ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Hey all you Kool Kats and Kittens! We’ve got a helluva rockin’ Retro menu ‘This Week’, so come on down and rock out with us in Retro Atlanta! You won’t want to miss all the swell shenanigans going down, so, get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, April 28

Forget the Monday blues and rock on down to The Earl for a night of psychedelic space rock with White Hills, Irreversible and Hot Fudge! Or stagger on down to the Tabernacle and spend the night with the rockin’est living dead performer, Rob Zombie! TheatreWorks USA presents a musical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ classic tale, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center at 10 am! 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! Get the blues piano style at Blind Willie’s with the rockin’ blues of Bob Page and John Cocuzzi! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast with some finger lickin’ BBQ!  

Tuesday, April 29

Conspire with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Roman Polanski’s neo-noir picture, CHINATOWN (1974), during their L.A. After Dark series at 7:30 pm! Get your boogie shoes on and head on down to the Fox Theatre for a night of classic hits, rock n roll and doo-wop oldies with Under the Streetlamp! Get a taste of some flamenco tunes and dance at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Cristian Puig and the ever graceful Julie Baggenstoss! 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 other Tuesday! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! 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 gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern.  And get the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with the J.T. Speed Band!

Wednesday, April 30

Get twisted at The Plaza Theatre as they welcome you to Alice Cooper’s nightmare for two nights only, during their kick-off screening of SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER (2014), a documentary film on the life of rock’s most illustrious Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, directed by Reginald Harkema, Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn! Get down and dirty, blues-style at The Star Bar with J.D. Wilkes& the Dirt Daubers with Kool Kat Rob Hamdallah! Rock out with some honky-punk and rock n roll at The Earl with The Men, Nude Beach, Lee Bains III & the Gloryfires and Shaved Christ! For a night of rockin’ soul echoing Hendrix and Johnny Lee Hooker, head on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Bombino and Kool Kat Ruby Velle’s Trio! It’s a night of garage and psychedelic rock at 529 with Aqua Nebula Oscillator, Hot Victory and Abby Gogo! Lola delivers the blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! The Electromatics deliver a swingin’ night of Chicago/West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s!  Fat Matt’s Rib Shack has The Hollidays! 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.  And get mysterious at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Roman Polanski’s neo-noir picture, CHINATOWN (1974), during their L.A. After Dark series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, May 1

Rev on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a rockin’ night with The Sideburners, The Owner of the Sun and Rollie! For a night of vintage roots and old-timey soul, stomp on down to the Red Light Café for The Duhks with special guest Jeff Mosier! The Rockaholics deliver a night of blues and soul at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get rootsy at Eddie’s Attic with Willie Watson and Mandolin Orange! 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! Blind Willie’s has Sweet Betty & the Shadows! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and rockin’ island tunes! It’s night two and your last chance to get twisted at The Plaza Theatre during their screening of SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER (2014)! And it’s your last chance to conspire with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Roman Polanski’s neo-noir picture, CHINATOWN (1974), during their L.A. After Dark series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, May 2

Davina & the Harlots deliver a night of devilish debauchery at The Earl at their Annual Cabaret Pageant featuring a rockin’ harlot lineup, a little shock and awe and a little trickery and hi-jinks with Atlanta’s favorite Clark Gable look-alike and magic man, Chad Sanborn! (Check out our Kool Kat interview with Josette Pimenta coming soon!) Come on down to The Plaza Theatre and  celebrate the reconstruction of Georgia theatres during the Fox Theatre Institute’s 2^nd Annual Theatre Revival Tour featuring blues legend, Francine Reed at 6 pm! (And check out our feature on the Revival Tours coming soon!) Rev on down to the Sweetwater Bar & Grill in Deluth for a rockin’ hootenanny with Kool Kat Phil Stair with Grim Rooster and Back City Woods! Or get fired up at Stix Bar & Grill in Villa Rica with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Michelle Malone dishes out some bluesy Americana at the Red Light Café! Get your ‘60s/’70s rock n roll fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with TheRainmen! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Get revived with Elephant Revival at Eddie’s Attic! Get horrified at the Masquerade as Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin performs George A. Romero’s classic ‘DAWN OF THE DEAD’ score! Get your fill of your favorite MTV videos with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night invading Famous Pub every Friday night at 10 pm! Atlanta Boogie delivers a night of vintage West Coast swing and jumpin’ blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! It’s a night of Americana at the Crimson Moon Café with Mary Bragg and Carl Anderson! The Charlie Fog Band delivers Grateful Dead tunes at The Family Dog! COLEY and Destitute Way deliver a night of folk and blues at Red Clay Theater! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo invades the Northside Tavern! Get jazzy under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with CC Booker III featuring Will Scruggs! 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, May 3

Get medieval and really retro this spring in Lilburn at the 29^th Annual Georgia Renaissance Festival running through June 8^th! Geek out at the Masquerade as MarksterCon presents their Bash of the Empire III Star Wars Party, featuring costume contests and more! Eric Clapton delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Chastain Park! Rev on down to Stars & Stripes in Monticello and get your second helping of Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Rock out at the Drunken Unicorn with the Hermits of Suburbia, Wakingthe Bates, Crazy Bag Lady and Phossy Jaw! It’s a booty shakin’ get down at the Red Light Café with Sugarfoot and Corduroy! Stomp on down to The Family Dog for a night with The Owner of the Sun! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs has The Uncle Mike Band delivering a night of classic rock, ‘80s and more! Or get the blues at Blind Willie’s with Big Bill Morganfield! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Dean Shot and Mikey Junior featuring the Little G Weevil Band! The madness and absurdity that is, Kool Kat Colonel Bruce Hampton slings over 50 years worth of his funky, jazz-infused rhythm at the Northside Tavern! It’s a night of swingin’ ‘60s at Big Tex with The Backyard Birds! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for The Barefoot Movement! Or let Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet entertain you with their hot club jammin’ and gypsy swing! The Buford School of Ballet presents ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Gwinnett Arena through May 4! 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, May 4

Spook on down and get jazzy at the Historic Oakland Cemetery and celebrate the 40^th Anniversary of the Office of Cultural Affairs and the legacy of Mayor Maynard Jackson! ‘May the fourth’ be with you at the DieselFilling Station as MarksterCon presents their Bar Wars Pub Crawl in Virginia Highlands! Get galactically geeky while hitting up 5 pubs in Virginia Highlands with Star Wars themed drinks, costume contests and an after party! This shindig is not for the kiddies, so get a baby sitter and come on out from 4 to 10 pm! Leo & Anto (The Saw Doctors) rock out Euro-style at the Red Light Café! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Deb Bowman Jazz Brunch!  Eddie’s Attic delivers an evening of foot-stompin’ Americana with The Barefoot Movement! Or stomp over to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch featuring Banjolicious! And make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack and get rockin’ with Fatback Deluxe!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Opera presents ‘The Barber of Seville’, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center through May 4! (LAST CHANCE)

Take a magic carpet ride through the historic Arabian-themed Fox Theater as they kick off their ‘Spring Fling withWild Things’ tours running through May 17^th!

Center for Puppetry Arts spins ‘Charlotte’s Web’ through May 25^th!

Get medieval and really retro this spring in Lilburn at the 29^th Annual Georgia Renaissance Festival running through June 8^th

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 other 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.