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Tuesday, October 29

If you’re craving some old-school rockin’ blues, come on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for the JT Speed Band and some rockin’ BBQ or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues or hit up Blind Willie’s for the rockin’ blues of The Cazanovas! For a night of vintage pop and retro doo-wop rock n roll, make your way to The Earl and take in a little Lightnin’ Ray & The Mystics, Schooner and Fox Grin! Steve’s Live Music hosts Brillig, hailing all the way from Australia to deliver their toe-tapping traditional Americana and folk rhythms! Get rebellious and rock on over to the Masquerade for a night of ska, punk and old-school roots with Big D and The Kid’s Table, Survey Says!, Rebuilder, Red City Radio and Look Alive! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm. The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. For a night of electric voodoo boogie, check out Black Mother Jones along with the rockin’ Americana blues of Frank Bang & The Secret Stash at Smith’s Olde Bar! And come on out for a slashing good time at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as Michael Myers massacres his way through John Carpenter’s classic HALLOWEEN (1978) in their Retro Cinema Scares! series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, October 30

It’s Halloween-Eve, so come get haunted and rocked at the The Star Bar as they host their Night Before Halloween Party featuring a goodie-bag of retro tribute goodness!  The Deluxe Interiors punk it up with a tribute to The Cramps while TV Dinner’s Tivo gets new-wavy and electronic with their covers of Devo!  Get ready for a bloody, gory night of shock rock as Gwar massacres with their ‘blood, guts and screamin’ steel’ at the Masquerade! Or, spook on down to The Goat Farm Arts Center for a horrorific evening of blood-sucking monsters and terror with their screening of F.W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) with an eerie live original score from Felipe Barral at 8:30 pm! Dress up as your favorite dead celebrity and boogie on over to Mary’s for their Dead Celebrity Awards Bash featuring DJ King Atlas and a killer party you won’t want to miss! Emory’s Schwartz Center hosts a night with Count Dracula and a Transylvania March as Timothy Albrecht terrifies in this spooktacular organ recital at 8 pm! Head on over to Emory’s White Hall for a night of absurdity as Emory’s Cinematheque screens Preston Sturges’ THE LADY EVE (1941) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in their American Comedy Classics series at 7:30 pm! Rock on over to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues! Catch The Hollidays slingin’ their 60s soul and rock n roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Get red hot and low-down at Blind Willie’s for the rockin’ blues of the Electromatics! Or come get funky at the Elliott Street Pub for the retro jazzy prog rock sounds of Myles Brown! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Get old-school heavy at The Shelter for their Dark Retro Night for an evening of hard electro, industrial and dark retro at 9 pm! And don’t forget to let John Carpenter mess with your mind at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as his classic, HALLOWEEN (1978) has you on the edge of your seat in their Retro Cinema Scares! series’ matinee at 11:30 am!

Thursday, October 31

AND IT IS FINALLY HERE! That most haunted and sacred day of spooks and ghouls, so pull out your costumes and get spooky and see what ghostly galas Retro Atlanta has in store for you! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and a spooky Halloween beach bash featuring Kool Kat Joshua Longino and Andrew & the Disapyramids and the spooktacular go go showgirls, Dames Aflame! Or, spook on down to The Goat Farm Arts Center for a horrorific evening of blood-sucking monsters and terror with their screening of F.W. Murnau’s terrifying  NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) with an eerie live original score from Felipe Barral at 8:30 pm! For a night of Halloween tribute bands and horror rock, make your way to the Clermont Lounge as The Red Phantoms rock out to the tunes of the Misfits, the Pelvis Breastlies give an all-female rockin’ tribute to the ever devilish and sexy Elvis and Kool Kats Ryan Howard, Derek Obscura and Jamie Robertson of the Casket Creatures wake you from the dead with their horror punk from the unknown! The Shelter shakes it up with their Retro 80s/90s Halloween Night Bash haunting the night with rare Halloween music videos, costume contests and spooky goodies! Boogie on down to Mary’s and show off your crazy at the Pandemonium Halloween Takeover promising a night of Glitter Rock Euphoria, Bowie and the like! The Euclid Avenue Yacht Club gets wicked at their Annual Halloween Bash haunted by DJ Evil Jet and a night of spooky tunes and creepy good times! Or rock on over to The Star Bar for their 23^rd Annual Halloween Blowout for a night of rock and shock featuring Cousin Dan, Little Tybee, Cute Boots, Conveyer and much more! And it’s your last chance to get terrified with Michael Myers and his psychosis as the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern screens John Carpenter’s classic HALLOWEEN (1978) in their Retro Cinema Scares! series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Head on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their weekly Occupy Edgewood event featuring DJs Rene Dellefont & Brian Parris as they offer up the sounds of The Smiths and The Cure and all the morose tunes your black little heart desires. Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner delivers some honky-tonk blues while the Northside Tavern presents the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Get a taste of some ramblin’ rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s with the Stooge Brothers while Rick Booher & The Soul Machine liven’ it up with their high energy funky soul at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs or maybe head on over to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Stomp on over to the Variety Playhouse for a night of foot stompin’ Polyethnic Cajun ‘slamgrass’ reverberating from Leftover Salmon and The Packway Handle Band with special guests Col Bruce Hampton and Count Mbutu!  Catch the bluesy folk jazziness of The Cumberland Collective at Eddie’s Attic!  The Red Light Café delivers some traditional blues and new-school soul with the Cedric Burnside Project and an energetic night echoing New Orleans’ jazz and ragtime Dixie land with The Jugtime Rag Band! And rock on over to The Earl for the raw, glam vocals of Sonic Youth’s founder Thurston Moore’s new project, Chelsea Light Moving!

Friday, November 1

Today is Day 1 of the Backbone Fest celebrating creative and rockin’ women! So, guys and gals, come get sassy and make your way to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge for the saucy burlesque of Kool Kat Darcy Lemmonier, Kitty Capone and Josephine la Boheme! DJ Taradactyl gets retro as she spins some classic dance and Disco! Delicious food and good times will be had, so, come on out and spend the night with some rockin’ chicks and insane talent!

Rock on over to Smith’s Olde Bar and support the Atlanta Food Bank during The Smithereen’s Green Thoughts 25^th Anniversary Tribute event featuring the sounds of Starr*Hustler, Nine Times Blue, Jonathan Gale, The Bitteroots, Kenny Howes and The Wow! and many, many more! So, come on and dance the night away and rock out to support a great cause! Get dolled up and pin-striped and head on down to The Ferst Center for the Arts as they get swingin’ with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy!  Or get low-down and dirty with the outlaw, psychedelic junkyard folk sounds of Rolling Nowhere, the nitty gritty foot-stompin’ sounds of the Villain Family Band and the ‘gypsy punk garage grass’ of Strung Like A Horse at The Star Bar! Get funky at the Crimson Moon Café with Missy Raines & The New Hip! Boogie on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX for a cocktail or two and dance the night away with the rollicking blues of The Breeze Kings!

Saturday, November 2

It’s Day 2 and your last chance to spend a day with some kick-ass ladies at the Backbone Fest held at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge!  Get your fill of the Americana, punk-swing nostalgic sounds of the 20s with Megan Jean and the KFB or take in the rockin’ soul of Sioux City Sue!  Sex BBQ gets kinky and will take you on a rockin’ haunted journey while Lily & The Tigers deliver their gothic Americana rock! So, don’t miss this day chock full of lady kick-assery!

Today’s your last chance to kick some zombie tail and exterminate the undead at the Atlanta Zombie Apocolypse (AZA)!  Come on out, prepare to cry and come get your zombie fightin’ skills on! Michael “Papa Nez” Nesmith, formerly one-quarter of The Monkees, takes over the Variety Playhouse with a soulful, folky set! The Red Light Café gets swanky as Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonadventure Quartet gets to rockin’ with their Django gypsy-jazz! Get your dancin’ shoes on and 40’s attire and swing on by the Kennesaw State University Center as they kick off their 6^th Annual ‘1940s Swing Dance’ for an evening of live Big Band music with The Peachtree Jazz Edition’s 18-piece orchestra! Rock on over to The Star Bar and get an earful with Spindrift jammin’ out to their ‘psychedelic spaghetti western grind-house’ rock, John Paul Keith & The One Four Fives, Blake Rainey & His Demons and the foot-stompin’ bluegrass of the Skylarks! Slip on down to The Shelter as DJ BC hosts Atlanta’s monthly mashup bootleg party, Bootie ATL #15! Dress like a pirate, get in free! You don’t want to miss DJ Supercrunk as he spins his mashup album ‘I Heart Bowie’! The Crimson Moon Café hosts the legendary Randall Bramblett and his folky pop-rock! Steve’s Live Music gets rockin’ with the Electromatics while Tony Holiday & The Velvetones get blues funky at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Head over to Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck belts out those rockin’ 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, November 3

Start your day with a Bluegrass Brunch with the Georgia Mountain Stringband at Big Tex in Decatur from 11am to 1 pm.  Get jazzy at lunch with Deb Bowman and her sultry standards at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs at 1 pm.  Hey ladies! Shimmy on over to the Red Light Café for Kitty Love’s Boudoir Blitz and let Kitty Love of Cheeky Belles Burlesque teach you how to let loose your inner sultry kitten!  And it’s your second chance to catch Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonadventure Quartet jive with their Django gypsy-jazz at The Earl!  Get bluesy as Fatback Deluxe belts out their retro blues, soul and jazz from the 40s, 50s and 60s at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!  Stroll on down to the Northside Tavern for the sounds of Uncle Sugar or make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night of rootsy blues Americana with Marshall Ruffin! And it’s your last chance to catch Wes Craven’s 90’s horror ‘who-done-it’ thriller, SCREAM (1996)  at the Cinefest!

(Kitty Love)

Ongoing

Atlanta Zombie Apocolypse runs from Sept. 27 through Nov. 2. (LAST CHANCE!)

Netherworld haunts from Sept. 27 through Nov. 3. (LAST CHANCE!)

Chambers of Horror, Atlanta’s adults-only haunt behind The Masquerade, has come a long way baby from a torture porn extravaganza to a creepy crawl through a septic, gritty underworld. Open through Nov. 2. (LAST CHANCE!)

Agatha’s A Taste of Mystery’s who-done-it mystery dinner show, ‘SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW…SOMEONE DIES!’ runs from Oct. 7 through Nov. 6.

Fox Theater’s Ghost Light Tours spook from Oct. 26 through Oct. 30. (LAST CHANCE!)

The Basement Theater presents THE ROCKY HORROR PUPPET SHOW live on stage! Admission includes audience participation goodie bags to play along, so come out and get naughty with those sexy, sexy puppet aliens from Oct. 24 through Nov. 2. (LAST CHANCE!)

Atlanta Lyric Theater gets jazzy with the GUYS AND DOLLS from Oct. 25 through Nov. 10.

Cinefest screens Wes Craven’s 90’s horror ‘who-done-it’ thriller, SCREAM (1996) from Oct. 27 through Nov. 3. (LAST CHANCE!)

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.