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SHEHEHE. Photo credit: Gary Duddleston.

By Geoff Slade
Contributing Writer

About a dozen punk and metal bands are performing at the two-day Hammerhead Fest V this weekend at Star Bar. The Goddamn Gallows swing in to headline Fri. March 12 and Ramming Speed will close the festival on Sat. March 12. The first bands hit the stage at 9 pm both nights, and the mostly local line-up includes returning acts The Vaginas, Death of Kings and Bigfoot (Read our interview with Bigfoot’s Jett Bryant here).

Also back this year is Athens based ass-kickers SHEHEHE. Catch em while they’re close because who knows when they’ll be back around. About their Friday night Hammerhead slot, the band posted the following on Facebook: “Last Atlanta show until we’re not sure when! Come out and rage with us!” So we figured we’d better get a move on making guitarist and singer Noelle Shuck our Kool Kat of the Week.

Like Hammerfest, SHEHEHE formed in 2011 and have long been favorites among fans of the current punk rock scene, here and in Athens. They sound like the bands, the best ones, that became popular just as “punk” exploded in the late 70s, when the genre was still loosely defined. Still, Shuck says she and bandmates Nicole Bechill (lead singer), Jason Fusco (drums, vocals) and Derek Wiggs (bass guitar) don’t mind stretching the boundaries of the genre to make room for creativity. They are a punk band after all. So in addition to the genre icons you might expect (Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Stooges), they list as influences The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Kinks, Motorhead, even Tears For Fears and The Bangles.

Shuck took the time to chat with ATLRetro a few days ago about SHEHEHE’s specific punk pH, what the genre means to her, and the most punk rock thing she’s ever seen at one of their shows.

And why a clarification might be in order if ever asked if you’re an old school punk.

And briefly about dining locally.

How can people check out your music?

We’re on Spofity, Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, all that digital shizzzz. Links to it through our official Facebook page, too.

What’s the Hammerhead Fest?

A two-day festival that features regional rock bands put together by King/Tastemaker Amos motherfuckin Rifkin and Co. 

How did SHEHEHE come together?

Lots of practice (grins).

How would you describe your music to those unfamiliar?

Describing SHEHEHE to people is difficult because we get so many different descriptions from people about what we sound like. But I would describe it as a mixture of early-’70s punk, kinda Ramones-core mixed with some glam. We get Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Pat Benatar, L7 and The Donnas as well. If you’re familiar with power pop, that’s something people tend to agree on. Punk ’n’ roll also works.

Who are your influences?

Wu-Tang

Who do you listen to now?

My mom.

What is punk? Plenty of aging rock fans say “real” punk ended decades ago. Thoughts?

Part I: Originally, a prison term for a guy who was at the receiving end of anal sex.

Part II: Real punk is relative to each individual. The words “real” and “original” aren’t necessarily the same. Punk to me is a response to mainstream conformist tendencies that tend to stifle creativity and expression. I think punk is just about being genuine.

Musically of course it’s a little narrower than that. We all have ideas of what punk music should or does sound like, but it’s cool to find new ways to stretch that and play with it some. Our band is a weird amalgamation of four people with different influences and backgrounds coming together to make something we all agree is good. But I never would have known this would be the result if you’d asked me what I thought a band with these four individuals would sound like. So for me that’s that idea of being genuine. Musically or otherwise. There’s too much sheepherding and being told what to like these days. Fuck that—like whatever the hell makes you happy.

How are the Atlanta & Athens punk-rock scenes?

They are fantastic. 10/10 would recommend.

What acts do you like locally?

It’s a tie between cunnilingus & Blondie from the Clermont Lounge.

What’s the most punk rock thing you’ve ever seen or done at a SHEHEHE show?

I think the punkest thing was early on in the semi-original lineup when we still had a lead guitar player. Well, actually it was right after we lost our lead player. We got a guy to fill in for a show at Caledonia. He practiced with us once and everything seemed well enough. So we get to the show, and he shows up just completely wasted and proceeds to play leads in all the wrong places, something that would’ve been great if we were like Sonic Youth, Then he tries to sing along into Nicole’s mic even though he knows zero of the words. Jason unplugged him, but he kept plugging himself back in. Eventually Jason started throwing shit at him, a drumstick and a roll of duct tape, and told him to get off the stage before he beat his ass.

Some people in the crowd thought it was some sort of schtick up until this point, including our dudes from KarbomB. As soon as they realized it was real, they all helped keep the dude in the crowd so we could finish our set. People said we ripped it. Whether or not that was just in comparison to being an unintentional noise rock band or because we were all kinda pissed and full of adrenaline, I’m not sure.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get retro-tastic in ATLRetro This Week and come see what we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, January 13

Blue Ribbon Cinema gets bizarre and hosts a screening of David Lynch’s BLUE VELVET (1986) at The Plaza Theater at 8pm! Make your way to 529 for a night with Lena Gardenia & The Mood Swings, Fun Isn’t Fair and more! Folk rock it up with David Broza at City Winery! Alt-rock it up with Will Turpin (Collective Soul) and Carly Gibson at The Vista Room! Rock out and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday! Get your vinyl fix at Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction, every Monday! Get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, January 14

Make your way to the Buckhead Theatre  for Motion City Soundtrack! Bluegrass it up with David Bromberg at Eddie’s Attic! Reggae it up with Sound Culture, Higher Education, and Rockstead at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s! Hula on down to Waller’s Coffee Shop for a Ukulele Jam! Get the blues with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, January 15

Get post-punk rocked with Sadie & The Ladies at 529! Spend the night with Amy Ray at the Crimson Moon Cafe! Stomp on down to Waller’s Coffee Shop for a Bluegrass Jam! Get some ‘90s soul with Montell Jordan at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with David Bromberg at Eddie’s Attic! Get experimental and catch the Ear Pollen Experimental Music Series #1 at 378 Art Gallery! Sci-fi it up and catch a screening of Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER (1982) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with Art Holliday at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, January 16

Videodrome’s PlazaDrome gets absurd at The Plaza Theater with Vera Chytilova’s Czech New Wave classic DAISIES (1966) at 9:30pm! Garage rock it up with The Cavemen, Mongo, The Bea Arthurs and JesusHoney at 529! Get worldly and jazz it up with Jesse Cook at the Buckhead Theatre! Get down with Ann Nesby at City Winery! Brass it up with Too Many Zooz at the Variety Playhouse! Get acoustic with Yacht Rock Schooner with The Landing Party Band at Venkman’s! Make your way to Waller’s Coffee Shop for a night with Killick, Viceroy Cyprian and Penn Bryce! 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 delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 17

Spend an evening with Kelly Hogan (Neko Case, Rock*A*Teens) and W8ing4UFOs at The Vista Room! SCADShow’s SCAD Cinema Circle presents a screening of the Coen Brothers’s FARGO (1996) at 7pm! Sleaze it up with Fast and Loose, Eliminate Earth, and The Supersonic Cocksuckers at The Highlander! Get righteous with Hamell on Trial at the Red Light Café!  Get surfy with Small Reactions at The Earl! Spook on down to 7 Stages for Book Club – Pretty Monsters! Get rocked with Bigwig’s 25th Anniversary Tour featuring Kool Kats Shehehe and Reconciler at 529! Bluegrass it up with the Steep Canyon Rangers at the Variety Playhouse! Get old-timey with Jane Kramer & A.M. Rodriquez at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Catch a screening of Robert Mulligan’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Get the blues with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with The Righteous Bros.! Time-Warp it up 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, January 18

Rock out with Love Tractor and MagnaPop at The Vista Room! Kool Kat Rich Desantis and Street Fighting Band pay tribute to The Rolling Stones at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get folk-rocked with Matt Mays at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of hot gypsy jazz at the Red Light Café with Mayhayley’s Grave and The Gleam! Grace Potter rocks out at the Tabernacle! Gr8FLdude & Frenz pay tribute to the Grateful Dead at Tin Roof Cantina! Smooth it up at Venkman’s with Yacht Rock Revue! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta kicks off their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secrets of the Sewer exhibit, kicking tail through May 10! Rock out with MxPx at the Buckhead Theatre! Get the blues with Grant Green Jr. at the Northside Tavern! Get down with Jet Black at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, January 19

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Vincente Minnelli’s AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Movie Tavern (Tucker)]! Stomp on over to Terminal West for a night with Carbon Leaf, Red Wanting Blue, and The Alternate Routes! Get down to the Red Light Café for a night with King Street (‘80s tribute), Atlanta Brass Cats (Chicago/Blood Sweat and Tears tribute) and Story of A Life (prog rock)! Get rocked at 529 with Radfest 2020 featuring The Purkinje Shift, W8ing4UFOs, Loony and a record swap! Retro rock it up with Vintage Vixens at The Vista Room! Get bewitched and catch a screening of Chris Columbus’s HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Spook on down to 7 Stages for Book Club – Pretty Monsters! Get some soul with Booker T. Jones at City Winery! Get the blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Hip hop it up with Blackalicious and Alex Bond at the Masquerade! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Children’s Museum of Atlanta presents their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secrets of the Sewer exhibit, kicking tail through May 10!

New-Wave it up with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during an 80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party every 2nd Saturday of the month at Amsterdam Atlanta!

Have a deadly good time during Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICS: Goth Industrial Dance every 4th Saturday at Amsterdam Atlanta!

Geek it up as NerdLanta presents their Back to the ‘80s Movie Night, every third Thursday of the month, at Mother Bar+Kitchen!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the 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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in ALTRetro This Week!

Monday, August 5

Rev it up as Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt goes solo for the night at Smokin’ Cues in Stockbridge! Get rocked with Tenacious D at the Coca Cola Roxy! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delves into the lives of Leonard Cohen and his muse Marianne Ihlen with a screening of Nick Broomfield’s documentary MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE (2019), through Aug. 8! Rock out and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday! Get your vinyl fix at Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction, every Monday! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-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! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, August 6

Come on Class of ’79! Get rocked as The Plaza Theater Foundation presents a 40th anniversary screening of Allen Arkush and Joe Dante’s ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979), with live pre-movie tunes by Ramones tribute band Kings of Queens at 6:30pm! Get hellacious with Hank Von Hell (Turbonegro) at The Earl! Fathom Events and CBS will present 5 uncut, full-length colorized episodes of I LOVE LUCY in celebration of Lucille Ball’s Birthday, plus REDHEAD TALES – a newly produced and never-before-seen featurette on the colorization of the hit show, at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Get the Piedmont blues with Mudcat during Gypsy Rose’s Mudcat Tuesdays event! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, August 7

Catch a screening of Danny DeVito’s film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic MATILDA (1996) at SCADShow at 7pm! Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Get glam rocked with Kyle Craft at The Earl! The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Join the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival for their final AJFF Selects of the season, FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES, which traces the creation and enduring legacy of the beloved Broadway musical and global theatrical phenomenon, at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center at 7:40pm. Blind Willie’s gets down with The Cazanovas! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, August 8

Get garage rocked and doo-wopped with The King Kahn & BBQ Show at The Earl, with UPCHUCK and Rude Dude and the Creek Freaks! It’s a night of dirty ‘ol rock ‘n’ roll at 529 with The Dollyrots, The Pink Spiders and Kyle Troop & The Heretics! Stomp on down to Clermont Lounge Mid-Summer Social starring Kool Kat Spike Fullerton & the Ghost Riders Car Club! Get acoustic with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt  (solo) at Porterdale Bar! Jazz it up with Ken Ford at Suite Food Lounge! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get down with some island tunes and have some killer cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get down with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar kicks it in the Little Vinyl Lounge with Karaoke Night, every Thursday! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, August 9

Get dead and hungry during Ritual’s Zombie Pin-Ups Goth Industrial Theme Party at Heretic! Americana it up with Ray Wylie Hubbard at Center Stage! The Stranger pays tribute to Billy Joel at City Winery! Surf on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with Small Reactions and more! Become one with the dinosaurs during Fernbank’s After Dark: Mythbusters event! Get rocked at 529 with high spirits, Lazer/Wulf, Gunpowder Gray and Maiden Killers! Psyche rock it up with The Claypool Lennon Delirium at the Variety Playhouse! The Kerry Hill Band gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up 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, August 10

Eighties it up at the Jimmy Carter Museum with their Strange Saturday event featuring Stranger Things costumes, panels, arcade games and more! The 19^th Annual Decatur BBQ, Blues & Bluegrass Festival invades downtown with tasty food, arts, crafts and live rockin’ tunes featuring Honeywood, Campbell Station, Roxie, Grizzly Goat, Sandra Hall, Randall Bramblett and more! Lost love is in the air at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Love Stories of Oakland: Summer Date Night tour! Swing on by Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Lyle Lovett & His Large Band! Get rocked with The Smithereens at Suwanee City Park! Celebrate 20 years of The Earl with All the Saints and Rock*A*Teens! Make your way to the Ivy Wall Drive-In Theatre in Dacula for a double-feature screening of Terry Gilliam’s FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (1998) and Gaspar Noe’s ENTER THE VOID (2009) at 9pm! Roots rock it up with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! Get funky with AJ Ghent at the Crimson Moon Café! Or get down with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Lobsters of Rock pay tribute to the B-52s at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get revved with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho DeVilles at Smokin’ Cues in Stockbridge! Spend the night with Lola and Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, August 11

Get your classic silent film fix at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s Silent Comedy Shorts event [Buster Keaton to Harold Lloyd and more!], featuring live organ accompaniment at 3pm with Kool Kat Ron Carter! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 50th Anniversary screening of Gene Kelly’s classic, HELLO DOLLY! (1969) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); Studio Movie Grill (Marietta/Alpharetta/Duluth); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 and Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18]! Make your way to the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre for a night with Peter Frampton and Jon Bonham! Lizz Wright gets jazzy at City Winery! Make your way to 529 for a night with Daikaiju, Kool Kats SHEHEHE, and Trauma City! Mudcat dishes out his Acoustic Blues & Roots Jam at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Shimmy down with Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil at Metropolitan Studios for her Feather Fan-Damentals Workshop! Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Get bluesy with The Vipers at Blind Willie’s! Or get down with Jet Black & The Whacos at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the 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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

So many swell shenanigans taking place in ATLRetro This Week! Come see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, May 20

Rev it up as Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt goes solo for the night at Smokin’ Cues in Stockbridge! Get down with Nick Waterhouse at Terminal West! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Sydney Pollack’s AMAZING GRACE (2018) through May 23! GKIDS Presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2019’s 35th Anniversary screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Catch retro-inspired Swedish singer Leon at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock out and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday! Thrash on down to Hell at the Masquerade for a night with Sacred Reich, Sworn Enemy and Anger Within! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-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! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 21

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers a special early screening of Pamela B. Green’s BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHE (2018) followed by a Q&A with the director, at 7:30pm! Slippery When Wet pays tribute to Bon Jovi at City Winery! Spend the night with Matthew Logan Vasquez at Eddie’s Attic! Get industrial with Nitzer Ebb at Terminal West! Or spend the night with Art Alexakis (Everclear) at the Variety Playhouse! TCM Big Screen Classics Presents a 30th Anniversary screening of Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! GKIDS Presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2019’s 35th Anniversary screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, May 22

Get rocked at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with a screening of Tom Jones’ ASBURY PARK: RIOT, REDEMPTION, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (2019) at 7pm! Spend the night with Kenny Howe & The Wow and John McNicholas (The Sunset District) at The Star Bar! Tacocat dishes out a night of Go-Gos meets the Monkees, with Sammi Lanzetta and Winter at The Drunken Unicorn! Blues it up with The Rainbow Girls at Eddie’s Attic! Get bewitched with a screening of Mike Newell’s HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! TCM Big Screen Classics Presents a 30th Anniversary screening of Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) at theatres across Atlanta [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, May 23

Get rocked, revved and honky tonked with a weekend chock full of the hillbilly persuasion, murder ballads and more with Bubbapalooza 2019 killing it with four full days of rockin’ tunes, BBQ, raffles and fun at The Star Bar, and head on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for Karaoke Night, every Thursday! Rock on down and kick off the weekend with Genki Genki Panic, Chrome Castle, Coach N’ Commando, and Roadkill Debutante! Beer & Lounge at the Clermont Lounge with Meagan Jean & The KFB, Nikki & The Phantom Callers and Mathis Hunter! Make your way to Venkman’s for Ladies of the ‘80s/’90s with Alyssa and Pete Olson (Yacht Rock Revue)! Cow-punk it up with Alejandro Escovedo, Front Country and Sydney Morse at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Americana fix with Threadbare Skivvies at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Darkwave it up at Noni’s during their weekly DARK ROOM event, every Thursday! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get down with some island tunes and have some killer cocktails! 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 delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, May 24

Day 2 of Bubbapalooza 2019 at The Star Bar raises a ruckus with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Rev James Leg, El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists, The Tomb Tones, with a special Tiki Lounge featuring DJ Dusty Booze & Miss Candice with Cap’n Actin Jackson! You Oughta Know pays tribute to ‘90s chick rock at the Dixie Tavern! Jill Rock Jones pays tribute to Aretha Franklin with Rock Steady at Venkman’s! Geek it up at The Plaza Theater as they screen Terry Zwigogg’s GHOST WORLD (2001), through May 27! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Pamela B. Green’s BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHE (2018), through May 25! Or skip school and catch a screening of John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Get experimental with Zen Mother at 529! Departure pays tribute to Journey and Head Games pay tribute to Foreigner at the Buckhead Theatre! Or catch Who’s Bad paying tribute to Michael Jackson at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Trout Steak Revival at the Crimson Moon Café! Get rocked with Reconciler, Kool Kats Shehehe, and New Junk City at The Earl! Spend the night with Chinua Hawk at Eddie’s Attic! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Big C! Make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! Time-Warp it up 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 25

The Star Bar and Bubbapalooza 2019 get jangled ‘n’ sleazy with Day 3’s rockin’ lineup with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley, Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello with The Delusionaires, Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club, Al Shelton, Bully, The Wildtones, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & The Compartmentalizationalists, JJ & The Hustlers, the Outlaw Women Band, Tipsy & The Tri-Tones and a special Tiki Lounge with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Malone Ranger and more! Get zombified at The Senoia Dead Bash delivering its 2nd Annual Charity Bash at The Esco Feed Mill for two killer days, through Sunday May 26, supporting two charities, Healing 4 Heroes, and Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation! Enjoy THE WALKING DEAD celebrities, on stage interviews, horse and dog stunt performances, street vendors, live tunes, celebrity auctions and more! Get monstrous during the Official JOE STRYKER Movie Wrap Party at Sweetwater Bar & Grill with Kool Kats the Casket Creatures, ELZIG and DDC! Get rootsy with Bonnie Blue at City Winery! Emma Ruth Rundle folks it up at The Earl! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Rodeo Twister and Ashley Walls! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at the Variety Playhouse! Americana it up with Blackfoot Daisy at Waller’s Coffee Shop! Jazz it up at Piedmont Park during the Atlanta Jazz Festival featuring a killer line-up! The Marietta Pops Orchestra pays tribute to Henry Mancini, John Williams and George Cohen during their Spring Concert at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get down with The Vipers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Debbie Bond at the Northside Tavern! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, May 26

Bubbapalooza 2019 brings you Michael Tolcher, Blackfox, The Hills & The Holler, Michael C. Smith, Kahle Davis & The Nightwatchmen and more at The Star Bar! Get funky with Morris Day & The Time and Queen of Percussion, Sheila E at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Get your Styx fix at Chastain Park! Or get roots-rockin’ with Nils Lofgren at City Winery! Dead Meadow dishes out a night of psychedelic rock at The Earl! Folk it up with The Bittersweets at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with David Crosby & The Sky Trails Band! Pop rock it up with John Waite at The Vista Room! Jazz it up at Piedmont Park during Day 2 of the Atlanta Jazz Festival! Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Get really retro and journey back 220 million years to when massive pterosaurs ruled the skies with Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s newest Giant Screen film, FLYING MONSTERS 3D, through June 1!

Get merry as the Georgia Renaissance Festival kicks off its 34th year, jousting it up every weekend through June 2!

Darkwave it up at Noni’s during their weekly DARK ROOM event, every Thursday through July 26!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the 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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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Monday, July 2

The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, through July 3!  Spend the night with Latrese Bush at City Winery! Sludge it up with the Vincas, A Deer A Horse, MTN ISL and Bataille at The Earl! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Bill Sheffield fires it up at Blind Willies! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, July 3

Funk it up with the Lightning Orchestra, For Now, and Artimus at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Jazz it up with Madoca at City Winery! Or get progressive with Rian Adkinson, Spurge, and Identikit at The Earl! Spend the night with Nathan Nelson, Bill Sheffield and Akua Taylor at Eddie’s Attic! Barrelhouse Bob Page fires it Blind Willies! up at Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 4

Get horrorfied this Independence Day and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or head on over to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for a screening of Mel Stuart’s, WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) at 7:15pm! Dark Wave it up with Das Ich, Finite Automata, and Kangarot at The Drunken Unicorn! Or rock out at 529 with Kool Kats SheHeHe, Divided Heaven and Useless Against! Hula on down to the Ponce City Roof for their Rooftop Backyard Luau! Blues it up in East Point with Frankie’s Blues Mission at East Point Independence Day Festival! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out a summer treat with two screenings of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at 12pm and 3pm! Art Hollidays gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, July 5

Rock out in Hell with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures at the Masquerade, or make your way to Purgatory for the Summer Blues with Cody Matlock, Hughes Taylor, Jerry 22, and Jackwagon! Get your Latin Ska fix with Desorden Publico at Smith’s Olde Bar! Cineprov delivers a TKO with Sly Stallone and Dolph Lundgren at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff Sylvester Stallone’s ROCKY IV (1985) at 7:30pm! Groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with Forever ’78! Get a taste of Bumpin the Mango at City Winery! Make your way to The Earl for a night with The Octopus Project, Botany and Dot.s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Kristen & The Honey Badgers! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, July 6

Get your faces rocked at The Star Bar during their Down South Summer Stunner featuring Paint Fumes, Gino and The Goons, Gunpowder Gray, Heavy Chills, The Rubs, Chaz & Co., Fixed Faces and Broke Jokes! Get your Afrobeat Funk fix with Mausiki Scales & The Common Ground Collective at Venkman’s! Or get the jungle blues with C.W. Stoneking and Hunter Callahan at Eddie’s Attic! Lorna Tucker’s documentary covering the life of Dame Vivienne Westwood, WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST (2018) opens at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema! Get your ‘90s grungy fix with Collective Soul, Soul Asylum and 3 Doors Down at Chastain! Maleke O’Ney dishes out a night of soul at City Winery! Make your way to the High Museum for their July First Friday event featuring live tunes by Jennifer von Schlichten & Chris Schweigert, Drag Queen Story Time with Miss Terra Cotta Sugarbaker, Winnie-the-Pooh themed yoga and so much more! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Bastard Suns, Beauregard & The Down Right and The Muckers! Get down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns at The Vista Room! Or make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for a night of rockin’ Southern soul with Blue Mother Tupelo! Spend the night with Runway 27 at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at the Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up 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, July 7

Rock out with Foreigner’s Juke Box Hero Tour at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with White Snake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening! Get old-timey with Dusty Roads during Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch, followed by Saved by the Band’s performance of Alanis Morissette’s JAGGED LITTLE PILL at 10pm! Funk it up with Earth, Wind & Fire Tribute Band at Lee Street Park in Jonesboro! Rock out at The Earl with Dead Boys, Gunpowder Gray and Bad Spell! Boogie on down to The Basement for their HeyDay ‘80s Dance Party! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psych DeVilles at The Listening Room at Irish Bred Pub in Covington! 529 delivers their PBR BBQ Day Party featuring a rockin’ lineup with The Biters, RMBLR, Crocodile Tears, Trouble Boys, Trash Bags, The Up Up Ups, Platinum Boys, The Whiffs, Big Huge and Night Talkers! Nevermind pays tribute to Nirvana at City Winery! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Evan Stepp & The Piners and Brian Revels & The Heat Lightning! Folk it up with Poor Liza at Java Monkey! It’s a rock ‘n’ roll revival at Smith’s Olde Bar with Nameless Nameless, Buzzards of Fuzz and The Dirty Soul Revival! Get Southern rocked with The Garrett Collins Project at Tin Roof Cantina! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for Love & Happiness: An Al Green Experience! Jam it up at Avondale Towne Cinema during their Grateful Dead Jam! Get the blues with the Barry Richman Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get the Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the old school blues with Robert Lee Coleman and Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, July 8

Park Tavern holds their next Sunset Session with Super Doppler, Okey Dokey, and Uncle Son! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Warren Beatty’s HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Spend the night with Cherrelle at City Winery! Funk it up with the Nick Schnebelen Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get rocked at The Earl with Dinos Boys, Antagonizers ATL, the Ravagers, Vicious Dreams, Rotten Stitches and Adam Anzio! Mia Borders funks it up at the Red Light Café! Reggae it up at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with Beres Hammond & Friends! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theater presents WINNIE-THE-POOH, a musical based on the stories of A.A. Milne, running through July 15!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the 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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro is the bee’s knees This Week! Come shake it up in Atlanta and check out what we’ve found for you on the retro menu!

Monday, June 4

Rock out at The Earl with Chrome (Helios Creed), Sash the Bash and Caesium Mine! Spend the night with the “Dude” and catch a free screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at City Winery at 7pm! Eddie’s Attic dishes out a night with John Pizzarelli! Folk it up with J. A. Etchison, Emilye and Two by Two Celtic at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or catch a screening of Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, through June 6 at The Plaza Theater! Spend the night with Shania Twain at the Infinite Energy Center! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willies! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, June 5

Hang with Kool Kat Brian Lonano and friends and catch a special screening of his most recent film BFF GIRLS (2017) at The Plaza Theater! Cheap Trick and Poison invade the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Get the rockin’ blues with Joan Armatrading at City Winery! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or folk rock it up with Jesse Marchant and Oryx & Crake at The Earl! David Ramirez brings his Bootleg Tour to Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of classical guitar with David Cohen at Java Monkey! The High Divers rock you at the Red Clay Theatre! Get some soul with Larry Griffith at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 6

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 50th Anniversary screening of Mel Brooks’ classic comedy, THE PRODUCERS (1968) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Jazz it up with the Sal Gentile Trio at the Elliott Street Pub! Rock out at The Star Bar with Wet Jeans, The Instructors and Sound Medicine! Have an adventure and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or groove on down to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) and catch a screening of Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) 7:15pm! Sunflower Bean dishes out a post-punk revival with The Nude Party at Aisle 5! Spend the night with John Fogerty and ZZ Top at Chastain Park! Get the rockin’ blues with Joan Armatrading at City Winery! Will Turpin (Collective Soul) gets down at Eddie’s Attic! The Balkun Brothers and Jive Revival rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Catch a double feature of Adam McKay’s STEP BROTHERS (2008) and Joseph Ruben’s THE GOOD SON (1993) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get rocked blues-style with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, June 7

Get the power of Grayskull as a night of hilarity ensues with Cineprov at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff Gary Goddard’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (1987) at 7:30pm! The Purple Principle pays tribute to Prince at Avondale Towne Cinema! Or groove on down to Venkman’s as Yacht Rock Revue performs PURPLE RAIN in celebration of Prince’s birthday! Get the rockin’ blues with Joan Armatrading at City Winery! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get folksy with Jill Sobule and Carolina Story at Eddie’s Attic! Or get the rockin’ roots with the Donna Hopkins Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Funk it up with The New Mastersounds at Terminal West! The Hunts folk it up at Vinyl! Get a killer clue and make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their annual MURDER! AT THE STRAND, through June 10! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Blues it up with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 8

Hey all you miscreants! You won’t want to miss a night with Rotten Stitches, Freakshow Sinema, Die 985 and The Inhalants at The Highlander! Melvin Van Peebles’ SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG (1971) opens at The Plaza Theater, or get your Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood fix with a screening of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of cool grooves with the Mudbone Turner Band! Get rocked with Martin Bisi and Xambuca at The Earl! Rock out with Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters at Chastain Park! Folk it up with Karla Bonoff at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Robby Hecht and Caroline Spence at Crimson Moon Café! Jam on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Dead Affect! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! Spend the night with The Rockaholics at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Roy Lee Johnson at Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up 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, June 9

Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for the 8th annual Tunes from the Tombs 2018 (12p – 8pm), featuring 3 retro-tastic stages of live music! The Main Stages gets down with Drivin’ N Cryin’, AJ Ghent, the Heather Gillis Band, Caleb Caudle and The Bitteroots! Shakin’ on the North Public Grounds  Stage will be the Mermaid Motor Lounge, Ansley Stewart, Michael Zaib and Book Club! And you won’t want to miss the Lion Square Beer Garden Acoustic Stage featuring Wesley Cook, Avery Gipson, Greg Fortune and Caleb Caudle! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! Rock out at The Star Bar with Kool Kats The Joykills, Seagulls, Burrito Banditos, Kool Kats Shehehe, Ganges Phalanges, Hermits of Suburbia and El Chupaskabra! Or rock out with Beitthemeans, Bigfoot and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures at Mule Camp Tavern! Get retrotastic with Davina & The Vagabonds at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center! Rev on down to Big Tex for a night with Kitty Rose & The Ramblers! Harry Connick Jr. brings the Big Easy to Chastain Park! Get bluegrassy with Circus No. 9 at Crimson Moon Café! Get old-school with the Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Rock out ‘70s style with Mark Michelson at Red Light Café! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Spend the night with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 10

Fathom Events presents a wild double feature with screenings of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995), followed by Jake Kasdan’s JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (2017) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Riot grrrl it up with The Regrettes and Destroy Boys at the Masquerade! Get your Americana fix with Abe Partridge and Grant Peeples at the Crimson Moon Café! Get weirdly dark at The Earl with John Denver Death Plane, GOYA, Gnomonaut and Big Mountain! Bluegrass it up with Chatham County Line, Robby Hecht and Caroline Spence at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Johnny’s Hideaway! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Indie pop it up with Belle and Sebastian at the Tabernacle!  Make your way to the Woodruff Art Center’s Family Fun event live music and a free performance of the Alliance Theatre’s production of WINNIE THE POOH! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM (1996) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get really retro at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, jousting through June 4! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Fox Theatre presents HAMILTON, through June 10! (LAST CHANCE!)

Emory Arts presents their exhibition The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940-1975 in the Schatten Gallery, through June 17!

Noni’s Bar & Deli hosts their Cinema Paradiso film event, screening two films beginning at 10pm, through June 28!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the 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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get sprung in ATLRetro This Week and come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, March 26

Surf on down to City Winery for a night with Al Jardine! Travel the yellow brick road to the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre as they present the West Side Elementary Drama Club’s rendition of THE WIZARD OF OZ! Spend the night with The Buttertones at the Masquerade! 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 with Ron Roper at Blind Willies! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, March 27

Make your way to SCADShow for the 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows featuring the best in animated shorts from the world’s most renowned animation festivals at 6:30pm! Get your ‘70s vintage rock fix with Thelma & The Sleaze, the Craig Brown Band and Nikki & The Phantom Callers at The Earl! Bluegrass it up with Jim Lauderdale at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to The Roxy for a night with Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather and Rushton Kelly! Get your ‘70s prog rock fix with Happy Lemmy and The Warsaw Clinic at Smith’s Olde Bar! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Stomp on down to Blind Willies for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 28

Spook on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their GraveDigger’s Event: HBICs (Historic Broads in Charge) of Oakland at 6pm! Catch a screening of Jim Henson’s classic, THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get your R&B soul fix with Silk at the Cobb Energy Center! Spend a riotous night with Caroline Rose and WASI at The Earl! Jazz it up with Jennifer Hartswick and Nick Cassarino at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with The Boy Jones at The Star Bar! The Drunken Unicorn dishes out a night of honkytonk punk with Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires!  Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) presents a screening of Elia Kazan’s classic A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) at 7:15pm! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Or blues it up with Blues Hearts at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Cody Matlock gets down at Blind Willies! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, March 29

Get really retro and make your way to the 9th Annual 18th Century Market Faire at Fort Yago State Park in Winder, through April 1! Rock out with Agent Orange, The Atom Age, and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists at The Earl! Get down and dirty at the Clermont Lounge for Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley’s EASY, SLEAZY AND GREAZY CD Release Party! Get down with Walter Salas-Humara (The Silos), Bark and The Skylarks at 529! Glam it up with Butch Walker at Center Stage! Get countrified with Charlie Worsham and Lee Ann Womack at City Winery! Get down and dirty with the North Mississippi Allstars at Eddie’s Attic! Folk rock it up with Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with Cinema Novo, Yams Club, BKGD and Fun Isn’t Fair at The Star Bar! Folk it up with Timber Timbre at The Drunken Unicorn! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get down with The Sundogs and some killer island cocktails! Blues it up with Nick Moss at Blind Willies! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 30

Get your Special Agent fix during the first ever SPY-CON 2018 spying it up at the Atlanta Marriott Alpharetta through April 1 featuring exciting operatives (Lana Wood, Trina Parks, Kool Kat Mark Maddox, Victoria Price and more!), thrilling panels and “Spy School,” all celebrating espionage and Spy Fiction. Come on out for Day One featuring Dinner with the Bond Girls, panels and screenings of Mario Caiano’s SPIES STRIKE SILENTLY (1966), Paolo Bianchini’s SUPERAGO AND THE FACELESS GIANTS (1968), and episodes of THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, THE QUESTOR TAPES, MANIMAL and more! Shimmy on down to the Elliott Street Pub for Kool Kat Talloolah Love’s Candy Box Revue Burlesque! Catch a screening of William Wyler’s epic BEN-HUR (1959) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Boogie down dinosaur-style to the Fernbank Museum’s Adult Prom: A Prehistoric Night to Remember! Rock on down to The Basement for night one of Hammerhead Fest 7 featuring Beitthemeans, The Vaginas, Hellrad, Duell, Spray Tan and CANOPY! New Wave it up with The Swimming Pool Q’s and Mitch Easter at The Vista Room! Or make your way to the Variety Playhouse as Yacht Rock Revue performs the Talking Heads’ STOP MAKING SENSE! Departure pays tribute to Journey at the Dixie Tavern! Time travel it up at SCADShow for a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) at 7pm! Get country rocked with The Mavericks at the Buckhead Theatre! Or get countrified with Lee Ann Womack at City Winery! Sludge on down to The Earl for a night with EYEHATEGOD, Cro-Mags, and Buzzov-en! Get down and dirty with the North Mississippi Allstars at Eddie’s Attic! Pretty Vacant pays tribute to the Sex Pistols at MadLife Stage & Studios! DJ Kahle brings down the house with an ‘80s Dance Party at The Star Bar! Surf on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with The Antarcticats! Groove on down to Aisle 5 for a night with Cosmic Charlie! Interstellar Echoes pay tribute to Pink Floyd at Venkman’s! Stomp on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns! Blind Willies celebrates 32 years with a rockin’ party featuring Sparky & Rhonda Fuller, Steve James and The Shadows! Time-Warp it up 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, March 31

Day Two of SPY-CON 2018 brings you adventurous panels, spytastic guests, screenings of John Huston’s CASINO ROYALE (1967), Jean Delannoy’s ONLY THE COOL (1970), Fritz Lang’s THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (1960), and don’t forget to live it up at Casino Night in the Ballroom! Rock on down to The Basement for night two of Hammerhead Fest 7 featuring Black Tusk, Ectovoid, Kool Kats SHEHEHE, Steel Bearing Hand, Old Thrones and Useless Against! Make your way to The Earl for the Midnight Larks’ LP Release Party with reverends and Twisty Cats! Skank on down to The Highlander for SOULd OUT, a soul and reggae dance party! SCADShow presents a time-travelling double feature with screenings of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) and BACK TO THE FUTURE III (1990) beginning at 12pm! ATL Collective relives Prince’s SIGN O’ THE TIMES at the Buckhead Theatre! It’s a night of Persian pop with Sattar at Center Stage! Folk it up with Peter Mulvey at the Red Light Café! Kavarna dishes out a night of old-school country western with Back in the Saddle, the Swingin’ Saddle Cats and Marla Feeney! Americolor Opera Alliance presents The Gershwins’’ PORGY AND BESS at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Get smooth with Yacht Rock Schooner at The Vista Room! Departure pays tribute to Journey at City Winery! Get folksy at Eddie’s Attic with Margaret Glaspy and Cody Marlowe! Get to the root of it all with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Heart Breaker pays tribute to Heart at MadLife Stage & Studios! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & the Atlanta Horns get down at the Northside Tavern! Blind Willies celebrates 32 years with a rockin’ party featuring Sparky & Rhonda Fuller, Steve James and The Shadows! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, April 1

Brunch it up with the Coley High Trio at Venkman’s! And it’s your last chance to spy it up during Day Three of SPY-CON 2018 featuring panels, a performance by the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company and more! Spend the night with Mike Martin & The Beautiful Mess at Smith’s Olde Bar! Catch a screening of Charles Walters’ classic, EASTER PARADE (1948) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

Learn some history with the Gwinnett Parks Foundation’s Historic Walking Tours every Saturday through April 21!

ABBA on down to the Aurora Theatre for their presentation of MAMMA MIA! Running through April 22!

The Horizon Theatre Company presents FREAKY FRIDAY: A NEW MUSICAL, through April 22!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the 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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Resolve to shake a tail feather in ATLRetro This Week! Check out all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, January 1

Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-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! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 2

Blues on down to City Winery for their Holiday Hangover Blues Revue: 3 Kings Edition (BB, Freddie, Albert)! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!  Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, January 3

Videodrome Kung-Fus it up and presents a matinee screening of Lau Kar-leung’s THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER (1994) at 529 at 4pm! Raise a ruckus with The Howlin’ Brothers Adam Klein & The Wildfires and Oh Jeremiah at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s a night of folksy soul with Adron and Faye Webster at Eddie’s Attic! Get the blues with Michael Preston at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get bewitched with a screening of Chris Columbus’ HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S’ STONE (2001) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, January 4

Rock out with Useless Against, the Last Chance Riders and Dynamite Death Chair at The Star Bar! Folk rock it up with The Indigo Girls at Terminal West! Spend the night with Steve Earle and Mike Mattison at City Winery! The Babys dish out a night of classic rock at Eddie’s Attic! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of smooth island tuens and some killer cocktails! Jam on down and bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with gr8FLdude & frenz, the Justin Sams Band and Alex & Todd! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 5

Rev on down and raise a ruckus at The Star Bar with The Muckers, The SideBurners and The Breaks! Cross the pond and spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue as they perform ABBEY ROAD and DARK SIDE OF THE MOON at Venkman’s! Get a second helping of Steve Earle and Lilly Hiatt at City Winery! James Hall & The Steady Wicked, with Five Eight and Jeremy Ray rock out at The Earl! Spend the night with Pat McGee at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘80s MTV era synth-pop fix with Electric Avenue at Madlife Stage & Studios in Woodstock! Cabaret rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with Sarah and the Safe Word, Eddie Rascal and more! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Folk Soul Revival, Waller, and Jack’s River Band (upstairs), or catch Blackfox, Boxcar Radio, Kim Ware (Good Graces) and Hills & Holler (downstairs)! Blues rock it up with Eric Gales and Heather Gillis at Terminal West! Boogie woogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Colin Alvarez Band! Or get down with the Tyler Neal Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Watermelon Slim at Blind Willie’s! Get the blues with Robert Lee Coleman at Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up 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, January 6

Rumble on down to The Star Bar for a night with Hi-Test featuring Johnny McGowan, The Vipers and Michael Bradley! Or rev it up at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre as Kool Kat Rev. Andy and Grease, Inc. Magazine host their Ink & Oil Kustom Kulture Awards from 5-8pm, featuring a rockin’ retro line-up with Atomic Boogie, Kitty Rose, the Screamin’ Demons and more! The Earl dishes out a night of fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll with Shantih Shantih, Material Girls, Dot.s and more! Delta Moon and Pat McGee get to the root of it all at Eddie’s Attic! Kool Kat Noelle Shuck with SheHeHe, Spray Tan, CHUNX and the Burrito Banditos rock out at The Highlander! Cash Unchained pays tribute to the Man in Black at Madlife Stage & Studios! Spend the night with Kool Kat Drew Beskin with The District Attorneys and Zero Beach at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jam it up at the Variety Playhouse with the Jerry Garcia Band Cover Band (JGBCB) and Tribute!  Yacht Rock Revue and the Sweet Auburn String Band get down at Venkman’s! Rock out blues-style with Groove Rocket at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings featuring Larry “Doctor” Dixon! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, January 7

Henry Rollins rocks out at the Variety Playhouse! Funk it up with Dazz Band at City Winery! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the 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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Let ATLRetro fill you with a week’s worth of swingin’ good times; from vintage, fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll to steamy burlesque to classic cinema galore! It’ll be a bloody good time, so get out and get retro!

Monday, November 6

Spend the night with Rami Kleinstein at City Winery! Folk it up with The Strumbellas and Noah Kahan at Terminal West! Get your reggae fix with Jesse Royal at Vinyl! Spend the night with Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo and more as they perform a benefit reading of Thornton Wilder’s classic play, OUR TOWN, directed by Kenny Leon, at the Fox Theatre, with all proceeds going to Puerto Rico relief efforts! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-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! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 7

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “A Dish Best Served Cold” Classics Series with a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) at 7pm! Get your psychedelic avant-garde pop fix with Ariel Pink and the Clang Quartet at The Earl! Center for Puppetry Arts presents your favorite traditional seasonal reindeer tale, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, jinglin’ through Dec. 31! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Rumble on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with The Red Stone Ramblers! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 8

Prog rock it up with Goblin and Morricone Youth at The Loft! Videodrome presents a screening of Terry Zwigoff’s GHOST WORLD (2001) at 529 at 4pm! The Plaza Theater valley girls it up with a screening of Amy Heckerling’s CLUELESS (1995) at 8pm! Glam it up and rock out with Barb Wire Dolls, The Breaknecks and more at the Masquerade! Spend the night with H.E.R. at Center Stage! Rock out with the DeadPhish Orchestra and Maradeen at City Winery! Raise a ruckus with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Emory Cinematheque continues their Resist Fascism Series with a screening of Costa-Gavras’ AMEN (2002) at 7:30pm! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 9

Rock out with Black Linen, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Black Cat Rising at Gaja Korean Bar! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt gets acoustic and rocks out at Porterdale Bar & Grill! Rock on down to The Star Bar for Jabroni Fest (Nov. 9-11) featuring Burns Like Fire, Kool Kats Shehehe, Kool Kats The Joy Kills, Ganges Phalanges, Jaws the Musical and so much more! Or get your funk metal fix with Primus at the Tabernacle! Justin Townes Earl and Joshua Hedley dish out a night of rockin’ Americana at the Variety Playhouse! Get the blues with Kandace Springs at City Winery! The Ballroom Thieves folk it up with Chris Smither at Eddie’s Attic! Race a ruckus with The Good Graces, Chickens and Pigs, Emily Backus and more at the Red Light Café! Get countrified Texas-style with Reckless Kelly and The Trongone Band at Terminal West! Get some soul and make your way to The Vista Room for a Bill Withers Tribute! Or get your fiddler soul fix with Karen Briggs at Suite Food Lounge! Make your way to 7 Stages for the Home Brew Festival, through Nov. 18! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for some rockin’ island tunes and a couple of cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 10

Key it up with Tori Amos at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Cindy Wilson (The B-52s) New Waves it up at The Earl! Film Love and Kool Kat Andy Ditzler presents The American Music Show #3: Performance Practic at Eyedrum! Get to the root of it all with Delta Moon at The Vista Room! Shimmy on down to City Winery for a night with Wasabassco Burlesque! Patrick Davis & His Midnight Choir get down at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with the R ‘n’ B Revue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of speakeasy shenanigans with The Hobohemians at the Fernbank Museum! It’s a night of rockin’ Mods at MadLife Stage & Studios with their Rod Stewart Experience! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Caroline Aiken Trio and Suzanne Slair! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with Patrick Sweany, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Truett at Smith’s Olde Bar! Bluegrass it up with Darrell Scott & Jim Lauderdale at Variety Playhouse! Brass it up New Orleans style with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at Venkman’s! The Georgia Players Guild presents their tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Band at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get the blues with James Armstrong at Blind Willie’s! Funk on down to Northside Tavern for a night with Zydefunk! Time-Warp it up 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, November 11

Boogie down ‘80s-style with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his 80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party: Eurythmics Edition at Amsterdam Atlanta! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles revs it up at Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! Catch a screening of Jim Henson’s EMMET OTTER’S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS (1977) at Center for Puppetry Arts at 7pm! It’s a night of jangle pop, psyche folk with Robyn Hitchcock at Eddie’s Attic! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rev on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a Trackside Hootenanny! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Bitteroots, Steve Baskin and Moody Hollow! Rock out with The Presmanes Brothers at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with Ringo Starr & His AllStar Band at the Fox Theatre!  Kool Kat Chad Shivers presents his Southern Surf Stomp! at Kavarna featuring Crazy Aces and The One and Only Bill Davis! The Del Rios and The Wheel Knockers! Blind Willie’s gets down with their Blues Stotts Fest! Funk on down to Northside Tavern for a second helping of with Zydefunk! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, November 12

It’s a night of jangle pop, psyche folk with Robyn Hitchcock and The Black Lillies at Eddie’s Attic! Here’s looking at you Retro Kiddies! It’s a night of surf noir garage psyche at Gaja Korean Bar with Midnight Larks and Groovy Movies! Hilarity ensues at Atlanta Symphony Hall with John Cleese! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Rock out with Badfinger: Straight Up at City Winery! Get bluegrassy with The Dustbowl Revival and Amythyst Kiah at The Earl! Get the blues with The Vipers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Simply Three dish out a classical crossover at The Loft! Rock out with The Jesus and Mary Chain and Mark Rozer & The Rels at the Variety Playhouse! Get your gypsy jazz and western swing fix with Django Earnhardt, the Atlanta Jazz Orchestra and Orquestra MaCuba at Venkman’s! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

7 Stages presents the Home Brew Festival, through Nov. 18!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents your favorite traditional seasonal reindeer tale, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, jinglin’ through Dec. 31!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm! 

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the 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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Spook it up in ATLRetro this week! Come see what sinister shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, October 23

Kick off the week with a hellacious good time with the Nekromantix and The Brains in Hell, and get post-industrial with Lords of Acid in Heaven at the Masquerade! King Crimson rocks out at Center Stage! It’s a night of scares at The Plaza Theater with screenings of John Carpenter’s CHRISTINE (1983) and Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS (1963)! Lynette Skynyrd rocks out and pays tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd at City Winery! Rock out with Andrew W.K. at Terminal West! Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 dishes out a monstrous double feature with screenings of Paul Schrader’s CAT PEOPLE (1982) and David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (1983) at 7pm! Catch a screening of James L. Brooks’ TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! 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!” Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, October 24

Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their killer “A Dish Best Served Cold” Classics Series with Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at 7pm!  Rock out with Kool Kat Noelle Shuck with SHEHEHE at 529! Or catch Fifth Third Bank Broadway’s presentation of Alice Walker’s THE COLOR PURPLE at the Fox Theatre, through Oct. 29! The Plaza Theater delivers a night of John Carpenter’s IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994), through Oct. 25! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Protomartyr, Flasher and Glare! King Crimson rocks out with an encore show at Center Stage! Get the jump blues with Max Weinberg at City Winery! Folk it up with Angie Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Americana fix with Justin Hylton at Smith’s Olde Bar! Spend the night with Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band and Good Old War at Variety Playhouse! Have a creaturific good time at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18’s screenings of Steven Speilberg’s JAWS (1975) at 7pm/10pm! Get down with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Spend the night with Paul Sprawl at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, October 25

Raise a ruckus with Black Pistol Fire and Kool Kats Blackfoot Gypsies at The Earl! Get revived with Benjamin Booker and She Keeps Bees at The Loft! Rock out with Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and Ian Sweet at the Masquerade! It’s a night of hellacious rock ‘n’ roll with HOT RAM, Long Live the GOAT, Spore Lord and Hot Wives at The Star Bar! Get reanimated with a rebroadcast of RiffTrax’s deadly night of hilarity with George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at theatres across Atlanta at 7:30pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Howie Day! Dance on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra scores LA LA LAND, with an encore screening Oct. 26! The Electromatics dish out a night Chicago/West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Emory Cinematheque continues their Resist Fascism Series with a screening of Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST (1970) at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of William Wyler’s BEN-HUR (1959) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Get the blues with Michael Preston at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 26

Rock out with a twist of soul at The Star Bar with Night Terrors, The Sweet Thing, The Liza Colby Sound (keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview with Liza Colby), The Scotch Bonnets and Southern Ska Syndicate (Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley)! Raise a hellacious ruckus with Kool Kats the Casket Creatures, Captain & Maybelle, ELZIG and Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters at the Clermont Lounge! Get horrorfied at The Plaza Theater with screenings of John Carpenter’s CHRISTINE (1983) and George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)! It’s a night of rockin’ psychedelia at The Earl with King Buffalo and Elder! Catch Caroline Spence and Caleb Caudle at Eddie’s Attic! Jackie Venson rocks out at the Red Light Café! Funk it up with Backup Planet and Lagoons at Smith’s Olde Bar! Avondale Towne Cinema continues their Throwback Thursday Cinema event with a devilish double feature of Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 (1986), followed by a screening of George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968), starting at 8:30pm! Spend the night with the Toadies at the Masquerade! Kristen & The Honeybadgers get down at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for some rockin’ island tunes and a couple of cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 27

Get freakishly bizarre at Videodrome’s (JavaDrome) screening of Chester Novelle Turner’s TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE (1987) at 8pm! Have a bloody fangtastic time during Kennesaw Friday Night Frights – Vincent Price Night, featuring a monstrous double-feature of William Castle’s HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) and Crane Wilbur’s THE BAT (1959) at 7:30pm, hosted by Carnival of Doom! Or spend the weekend with the undead during the 5th Annual Walker Stalker Con at the Georgia World Congress Center, through Oct. 29! Spook it up during the Owl-O-Ween Hot Air Balloon Festival in Kennesaw! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their live score to Tim Burton’s A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 8pm, or catch a screening at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford)]! Get witchy during Atlantic Station’s Spooky Film Festival’s screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at dusk! Get your old-school rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Rainmen and Cover to Cover at Avondale Towne Cinema! It’s Halloween Tribute Night at The Earl with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana) and Rusty Cage (Soundgarden)! Evanescence invades Chastain Park! Average White Band dishes out a night of blue-eyed soul at City Winery! Get some old-school country soul with Andrew Sheppard, Will Ridge and Amigo the Devil at The Drunken Unicorn! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Grant Lee Phillips and Caroline Herring! Get sludgie and rock out with Guantanamo Baywatch, Metal McDonald and JJ & The Hustlers at The Star Bar! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Rapture – The Ultimate Blondie Experience with Weezer tribute, El Scorcho! Get the traditional country blues with Collins Drive, The Brookses and Emily Backus at the Red Light Café! Rock out with the Andy T Band at Blind Willie’s! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns boogie down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Northside Tavern! Raise a ruckus with Cody Matlock at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at theatres across Atlanta with screenings of Jim Sharman’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 10pm [AMC Classic North Dekalb 16; AMC Classic Snellville 12; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Classic Mansell Crossing 14 (Alpharetta)], and as usual The Plaza Theater continues 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, October 28

Make a trick or treat trek to North Dekalb Mall (Decatur) for their Halloween Bash! Boogie on down to Hellbender Harley Davidson’s (Marietta) Monster Mash Anniversary Bash, featuring live music, freak shows, zombie pin-up contests, car/bike show, costume contests and more! Spend the night in the Upside Down during A Stranger Halloween Party at Live! at the Battery! Get sinister with 1349 at The Earl! Get hellacious with the Fox Theatre’s Atlanta Horror Story Halloween Party! The Georgia Players Guild pays tribute to Meatloaf and the Rocky Horror Picture Show at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Boogie down ‘80s-style at Tin Roof Cantina’s ‘80s Prom Halloween Party! Make your way to Ponce City Roof for their Day of the Dead Halloween Party! Horror punk it up with Kool Kats the Casket Creatures at Mule Camp Tavern in Gainesville! Get your spine tingled during the 3rd Annual Spookeasy Electro Swing Atlanta with Kool Kat Talloola Love, DJ Doctor Q, Nikki Nuke’m and more at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar dishes out a hellacious Halloween Bash with Dinos Boys, Paralyzer, Bad Spell and Black Cat Rising! Spend the night with Clownvis Presley at 529! Haunt on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICS: Halloween Goth Industrial Music Video Dance Party featuring Goth, dark 80s and more! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles revs it up at Porterdale Bar & Grille! Get retro rocked with DK & The Hoop Snakes at Avondale Towne Cinema! Bluegrass it up with Sam Bush and Danny Burns at City Winery! Rev it up with Roxie Watson at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with Akpe Motion at the Red Clay Theatre! Get countrified with The Turnpike Troubadours and Charley Crockett at the Variety Playhouse! Get jangled with Coyote Anyway at Venkman’s! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up at theatres across Atlanta with screenings of Jim Sharman’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 10pm [AMC Classic North Dekalb 16; AMC Classic Snellville 12; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Classic Mansell Crossing 14 (Alpharetta)]! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns boogie down at Northside Tavern! Mike Lowry dishes out a night of rockin’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, October 29

Murder, mayhem and blood-thirsty plants invade Atlanta with screenings of Frank Oz’ LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986), The Director’s Cut at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Spook it up with The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s diabolique double feature of Harold Lloyd’s HAUNTED SPOOKS (1920) and F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922) at 3pm! Get weird ‘n’ geeky during My Parents’ Basement’s October Bizarre Bazaar, from 12p – 5p! Honkytonk it up gyspy-style with Velvet Caravan at Eddie’s Attic! GKids Presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2017 with a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); Studio Movie Grill (Duluth); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get jazzy with Trio Deluxe at Venkman’s! Blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get chilled to the bone with The Ghastly Dreadfuls at Center For Puppetry Arts, spooking through Oct. 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

Unleash ancient evil spirits with George Reinblatt’s EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL hosted by the Newnan Theatre Company, killing it through Oct. 29! (LAST CHANCE!)

Get ghastly during the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Ghost Tours, spooking it up through Oct. 29! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Fox Theatre dishes out a spooktacular time as they haunt it up during their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, bone chilling through Oct. 31!

Haunt on down to Norcross for Netherworld Haunted House’s horrorific 21st season, gorrifying through Nov. 1!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the 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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.