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Joe Gransden.

By Zohra Yaqub
Calendar Editor

Monday, Jan. 21

Monday is Big Band Night at Café 290 with jazz trumpet great, Gordon Vernick, and Audrey Shakir. Northside Tavern hosts its weekly Blues Jam featuring blues and southern soul singer, Lola Gulley. Enjoy some good BBQ and some good music at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Pead Boy & The Pork Bellys.

Tuesday, Jan. 22

Catch Atlanta native and lead singer of Collective Soul, Ed Roland, at Eddie’s Attic at 9 p.m. His latest project, Ed Roland and the Sweet Tea Project, started out as a jam session among musical friends and with the release of a debut album, they are hitting the road to play for the sweet tea-lovin’masses. Agent 45 presents Deep Funk at 529 with DJ Buscrates bringing you the heaviest collection of deep funk records you will hear in Atlanta. Frankly, my dear, we don’t care if you don’t give a damn – you can’t miss this week’s retro cinema classic film, GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern. Directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Thomas Mitchell. Kool Kat Calu Cordeira mixes tiki libations at Mai Tai Tahitian Tuesday starting at 9 p.m. at the Dark Horse Tavern. Grab your horn and head over to Twain’s in Decatur for a Joe Gransden jazz jam session starting at 9 p.m., or you can blues it down with Nathan Nelson & Entertainment Crackers at Northside Tavern. Head over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for some old school R & B, rock ‘n roll and blues with J. T. Speed.

Wednesday, Jan. 23

Get ready to rumba, cha-cha and jitterbug at the weekly Swing Night at Graveyard Tavern. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the gospel blues to Northside Tavern. The holidays are over, but you can still enjoy The Hollidays music at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.

Thursday, Jan. 24

Marshall Crenshaw and the Bottle Rockets bring back new wave to Peachtree Tavern. Gino Vannelli will be joined by Joe Gransden and Wes Funderburk at Variety Playhouse at 8 p.m. Make sure to stick around after the show for a meet-and-greet with the jazz pop artist whose career started in the funkadelic 70s, Vannelli.Head over to Atlanta’s dirty little secret, Clermont Lounge, to hear the punk and blues sounds of The Joy Kills. Disco in the Village at Mary’s is your midweek neighborhood dance party, now on Thursdays. Catch another screening of this week’s retro cinema classic, GONE WITH THE WIND, at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern. It’s 80s vs 90s Thursdays at The Shelter. New Wave classics versus Booty-shaking Eurodance will get your moving and rare and underground music videos will be playing on the screens throughout night. Relax with a tropical cocktail at vintage tiki bar, Trader Vic’s, where Tongo Hiti plays Retro-Polynesian luxurious live lounge sounds, as well as trippy takes on iconic pop songs, every Thursday night. Go to Northside Tavern to hear the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Get on over to Fatt Matt’s Rib Shack to hear Chicken Shack.

Friday, Jan. 25

Franken-Party, the launching pad for the Franken-Tour of neo-glam band, The Sexual Side Effects, featuring Kool Kat Amber Taylor, is at The Drunken Unicorn. Franken-Party lives up to its patched-together name by also being part MeteorEYES Winter Migration Tour and including Go, Robo! Go!, artwork, go-go dancers, body painting and a light show. A beautifully restored WHITE ZOMBIE (1932), starring Bela Lugosi, starts a one-week run through Thurs. Jan. 31 at the Plaza Theatre. If you missed our Retro Review, catch up here. Get in your Deloreans and drive out to Midtown Art Theater for Midnight Madness to catch a screening of BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985), directed by Robert Zemekis and starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson. But make sure you keep it below 88 mph! You’ll get some satisfaction when you go to Wild Wings Café in Alpharetta to catch The Rolling Stones cover band, The Jagged Stones, featuring recent Kool Kat Keef Richards. Shriek Theater Movie Night presents An

Keef Richards

Apocalyptic Double Feature at DooGallery at 8 p.m. MAD MAX (1979) and MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981), both directed by George Miller and starring Mel Gibson as the title character, will be screened. Make your way out to Buford to catch Yacht Rock Schooner at 37 Main. David Wilcox, singer-songwriter who has been making music for more than 20 years, is playing Eddie’s Attic at 8 p.m. Make your way up to Grayson to hear high energy 80s and 90s rock at Cooper’s Corner with Roadhouse. Enjoy a mix of New Orleans funk and R&B with The Mar-tans under the dinosaurs at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX. Grab some BBQ at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack and listen to the blues with Johnny Scales or head to Northside Tavern to hear Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck bring you the gospel blues.

Saturday, Jan. 26

Electric Western presents Keep on Moving! The Rock and Soul Dance Party is in The Basement located under Graveyard Tavernin East Atlanta. Blast-Off Burlesque presents Taboo-La-La screening the 1968 classic, BARBARELLA, starring Jane Fonda. The movie starts at 10 p.m., but make sure you arrive at 9 p.m. to party with DJ Westwood A Go-Go and check out our Retro Review here. Prince tribute band, The Purple Xperience, is playing at 37 Main in Buford. Richard Bicknell, an Atlanta favorite since the 1980s, brings his folk-rock style music to Eddie’s Attic at 7 p.m. Ghost Riders Car Club honkytonks it up at Star Bar with guests Willie Heath Neal and JJ & The Hustlers. Camper Van Beethoven rock the Earl, with District Attorneys featuring Kool Kat Drew Beskin opening. As usual, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night. Hear the legendary R&B and jazz stylings of Nat George & The Nat George Players at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint at 6:30 p.m. The Tone Prophets are bringing retro rock and rhythm & blues to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack and Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the gospel blues to Northside Tavern this weekend.

Photo courtesy of Yacht Rock Revue.

Sunday, Jan. 27

Tag Team goes to Hawaii! And so can you! Don your best Hawaiian shirt and head over to The Earl at 1 p.m. to enjoy some hangover-friendly live music. Yacht Rock Revue are playing a benefit show for local Atlanta chef, Ryan Hidinger, who is battling Stage IV gallbladder cancer. The Team Hidi Benefit show will be at King Plow Event Gallery and tickets are $150. Hidinger is the chef at Muss & Turner’s in Smyrna and Local Three in Atlanta. Catch Seth Glier and Peter Mulvey at Eddie’s Attic at 7 p.m. Glier’s voice has been compared to both Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel and look for Mulvey to mix classic standards with original songs. Join Uncle Sugar at Northside Tavern to wrap up your weekend or check out the blues at Fatt Matt’s Rib Shack with Fatback Deluxe.

Ongoing

Every Tuesday and Thursday night is Retro Cinema at Movie Tavern. Check out classic movies on the big screen weekly at 7:30 p.m.

Take retro to another level at the Genghis Khan special exhibition at Fernbank Museum of National History. Closes January 21, 2013.