ATLRetro

By Julia Carlson
Contributing Writer

Monday, May 13

Swing down to Café 290, and hear the sweet jazz beat of Bumpin the Mango at 8:30 p.m. Northside Tavern hosts its weekly Blues Jam featuring blues and southern soul singer, Lola Gulley. And enjoy some BBQ with Pead Boy & the Pork Bellies at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.

Tuesday, May 14

Go undead, undead with the master of zombie cinema as Splatter Cinema presents George Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD (1985) as its monthly feature at The Plaza Theater, at 9:30 p.m. Read our Retro Review here.  Musical May continues as George Sidney directs stars Dick Van Dyke and Ann Margaret in BYE BYE BIRDIE (1963), Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s retro cinema classic this week. 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 southern rock and blues with Crosstown Allstars. Tease up that big hair for a Heavy Metal Cover Band at 10 High.

Wednesday, May 15

Roots rock phenomenon Nikki Hill, with her husband Matt on guitar, tore-up the 2013 Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender. Catch her first Atlanta appearance at Smith’s Olde Bar.Get schooled by either of two of Atlanta’s burlesque finest  Katherine Lashe or Talloolah Love in Beginning Burlesque classes at Studio Burlesque. Old enough to feel Retro? It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the Piedmont blues to Northside Tavern. Frankie’s Blues Mission preaches the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.

Thursday, May 16

“Their raucous set was like if the Velvet Underground had turned to the MC5 at their Boston Tea Party concert in 1968 and, instead of insulting them, had turned and made love to them—and that was how Lou Reed wound up wearing that dog collar,” declared Dan Collins, editor of LA RECORD, about Fullerton, California band The Cosmonauts‘ recent performance at Austin Psych fest. Catch them rocking out at 529 with The Garden and The Caste Outs. Annie Sellick is headlining the last of the Jazz Nights at Scottish Rite outdoor concerts in Oakhurst from 6:30-10pm. It’s 80s/90s Retro Video Night with free drinks ’til 10 at The Shelter.  Relax with a cocktail while listening to Agent 45 spin old school soul, blues and R&B at vintage tiki bar, Trader Vic’s. Go to Northside Tavern to hear the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Get on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack to hear the honkytonkin’ blues of Chickenshack. Plectophilia takes the stage at Red Light Cafe‘s weekly Bluegrass Thursday.

Friday, May 17

Sail on to the Star Bar and shake your booty at Stayin’ Alive,Romeo Cologne’s Disco Doggies Benefit Party supports animal rescue nonprofit Society of Humane Friends Georgia. Andrew and the Disapyramids, featuring Kool Kat Joshua Longino, bring some ’60s rock n roll to The Earl, before  St. Paul and the Broken Bones break into soul. Alabama makes it a Southern rock night at the sweet home of restored 1929 movie palace The Fox Theatre. Smokey’s Farmland Band and The High Strung String Band strum up some eclectic bluegrass to The Masqurade. The Will Goble Quartet, featuring Gregory Tardy plays Friday Jazz at the High Museum of Art . Rolling Stones tribute band The Jagged Stones, featuring ATLRetro Kool Kat Keef Richards will make sure you get some satisfaction at Cooper’s Corner in Grayson. It’s Salsa Night under the dinosaurs with Salsambo Dance Company at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX. Enjoy BBQ with a side of Atlanta Boogie at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Sans Abri delivers bluegrass-influenced Americana alt-roots music at Big Tex. And over at Northside Tavern, Stoney Brooks brings “jitter bugging swing dance” this Friday night.

Saturday, May 18

Head down to the Fifth Annual Atlanta Springfest at Twain’s and hear a whole slew of swell bands for just 10 bucks including Gringo Star, Villain Family, Uncle Daddy & the Kissin’ Cousins and Muleskinner MacQueen. ATLRetro Kool Kat, the fabulous Fonda Lingue presents “Le Jardin,” the latest production of  The Jewel Box Revue,  a glitzy, glamorous revue reminiscent of the Golden Era of Burlesque, hosted by Devin Liquor and featuring performances by such Atlanta and Knoxville stars as Ursula Undress, The Chameleon Queen, Nipsy Tussle and more. The Atlanta Rollergirls all-star team, the Dirty South Derby Girls take on the Ohio Roller Girls at 5 p.m., and the Toxic Shocks battle the Apocalpystix at 7:30 p.m. at the Yaarab Shrine. Come investigate Taste of the Highlands to sample the best of the neighborhood’s restaurants! Online Retro radio station Garage 71 and magazine Grease Inc. host a first annual Cruise-In to celebrate 2013 Armed Forces Day and raise money for charity Pin-Ups for Soldiers, which provides care packages to deployed military, with vintage bike and car shows, and live rockabilly/roots music from The Sideburners, Kira Annalise and Atomic Boogie. Don your flapper dress, grab those spats and Charleston on down to the Roaring 20s Big Band Dine and Swing Dance at G.A.B.B.A The fabulous Rolling Stones are the subject of Satisfaction, which can be found at Variety Playhouse! Punk veterans Alkaline Trio take Center Stage. Come see Ron Cooley and the Hard Times deliver classic electric blues, soul, rock’n’roll, R&B and jazz at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.. 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.

Sunday, May 12

The Trio jazz up The Family Dog. Check out some classic bottleneck acoustic blues from The Tony Bryant Blues Band at Fatt Matt’s Rib Shack. Get a Banjolicious brunch at Big Tex starting at noon. Cineprov spoofs up John Travolta cult classic, THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE (1976), at The Plaza Theater at 7:30pm.

Ongoing

The Plaza Theater will be showing Fritz Lang-directed horror classic M (1931), starring Peter Lorre (see our Retro Review here) and GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) through Thursday.

EXTREME MAMMALS from sabertooth tiger skulls and wooly mammoth fur to contemporary creatures such as the duck-billed platypus invade Fernbank Museum of Natural History through August 18.

Learn about  a different side to the third American president and Constitution author in the Really Retro special exhibition Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: How the Word is Passed Down at the Atlanta History Center through July 7.

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