ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta goes back to school this week, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bummer! There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on, with some old-time vintage hullaballoo and foot stompin’ shenanigans! We’ve got classic films, ‘60s and ’70-style punk rock, all the ‘billy you could want and a hodgepodge of old-school blues, soul, funk and rock n roll! So, get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, August 4

Come on down kiddies, because it’s your last chance this summer to catch the vintage cinema extravaganza at Pallookaville, that is The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club with screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring Brad Bird’s animated homage to vintage sci-fi, THE IRON GIANT (1999)! Or get retro at The Plaza Theater as they screen MGM’s last musical of the ‘50s, Stanley Donen’s, SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954) and Howard Hawks’ Bogart classic, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)!  Get your fill of some roots and soul at Blind Willie’s with Brandon Reeves! 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 some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, August 5

Get some rockin’ soul at The Earl tonight with Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes and Black Linen! Get your fill of Clint Eastwood’s homage to Sergio Leone at Midtown Art Cinema at their screening of UNFORGIVEN (1992)! Faculty Grass delivers a night of bluegrass at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Boogie on down to Blind Willie’s for a night of Kansas City and West Coast blues with Atlanta Boogie! Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, James Taylor gets folksy and rocks out at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Sailing to Denver, Mustered Courage and Faithless Town! Rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Ed Roland & the Sweet Tea Project! Or get psyched and folksy at 529 with Simon Joyner and Lily & the Tigers!  The Breeze Kings deliver a night of Chicago/Delta blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern. Run away, trucker comedy-style, with Burt Reynolds and Sally Field to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Hal Needham’s, SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, August 6

Spend the night with Alfred Hitchcock at The Plaza Theater as they screen his James Stewart/Doris Day suspense thriller, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)! Swing on by East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Get the rockin’ blues with Lola at Sweet Georgia’ Juke Joint! Stomp on down for a hootenanny and a half tonight at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes!  For a night of vintage debauchery and outlaw rockin’ soul, make your way to The Earl for The McNifficent 7, the R.Garcia Band and Hot Sauce & Honey! Get the blues with AndrewBlack at Blind Willie’s! The Mike Veal Band gets funky and rocks out at the Tin Roof Cantina! Get the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Northlake Festival Movie Tavern is on the run today with their matinee screening of Hal Needham’s, SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977) during their Summer of Adventure series at 11:30 am!

Thursday, August 7

Get sci-fi retro at The Earl with Man or Astro Man? and Wray! Get really retro with some funky fairies at The New American Shakespeare Tavern as they present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” running through Aug. 10! Get jazzy at Eyedrum with the Steve Marquette Quintet and Jon Ciliberto! Trader Vic’s delivers a night of ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul with Lloyd’sRocksteady Revue! Get a taste of some New Orleans’ funk and R&B at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint with The Mar-Tans! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Rock on over to the Tin Roof Cantina every Thursday from 10 pm to 2 am and catch Jukebox Fiasco! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.  And it’s your last chance to catch Hal Needham’s, SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, August 8

The Drunken Unicorn delivers a night of kitschy ‘50s martini lounge-‘70s prog rock ‘n roll as they present Kool Kats Pillage & Plunder and their “The Show Must Go Wrong” CD release party, along with the Clibber Jones Ensemble and Noel Stephen & the Darlins! Or, get old-time and rock on down to The Star Bar for their Super Star Bazaar Benefit Event, featuring tunes by Adron, Ishcabittle and Uncle Daddy & the Kissin’ Cousins, along with jugglers, a little burly-Q, a kissing booth and more! Get your ‘70s euro-punk fix at The Earl with GG King, the Golden Pelicans and Ryan Dinosaur! It’s a Brit-invasion inspired night at Vinyl with Interstellar and James & theWild Spirit! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles get revved up at the Covington Square Summer Concert Series! Get dark and industrial and skulk on down to Lakewood Amphitheatre for a night with Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden! Then make your way to the Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s NINE INCH NAILS: INDUSTRIALDANCE NIGHT with free entrance to those with a NIN ticket stub! It’s a rockin’ Fragile reunion at Smith’s Olde Bar! Ralph Roddenberry delivers a night of Americana and folk rock at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The BarryRichman Band delivers a night of blues at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down and dirty with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s a night of rockin’ blues under the dinosaurs with The Georgia Flood at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Sweet & Salty get the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s a birthday blues bash at Northside Tavern as they celebrate Eddie Tigner’s 88th! Get some old-school rock n roll with the Drive Thru Junkies at the Tin Roof Cantina! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack has Sana Blues! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, August 9

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, especially cult comic legends, Monty Python! So come on down and catch them on the big screen at Lefont Theatre, as the Lafont Film Society presents, MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) (2014) at 10 am! It’s a night of old-time vintage string goodness at Eddie’s Attic with Roxie Watson at 7:30 pm, followed by The Cumberland Collective! Punk on down to 529 for a night with the Seagulls, Sex BBQ, SheHeHe and Burners! Or get funky at the Lakewood Amphitheatre with BootsyCollins, War, Con Funk Shun and The Bar-Kays! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles rock and rev out at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Ron Cooley & the Hard Times get bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Roots rock on down to The Family Dog for The Dead 27s and Gaslight Street! Bluebilly Grit delivers a night of stompin’ bluegrass at the Crimson Moon Café! Or get yer bluegrass fix at Big Tex with the Old SaltUnion! It’s a night of reggae punk at the Masquerade with The BastardSuns, Full Net and Plaid Rabbit! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at the Northside Tavern! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get bluesy with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get groovy with the Gr8fuldude at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, August 10

Get hellacious and rock on down to the Red Light Café for a night of rockin’ sultry shenanigans with Sadie Hawkins and her “Burlesque Battle of the Babes”, at her Last Pasties Standing Goes Metal event! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Gypsy Jazz Brunch offering up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for Carolina Story! The Black Sheep Ensemble gets brassy at Pallookaville’s free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series!  Big Tex has their Bluegrass Brunch with Cedar Hill! Rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with The Tom & Juli Show! And Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets bluesy with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

Pallookaville delivers old-school vintage tunes during their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series running through August 24 from 7-10pm!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Come on down and see what swell shenanigans we’ve dug up for you in Retro Atlanta this week!  This week is the Kat’s meow with all the revved up honky-tonkin’ ‘billy and surf rock you could ever want! And you won’t want to miss all the ragtime, Dixieland Prohibition-era pandemonium! Get a bloody taste of some hellish classic horror! Get your fill of vintage films and boogie on down to the best funk and blues in town! And sell your soul for a little sassy burly-Q! So get hep to the jive and rock out in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, July 28

Honky-tonk on down to Kavarna for a stompin’ good time with The Blue-Eyed Bettys! Get retro, kiddie-style at Pallookaville’s vintage cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, with their screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring a trip down the yellow brick road with their screening of the classic, THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Barrel House Bob Page! 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!  Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a bluesy helping of The Pork Bellies and some finger lickin’ BBQ!
 
Tuesday, July 29

Stomp on down to The Earl for a night of old-time Americana and garage country with The Villain Family, The Vivants and Book of Colors! Spend the night with Leslie Nielsen at Diesel Fueling Station as Nerd Film Mafia screens Jim Abrams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker’s classic comedy, AIRPLANE! (1980) at 10 pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Get R&B soaked and retro rocked at Eddie’s Attic with TheShadowboxers! Get psychedelic and southern-fried roots-style at the Masquerade with Cope, the Donna Hopkins Band and The Hurley Show (Freddys Finest)! The Goldmine Pickers deliver a night of hot-pickin’ bluegrass and old-time Americana at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Head on down to the Midtown Art Cinema for a night with William Holden as they screen Sam Peckinpah’s classic, THE WILD BUNCH (1969)! The Hollidays deliver a night of soul and rock and roll at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues with the Bob Page Trio at Sweet Georgia’ Juke Joint! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern. Rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with JT Speed! And if you feel the need for speed, fly on over to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Tony Scott’s, TOP GUN (1986) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, July 30

Stomp on down for a hootenanny and a half tonight at The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes!  Debauche delivers a night of Russian gypsy music at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Rock out old-school with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as they present Yes, performing two of their classic albums, “Fragile,” and “Close to the Edge”! Get down and dirty with some psyche-delta blues at The Drunken Unicorn with All Them Witches and Bad Friend! Rock out with the ‘blues woman power’ of Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Blind Willie’s rocks out with the Electromatics! Get your ‘90s pop fix at Chastain Park Amphitheatre with Sarah McLachlan! For some old-time raunchy rock n roll, head on over to the Clermont Lounge for JB Walker & the Cheap Whiskey Band! Or get sleazy and blues-tinged at The Earl with Gunpowder Gray and Scarlett! Get a second helping of TheShadowboxers at Eddie’s Attic!  The Hollidays deliver a night of soul and rock and roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Live long and prosper as the Highland Inn & Ballroom becomes the Final Frontier as SCENE MISSING Magazine presents their writing and comedy show based on Star Trek films, with costume contests and more during The Wrathlanta of Khan event at 9 pm! Or spend one hot summer day with Tom Cruise at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their matinee screening of Tony Scott’s, TOP GUN (1986) during their Summer of Adventure series at 11:30 am!

Thursday, July 31

Rock on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night of horror punk mischief and catch The Luchagors (last show!), Brawful and our own Kool Kats, TheCasket Creatures! Get filled with a little jangle pop and new-wave folk at The Earl with The Rosebuds and The Meeks Family! Make your way to the Fox Theater as the Coca Cola Summer Film Festival presents George Cukor’s vintage rom-com, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart! Get swanky at Trader Vic’s with Bogey & the Viceroy Quartet while sippin’ on a couple Mai Tais! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with Alex (Commins) & Todd (Prusin)! Get a taste of some New Orleans’ funk and R&B at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint with The Mar-Tans! The Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get bluesy and enjoy an acoustic lunch hour at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with AndrewBlack! Come on down and catch a little funk with Mingo Fishtrap in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar, or head to the Atlanta Room for a night rockin’ psychedelia with The Freshtones, The Orange Constant and JohnnyAwesome! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.  And it’s your last chance to catch Tony Scott’s tale of adventure, TOP GUN (1986) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, August 1

Kick off the weekend with a whole lotta horror classics by spookin’ on down to the first annual Monsterama Convention invading the Holiday Inn Perimeter and haunting all your senses through August 3! Experience three horrorific tracks (Main, Literary and Maker) while perusing the monsterific vender tables.  Catch a haunting glimpse of horror experts including film director, Jeff Burr, ATLRetro’s very own Kool Kitten and horror writer, Anya Martin, horror history expert and documentarian, Daniel Griffith of Ballyhoo Motion Pictures (Keep your eyes peeled for his Kool Kat interview this week!), Kool Kat Shane Morton, ghost host with the most, a.k.a. Professor Morte, Victoria Price (daughter of the legendary Vincent Price), legendary Hammer scream queen, VeronicaCarlson, glamour ghoul Kool Kat Madeline Brumby and so many more! Rock out to some Victorian chamber metal with Valentine Wolfe! And don’t forget to catch a helluva lot of screenings including an episode of The OuterLimits, Kool Kat Shane Morton’s award-winning, ATLANTA ZOMBIEAPOCALYPSE MOVIE (2014), Roddenberry’s made-for-TV movie, SPECTRE (1977) and the riffing skills of Cineprov during the screening of Dennis Muren and Jack Woods’ horror film, EQUINOX (1970)! So, come on down for the horror that is the Monsterama Convention and get your vintage horror fix!

Or hula on over to the B3 Bar & Grill in Austell for the 4th Annual Rockabilly Luau, promising a weekend full of island shenanigans, rockin’ live music, tiki libations, Hawaiian dancers, fire performances, car and bike shows, pin-up contests hosted by the Bombshell Bettie’z and so much more, revvin’ through August 2!  Get yer ‘billy fix with their rockin’ musical lineup including Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles, Kool Kat Phil Stair with Grim Rooster, Atomic Boogie, The SideBurners, Cadillac Junkies, Brad Latham as Elvis, circus side-show shenanigans by Captain & Maybelle and so much more! And don’t forget to peruse the rockin’ vintage vender tables including Jezebel Blue, 2the9s Retro and so much more! So, rev on down to the B3 Bar & Grill and party island-style like it’s the 1960s!

The Plaza Theater delivers a night of retro screenings with Sydney Pollack’s THE WAY WE WERE (1973), running through August 2 and Robert Benton’s classic court drama, KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979), also screening on August 3!  For a night of ‘20s ragtime and Dixieland jazz, head on over to The Earl for a two-night stand with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers and Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands! Strung Like A Horse delivers their gritty garage punk grass at The Star Bar! Get funky and blues on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the AJ Ghent Band and The First Stone, followed by a little roots rock with Cody Marlowe & the Dead Flowers in the Music Room, or make your way to the Atlanta Room for a little honky-tonk Americana with Jesse & the Great Perhaps, Cortez Garza and CandasseRandall! It’s a night of old-time vintage shenanigans with The Whiskey Jackets and burlesque by Sadie Hawkins at the Red Light Café! Get your old-school rock n roll pop fix at The Variety Playhouse with Judy Collins and Rachael Sage! Get the blues with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! “Blues Diva” Diedra & the Ruff Band get bluesy at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo rocks out with some blues, jazz and southern soul at Northside Tavern! Atlanta’s ‘rockin’ and stompin’ blues band’, Chicken and Pigs get down at Big Tex! Get folksy at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event and do a little boogyin’ under the dinosaurs with Cicada Rhythm! Party like it’s 1999 with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his ICONTROVERSY 80s: PRINCE Music Video Dance Party invading Famous Pub at 10 pm! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, August 2

Rockin’ Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow with local musicians pulling together to help one of their own, Greg Germani at The Star Bar, with a benefit concert, promising a night of swingin’ shenanigans in the name of their brother with music and must-have raffle items! So, rock out for a great cause and catch a revved up musical lineup of Kool Kats galore, featuring, Ghost Riders Car Club with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton on guitar, The Blacktop Rockets, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, The Mystery Men?, Kool Kat Julea Thomerson, AMGold, Slim Chance & the Convicts and Grinder Nova! It’s Shakespeare in love (or maybe lust!) tonight at the Shakespeare Tavern with Kool Kats Talloolah Love and Persephone Phoenix’ inaugural spectacular, Passions: A Burlesque Devotional! So get sultry and shimmy on down to catch a whole lotta seduction with additional performances by Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Roula Roulette, NinaCharrise, Desta del Carmen, Harleen Cassidy, Robert Thomas Dant, Tippy Tapage, Tora Torrid, Candi Le Coeur and more!  It’s day 2 of the Monsterama Convention, featuring Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. Professor Morte’s Silver Scream Spook Show preceding a screening of Jim O’Connolly’s THE VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969) paying tribute to the godfather of special effects, Ray Harryhausen in addition to delivering a horrific journey into spook show history! Take a peek at guest Larry Blamire’s THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA (2002)! And you won’t want to miss the Monster Prom, with DJ Dusty Booze spinning the grooviest garage rock vinyl and manic masquerade shenanigans by Prof. Morte! And stick around for a whole lotta horrorific classics; James Whale’s BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935), Freddie Francis’ SON OF DRACULA (1974) and Daniel Griffith of Ballyhoo Motion Pictures’s documentary, THEBLOODIEST SHOW ON EARTH: MAKING VAMPIRE CIRCUS (2010), followed by Hammer Productions’, VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1972) and so much more! So come on out and get your classic horror fix at Monsterama! And it’s day 2 and your last chance to get revved up and rockin’ hula-style at B3 Bar & Grill in Austell for the 4th Annual Rockabilly Luau!

Get your second helping of a little prohibition-era pandemonium at The Earl with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers and The Royal Tinfoil! Swing on down to the Druid Hills Dance Center for the Hepcat’s Hop and boogie with the best of ‘em! Rock out with Wussy as they deliver a night of rockin’ 60’s pop and 70’s psychedelia at the Red Light Café! The Stoneberrys deliver a night of Rolling Stone tunes at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get some soul at Kavarna with Joy Ike! For a night of ‘70s power pop, rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar and catch The Head, David Cone and StartingFires! Find your roots at the Buckhead Theatre with Passenger! The horror punkers and Kool Kats, TheCasket Creatures rock out at the Masquerade! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with The DrewGibson Trio! Get funky at Terminal West with the Funky Meters! Punk on down to 529 for a rockin’ night with The House Harkonnen, The Vaginas, Mothership and Gunpowder Gray! For the kid in all of you, make your way to the Fox Theater for the Coca Cola Summer Film Festival’s presentation of Saturday morning cartoons at 10 am!  The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with JP Soars! Get cinema retro at The Plaza Theater as they screen Joseph Pevney’s TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR (1957), screening through August 3! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, August 3

Shimmy and shake on down to 7 Stages and get mischievous with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her saucy Syrens of the South during their 7^thAnniversary Show, featuring performances by Flame Cynders, Kool KatLola LeSoleil, Siren Santina, Claire Voltaire and so much more! It’s day 3 and your last chance to get your classic horror fix at the Monsterama Convention, featuring a history of Monsterverse Comics, a screening of Daniel Griffith’s THIS ISLAND EARTH: 2 ½ YEARS IN THE MAKING (2013), a look at horror writing legends, H.P. Lovecraft to Stephen King with Anya Martin and more, a peek into Frankenstein and a showdown between Cthulu and Godzilla! It’ll be a day you won’t want to miss, so haunt on down to the Monsterama Convention! Get your Mel Brooks fix at the Fox Theater during the Coca Cola Summer Film Festival’s double feature, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) and BLAZING SADDLES (1974) at 2 pm! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs gets jazzy with their Deb Bowman Jazz Brunch! Get the hill country blues at Smith’s Olde Bar with Carlos Elliot Jr! It’s a day of Shirley MacLain at The Plaza Theater as they screen Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) and James L. Brooks’ TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983)! Stomp on down to Pallookaville for their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series featuring the Deja Blue GrassBand! Big Tex has their Bluegrass Brunch with City Hotel and PavingGravy! Fat Back Deluxe gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers! Get the Americana blues with Katharine Cole at Kavarna! And get your Django-gypsy jazz fix at the Red Light Café with The Micah Cadwell Quartet and The Cook Trio!

Ongoing

Pallookaville delivers old-school vintage tunes during their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series running through August 24 from 7-10pm!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta is rockin’ this summer with all the vintage shenanigans you could ever want! So, come on out and see what we’ve found for you on the Retro Menu! Atlanta gets groovy, revved up, doused in golden era film and so much more! So, get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, July 21

Start the week off right with a couple silver screen oldies but goodies at The Plaza Theater as they continue their 75th Anniversary celebration with presentations of John Ford’s STAGECOACH (1939) starring John Wayne and Ernst Lubitsch’s Greta Garbo flick, NINOTCHKA (1939)! Get retro, kiddie-style at Pallookaville’s vintage cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, with their screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring Henry Selick’s adaptation of Raold Dahl’s classic, JAMES ANDTHE GIANT PEACH (1996)! Punk on down to 529 for a night of psych punk and noise pop with Zoners, Mexican Slang, Landline and Thunders! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of the blues with the Marshall Ruffin Band! 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!  Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a bluesy helping of The Pork Bellies and some finger lickin’ BBQ!
 
Tuesday, July 22

It’s a night of film classics with Zoltan Korda’s tale of adventure, FOUR FEATHERS (1939) at The Plaza Theater; the Midtown Art Cinema’s screening of George Roy Hill’s outlaws with style flick, BUTCHCASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) and the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Jim Abrams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker’s ‘80s satire, AIRPLANE! (1980) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm! Get your ‘90s alt-rock, anti-folk fix at the Fox Theater with a night of Beck! Or stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for Cedar Hill! King Buzzo (The Melvins) delivers his “This Machine Kills Artists” tour at The Basement! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues with Lola at Sweet Georgia’ Juke Joint! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! TheEntertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern. And rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with JT Speed!

Wednesday, July 23

Take a trip back in time to 1939 to The Plaza Theater as they celebrate their 75th Anniversary with screenings of ’39 classics, Jean Renoir’s, THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939) and Michael Powell’s, SPY IN BLACK (1939)! The Breeze Kings deliver a night of Chicago/Delta blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo rocks out with some blues, jazz and southern soul at Blind Willie’s! The Hollidays deliver a night of soul and rock and roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Or skip school and spend the day with Leslie Nielsen at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Jim Abrams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker’s ‘80s satire, AIRPLANE! (1980) during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, July 24

Get nuclear and hitch a ride over to the Fox Theater as the Coca Cola Summer Film Festival presents Stanley Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964)! Put on the Ritz and make your way to The Plaza Theater for their 75thAnniversary Gala, featuring a screening of the star-studded, THAT’SENTERTAINMENT (1974), directed by Jack Haley and starring Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and more!  The Gala also includes a gourmet chocolate buffet after the show, so come on out and celebrate The Plaza Theater’s first 75 years! Rock on over to The Variety Playhouse for a night with The Musical Box, delivering a performance celebrating 40 years of Genesis’ “Selling England by the Pound”! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night with Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier and his Polynesian pop lounge band, Tonga Hiti and a couple Mai Tais! Get funky in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong! Celebrate the Man in Black, Johnny Cash, at the Red Clay Theatre as JohnCarter Cash presents his “House of Cash” tour with special guests, Tim andMyles Thompson! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with 16 Coaches and The Mars Hill Porch Pickers! Rock on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with Gunpowder Gray, Six Shot Revival and the Pelvis Breastlies! Sweet Betty & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get the blues with the Randy Chapman Trio at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.  And it’s your last chance to catch Jim Abrams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker’s ‘80s satire, AIRPLANE! (1980) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, July 25

The Plaza Theater rocks into the space-age as screen Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) during their 75th Anniversary celebration! It’s a night of jangle garage rock at The Earl with ReigningSound, Anna Kramer & the Lost Cause and Douglas’ Street Team! Get some Memphis soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with the Swamp FunkQuartet! Rock out with the ‘blues woman power’ of Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues rocks out with The Georgia Flood! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck gets down and dirty as his Big Dang Band with the Atlanta Horns takes over the Northside Tavern! It’s a ‘60s Brit invasion at Big Tex with The Backyard Birds! Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters deliver their “Cinematic, French chamber-pop” at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event while mingling under the dinosaurs! Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month! Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ deliver their rock-folk, jam punk at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get a taste of some Kentucky bluegrass at the Crimson Moon Café with The Kevin Prater Band! Men of Motown boogie down during their song and dance revival at The Strand Theater! Go underground and get sinister with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his BLACK OUT: Goth & Industrial Dance Night invading Famous Pub and delivering a night of rare Goth, dark ‘80s and post punk music videos! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, July 26

Get gory and undead at the Diesel Filling Station as they play host to Markster Con and Gorehound Production’s 5th Annual Atlanta Zombie Pub Crawl, featuring the bloodiest good time with professional zombie make-up artists [Jason Hodges], costume contests, grotesque libations and more! Or get intergalactic at The Plaza Theater for your second helping of Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) during their 75th Anniversary celebration along with John Hughes’ ‘80s classic teen comedy, FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986)! Or get epically historic at the Fox Theater for the Coca Cola Summer Film Festival’s screening of Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam Wood’s epic classic, GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)! And get funky at the Tabernacle at the FunkJazz Kafe Arts & Music Festival, featuring vendors, art, live music, food and more!

It’s a night of raucous retro rock at The Earl with the Supersuckers, Big Foot and the Night Terrors! Or stomp on down to The Star Bar for a night of old-time bluegrass punk and sassy boot-stompin’ shenanigans with I Want Whisky, City Hotel and the HotHouse Peaches! It’s a night of ‘70s-era pop and disco at Eddie’s Attic with the Susi French Connection! Get rocked, psychobilly style at the Masquerade with OpossumHoller! Groove on down to Vinyl for a night with Voodoo Visionary, The Groove Orient and Story of A Life! Or get avant-garde Zappa and Mr. Bungle funky at Elliott Street Pub with Opposite Box! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of CSNY, a classic Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover band! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck delivers a second helping of his Big Dang Band with the Atlanta Horns at the Northside Tavern! The Johnny Scales Trio gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Terry Flynn Band delivers a night of stompin’ Americana at Big Tex! Punk on down to WonderRoot for a night with Ganges Phalanges and Wicked Pretty! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents an “Intimate Evening with Art Garfunkel” at Symphony Hall! For a night of psych-rock, make your way to the Red Light Café for Pettingzoo! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with The KatieMartin Band! Escape Vehicle rocks out at The Family Dog! Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ deliver a second night of their rock-folk, jam punk at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room! Or stomp on over to the Atlanta Room for a night with Buck‘O Five! Spend an evening with the greatest women in music at The Strand Theater during their song and dance revue, Diva! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, July 27

Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Gypsy Jazz Brunch offering up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm! The Plaza Theater continues their 75th Anniversary celebration with their screenings of John Hughes’, FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) and Nicholas Ray’s, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)! Get funky at Pallookaville during their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series with the 4th WardAfro Klezner Orchestra! Or stomp on down to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with the Georgia Mountain String Band! Fat Back Deluxe gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Low Volts and The Western Sizzlers deliver some old-time rock at The Earl!  Get jazzy and blues it up with the Electromatics, Jon Liebman and Nick Johnson at Eddie’s Attic! The Family Dog delivers a night of Jez Graham and 3 Out of 4!  It’s a Jukebox Giants song and dance musical revue at The Strand Theater, featuring pop music through the ages, ‘50s to ‘80s! And groove on down to Terminal West for their 7th Annual Jerry Day, celebrating the tunes of Jerry Garcia, featuring David Gans with Ted Norton (The Grateful Dead Hour), Deep Blue Sun, Escape Vehicle, Electric Codpiece, Gr8fulDude & Frenz, Swami Gone Bananas, High Mountain Ramblers, The Charlie Fog Band and so much more!

Ongoing

Pallookaville delivers old-school vintage tunes during their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series running through August 24 from 7-10pm!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Hey Retro Atlanta! It’s that time for summer lovin’, so come on out and get your old-time vintage fix! We’ve got all the ‘billy your little ol’ hearts can desire! We’ve got vintage films galore! We’ve got rockin’ surf tunes, ‘70s psychedelia, jazz and the blues! So, get off that couch, rock out into the heat and live la vida Retro!

Monday, July 14

Rev on down to Camelis Gourmet Pizza Joint for “Psychobilly Freakout” and a night with Kool Kat Rev. Andy, broadcasting a spitfire night of rockin’ rockabilly and psychobilly live on Garage71 Internet Radio! Get retro, kiddie-style at Pallookaville’s vintage cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, as they deliver a day of Jim Henson, with their screenings of “The Muppet Show” episode starring Vincent Price (1976), “The Muppet Show” episode starring Alice Cooper (1978) and James Frawley’s THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979)! Bill Sheffield gets the blues, acoustic-style at Blind Willie’s! 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!  Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a bluesy helping of The Pork Bellies and some finger lickin’ BBQ!
 
Tuesday, July 15

Join the adventure with Doc and Marty McFly at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ‘80s classic, BACK TOTHE FUTURE (1985) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm! Or make a trip to the wild west as the Midtown Art Cinema screens Sergio Leone’s western classic, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968), starring Henry Fonda! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boohoo Ramblers! The Bob Page Trio delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Sweet Georgia’ Juke Joint! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern. And rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with JT Speed!

Wednesday, July 16

For a night of old-country blues and jazz, honky-tonk on down to Eddie’s Attic for Cicada Rhythm with special guests, the Darnell Boys! Get psychedelic and groove on down to Big Tex for a night with the Dot Line Projekt! It’s a free “Munchkin Movie” at The Strand Theater as they present Don Bluth’s ‘80s classic AN AMERICAN TAIL (1986)! Get the rockin’ blues with Lola at Sweet Georgia’ Juke Joint! John Sosebee delivers a night of hill country blues and rockin’ Appalachian Americana at Blind Willie’s! The Hollidays deliver a night of soul and rock and roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Or time travel to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ‘80s classic, BACK TOTHE FUTURE (1985) during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, July 17

It’s a night of old-time folk and country at The Earl with Lily & the Tigers, Ben Trickey and Ruby the Rabbitfoot! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with Sour Bridges and Silo! Get revived Ska-style at the Masquerade with The Taj Motel Trio, The Last Slice, Survey Says! and Ye Flask! TheDoobie Brothers and Peter Frampton deliver a night of classic rock at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Get old school heavy at The Star Bar with Beitthemeans, Six Shot Revival, the Pelvis Breastlies and Echo Theory! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of rockin’ island tunes with The Volcanauts with Tracey Wolfe and a couple Mai Tais! Sweet Betty & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get your roots rock fix with Donna Hopkins at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.  And it’s your last chance to rock back to the ‘50s at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ‘80s classic, BACK TOTHE FUTURE (1985) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, July 18

Get intergalactic and chill with Luke, Leia and Han Solo at The Plaza Theater as they kick off their 75th Anniversary with their screening of George Lucas’ STAR WARS EPISODE IV (1977)! Or steampunk on down to the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing July event, featuring jazz, Big Band, electronica and a little saucy cabaret courtesy of Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Candi LeCoeur and Lucy Purr at 8 pm! Rev on down to the Diesel Fueling Station for Kool Kat Rev. Andy’s Rockabilly/Psychobilly Music Video Throwdown!  It’s a night of gypsy honky-tonk rock n roll at The Star Bar with the Banditos, BlackfootGypsies, Rolling Nowhere and Slick! Get a little vintage swagger at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Atlanta Boogie!  Or get your fill of “Steady Rollin’” Bob Margolin’s blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out with the ‘blues woman power’ of Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get psychedelic and groove on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Swami Gone Bananas! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night of Americana soul during the Smokin’ Novas’ CD release party! Jam on down to Big Tex for a night with Gr8fuldude & Frenz! If you want to rock n roll all night, rock on down to the Lakewood Amphitheatre for a night with KISS and Def Leppard! Get folksy at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens with The Indigo Girls! Cha-cha under the dinosaurs and enjoy a couple cocktails at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with the Salsambo Dance Studio! Or get your Salsa fix at the High Museum with La Orquesta Sabor from 5 to 10 pm! It’s a Jukebox Giants song and dance musical revue at The Strand Theater, featuring pop music through the ages, ‘50s to ‘80s! Get your fill of your favorite MTV videos with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night invading Famous Pub every Friday night at 10 pm! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, July 19

Leave the kiddies at home and surf on down to the DooGallery and get Tiki’d at their Southern Swells Surf Art Show, from 8pm to 2 am, featuring surf and tiki art, rockin’ surf tunes by Gemini 13 and The Fugitives and tasty beach chow! Or get French-y at Paris on Ponce during their 2-day 3rd AnnualBastille Day Festival, featuring a scavenger hunt, a grilled cheese contest, films, live music, burlesque performances by the saucy Sadie Hawkins and a magic show with the Clark Gable look-alike, Chad Sanborn!  It’s a day of old-school silver screen pictures at The Plaza Theater as they celebrate their 75th Anniversary with their screenings of A. Edward Sutherland’s Laurel & Hardy flick, THE FLYING DEUCES (1939) and Lewis Milestone’s OF MICE AND MEN (1939)! Or join Kool Kat Chris Hamer of Urbnpop at The Highlander for his Bad As Me: A Night of Music & Art event, featuring showings from 30 local and national artists and rockin’ tunes by WolfFace, Burns Like Fire and Madre Padre! And cruise on over to The Strand Theater for their “Cruisin’ at The Strand with The Creepers” event, featuring a classic car show extravaganza, a screening of Randal Kleiser’s classic, GREASE (1978) and their Men of Motown rockin’ music revue!

ATL Collective presents their take on Elvis Costello’s “This Year’s Model” in its entirety at Vinyl! Break on through to the other side at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with The Dirty Doors! Rough Draft delivers a night of rockin’ jazz and funk at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Live at the Fillmore delivers a rockin’ Allman Brothers tribute at The Variety Playhouse! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Bobby Messano! The Cazanovas get the blues at the Northside Tavern! Rock out roots style at The Earl with Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin with the Guilty Ones, along with JonahTolchin & the Lonesome Angels! Boogie on down to The Basement for their Keep on Movin’ Rock’n’Soul Dance Party! It’s a night of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at Eddie’s Attic! The Rainmen deliver a night of ‘60s and ‘70s rock n roll at Big Tex! Get rocked mountain style at the Crimson Moon Café with Echo Rowdy! Get your classic rock fix at The Family Dog with Along for theRide! Get your second helping of The Indigo Girls at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, July 20

And it’s day 2 of Paris on Ponce’s 3rd AnnualBastille Day Festival, featuring films from the Atlanta Film Festival and rockin’ tunes by CousinDan, Promise Keepers and Atlas Sound! The Plaza Theater continues their 75th Anniversary celebration with their screenings of William A. Seiter and Walter Lang’s THE LITTLE PRINCESS (1939) and William Wyler’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)! Swing on by Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for their Big Band Atlanta Jazz Brunch at 12:30 pm! Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet deliver their Hot Club jamming and Parisian swing at The Earl! Or stomp on down to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with D.B.A.! Hula on down to Pallookaville for their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series with Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier and his Polynesian pop lounge band, Tonga Hiti! Fat Back Deluxe gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Johnson Party rocks out at The Family Dog! Blues on down to the Crimson Moon Café a matinee show with Joel DaSilva & the Midnight Howl and stick around for Rick Harris’ “Jazz it up Jam”!  Spend an evening with the greatest women in music at The Strand Theater during their song and dance revue, Diva! And Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a night of saucy shenanigans with Sadie Hawkins and her “Burlesque Battle of the Babes”, Last Pasties Standing: Summer Lovin’ event!

Ongoing

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat’, running through July 20! (LAST CHANCE!)

Pallookaville delivers old-school vintage tunes during their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series running through August 24 from 7-10pm!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow this week! From vintage old-time back porch hootenannies to ‘70s punk rawkin’ to psychedelic garage rock and all the blues and jazz you could ever want, Retro Atlanta is where it’s at! So, come on out and boogie on down in Retro Atlanta!

Monday, July 7

Get retro, kiddie-style at Pallookaville’s vintage cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, with their screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic tale, FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009)! Get some soul at Blind Willie’s with Brandon Reeves! 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!  The Beatles invade Lafont Theatre with their screening of Richard Lester’s A HARD DAYS NIGHT (1964)! Get old-school at Chastain Park with LionelRichie! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a bluesy helping of The Pork Bellies and some finger lickin’ BBQ!  And it’s your last chance to get monstrous at The Plaza Theateras they screen the 60th Anniversary restoration of Ishiro Honda’s GODZILLA (1954)!
 
Tuesday, July 8

Join forces with the infamous Ash as he battles the mediaeval dead at The Plaza Theater during Splatter Cinema’s screening of Sam Raimi’s cult classic ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992), at 9:30! And don’t forget to come early for some horrorific lobby shenanigans and classic horror trailers!  Or let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South seduce their way into your naughty little hearts at the Red Light Café at their Tease Tuesday: JulyEdition, with special guest Shay Blaze and performances by Nikki Nuke’m, Candi LeCoeur, Victoria Rose Nedley and so much more! Take a trip to the “Goon Docks” for swashbuckling adventures at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Richard Donner’s ‘80s classic, THE GOONIES (1985) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm! Spend the night with the Duke at the Midtown Art Cinema as they screen John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS (1956) at 7 pm! Skye Paige, “Queen of the Slide Guitar” and Danny B. Harvey deliver a night of rockabilly blues and country at Blind Willie’s! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with The Cohen Brother’s Band! Sweet Georgia’ Juke Joint gets down and dirty with the Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern. And rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with JT Speed!

Wednesday, July 9

Punk on down to The Star Bar for Ravagers, The Jetbirds, Onchi and Spoilers! Or get folksy at Eddie’s Attic with Marc Cohn! The Mar-Tans deliver their New Orleans’ funk at Sweet Georgia’ Juke Joint! The Bob Page Trio delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! The Hollidays deliver a night of soul and rock and roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Or skip school and hang out with the Goonies at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Richard Donner’s ‘80s classic, THE GOONIES (1985) during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, July 10

Sex, Drugs & Bluegrass invade the Red Light Café with Nine Years Apart and Rye Baby! Get old-time with a little vintage bluegrass and string band ragtime with Blood on the Harp, Caleb Warren & His Perfect Gentlemen and Sailing to Denver at 529! Get garage rocked at The Star Bar with EasyBeat, Cosmoknox, Time Before the War and Vito Romeo! Lloyd’s RockSteady Revue delivers their ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul at Trader Vic’s! Rev on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club! It’s a night of old-time country and folksy Americana in the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Scarlett Hill, Andy Lees, Lady of the Lake and Deborah Vanttaelst! Or get a tasty helping of the Megan Jean Band & the KFB’s Americana punk and avant-garde tunage in the Music Room with The Jauntee and Makayan! Get the Memphis blues at the Crimson Moon Café with the Daddy Mack Blues Band! Rock out with the ‘blues woman power’ of Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins at Blind Willie’s! The Barry Richman Band gets bluesy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.  And it’s your last chance to seek the treasure at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Richard Donner’s ‘80s classic, THE GOONIES (1985) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, July 11

Get geeky and rock your TARDIS all the way to the Masquerade for MarksterCon’s Time Lord Party at 9 pm, featuring Steam Punk tunes by TheExtraordinary Contraptions, costume contests and rockin’ vendors including Kool Kat Chris Hamer of UrbnPop! Shimmy on down to Mary’s and celebrate all things French and Mary Antoinette during their Bastille DayBlow-Out event, featuring French pop and disco and an Oh-La-La Cabaret Show! Kool Kat VJ Anthony gets sinister at his Dark 80s With a Dose of the Cure event invading the Famous Pub at 10 pm! Make your way to the Diesel Fueling Station for the opening reception of Keith P. Rein’s Slaughterhouse Starlets art installation! Or witness the battle between good and evil at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery as they begin their two-day art exhibit, “The Visitor”, with art based on the 1979 Italian thriller by the same name, dir. by Michael J. Paradise (Guilio Paradisi)!

Funk on down to 529 for a night with Heavy Chevy and The 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with The Baseball Project and The Minus 5! Get twangy and blues on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Brian Ashley Jones and Jake &the Beanstalk! Rock out under the dinosaurs with The Pack at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! The Ori Naftaly Band delivers a night of the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your Beatle’s fix in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Please PleaseRockMe! Or honky-tonk on down to the Atlanta Room for a foot stompin’ night with The McNifficient 7, Divorce, Inc. and The Rotating Point Source! Get your ‘90s alt-rock fix at Chastain Park with The Goo Goo Dolls! Husky Burnette blueses it up at the Elliott Street Pub! Get funky at Big Tex with the Swamp Funk Quartet! Blues on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Stoney Brooks! Or taste the blues with a hint of soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Larry Griffith and a side of finger lickin’ BBQ! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get bluesy at Blind Willie’s! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Wesley Cook! Spend an evening with the greatest women in music at The Strand Theater during their song and dance revue, Diva! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, July 12

Rawk on down to The Star Bar for an evening with Bigfoot, Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, Bad Friend, Blacktop Rockets, Divorce, Inc., the Scragglers and more! Doors at 8 pm! It’s night two of the Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery’s “The Visitor” exhibit. Come on down as Contraband Cinema presents “The Mount Everest of insane ‘70s Italian movies,” THE VISITOR (1979) dir. by Michael J. Paradise, starring John Huston as an intergalactic warrior! Or go behind the scenes and spend the day at the 2nd Annual GooCon 2014 at Clayton State University, featuring events surrounding costuming, special effects make-up and props. Guests include Face-Off’s RJHaddy, Matt Silva, Tyler Green, Roy Wooley and more!

Surf on down to Kavarna for a night of old-school ‘50s and ‘60s rock with Phatlynx and Gemini 13! Rev on down to the Dixie Tavern in Marietta for a rockin’ night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a rockin’ jubilee featuring Richard Buckner with special guests, The Last Tycoon and Kristen Englenz! Or get a taste of some ‘70s roots reggae at The Variety Playhouse with ZvuloonDub System!  Get funky at The Family Dog with Gravy! It’s Beatlemania at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs as The Buggs deliver a night of Beatles favorites!  Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s!  Get jazzy at Chastain Park with Boney James, Brian Cultbertson, Dianne Reeves and more! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Damon Fowler! Jam on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with the Allman Brother Tribute Band! It’s the menacing hip-swingin’ 60s blues at The Earl with Curtis Harding, Black Linen and Kool Kat RodHamdallah! Kerry Hill jazzes it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Swing on over to Eddie’s Attic for two chances to see Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra! Get your Beatle’s fix in the Music Room at Smith’s Olde Bar with Please PleaseRockMe! Groove on down to The Basement for a night with Strange Planet, Waking the Bates, FishHawk and ScaleModel! It’s a night of old-school punk and circus rawk at The Highlander with Lost Solstice, Till Someone Loses and Eye with Kool Kat Aileen Loy and War in my Mind! Maddy’s Ghost rocks out blues-style at Big Tex! The Ori Naftaly Band delivers a night of the blues at the Crimson Moon Café! It’s a Jukebox Giants song and dance musical revue at The Strand Theater, featuring pop music through the ages, ‘50s to ‘80s!  And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, July 13

Rock out old-time vintage-style at Pallookaville with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, during their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series running through August 24 from 7-10pm!Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Gypsy Jazz Brunch offering up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday! Blues on down to The Family Dog for a night with Francine Reed & the Jez Graham Trio! Stomp on over to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with Cedar Hill! Fat Back Deluxe gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Men of Motown boogie down during their song and dance revival at The Strand Theater! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s! And get psychedelic at The Earl with Avers and Twin Tigers!

Ongoing

The Plaza Theater’s retro cinema line-up, including a Mad Max Marathon, featuring all three George Miller action flicks: MAD MAX (1979), MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) and MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDER DOME (1985), a screening of the 50^th Anniversary of Richard Lester’s A HARD DAYS NIGHT (1964) and  Ridley Scott’s classic creepy space thriller, ALIEN (1979), runs through July 10! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat’, running through July 20!

Pallookaville delivers old-school vintage tunes during their free Sunday Night Summer Concert Series running through August 24 from 7-10pm!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Rock out in Retro Atlanta this week with a revved up rockabilly showdown, retro cinema galore and all the blues and jazz your little vintage hearts could want! So, come on out and live la vida Retro!

Monday, June 30

Get retro, kiddie-style at Pallookaville’s vintage cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, with their screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring Hayao Miyazaki’s animated classic, MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988)! Barrel House Bob Page fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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 some finger lickin’ BBQ! 

Tuesday, July 1

Get monstrous, retro-style at The Plaza Theateras they screen the 60^th Anniversary restoration of Ishiro Honda’s GODZILLA (1954) through July 7!  Or get shark-infested and swim on by the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Steven Spielberg’s horrifying summer classic, JAWS (1975) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm! It’s a night of ‘70s throwback punk at 529 with Wyldlife and Dinos Boys! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with the Atlanta Rhythm Section! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern. And rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with JT Speed!

Wednesday, July 2

Honky-tonk on down to The Star Bar for a revved up night with BloodshotBill & the Greensboro Gang with The Mondellos! Or punk on down to The Earl for a night with Spray Tan, Arliss Nancy, Killing Kuddles and Joseph Lazzari (Walk From the Gallows)! Ed Roland & the Sweet Tea Project rock out at Eddie’s Attic! Get revived with some back porch folk rock at Terminal West with Jamestown Revival! Swing on by East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Or get folksy at Smith’s Olde Barwith Picture PerfectSkylines, Ben Gaines and Owner of the Sun in the Atlanta Room! Or shake your groove thing in the Music Room with Mercury Orkestar, Electric Attitude and Frisky Monkey! Rock on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night of post-punk with Dasher, The Coltranes and Uniform! Get jazzy with Sal Gentile at the Elliott Street Pub! The Hollidays deliver a night of soul and rock and roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  It’s a night of ‘She Bop’ at Mary’s featuring girl pop and punk! Or skip school and hit the beach at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Steven Spielberg’s horrifying summer classic, JAWS (1975) during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, July 3

It’s Slim Chicken’s Honkytonk Extravaganza at The Star Bardelivering a night of live band karaoke followed by Kool Kat Julea Thomerson & Her Dear Johns! It’s a night of foot-stompin’ Americana and bluegrass at Red Light Café withConservation Theory! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their “Performance on the Promenade” event at Piedmont Park! Get jazzy, gypsy and Americana-style at Eddie’s Atticwith Jared & Amber with special guest, Michael Magno! It’s a night of roots and alt rock at The Earlwith Faithless Town, Goodnight Buffalo and New Terminus! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s every Thursday! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Tom Hill & the Midnight Suns deliver a night of blues, rock and soul at the Clermont Lounge! Trader Vic’s delivers a night of swanky soul and rock n roll with Bogey & the ViceroyQuartet! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.  Riff away with the best of ‘em at The Plaza Theater as their Cineprov group riff’s Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi action flick, INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)at 7:30! And it’s your last chance to catch a glimpse of those monstrous bloody teeth at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s horrifying summer classic, JAWS (1975) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, July 4

Happy 4^th of July all you rockin’ Retro-lovers! Rev on down to the B3 Bar & Grill for Kool Kat Right Reverend Andy Hawley’s “Great AmericanRockabilly Show”, featuring rockin’ tunes, vintage vendors galore, a car/bike show and a pin-up contest! And you won’t want to miss the rockin’ musical lineup of Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles, the CadillacJunkies, Hellfire Revival, The Krank Daddies, Hillbilly Casino and so much more! Or spend the day with Pallookaville at their “Fourth of July Independepallooza” event, featuring a parade at 10 am, the vivacious street marching band, the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable, a rockin’ time with the Thimblerig Circus featuring juggling, fire eating shenanigans and so much more, costume contests, corndog eating contests, all followed by a viewing for the Avondale fireworks! And fire up the blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQwith their 4^th of July Bash with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck!

The Plaza Theateris going all out tonight with its retro cinema with all running through July 10! Get futuristic Australian-style at their Mad Max Marathon, featuring all three George Miller action flicks: MAD MAX (1979), MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) and MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDER DOME (1985)! Or head across the pond and rock out with 50^th Anniversary screening of Richard Lester’s A HARD DAYS NIGHT (1964)!  Or get horrified sci-fi style as they screen Ridley Scott’s classic creepy space thriller, ALIEN (1979)! The Star Bar delivers a night of rockin’ glam with a David Bowie tribute band, the Pinups! Get laid-back with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck as he delivers his Piedmont Playboys at the Northside Tavern! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of John Sosebee’s hill country blues and a side of finger lickin’ BBQ! Get your fill of your favorite MTV videos with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night invading Famous Pub every Friday night at 10 pm! Men of Motown boogie down during their song and dance revival at The Strand Theater! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, July 5

The Star Bardelivers a night of ‘60s/Quentin Tarantino-inspired tunes with Black Linen, ExWhy and The Selfish Lovers! Skye Paige, “Queen of the Slide Guitar” and Danny B. Harvey deliver a night of rockabilly blues and country at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! For a night of punky-tonk and outlaw bluegrass, stomp on down to the Elliott Street Pubfor The Punknecks! Rock across the pond and over to Lefont Theatre for their 50^th Anniversary screening of Richard Lester’s A HARD DAYS NIGHT (1964)! For a night of alt rock, make your way to the Red Light Caféfor Jain the Band and The Space Time Travelers! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Musicin Sandy Springs with Pierce Pettis! Rock on down to 529, Indie-folk rock style for a night with Streets of Laredo, The Hunts and Book of Colors! Or get rocked at Al Bum’s Record Shop in Acworth for their Benefit for the Wounded Warrior Project featuring Hip toDeath, Rick Dang, The Lost Souls, Air Wolves, Used for Comparison, Bold Ashes, Dark Matter Halo, The Roadside and Black Capsule! The Barry Richman Band gets down and dirty at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out with the ‘blues woman power’ of Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins at the Northside Tavern!  Spend an evening with the greatest women in music at The Strand Theater during their song and dance revue, Diva! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, July 6

Get jazzy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for their Deb Bowman Jazz Brunch at 12:30 pm! It’s a Jukebox Giants song and dance musical revue at The Strand Theater, featuring pop music through the ages, ‘50s to ‘80s! Rock out with Rick Hinkle and his Baby Boomers Gone Wild event at the Crimson Moon Café, featuring ‘60s and ‘70s covers! Come on out for a second helping of Skye Paige, “Queen of the Slide Guitar” and Danny B. Harvey at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Barfor a night of vintage-inpired Texas country with Jeremy Steding & the Rebellion!

Ongoing

The Plaza Theaterscreens the 60^th Anniversary restoration of Ishiro Honda’s GODZILLA (1954) through July 7!

The Plaza Theater’s retro cinema line-up, including a Mad Max Marathon, featuring all three George Miller action flicks: MAD MAX (1979), MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) and MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDER DOME (1985), a screening of the 50^th Anniversary of Richard Lester’s A HARD DAYS NIGHT (1964) and  Ridley Scott’s classic creepy space thriller, ALIEN (1979), runs through July 10!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat’, running through July 20!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta is the bee’s knees! Come on down and see what we’ve got on the Retro Menu for you this week! From old-school garage rock to punk to blues to films of yore, you won’t want to miss out on all the vintage shenanigans we’ve dug up for you! So, get out and get Retro!

Monday, June 23

Punk on down to WonderRoot for a night with Kidbrat, JoySpent, Diamond Thief and Sunday Whiskey!  Get retro, kiddie-style at Pallookaville’s vintage cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, with their screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring Chris Noonan’s farmtastic classic, BABE (1995)! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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!  And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and some finger lickin’ BBQ! 

Tuesday, June 24

Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the Mississippi Shakedown and Light Beam Rider! Or make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a foot-stompin’ good time with Sundy Best! For a little Celtic bluegrass, come on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for Kelli Johnson, Jason Bailey and special guest, Barry Waldrep! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for Blues Station! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern.  Spend the night with a 3000-year old warlord at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986), during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm! And get your second helping of Kurt Russell in Carpenter’s flick at Diesel Filling Station during their screening after NerdCore Trivia!

Wednesday, June 25

Rock out grunge-era and garage rock-style at The Star Bar with Glen Iris, Dead Stars, Sharkmuffin and Blue Tower! Or punk on down to The Earl for Black Taxi, Vera Vera and Nobra Noma! Or maybe rock on down to The Drunken Unicorn for the Surrogates, Jail Weddings and The Merry GoRounds! It’s a Zydeco party at Smith’s Olde Bar with Cedric Watson &Bijou Creole! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night of Chicago and West Coast blues with the Electromatics! Or have a rockin’ rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night of blues and funk with The Georgia Flood and some finger lickin’ BBQ! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Chill out with Kurt Russell at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986), during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, June 26

It’s a night of outlaw folk and indie foot-stompin’ banjo at the Red Light Café with Brian Revels (City Mouse) & Luray and Them Wagoneers! Get your ‘70s rock fix at The Star Bar with Bigfoot and DiNOLA! It’s a night of adventure at the Fox Theatre’s Coca-ColaSummer Film Festival as they screen Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989), at 7:30 pm with their guided Fox Theatre Movie Tours starting at 5 pm (See our Kool Kat Interview with projectionist Scott Hardin, here)! Stomp on down to The Variety Playhouse for a night with Tommy Emmanuel and Antsy McClain! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of blues and funk with The Georgia Flood! Rock on down to The Earl for Band of Heathens and Waller! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their “Performance on the Promenade” event at Piedmont Park! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s every Thursday! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for Sandra Hall & the Shadows! Trader Vic’s delivers a night of swanky soul and rock n roll with Bogey & the ViceroyQuartet! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.  And it’s your last chance to catch John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern, during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, June 27

It’s a night of old-school rock n roll at The Star Bar with Blake Rainey & His Demons’ record release show along with Clashinista and Anchor Bends! Get glam at The Plaza Theater as they screen Jason Miller’s documentary, THEPAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL (2014) for a sneak peek into the life of Kevin Barnes, front man of the ‘90s indie pop band, of Montreal! Groove on down to the Red Light Café for gr8FLdude & frenz and Maynard Hicks & Co.! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of rockin’ folk with Alex Guthrie and Jesse Tyler! For a night of psychedelic junkyard roots and Americana, stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Rolling Nowhere and Migrant Worker! Get gritty with a little Americana and cow punk at Eddie’s Attic with Alejandro Escovedo (The Nuns) and Betty Soo! Punk on down to The Highlander for The Mids, Magoo’s Heros and Space Coke! Back onthe Freakout rocks out at Big Tex! Get folkadelic at the Red Clay Theater with Trappers Cabin, The Law Band and special guest Varney Watson! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles get revved at Motorheads in McDonough! Get your rockin’ punk fix at The Earl with WhiteMystery, Dinos Boys and Zoners! Or boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of Fatback Deluxe! Rock on down to Blind Willie’s for DeltaMoon! Get funky at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Cadillac Jones! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck delivers his Big Dang Band event featuring Lil’ Joe and The Atlanta Horns at the Northside Tavern while Darwin’s Burgers & Blues has Marty Manous! Spend an evening with the greatest women in music at The Strand Theater during their song and dance revue, Diva! Get legendary at the Chastain Park Amphitheatre with The Temptations and The Four Tops! Make your way to 529 for their ‘Movies Your Parents Like’ event at 3:30pm! Get the blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with Men in Blues! Get funky with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his Funkin’ Disco event, invading Famous Pub with a little funk, soul, Disco and Pee-Wee from 10pm to 3am! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, June 28

It’s day one of the 2nd Annual Old Fourth Ward Arts Festival presented by the Historic Fourth Ward Park Conservancy! Stomp on down and help celebrate the arts and rich history with Midnight Risers, BattlefieldCollective, Adam Klein and Faithless Town! Or make your way to the Luckie Street Gallary for Chris (Beat) Buxbaum’s wicked art and multi-media show, featuring his sassy subject, David Richardson! You won’t want to miss the photography, live performances, film, music and more! (Keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat Interview with David Richardson this week!)

Get some soul at the Red Light Café with Gareth Asher, Niko Moon and special guest, Chelsea Shag! For a night of retro power pop and garage rock, make your way to The Star Bar for Blasting Cap, Kenny Howe & the Wow! and Bruce Joyner & Atomic Clock! The Red Clay Theater delivers a night of retro-inspired indie folk rock with Griffin House! Throwing Muses delivers their ‘80s alt rock at Terminal West! Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo bring their 35th Anniversary Tour to the Chastain Park Amphitheatre with Rick Springfield! Get funky at the Elliott Street Pub with Georgia SoulCouncil! Bluegrass it up at The Family Dog with Copper Into Steel! Stomp on down to Big Tex for The Cohen Brothers! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their ‘Celebrate America’ concert at the VerizonWireless Amphitheatre playing patriotic favorites from Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture to Gershwin’s Summertime and more! It’s a Jukebox Giants song and dance musical revue at The Strand Theater, featuring pop music through the ages, ‘50s to ‘80s! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson! Rock out blues-style with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Jeff Jensen Band delivers some blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your second helping of Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck’s Big Dang Band event featuring Lil’ Joe and The Atlanta Horns at the Northside Tavern! It’s Black Out: Goth/Industrial Dance Night with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at the Famous Pub, dispensing a little Goth, ‘80s, post punk and industrial from 10pm to 3am! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 29

Stomp on down to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with David & ValerieMayfield!  Or follow the yellow brick road to the Fox Theatre for their Coca-ColaSummer Film Festival screening of the 1939 classic, THE WIZARDOF OZ at 2 pm with their guided Fox Theatre Movie Tours starting at 11:30 am! It’s day two of the 2nd Annual Old Fourth Ward Arts Festival, so come on down for the rockin’ tunes of SenoritAwesome, Truckstop Confidential and Sabbatical Year! Blues on down to The Family Dog for a night with Francine Reed & the Jez Graham Trio! Get your punk rock fix at The Earl with Merchandise, Ukiah Drag and The Pinecones! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a night of Motown shenanigans with Sadie Hawkins and her “Burlesque Battle of the Babes”, Last Pasties Standing: Motown Showdown event! Men of Motown boogie down during their song and dance revival at The Strand Theater!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Lyric Theatre spams it up during their presentation of Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ with music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, running through June 29! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat’, running through July 20!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

This summer, Retro Atlanta is smokin’ hot! So, come on out and see what we’ve found for you ‘This Week’!  Get vintage with a whole lotta revved up rockin’ ‘billy! Or catch a wave and boogie down hula-style! Or catch a few retro flicks! Or maybe, get your blues and jazz fix! Whatever you do, get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, June 16

Cure those Monday blues with a rockin’ helping of old-time bluegrass punk and folk at WonderRoot with I want Whiskey, The Marrows, Amen Lucy, Amen and Bottle Kids! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles get revved at Summit Racing in McDonough for their Monday Night Cruise! Get retro, kiddie-style at Pallookaville’s vintage cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, with their screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)! Get low down and dirty with Marshall Ruffin at Blind Willie’s! 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 some finger lickin’ BBQ! 

Tuesday, June 17

Get funky at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Main Squeeze and Those Cats! Or stomp on down to The Earl and catch Scott H. Biram, the “Dirty old one man band” delivering a night of blues, hillbilly and Americana country punk with Austin Lucas! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with NikkiTalley! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! The Hollidays deliver a night of rhythm soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern.  And go where no man has gone before at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982), during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, June 18

Rock out N’awlins gypsy circus style at The Star Bar with the Dirty Bourbon River Show, Bad Friend and Six Ways to Sunday! For a night of David Lynchian rockabilly and boot stompin’ cow punk, rev on over to The Drunken Unicorn for Blood Oaks, Elsa Cross and Atomic Boogie! Get your fill of roots rock at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Faithless Town, The Woodstocks and Mango Tango! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night of bayou blues with Crawfish Supreme & the Blues Cocatoos! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of funky reggae blues with Ajeva, Five40 and TraePierce & the T-Stone Band in the Atlanta Room. Or boogie on down to the Music Room for Jonathan “Boogie” Long! Or have a rockin’ rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night of blues and funk with The Georgia Flood and some finger lickin’ BBQ! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  Live long and prosper at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982), during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, June 19

Shake your groove thing and boogie on over to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for Blast Off Burlesque’s Super Sexy Swingin’ ‘70s Bingo Night featuring burly Q shenanigans, prizes and more! The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival kicks off tonight with Phil Alden Robinson’s classic,  FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) at 7:30 pm with their guided Fox Theatre Movie Tours starting at 5 pm! So, come on down to the Fox Theatre and learn all about movie palaces, movie innovations still being used today while taking  a gander at the projection room and don’t forget to chat up our very own Kool Kat Scott Hardin, projectionist since 1978! ATL Collective performs CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH, in its entirety at Eddie’s Attic with The Shadowboxers! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night of bluegrass with 16 Coaches! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers a night of roots rock with Donna Hopkins! Rock on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with the King delivered by the Pelvis Breastlies! For a night of retro-inspired indie dream pop, make your way to The Earl for Misery LovesChachi, Highschool Sweetheart and Little Horn! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their “Performance on the Promenade” event at Piedmont Park with selections from Barber of Seville, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and more! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s every Thursday! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Rock on down to Blind Willie’s for Heather Lutrell! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and some cool island tunes! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.  And it’s your last chance to voyage into the great beyond at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982), during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, June 20

Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night of garage rock and science punk with Tiger! Tiger!, Friendship Commanders and Leucine Zipper & ZincFingers! Honkytonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar and get your roots rock fix with Dangermuffin and the Blue Dogs! It’s a night of retro covers, from the Beatles to the present, at Big Tex with The Old New Acoustic Revue! Montana Skies deliver their cello and guitar eclectic orchestra at the Crimson Moon Café! It’s a night of rockin’ blues and country soul at the Red Clay Theater with Rhetta Butler & Company! Get your dirty swampy rock ‘n’ roll fix at The Earl with Tim & Eric’s Pusswhip Banggang and The El Caminos! Get funky with a little soul at the Red Light Café with Gibson Wilbanks and The Get Right Band! Xavier Rudd delivers a night of Australian and aboriginal folk, blues and reggae at The Variety Playhouse with Ash Grunwald! The Tone Prophets deliver a night of retro rock and blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for TheJarekus Singleton Band! Cha-cha on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event for Salsa Dance Night with the Salsambo Dance Studio! Stoney Brooks delivers a night of rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern while Ralph Roddenberry rocks out folksy Americana style at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock on over to The Drunken Unicorn for a little roots rock with Cody Marlowe & the DeadFlowers! The Strand Theater gets really retro with their presentation of ‘TheCivil War: A Musical Experience’, featuring performances inspired by the words of Lincoln, Frederick Douglas and Walt Whitman, running through June 21! Get your fill of your favorite MTV videos with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his Electro Light Electro Industrial Dance Night, invading Famous Pub with synth pop, electro & more! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, June 21

Get revved with Kool Kat Rev. Andy at his Rock ‘n’ Roll Riot at the Masquerade featuring the McPherson Struts slingin’ their rockabilly cow punk, a little saucy seduction with The Chameleon Queen and Musee du Coeur; 2th9s Retro, Jezebel Blue and more offerin’ up their vintage wares and a whole lotta ‘billy, so put on yer dancin’ shoes and rock on out retro-style!  Or make your way outside to the Masquerade Music Park for the AtlantaSummer Beer Fest 2014, offering up a platter of tasty brews, delicious food and retro-inspired tunes with Electric Avenue, Zero Town, Kara Claudy, Wesley Cook, Norman Frank & the Ghost Dance and Waking the Bates from 4pm to 9pm! Hula on down to Bottle Rocket ATL for their 4th Annual Bottle Rocket Summer Luau, Clam Bake & Urban Regatta, featuring Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Or spend the night with The King at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center during their “Heart of the King Tribute to Elvis” event, featuring top 70’s Elvis performer, Shaun Klush and Cody Ray Slaughter delivering his take on 50’s and 60’s Elvis! Honkytonk on down to Big Tex for a night with Kool Kat Phil Stair with Grim Rooster! It’s a night of retro rock at Eddie’s Attic with the Velvet Underground/Neil Young-inspired Five Eight, later followed by Those Darlins and The Head! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Tyler Talks to Doors, Collins Drive and TheStacktone Slims! It’s a night of Americana roots rock’n blues at the Red Clay Theater with Roxie Watson and the Michelle Malone Banned! The Family Dog delivers Jessy Carolina & the Hot Mess and their early American roots and jazz! Rock out with The Stooge Brothers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get a second helping of The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Northside Tavern gets the blues Chicago/Delta style with The Breeze Kings! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 22

Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Gypsy Jazz Brunch offering up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday! Get your ‘dunch’ on at The Earl with the Georgia Mountain StringBand! Help pay tribute to a legend at Eddie’s Attic as they present ‘My Hometown: A Bruce Springsteen Celebration’, featuring performances of his hits by Claire Campbell (Hope for Agoldensummer), Drew Beskin (KoolKats The District Attorneys), Chris Stalcup, the Flint Hill Specials, Nathan Beaver, Rex Hussman, Kristen Englenz, Mike Killeen, Spencer Smith and more! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a saucy southern burly Q extravaganza with The Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue! Stomp on down to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with the DecaturBluegrass Association (D.B.A.)! Men of Motown boogie down during their song and dance revival at The Strand Theater! And rock on down to Terminal West for The David Wax Museum! And spend the afternoon at the Fox Theatre’s Coca-ColaSummer Film Festival as they screen Ernest B. Shoedsack and Merian C. Cooper’s monster classic, KING KONG (1933) at 2 pm, with their guided Fox Theatre Movie Tours starting at 11 am!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Lyric Theatre spams it up during their presentation of Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ with music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, running through June 29!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat’, running through July 20!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer/Managing Editor

Hey all you Kool Kats and Kittens! Come see what’s on the Retro menu this week! It’s a smorgasbord of cool, with music festivals filled to the brim with vintage tunes, films that’ll leave you breathless and all the rockin’ blues, jazz and rockabilly your wicked little hearts could ever desire! So, rock on out in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, June 9

Rev on down to Camelis Gourmet Pizza Joint for a night with Kool Kat Rev. Andy, broadcasting a spitfire night of rockin’ rockabilly and psychobilly live on Garage71 Internet Radio! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, so, don’t be a bore and come on out to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Stanley Kubrick’s classic tale of evil that invades the Overlook Hotel, THE SHINING (1980), running through June 12!  Due to unforeseen events last week, today begins Pallookaville’s retro cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, with their screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring Mel Stuart’s WILLYWONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971)! Bill Sheffield gets the blues, acoustic-style at Blind Willie’s! 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!  And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and some finger lickin’ BBQ! 

Tuesday, June 10

Pack up your tents for a little murder and mayhem at The Plaza Theater for Splatter Cinema’s screening of Robert Hiltzik’s horror classic SLEEPAWAY CAMP (1983), at 9:30! And don’t forget to come early for some horrorific lobby shenanigans and classic horror trailers!  Or let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South seduce their way into your naughty little hearts at the Red Light Café at their Tease Tuesday: June is Jumpin’ Edition, with special guest Franki Markstone and performances by Tippy Tapage, Nikki Nuke’m, Ada Manzhart, Scarlett DeWolf, Candi LeCoeur and so much more! And get a little strange, Seuss-style, at the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat’, running through July 20!

Rock on down to 529 for a raucous good time with Kool Kats: The Joy Kills, The Everymen, The Hermits of Suburbia and Amateur Night at ClubStupid! For a night of old-time folk, stomp on over to Eddie’s Attic for Seryn! The Silver Palms deliver their Rolling Stones and Doors-inspired tunes at the Masquerade! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! The Boohoo Ramblers deliver a night of boot stompin’ Americana at Blind Willie’s! The Breeze Kings get the Delta blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern.  And let Indiana Jones sweep you away at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989), during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, June 11

Tonight begins the 2014 IMR Indie Music Fest, taking place at venues throughout the city, so rock on down to TheMusic Room to catch some vintage ‘70s rock n roll with The Johnny Rebs, a little garage punk with Hot Wives and so much more! Get jazzy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Carsie Blanton! Or blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night of hill country blues and old juke joint jazz with JohnSosebee! For a taste of a little folk and alt rock, make your way to The Earl for Matrimony and Faye Webster! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for Red June’s CD Release Show and a night of original Appalachian Americana with special guest, Hank Barbee! Escape Vehicle gets to stompin’ as they deliver their bluegrass, reggae and blues tunes at Big Tex! Ursula 1000 delivers a night of retro-inspired spy groove and Latin funk with a tinge of post punk and sleazy glam rock at The Drunken Unicorn along with Brian Parris! Stomp on down to Vinyl for a night of rowdy folk punk with Skinny Lister, Onward,etc., and Killing Kuddles! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Honkytonk on down to The Star Bar for Slim Chicken’s Honky-tonk Extravaganza and live band Classic Country Karaoke!  Or have a rockin’ rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night of blues and funk with The Georgia Flood and some finger lickin’ BBQ! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  And quest on with Indiana at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989), during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, June 12

Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for night 2 of the 2014 IMR Indie Music Fest, featuring a little folk with Blue Bear, some soulful grooves with GalynneGoodwill, a little alt rock with MIRA and a whole lot more! It’s a night of Americana, gloom pop and psychedelic post punk at The Star Bar with CuteBoots, RRest, New Animal and Hip to Death! The circus is coming to town, so come on out for the ballyhoo that is the Imperial OPA Circus featuring aerialists, fire artists and more at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens’ ‘FictitiousCircus Wedding’ event! Rock on down to Vinyl for a night with Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes)! Get swampadelic at Eddie’s Attic with Larkin Poe with special guest Alex Gordon Hi-Fi! Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club rock out at the Clermont Lounge!  Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Jeff the Brotherhood, Turf War and Small Reactions! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s every Thursday! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Sweet Betty & the Shadows! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and some cool island tunes! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. Make your way for an evening of Flannery O’Connor and the Southern Gothic as the MINT Gallery hosts the ‘Flannery O’Connor Portrait Zine ReleaseParty’, including readings and artwork at 7:30! And it’s your last chance to spend the evening with a couple of smooth talkin’ explorers at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989), during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, June 13

Surf on down to The Star Bar for a rockin’ beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids along with special guests Momcat! Get dolled up in your best hockey mask and Jason Vorhees get-ups and slash your way to the Diesel Filling Station for their ‘Friday the 13^thPub Crawl’! Get indie retro-style with night 3 of the 2014 IMR Indie Music Fest at The Basement featuring the Radio Birds, CuteBoots, Absence of Ocean and Kool Kats Pillage & Plunder! The Big Easy takes over The Variety Playhouse  as Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett (both of Little Feat) perform their greatest blues, jazz and Cajun funk hits along with special guests The New Orleans Suspects! Get funky at the Elliott Street Pub with the Wasted Potential Brass Band! Rock on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Sacred City, The Ways and Means and Jesse Nighswonger! The Rainmen deliver a night of ‘60s and ‘70s rock n roll at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with the TimoArthur Trio! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! It’s an ‘80s dance party at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so boogie on down with Lethal Rhythms under the dinosaurs while sipping a few cocktails! Cool John Ferguson delivers a night of rockin’ blues and jazz at the Northside Tavern while Dry White Toast gets bluesy at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s a cornucopia of vintage tunes at The Earl with Adron, Cicada Rhythm and The Shadowboxers! Love Canon delivers a foot stompin’ twist on ‘80s music with their rowdy bluegrassery at Eddie’s Attic! For a night of blues, soul and southern funk punk, rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Rumblefish, Second Wives and Rented Mules! Swing on down to the bayou with ZydecoYa Ya at Big Tex! Get in the ring at Kavarna for a song writer’s circle with Kool Kat Julea Thomerson, Slim Chance, Jon Byrd and Joel Burkhart! It’s a Jukebox Giants song and dance musical revue at The Strand Theater, featuring pop music through the ages, ‘50s to ‘80s! Get spammy at the AtlantaLyric Theatre as they present Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ with music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, running through June 29! Get jazzy at the Callenwalde during their ‘Jazz on the Lawn’ series featuring ‘An evening with Duke Ellington’ with Ted Lowe! Get your fill of your favorite MTV videos with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night invading Famous Pub every Friday night at 10 pm! Make your way to 529 for their free ‘Movies Your Parents Like’ series, including free hotdogs, kicking it off with John Frankenheimer’s PROPHESY (1979) at 3:30 pm! And stick around for Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters with Moonbase, Bruce Joyner & Atomic Clock and Book of Colors! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, June 14

Rock out with the spirits at the Historic Oakland Cemetery as they host their 2014 Tunes from the Tombs music fest rockin’ and rollin’ in the grave, from 1 pm to 8 pm! Get your fill of retro tunes, fortunetelling, mini tours and delicious festival food from local food trucks, including our pals at Pallookaville! The rockin’ musical lineup on the MailChimp Stage in Lion Square includes folk rock singer, Shawn Mullins; Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck slingin’ some blues; Tribute, an homage to the Allman Brothers; Secondhand Swagger and their southern fried soul; SG4 and the funky jazz of Myles Brown!  The Creative Loafing North Public Ground Stage will feature the bluesy Derik Hultquist; Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club; revved up rockabilly with The Blacktop Rockets, a raucous clash of backwoods folk and blues with Smooth Hound Smith; garage country with the Villain Family; boot stompin’ old-time country with Kool Kat Julea & Her Dear Johns and a little eclectic folk with Danny Brewer (Besides Daniel)!  And you won’t want to miss special performances by the Wasted Potential Brass Band, the SweetAuburn String Band and a little jugband old-time with Uncle Daddy & theKissin’ Cousins!  So, come on down and get ghoulishly retro while rockin’ out tomb-side! All proceeds go to support the Historic Oakland Foundation.

Rock down to The Star Bar for a night of retro rock with Ledfoot Messiah and Halls of Jupiter! Or shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a night of  traditional Egyptian, Turkish and Lebanese dance during their ‘A Night with Atlanta Belly Dance’ event, featuring over 40 dancers! It’s a night of retro pop at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with Frankie Valli & theFour Seasons! Carlo Aonzo delivers a night of European mandolin tunes at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Let Dr. Dixon cure what ails you at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get saved at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with Sal’s Soulful Sinners! Ike Stubblefield gets bluesy at the Northside Tavern! The 2014 IMR Indie Music Fest takes over The Basement with Waking the Bates, Cusses, Quiet Company and more! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for the Jon Harris Band, Buck O Five and Dave Franklin & Nelson Nolen! It’s a night of horror punk and psychobilly at The Highlander with Crypt 24, Air Wolves and Hip toDeath! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles get revved at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! From glam rock to a hillbilly jamboree, Terminal West rocks out with Foxy Shazam and Larry & His Flask! Stomp on down to The Family Dog for Pioneer Chicken Stand! Men of Motown boogie down during their song and dance revival at The Strand Theater! Get ‘70s and ‘80s retro at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with arena rockers, Boston! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 15

Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers some jazzy classics, swing and funk with Big Band Atlanta during their Jazz Brunch! And it’s your last chance to catch the 2014 IMR Indie Music Fest at WonderRoot, featuring Doesin, Cinema Novo, Bear Girl and Detroit Mutant Radio! Get jazzy at Villa Christina as they kick off their 11th Summer Jazz Series featuring Joey Sommerville from 5:30 to 8pm! Rock steady on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for their Summer Splash Tour featuring roots reggae with Treehouse!, Sun Dried Vibes, Mario Diaz & the SteadyVibes, Beauregard & His Downright and I.R.E! Stomp on down to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with the Porch Bottom Boys! Rick Harris delivers his ‘Jazz it up Jam’ at the Crimson Moon Café! Rock out with Daryl Hall & John Oates at the Chastain Amphitheatre! Spend an evening with the greatest women in music at The Strand Theater during their song and dance revue, Diva! And get bluesy with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Lyric Theatre spams it up during their presentation of Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ with music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, running through June 29!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat’, running through July 20!

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta is smokin’ ‘This Week’! Come on out and see what’s on the rockin’ Retro menu! We’ve got hootenannies, horrorific film festivals, a whole ‘lotta vintage Dixie, funk, blues, soul and all the shenanigans you could ever want! So rock on out into Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, June 2

Get really retro and fulfill your blood lust at The Plaza Theater during their Bela Lugosi Film Festival screening of Jean Yarbrough’s THE DEVIL BAT (1940) (See our Bela Lugosi Retro Review here)! Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah delivers a night of rockin’ garage blues and old-time country at 529 with Think Never and Hot Gaze! For a night of vintage ‘70s rock, make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for the Atlas Road Crew and The Tarlatans! Today begins Pallookaville’s retro cinema extravaganza with The Polka Dotted Elephant Summer Cinema Club at 10 am, with their screenings of a DOGVILLE SHORT episode (1930), LANCELOT LINK episode (1970) and featuring Mel Stuart’s WILLYWONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971)! Brandon Reeves delivers a night of rockin’ roots and soul at Blind Willie’s! 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 some finger lickin’ BBQ! 

Tuesday, June 3

Get ghoulishly comfy with Bela Lugosi at The Plaza Theater during their Bela Lugosi Film Festival with Joseph H. Lewis’ THE INVISIBLE GHOST (1941)! Or make your way to the Fox Theater for their presentation of “Evita” through June 8! It’s Mardi Gras in June at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, so come on out for a night of Cajun blues and honky tonk with Hair of the Dog! Jump and jive with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s as they deliver a night of Kansas City and West Coast blues! The Bob Page Trio delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every Tuesday! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern.  And get adventurous with the Dread Pirate Roberts at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, June 4

Get a few bloody laughs with Bela Lugosi at The Plaza Theater as they screen Allan Dwan’s THE GORILLA (1939) during their Bela Lugosi Film Festival! For a night of retro-inspired rock and blues, make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for Goldwing, Momcat and Glass Oaks! Nikki Lane delivers a night of smokin’ rockabilly and country reminiscent of Wanda Jackson at the Masquerade! Swing on by East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Get old-school indie at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with Morrissey and KristeenYoung! The Breeze Kings deliver a night of Chicago/Delta blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo rocks out with some blues, jazz and southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Join in on the hootenanny during the Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza and live band Classic Country Karaoke at The Star Bar!  Or have a rockin’ rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night of blues and funk with The Georgia Flood and some finger lickin’ BBQ! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.  And let Princess Buttercup lead the way at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) during their Summer of Adventure series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, June 5

It’s a night of comedic horror at The Plaza Theater as they screen William Beaudine’s BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA (1952) during their Bela Lugosi Film Festival! Get your Dixie on with a taste of hot jazz and Americana West Coast Swing at Smith’s Olde Bar with Hot Club of Cowtown and The Jugtime Ragband! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so come on down for a little bluegrass and gypsy jazz with Smokey’s Farmland Band! Get funky at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Richard Booher & the Soul Machine and Hannah Zale (Boomfox)! Shimmy on down to the Elliot Street Pub for a night with Kool Kat Talloolah Love and all things Burlesque at Atlanta Burlesque & Cabaret Society’s June meeting! It’s a night of honky tonk punk at The Earl with Lee Bains III & the Gloryfires, the Zoners and The Bohannons! Get old-school opera style at the Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra delivers Verdi’s tale of forbidden love, “Aida” with Maestro Robert Spano and Latonia Moore running through June 8! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s every Thursday! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Gina Sicilia delivers a night of rockin’ soul at Blind Willie’s! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and a rockin’ beach party thrown by Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. It’s  your last chance to get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) during their Summer of Adventure series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, June 6

Steampunk on down to the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing event, featuring jazz, Big Band, electronica and a little saucy cabaret courtesy of the Atlanta Burlesque & Cabaret Society, featuring Roula Roulette! Stomp on down for an old-time music, front porch pickin’ party at The Star Bar for a night with I want Whisky, HotHouse Peaches and The Tombigbees! It’s an ’80 British alt-rock invasion at The Variety Playhouse with World Party and Gabriel Kelley! Michelle Malone delivers a night of Americana and rockin’ roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Come on out to Diesel Filling Station for the opening reception of retro and pop-culture artist, Kool Kat Chris Hamer (Urbnpop) and his Room 138 collection of artwork, his only solo art show in Atlanta for 2014! It’s a night of tributes at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Lizardmen (mod/’60s era Brit invation), El Scorcho (Weezer), The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett) and El Cheapo (classics)! Get retro jazzy at the Chastain Park Amphitheatre with Al Jarreau, Marcus Miller and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! Secondhand Swagger delivers a night of southern-fried soul and funk under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Rock out with the Rebel City Rockers at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get funky with Zydefunk at the Northside Tavern! Get your dark swampy rock fix at The Earl with The Rock*A*Teens and the Carnivores! Men of Motown boogie down during their song and dance revival at The Strand Theater! Honkytonk on down to Big Tex for Truckstop Confidential! Adron and Cicada Rhythm deliver a night of Brazilian Tropicalia and folk at the Crimson Moon Café! Gr8fll Dude delivers a night of Jerry Garcia tunes at The Family Dog! Rev on down to the American Tavern in Loganville for a rockin’ night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Get revived at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens during their ‘Concerts in the Garden’ series featuring CreedanceClearwater Revisited!  Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets bluesy with Billy George! Get your fill of your favorite MTV videos with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night invading Famous Pub every Friday night at 10 pm! The Breeze Kings deliver a night of rockin’ blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, June 7

The Family Corndogorama invades The Family Dog at 3 pm to 1 am! So, rock on down for a swell vintage musical lineup featuring the Higher Choir, MammaBear, I Want Whisky, Kool Kat Aileen Loy and Till Someone Loses an Eye, Lily & the Tigers and Muleskinner McQueen! Get your geek on and check out thousands of comics at the 2ndAnnual My Parents’ Basement Comic Book Yardsale Extravaganza from 7 am to 5 pm! Or stomp on down to Diesel Filling Station for their Summerfest Barnburner 2014 featuring Whoa Nelly! Too Slim & the Tail Draggers rock out blues and Americana style at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out with the ‘blues woman power’ of Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Spend an evening with the greatest women in music at The Strand Theater during their song and dance revue, Diva! at 8 pm! Get funky at Big Tex with DeepBlue Sun! Get glamorously clueless at Mary’s for their ‘90s Prom event, featuring a ‘90s-themed drag show and dance party! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles rev you up at Jekyll & Hydes in Newnan! Lola delivers the blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Francine Reed & The Shadows deliver some down and dirty blues at Blind Willie’s! Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet deliver a night of gypsy jazz and Parisian swing at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Vroom on down to the High Museum for their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for Frankie’s Blues Mission and some finger lickin’ BBQ! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 8

Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Gypsy Jazz Brunch offering up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday! It’s a Jukebox Giants song and dance musical revue at The Strand Theater, featuring pop music through the ages, ‘50s to ‘80s! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with Black Star Riders (Thin Lizzy alumni), Gunpowder Gray and Grayson Manor! Stomp on over to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with Cedar Hill! The Boohoo Ramblers deliver a night of boot stompin’ Americana at The Family Dog! And get bluesy with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

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

The High Museum gets revved during their ‘Dream Cars; Innovative Design, Visionary Dreams’ exhibit, featuring forward-thinking auto designs from 1932 to the present, running through September 7!

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

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.