ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Hey all you ATLRetro misfits and Kool Kats!  It may be bone-chilling outside, but Retro Atlanta gets hot, hot, hot this week!  Let us keep you warm and toasty while rocking you into the New Year with a week chock full of swell and swingin’ hootenannies!  We’ve got enough rock, soul, blues and all things old-school to keep you busy! So, get off that couch, turn off the tube and come out and play Retro-style! 

Monday, January 6

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. Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!  Pork on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for an extra helping of the rockin’ blues with Pead Boy & The Pork Bellies!  And blues it on down to Blind Willie’s for the blues stylings of Bill Sheffield!

Tuesday, January 7

Rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers and formerly of the early 90s indie rock outfit, the Scud Mountain Boys with Wesley Stace! 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 an evening of down and dirty blues with Little G Weevil! Steve’s Live Music hosts the Georgia Crackers as they lead their vintage 20s hillbilly bluegrass pickin’ and folk sing-a-long with special guest Rachel Baiman! 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. And swim on down (if you dare!) to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Steven Spielberg’s tale of an infamous beast and the havoc it wreaks on an unsuspecting New England beach in, JAWS (1975) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, January 8

Swagger on down to the The Star Bar for a night of old-school rockin’ with a modern twist as Sodajerk, Buck O’Five and Joseph Lazzari take the stage!Catch The Hollidays slingin’ their 60s soul and rock n 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 while The Cazanovas blues it up at Blind Willie’s! And surf on down to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their a few blood curdling screams as they screen Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ matinee at 11:30 am!

Thursday, January 9

Get carnivorous and spend an evening with Audrey II whose insatiable craving for flesh and blood will leave you begging for more, at the Strand Theater as they present their rendition of the classic, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at 8pm, running through Jan. 19! Or get your fill of some 60s folk revival with Tom Rush at Eddie’s Attic! Get down and dirty at the Clermont Lounge with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club! Rock on down to the Bailey Performance Center at Kennesaw State University as their Symphony Orchestra performs The Who!  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! Rock on over 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 The Breeze Kings while Heather Luttrell offers up some bluegrass and Americana at Blind Willie’s! 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. Surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a rockin’ beach party and a couple cocktails with Kool Kat Joshua Longino of Andrew & the Disapyramids! And it’s your last chance to catch Steven Spielberg’s oceanic terror, JAWS (1975) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, January 10

Ramble on down to the Fox Theater and get southern-fried while celebrating the musical legacy that is the all-American rock and blues legends, The Allman Brothers, at their ‘Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman’ event, with performances by; The Allman Brothers Band, Jackson Browne, Eric Church, Natalie Cole, Warren Haynes, Taj Mahal, Widespread Panic and so much more! Doors at 7:30 pm!

Get down and dirty at The Star Bar with the raunchy rockin’ blues of Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, the Douglas Street Team featuring Jared Swilley of The Black Lips and Marshall Ruffin! Or rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for an evening of soul, funk with All the Locals, a little indie, garage and rockabilly with Mississippi Shakedown and Half King! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a bluegrass’n good time with Cedar Hill! For a little Rolling Stones and Doors-inspired rock n roll, scurry on down to Vinyl for a taste of The Silver Palms!  Fat Matt’s Rib Shack has a little hill country blues and old-timey Appalachian juke joint rock with the John Sosebee Band while Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rockin’ soul with Jeff Jensen!  For a little soul and rock n roll, make your way to Big Tex for The Hollidays or rock on down to Blind Willie’s as HouseRocker Johnson & The Shadows gets down and dirty!  And for a little Latin Boogaloo, salsa on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX for a cocktail or two and a little funky jazz with Matthew Kaminski!

Saturday, January 11

Get far out and arty at the Lefont Theater as they present Brad Bernstein’s documentary, FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY (2012), documenting the iconic 60s and 70s renegade children’s book author and illustrator, Tomi Unggerer during their Movies & Mimosa Saturdays event at 10:30 am! Rock on down to The Earl and 529 for the Ohmpark Fest 2, and get your fill of Atlanta’s modern indie bands with a flair for some rockin’ old school rhythms, featuring Adron, Hello Ocho, Little Tybee, Small Reactions, Sea Lions, From Exile, On Holiday, Nomen Novem, Places, Where.Are.We, Ladybeard and Rattler Snakes!  The Masquerade gets dark and funky in Purgatory with a little rockin’ apocalyptic whimsy and monstrosity with Zruda, Savagist, Wolves & Jackals and Loraine!  Rev on down to the Dixie Tavern in Marietta for some rockin’ psychobilly with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and his Psycho-DeVilles! Or get rockin’ at the Elliot Street Pub for a night with Flathead Mike & The Mercurys!  For a night of garage polka folk and jazz make your way to Eddie’s Attic for Eliot Bronson with special guests Cicada Rhythm! Stroll on down to the The Family Dog for some southern-fried soul with Secondhand Swagger! Get a little ‘fast folk’ mid-80s action at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Pierce Pettis! Delta Moon rocks out with some Americana and blues at Blind Willie’s while Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets bluesy with Selwyn Birchwood! 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. Churchill Grounds gets jazzy with Matthew Kaminski as they celebrate his newest CD release, ‘Swingin’ on the New Hammond’! For a little folky punk and Americana, rock on down to Vinyl for Killing Kuddles and Picture Perfect Skylines! And get steamy and shake, rattle and roll down to ARTStation as they get saucy in their presentation of Trolley Stop Cabaret, running through Jan. 18!

Sunday, January 12

Start your day with a Bluegrass Brunch at Big Tex with Cedar Hill from 11 to 3pm! Or, for a ‘hangover friendly dunch show’, swing on by The Earl to catch Georgia Slim & The Stovetop Ramblers! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets rockin’ with Fat Back Deluxe!  And shed no tears, because The Family Dog gets rockin’ and bluesy with the BooHoo Ramblers!

Ongoing

The Strand Theater gets carnivorous with, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ through Jan. 19!

The ARTStation shimmies with their Trolley Stop Cabaret through Jan. 18!

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.