rev on down to the Dixie Tavern in Marietta for a rockin’ night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a rockin’ jubilee featuring Richard Buckner with special guests, The Last Tycoon and Kristen Englenz! Or get a taste of some ‘70s roots reggae at The Variety Playhouse with ZvuloonDub System!  Get funky at The Family Dog with Gravy! It’s Beatlemania at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs as The Buggs deliver a night of Beatles favorites!  Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s!  Get jazzy at Chastain Park with Boney James, Brian Cultbertson, Dianne Reeves and more! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Damon Fowler! Jam on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with the Allman Brother Tribute Band! It’s the menacing hip-swingin’ 60s blues at The Earl with Curtis Harding, Black Linen and Kool Kat RodHamdallah! Kerry Hill jazzes it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Swing on over to Eddie’s Attic for two chances to see Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra! Get your Beatle’s fix in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Please PleaseRockMe! Groove on down to The Basement for a night with Strange Planet, Waking the Bates, FishHawk and ScaleModel! It’s a night of old-school punk and circus rawk at The Highlander with Lost Solstice, Till Someone Loses and Eye with Kool Kat Aileen Loy and War in my Mind! Maddy’s Ghost rocks out blues-style at Big Tex! The Ori Naftaly Band delivers a night of the blues at the Crimson Moon Café! It’s a Jukebox Giants song and dance musical revue at The Strand Theater, featuring pop music through the ages, ‘50s to ‘80s!  And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, July 13

Rock out old-time vintage-style at Pallookaville with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, during their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series running through August 24 from 7-10pm!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! Blues on down to The Family Dog for a night with Francine Reed & the Jez Graham Trio! Stomp on over to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with Cedar Hill! Fat Back Deluxe gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Men of Motown boogie down during their song and dance revival at The Strand Theater! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s! And get psychedelic at The Earl with Avers and Twin Tigers!

Ongoing

The Plaza Theater’s retro cinema line-up, including a Mad Max Marathon, featuring all three George Miller action flicks: MAD MAX (1979), MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) and MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDER DOME (1985), a screening of the 50^th Anniversary of Richard Lester’s A HARD DAYS NIGHT (1964) and  Ridley Scott’s classic creepy space thriller, ALIEN (1979), runs through July 10! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

Pallookaville delivers old-school vintage tunes during their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series running through August 24 from 7-10pm!

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.