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This Week in Retro Atlanta, May 26-June 1, 2014

Posted on: May 25th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta welcomes summer with a rockin’ vintage bang! Come on out and see what we’ve got on the Retro menu this week! We’ve got vampires and ‘billy and blues, oh my! Get off the couch and rock out in Retro Atlanta!

Monday, May 26

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! Or Lindy Hop on down to Hot Jam Swings! for their Hot Jam Dance Night and get your Count Bassie and Benny Goodman fix! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a helping of Pork Bellys and some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 27

Get criminal at the Diesel Fueling Station because it’s Cyborg Nation tonight as Nerd Film Mafia presents Paul Verhoeven’s ROBOCOP (1987) at 10 pm following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month! Or groove on down to the Red Light Café for a night of sensual psychedelic seduction with Sadie Hawkins and her “Burlesque Battle of the Babes”, Last Pasties Standing: Road Trippin’ event, featuring road songs and all things ga-ga-groovy! It’s Bluegrass Pickin’ Tuesday at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, led by Jason Koornick (Smokin’ Grass Bluegrass Band) followed by Crying Wolf! Eddie’s Attic gets alternative with Ed Roland & The Sweet Tea Project! Get the blues at Blind Willie’s with Blues Station! The Breeze Kings deliver a night of Chicago/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! Surf on down to Margaritaville and catch Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band at the Chastain Park Amphitheatre! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern. And it’s Summer Lovin’ at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Randal Kleiser’s musical, GREASE (1978) during their Musical May series at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, May 28

It’s a hootenanny and a half tonight at Smith’s Olde Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza! Honky-tonk all night to the revved up and rockin’ tunes of Kool Kat Cletis Reid & His City Cousins, Whiskey Belt, Interstate, The Oldfields and Greg Germani, spinning rare classic country-western tunes on vinyl! For a night of rockin’ folk, make your way to The Earl to catch the 8th Annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash, hosted by Chicken and Pigs, celebrating 73 years of Bob Dylan while delivering a night of classic and obscure Dylan tunes, all proceeds going to ovarian cancer research! Rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for Bombadil and Small Houses! Or stomp on down to The Star Bar for a night of vintage Americana roots with Miss Tess & the Talkbacks, City Mouse and Lily & the Tigers! It’s a night of sludge post-punk and alt-rock at 529 with Twin Trances, Hip to Death, Pretty Please and Entertainment! Lucinda Williams celebrates twenty-five years of her boot stompin’ rockin’ bluesy Americana at The Variety Playhouse! Or rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Frankie’s Blues Mission! For a night of Chicago and West Coast blues, make your way to Blind Willie’s for the Electromatics! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Make your way to the Highland Inn & Ballroom for a night of writing and comedy based on science-fiction movie trailers during SCENE MISSING’s E.T. the Extra-Trailestrial event at 8 pm! And skip school and get rebellious with the T-Birds and Pink Ladies at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Randal Kleiser’s musical, GREASE (1978) during their Musical May series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, May 29

It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so come on down for a boot stompin’ hootenanny with Pat Reedy & The Longtime Goners, The Fern Hollow Boys (members of Rolling Nowhere) and Look Homeward! Ian Siegal brings his Bo Diddly, Howlin’ Wolf-esque blues to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Little G Weevil! Get revved with some ‘genuine American motor music’ at the Clermont Lounge with JB Walker & the Cheap Whiskey Band! It’s a retro punk revival at The Star Bar with Leotards, the Illiterates, Blackfoot Gypsies, Alchemy and The Selfish Lovers! Or get revived, rock n roll-style at The Earl for Onchi, Starfighter, RRest and Weird Sin! For a night of alt-country and garage rock, stomp on down to Terminal West for the Old 97s and Lydia Loveless! 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! The Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get your second helping of Lucinda Williams at The Variety Playhouse! Get your fill of ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul tonight at Trader Vic’s with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Review and stick around for a couple rockin’ Mai Tais! 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 revved up with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Randal Kleiser’s musical, GREASE (1978) during their Musical May series at 7:30 pm! Rita Hayworth and Julie Newmar were extremely successful in putting the va-va-voom in their wavy red locks, so come on down to the MidtownArt Cinema to catch Scott P. Harris’ tale of a red-headed fella searching for love in BEING GINGER (2014)!

Friday, May 30

Tonight begins the 2-day Candler Park Music & Food Festival filled with rockin’ tunes and finger lickin’ bites! So come on out to Candler Park and catch the rockin’ John Denver and AC/DC-inspired tunes of The Sundogs, a little acoustic rock and funk disco with Moontower and some folksy rock with Wesley Cook! And you won’t want to miss the ‘Food Truck Happy Hour’! Or shimmy on down to the Masquerade for ‘A Night at the Movies’ vintage burly-Q event presented by Fat Cat Cabaret! Film Love presents their 2x16mm: Double Screen & Double Frame in Expanded Cinema event, exposing the art of retro film at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center!

Jazz on down to the Mandarin Oriental’s Lounge for a night with Joe Gransden during the Atlanta Jazz Festival’s 31-days of Jazz event! For some blue-eyed soul and Tom Waits-esque rock n roll, head on down to The Star Bar for James Hall, The Locksmyth and The Boy Jones! The Red Light Café delivers a night of rock n roll and Delta blues with Escape Vehicle with special guest, BJ Wilbanks! The yellow brick road goes Motown at The Strand Theater as they screen Sidney Lumet’s cult classic adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, THE WIZ (1978) at 8 pm, preceded by an organ pops pre-show at 7:30 pm! For a night of retro-inspired rock, make your way to Th e Earl for TheExplorer’s Club, Interstellar and Goldwing! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of the blues with Geoff Achison & the Souldiggers! The Jerry GarciaBand Cover Band (JGBCB) gets groovy at Sm ith’s Olde Bar! Stomp on down to Big Tex for Ralph Roddenberry! Or for a taste of some Appalachian folk rock n roll, make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Waller! The Rick Lollar Band ‘puts the stank on it’ rockin’ blues style at the Elliott Street Pub with L’Enfant Sauvage! Get rocked, ‘70s and ‘80s-style at Lakewood Amphitheatre with Journey and the Steve Miller Band! Get funky at Hottie Hawgs BBQ and spend the night with Swami GoneBananas! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of bluesy American roots rock with Delta Moon! Stomp on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for the Radio Ramblers! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so come on out and cha-cha under the dinosaurs while enjoying a few cocktails with the Salsambo Dance Studio! 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! 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! Heaven Davis rocks out blues-style at Darwin’s Burgers & 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, May 31

Today begins the 2-day celebration of Howard Finster and his folk-art sculpture Paradise Garden during the annual folk arts and music festival, Finster Fest 2014 in Summerville! Enjoy the free art show, tasty food and enjoy a rockin’ musical line-up, including the Randall Bramblett Band, TheWhiskey Gentry, Yankee Slickers and so much more! It’s day 2 and your last chance to catch the Candler Park Music & Food Festival featuring the funk and jazz rock of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue; a little folk punk and alt rock with Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls; rockin’ punk country with Lucero; a little rock ’n roll revival with The Howling Tongues; some indie folk rock with Family & Friends, a little southern-fried soul and funk with Secondhand Swagger and some rockin’ folk funk delivered by Webster! Get really retro and blood-splattered at The Plaza Theater as they kick off their Bela Lugosi Film Festival, featuring Legosi classics; Tod Browning’s MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935), Victor Hugo Halperin’s WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) and Wallace Fox’ THE CORPSE VANISHES (1942), all screening through Sunday, June 1 (See ATLRetro’s January 2013 Retro Review of Halperin’s WHITE ZOMBIE here)! And The Goat Farm Arts Center presents the 19th Annual Hambridge Art Auction, featuring 200+ artists, musical acts, short plays and art installations. All proceeds go to support the Hambridge Center which provides residency fellowships to distinguished artists and scientists at their 600-acre creative sanctuary in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Chris Scruggs delivers a night of revved up rockabilly and old-time rock n roll at Kavarna in Decatur! Rock out ‘80s-style at the North River Tavern with Kool Kat Becky Cormier-Finch and Denim Arcade in Sandy Springs! It’s a night of English rock at The Earl as Smithsonian pays tribute to The Smiths, playing “Louder Than Bombs” in its entirety! Michelle Malone delivers some rockin’ Americana at Eddie’s Attic! Get a little blues, funk and soul at Smith’s Olde Bar with the AJ Ghent Band, Alexandria Lushington and the GlenPridgen Band! Yacht Rock Schooner’s alter-ego Electric Avenue delivers a night of ‘80s tunes at The Strand Theater! Get your second helping of Ralph Roddenberry at Big Tex! For a night of gritty rock n roll, make your way to WonderRoot for Swank Sinatra, Suzi Trash, Kidbrat and GangesPhalanges! Lola delivers the blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs gets old-timey with a little folk and bluegrass with 10 String Symphony and the Tattletale Saints! It’s the 2nd Annual Harmonica Blowout at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues featuring Billy Gibson, The Cazanovas and more! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for The SlyDog Band 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 1

Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Deb Bowman Jazz Brunch from 12:30 to 3:30! Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet deliver their gypsy jazz and Parisian swing during ‘Dunch’ at The Earl! Stomp on over to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with In theWheelhouse! Hey all you Baby Boomers! Rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event featuring rockin’ tunes of the ‘60s and ‘70s, hosted by Rick Hinkle! And it’s day 2 and your last chance to experience Paradise and folk art at Finster Fest 2014 in Summerville!

Ongoing

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

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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, May 19-25, 2014

Posted on: May 18th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow this week! So, come on down and see what we’ve found for you! We’ve got all the honky-tonkin’, foot stompin’ ‘billy music you’re revved to see! We’ve got the blues, a little swing and a whole ‘lotta rock n roll! Live la vida Retro and come on out and hang with the Kool Kats!

Monday, May 19

Yacht Rock Review delivers their finest tribute to ‘70s light rock at TheBuckhead Theatre tonight! Or stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Quiet Life and Michael Nau (Cotton Jones)! 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 L ola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! For a night of rockin’ blues, head on down to Blind Willie’s for Barrelhouse Bob Page! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a helping of Pork Bellys and some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 20

Get down and dirty with a little southern gothic and roots revival with Little Hurricane and Lincoln Durham at The Earl! Rock on down to Hell at the Masquerade for the sinister Renaissance man dispensing macabre murderous tunes, backed by his skeletal orchestra, Voltaire with Ego Likeness! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for Ben Trickey’s 7” release party with Kenny Howes! Get the blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint with the Bob Page Trio! Get a taste of some rhythm soul and rock n roll at Blind Willie’s with The Hollidays! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Ro meo 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! Stomp on down to Bi g Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern. And dance the night away with Gene Kelly at the Northlake Fe stival Movie Tavern for their screening of Stanley Donen and Kelly’s classic musical, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) during their Musical May series at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, May 21

Get funky at Smith’s Olde Bar with Voodoo Visionary, Yakapo and Tifford Sellers & the Wagon Burners! Swing on by the Elliott Street Pub for Ja cob Deaton! Or rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo rocks out with some blues, jazz and southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Ta vern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Lola delivers the blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. And ‘Make ‘Em Laugh’ at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s classic musical, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) during their Musical May series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, May 22

For a little garage rock and dirty blues, make your way to The Star Bar to catch Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah’s EP Release Party with Black Linen, Jonah Swilley and more! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for the High Strung String Band, Alex Commins, Todd Prusin and Alan Barrington! 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! Sweet Betty & the Shadows gets down and dirty blues-style 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. And it’s your last chance to spend the evening with Gene Kelly at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s classic musical, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) during their Musical May series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, May 23

It’s a honky-tonk Kool Kat extravaganza tonight at The Star Bar! Stomp on down for night one of Bubbapalooza 2014 at 7 pm and get ‘yer hillbilly fix with Slim Chance & the Convicts, Chickens & Pigs, the Rollfast Ramblers, Kool Kat Julea Thomerson & Her Dear Johns, Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with the Ghost Riders Car Club and The Western Sizzlers! Check out ATLRetro’s article remembering Earl “Bubba” Maddox, former drummer for The Convicts, The Diggers and Gregory Dean & the Bubbamatics here and our article on Bubbapalooza’s 20th celebration here! Or come celebrate National Turtle Day with a night of art-rock and indie post punk at The Earl, along with screenings of GAMERA VS. GUIRON (1969) and THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990) throughout the night! Pillage & Plunder deliver their tunes reminiscent of ‘50s martini lounge, ‘70s psych-prog and ‘90s pop punk (Catch their Kool Kat interview soon!), along with Slowriter and Mice in Cars! And get your geek on and make your way to TimeGate 2014 being held at the Holiday Inn Select at Atlanta Perimeter/Dunwoody! TimeGate is a the three-day Sci-Fi and fantasy convention, covering sci-fi programs from Doctor Who to Stargate, with panels galore, cool guests and events of all kinds! Panels will discuss Doctor Who, StarGate, The Walking Dead, the history of sci-fi, Roddenberry and more! And you won’t want to miss their screening of STARGATE (1994)! If you love all things sci-fi, take a ride in your T.A.R.D.I.S. and time travel on over to Dunwoody to catch Paul McGillion of Stargate Atlantis, Terrance Dicks, the Doctor Who legend, Kevin R. Grazier, Science Advisor for several sci-fi shows, Robert Allsop, Doctor Who costume and prop designer and so much more! Tonight begins the three-day Atlanta Jazz Festival in Piedmont Park, featuring Italian jazz singer, the Roberta Gambarini Quartet and the Roy Hargrove Quintet!

It’s a night of fishy fear at The Strand Theater as they screen the classic ocean terror, JAWS (1975) at 8 pm, preceded by an organ pops pre-show at 7:30 pm! Or rev on down for a rockabilly throw down at the Diesel Filling Station for Kool Kat Rev. Andy’s Rockabilly Ruckus event, that’ll have you dancin’ the night away to tunes from Elvis to Brian Setzer to the Nekromantix! The Hollidays deliver a night of rockin’ soul at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of country, soul and blues with Birds of Chicago! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with the Cumberland Collective! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Willy Jackson gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Plaza Theater screens ROOM 237 (2012), Rodney Ascher’s documentary delving into the perceived meanings behind Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980), running through May 29! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rockin’ British blues with Ian Siegal along with Little G Weevil! Nineties alt rocker, Ben Folds (Ben Folds Five) joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall tonight! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, May 24

The Star Bar is the Kat’s meow today because it’s day 2 of Bubbapalooza 2014, so get to honky-tonkin’ with The Oldfields, Truckstop Confidential, The Sideburners, The Mystery Men?, Kool Kat Cletis Reid & His City Cousins, The Downer Brothers, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, the Blacktop Rockets and The Legendary Shack Shakers! Special afternoon DJs will be rockin’ out in the Little Vinyl Lounge, including Kool Kat Rev.Andy, Greg Germoni, Kool Kat Julea Thomerson and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah! Doors at 3 pm!

It’s day 2 of TimeGate 2014, so come on out for a day of panels, puppet shows, a little saucy cabaret, a masquerade and tunes by the Ken Spivey Band! It’s night 2 of the Atlanta Jazz Festival featuring Willie Ziavino & the C.O.T Band, Brian Hogan’s Quartet and so much more! Brad Birkedahl & the Burnin’ Love Band channels the spirit of Elvis at The Strand Theater, along with the tunes of Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins! 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! Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet deliver a night of Parisian swing and gypsy jazz at The Family Dog! Get your ‘80s fix at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with Styx, Foreigner and Don Felder! David T & Friends put on a musical variety show, featuring blues, funk and rock at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, with special guest cellist, Nan Kemberling! Roxie Watson delivers a night of old-country, rockabilly, bluegrass and classic rock n roll at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of old-school blues at the Northside Tavern with the Sammy Blues Band! Francine Reed delivers a night of down home blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast with some finger lickin’ BBQ! Get morose at Famous Pub with Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s BLACK OUT event featuring dark ‘80s, Goth and industrial every fourth Saturday of the month! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, May 25

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! Stomp on over to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with The CohenBrothers! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for Tanglewood Tonic! Vito Romeo delivers a rockin’ ‘Dunch’ at The Earl! It’s a blues jam at the Crimson Moon Café, featuring Randall Bramblett and Geoff Achison (The Souldiggers)! Francine Reed and the Jez Graham Trio get bluesy at The Family Dog! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for Tony Bryant! And it’s your last chance to get your Doctor Who and Stargate fix at TimeGate 2014! It’s day 3 and your last chance to catch the Atlanta Jazz Festival in Piedmont Park, featuring the Freddy Cole Quartet, Bill Frisell, the Airmen of Note and so much more!

Ongoing

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, May 12-18, 2014

Posted on: May 11th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

‘Hey all you vintage lovers! Retro Atlanta is smokin’ this week with a whole lotta rockin’ events and shenanigans! Whether you’re lookin’ for some down and dirty blues, uptempo jazz, movies of yesteryear or a little ‘billy that’ll have you dancin’ the night away, come on down and see what we’ve found for you! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, May 12

Girls just want to have fun, so don’t miss out on a night with Cher and Cyndi Lauper at Phillips Arena tonight! Or get a taste of some ska, punk and new-wave with The Aquabats and Koo Koo Kanga Roo at The Loft! Smith’s Olde Bar spices it up with the B-Side Players, Ojo de Buey and Maya Neiada! Swing on by Hot Jam Swings! for their Hot Jam Dance Night and get your Count Bassie and Benny Goodman fix! Rev on down to Camelis Gourmet Pizza Joint for a night with Kool Kat Rev. Andy, broadcasting a little spitfire rockin’ rockabilly and psychobilly live on Garage71 Internet Radio! 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! Brandon Reeves delivers his soulful roots at Blind Willie’s! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a helping of Pork Bellys and some finger lickin’ BBQ!
Tuesday, May 13

It’s ultimate warriors vs. blood-thirsty aliens at The Plaza Theater with Splatter Cinema’s invasion of John McTiernan’s action-horror flick, PREDATOR (1987) at 9:30! And don’t forget to come early for some alien-tastic lobby shenanigans and classic horror trailers! The ‘King of the Monsters’ invades the Midtown Art Cinema as they screen Ishiro Honda’s original GODZILLA (1954) celebrating its 60th anniversary at 7 pm, with a pre-show by our BFF ghost host with the most, Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. Prof. Morte of the Silver Scream Spook Show! 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: May Flowers Edition, with special guest Joy Va Voi and performances by Tora Torrid, our favorite Clark Gable look-alike magic man, Chad Sanborn, Victoria Rose Nedley and more!

Shawn Spencer (Seven Handle Circus) delivers a night of ‘Bad Ass Bluegrass’ at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’ll be a full-throttle rockin’ night of vintage and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s with Atlanta Boogie! 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! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. Get lured into the bohemian underworld of Paris at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant and vibrant musical, MOULIN ROUGE (2001) during their Musical May series at 7:30 pm! And take a rare peek at the glamorous historic mansion, the Palazzo Rosa, “The Pink Palace”, designed by three of Atlanta’s most notable architects during the 44th annual Atlanta Symphony Associates’ Decorators’ Show House & Gardens tours running through May 18!

Wednesday, May 14

Rock out as the Toadies bring their ‘Rubberneck’ 20th Anniversary Tour to the Masquerade with the Supersuckers and Battleme! Escape Vehicle gets to stompin’ as they deliver their bluegrass, reggae and blues tunes at Big Tex! The Breeze Kings get bluesy at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Or rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Frankie’s Blues Mission! The Little G Weevil Band delivers a night of the blues at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Spend the day in Paris at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant and vibrant musical, MOULIN ROUGE (2001) during their Musical May series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, May 15

AM 1690 presents their ‘One Way Out: The Allman Brothers and Atlanta’ event at Eddie’s Attic tonight! Come on down and help celebrate the release of Alan Paul’s New York Times Bestseller, “One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band”! The event includes a book signing and a night of rockin’ tunes delivered by members of The Hampton GreaseBand, Bill Sheffield, Barry Richman, The Swimming Pool Qs, Lamar Williams, Jr. and more!

Honkytonk down to Smith’s Olde Bar for I Want Whisky, Amigo, Sam Hadfield and Lily & the Tigers! Mike Dillon ‘punk rock provocateur’ rocks out at 529! Rock on down to The Earl for a night of rockin’ psychedelia straight out of the ‘60s with Mystic Braves, Corners and Eel Pie! The Atlanta Jazz Festival presents the Harper Family Jazz Jam at Churchill Grounds! It’s a night of rockin’ roots at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with DonnaHopkins! Lola delivers the blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get vintage with some old-timey bluegrass at the Red Light Café with the BorderHop Five and special guests, during their Bluegrass Thursday event! Do the Charleston in the park at Emory Point at their sundown screening of Baz Luhrmann’s THE GREAT GATSBY (2013)! 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! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and get toasty with the steamy island funk of The Volcanauts with Tracey Wolfe! And it’s your last chance to get Bohemian at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant and vibrant musical, MOULIN ROUGE (2001) during their Musical May series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, May 16

Rev on down to Motorheads in McDonough and get honkytonkin’ with Kool Kat Phil Stair with Grim Rooster and Dogwood Daze! Banjo down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Jeff Mosier and DonnaHopkins! The Plaza Theater has an offer you can’t refuse with their screenings of Francis Ford Coppola’s mobster classics, the GODFATHER (1972) and the GODFATHER II (1974)! Re verend Hylton & the Devil’s Hands deliver a night of outlaw Americana at the Red Light Café! The Paulines deliver a night of boot stompin’ Americana roots and blues at Big Tex! Let’s go crazy at Park Tavern with Yacht Rock Review performing Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ in its entirety, followed by a rockin’ retro set! Stoney Brooks gets the blues at Northside Tavern! Get jazzy at the High Museum with LouisHeriveaux! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! 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! Groove on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a funky time with Southern Fried Funk! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so come on out and cha-cha under the dinosaurs while enjoying a few cocktails with the Salsambo Dance Studio! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, May 17

Bessie Branham Park gets festive for the 12th Annual Kirkwood Spring Fling from 10 am to 11 pm! Check out the artist market, tasty food, a BBQ contest, live music and a tour of homes! The rockin’ musical line-up includes a little gonzo guitar and sleazy surf rock with Grinder Nova; a little ‘70s rock and funk infusion with The Hangarmen; Gareth Asher & the Earthlings and their southern soul; a little roots rock with The Deadfields; rockin’ blues and acoustic funk with Part-Time Weekenders and so much more! Or get jazzy and make your way to Historic Washington Park for the Neighborhood Jazz Festival at 5 pm with Grant Green, Jr and Eric Thomas!

Make your way to the Fox Theater for a live broadcast performance of ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ with Garrison Keillor at 5:45 pm! Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss will have you boogyin’ old school-style at ChastainPark! Get a taste of some gritty garage punk grass and funky blues at Eddie’s Attic with The Bitteroots and Strung Like A Horse! Punk on down to 529 for a rockin’ night with Ex-Cult, GHB, Zoners and Carmen! Or get cosmic at the Red Light Café with Interstate, The Wheel Knockers and Flap! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night of organic moonshine roots with Valerie June and the ever-unique Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer! Rock out with ATL Collective as they deliver a night of Nirvana at The Earl while performing ‘Nevermind’ in its entirety! Joe McGuinness delivers a night of Americana roots at the Red Clay Theater during his album release party! Debauche delivers a night of Russian gypsy jazz at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s a night of old-school blues at the Northside Tavern with Eddie Tigner and Albert White! The Unusual Suspects get bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Bob Margolin gets bluesy at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with the John Michael RoseBand! The Terry Flynn Band gets stompin’ at Big Tex! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, May 18

Stomp on down to Park Tavern for a night with Seven Handle Circus! TheJohnson Party bluegrasses it up at The Family Dog! Stomp over to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch featuring the Decatur Bluegrass Association (D.B.A.)! We Are Scientists deliver their Bowie and Velvet Underground-esque indie rock at The Earl with Paws! The Little G Weevil Band gets bluesy at the Red Light Café during the May Atlanta Blues Society Meeting and Jam! It’s a night of Americana roots and punk grass at the Red Clay Theater with Penny & Sparrow and Grace & Tony! It’s a night of comedy at The Strand Theater as they screen Peter Yates’ MOTHER, JUGS & SPEED (1976) starring Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel and Requel Welch, with a pops pre-show! And Kool Kat Kitty Love shows you how to shimmy and shake at her Boudoir Blitz at Dungeon Studios from 3 to 6pm!

Ongoing

Palazzo Rosa, “The Pink Palace”, tours during the 44th annual Atlanta Symphony Associates’ Decorators’ Show House & Gardens tours running through May 18!

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, May 5-11, 2014

Posted on: May 4th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta has a rockin’ menu of vintage events galore! From surf rock to rockabilly to some dirty rock n roll and even a little Burly-Q for all you saucy tarts! So, get off that couch and rock out retro-style this week!

Monday, May 5

Surf on down to The Earl for a night with the legendary ‘King of the Surf Guitar’, Dick Dale and Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Caroline Pond (Snake Oil Medicine Show) gets old-timey and bluegrasses it up at the Red Light Café! For a night of ‘60s, Dylan and Hank Williams-inspired Americana, stomp on down to the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for Shane Piasecki! Or for a little bluegrass, fiddle over to their Music Room to catch Hot Buttered Rum and the Front Porch Players! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month. Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get the blues at Blind Willie’s with Bill Sheffield! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a helping of Pork Bellys and some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 6

Life is a Cabaret, old chum! So high-tail it on over to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for a night filled with ‘30s Burly-Q glam during their screening of Bob Fosse’s CABARET (1972) during their Musical May series at 7:30 pm! Shawn Spencer (Seven Handle Circus) delivers a night of ‘Bad Ass Bluegrass’ at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get really retro at the GwinnettPerforming Arts Center as The Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra and Chorus presents an evening with Beethoven, Dvorak and more, at 7 pm! Get the blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint with the Bob Page Trio! 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! Blind Willie’s gets bluesy with the BooHoo Ramblers! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! And The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern.

Wednesday, May 7

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! The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger featuring Sean Lennon spins some avant-garde folk rock at TerminalWest! Rock out with the ‘blues woman power’ of Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Or rendezvous at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get some hill-country blues at Blind Willie’s with John Sosebee! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack has The Hollidays! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. And skip school for the glamorous life at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern and catch Bob Fosse’s CABARET (1972) during their Musical May series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, May 8

Get glitzy and shimmy on down to The Loft as the Atlanta School of Burlesque presents their Spring DebuTease Ball, showcasing the newest saucy talent and featuring Burly-Q performances by The Chameleon Queen, Kool Kat LolaLesoleil, Nikki Nuke’m and Kool Kat Ursula Undress!

Get filled with a little gritty rock n roll at Wonderroot with Swank Sinatra, R_Garcia, D&D Sluggers and Amateur Night at Club Stupid! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint transforms into the Big Easy as The Mar-Tans deliver their New Orleans’ funk! It’s a night of movie retro movie tunes at The Strand Theater with Symphony on the Square’s ‘Pops’ concert, featuring tunes from GONE WITH THE WIND, THE SOUND OF MUSIC and more! Get your ‘90s fix at Smith’s Olde Bar during their ‘Tribute to the Blue Album by Weezer’ celebrating its 20th anniversary with Nine Times Blue, Cosmoknox, BlackFox, Walk Through Walls and more in the Atlanta Room! Or make your way to the Music Room for a night of folk, soul and rock with JohnnySwim! It’s a night of Pink Floyd at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with Brit Floyd, ‘The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show’! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for Bradford Lee Folk & the Bluegrass Boys and Little Country Giants! Taste the retro-style fusion and French Gypsy jazz of Beats Antique at the Buckhead Theatre with a little dusty folk-stomp with Sean Hayes! Get a taste of Blue Moon Soup at Big Tex! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s every Thursday! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Blind Willie’s delivers folksy blues’n roots with Steve James! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and rockin’ island tunes! And it’s your last chance to chum it up with Liza Minnelli at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Bob Fosse’s CABARET (1972) during their Musical May series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, May 9

Today begins the rockin’ 3-day retro-infused indie rock extravaganza that is the Shaky Knees Music Festival running through May 11! So, rock on down to the ‘city within a city’, Atlantic Station while devouring some rockin’ tunes on four outdoor stages, delicious treats from local food trucks and artisans and venders throughout! Today’s musical lineup includes The National, compared to Joy Division and Leonard Cohen; ‘90s indie alt-rockers, Spoon; a little New Jersey punk with The Gaslight Anthem; Dropkick Murphys and their punky folk rock reminiscent of the Clash and the Pogues; The Airborne Toxic Event; a little blues rock with Band of Skulls; the psychedelic and classic rock of Graveyard; a little old-time soul with Charles Bradley & HisExtraordinaires; the soulful blues and Prog rock of White Denim; a little psychedelic pop and reggae funk with Wild Belle; The Whigs; a little old southern rock with The Bright Light Social Hour; a bit of alt-country with American Aquarium; the garage-rock revival of Blood Red Shoes and so much more for your rockin’ pleasure! So, come on out for a little retro-revival!

Get uber geeky and beam on up to Legend Café for their Trek Trance Star Trek Costume Dance Party, produced by MarsterCon! Or Steampunk it up at the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing event, featuring jazz, Big Band, electronica and a little saucy cabaret with Kool Kat Persephone Phoenix and Nina Charrise, courtesy of the Atlanta Burlesque & Cabaret Society! The non-super group, super group, The Winery Dogs, rocks out at The Variety Playhouse featuring members of Poison and Mr. Big! For a taste of some Cajun Zydeco funk, stomp on down to the Northside Tavern for Zydefu nk! For a night of Brit rock infused blues, make your way to The Earl for Man Man and The Black Cadillacs! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for The Grahams! The Rock Tenors rock out to the tunes of Journey, the Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney and more as they perform with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, featuring Rob Evan (Keep a lookout for our Kool Kat interview soon!), Micah Wilshire and Shem von Shroeck! The Sock Hops deliver their four-part harmonies to tunes of the ‘50s to the ‘70s at The Strand Theater! Fatback Deluxe gets the blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Rumble on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for the rockin’ blues of Rumblefish! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers some New Orleans’ funk with The Mar-Tans! Get funky under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Cooper Tisdale and their soulful, funky jazz! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, May 10

It’s day 2 to get rocked at the Shaky Knees Music Festival at Atlantic Station! Today’s musical line-up includes the ‘90s indie rock group, ModestMouse; a little garage punk and jangle pop with The Replacements; some psychedelic rock with Portugal. The Man; some foot-stompin’ Americana with Dawes; Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn-inspired indie folk and soul with JennyLewis; blues rock and indie soul with the Cold War Kids; the folksy LordHuron; a little post-punk revival with the Tokyo Police Club; some alt-country and roots rock with The Lone Bellow; Hayes Carll and his folksy Americana; Gregory Alan Isakov; the foot-stompin’ tunes of The ApacheRelay; a little absurdist bluegrass with the Packway Handle Band; some soulful psychedelia with PHOX and so much more!

For a little good ‘ol rock n roll, come on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for The Safes and Ethan Smith in the Atlanta Room while The Pergantis Trio and Shudderdog deliver a night of jazzy rock and heavy blues in the Music Room! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music for Jason Kenney and special guests Carly Gibson and Hanna Zale (BoomFox)! Get bluesy at Blind Willie’s with James Armstrong! Or come on down to the Northside Tavern for the legendary Ike Stubblefield! The Gwinnett Coral Guild presents their ‘Popular Classics, the Music of Our Lives’ event at the Red Clay Theater, featuring classic Broadway tunes! The Georgia Symphony Orchestra gets jazzy at The Strand Theater at 8 pm! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles rev it up at the Dixie Tavern! Get a taste of Gravy at The Family Dog! Cirque Du Soleil presents their ‘Michael Jackson; the Immortal World Tour,’ combining Jackson’s King of Pop tunes with their choreography at the Gwinnett Arena! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, May 11

It’s Mother’s Day folks! So grab your mama and have a rockin’ day in Retro Atlanta today! It’s day 3 and your last chance to get your all-day music fix at Atlantic Station during the Shaky Knees Music Festival! Today’s rockin’ line-up includes Alabama Shakes and their Americana blues rock; a little indie folk with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros; the post-punk outfit, the Violent Femmes; a little alt-bluegrass of Trampled by Turtles; Iron &Wine; Jason Isbell (Drive By Truckers) and his alt/classic country; DeerTick; a little retro-inspired indie rock of The Hold Steady!; Blitzen Trapper; the folk tunes of Mason Jennings; a little rockin’ soul with Langhorne Slim& the Law; a little Baroque pop with San Fermin; Jackie Green; the classic rock of the Kopecky Family Band; a little sludge pop with The Weeks; a tent city revival with Benjamin Booker and so much more!

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! Stomp over to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch featuring The Rhubarbarians! And Billy Waldrep celebrates his ‘Smoke from the Kitchen’ record release party at the Red Clay Theater!

Ongoing

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, April 28-May 4, 2014

Posted on: Apr 27th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

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

Monday, April 28

Forget the Monday blues and rock on down to The Earl for a night of psychedelic space rock with White Hills, Irreversible and Hot Fudge! Or stagger on down to the Tabernacle and spend the night with the rockin’est living dead performer, Rob Zombie! TheatreWorks USA presents a musical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ classic tale, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center at 10 am! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get the blues piano style at Blind Willie’s with the rockin’ blues of Bob Page and John Cocuzzi! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast with some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, April 29

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

Wednesday, April 30

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

Thursday, May 1

Rev on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a rockin’ night with The Sideburners, The Owner of the Sun and Rollie! For a night of vintage roots and old-timey soul, stomp on down to the Red Light Café for The Duhks with special guest Jeff Mosier! The Rockaholics deliver a night of blues and soul at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get rootsy at Eddie’s Attic with Willie Watson and Mandolin Orange! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for The Tom & Julie Show featuring tributes to tunes from the 60s to the 90s every Thursday! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Blind Willie’s has Sweet Betty & the Shadows! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and rockin’ island tunes! It’s night two and your last chance to get twisted at The Plaza Theatre during their screening of SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER (2014)! And it’s your last chance to conspire with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Roman Polanski’s neo-noir picture, CHINATOWN (1974), during their L.A. After Dark series at 7:30 pm!

Friday, May 2

Davina & the Harlots deliver a night of devilish debauchery at The Earl at their Annual Cabaret Pageant featuring a rockin’ harlot lineup, a little shock and awe and a little trickery and hi-jinks with Atlanta’s favorite Clark Gable look-alike and magic man, Chad Sanborn! (Check out our Kool Kat interview with Josette Pimenta coming soon!) Come on down to The Plaza Theatre and celebrate the reconstruction of Georgia theatres during the Fox Theatre Institute’s 2^nd Annual Theatre Revival Tour featuring blues legend, Francine Reed at 6 pm! (And check out our feature on the Revival Tours coming soon!) Rev on down to the Sweetwater Bar & Grill in Deluth for a rockin’ hootenanny with Kool Kat Phil Stair with Grim Rooster and Back City Woods! Or get fired up at Stix Bar & Grill in Villa Rica with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Michelle Malone dishes out some bluesy Americana at the Red Light Café! Get your ‘60s/’70s rock n roll fix at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with TheRainmen! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Get revived with Elephant Revival at Eddie’s Attic! Get horrified at the Masquerade as Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin performs George A. Romero’s classic ‘DAWN OF THE DEAD’ score! Get your fill of your favorite MTV videos with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at his ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night invading Famous Pub every Friday night at 10 pm! Atlanta Boogie delivers a night of vintage West Coast swing and jumpin’ blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! It’s a night of Americana at the Crimson Moon Café with Mary Bragg and Carl Anderson! The Charlie Fog Band delivers Grateful Dead tunes at The Family Dog! COLEY and Destitute Way deliver a night of folk and blues at Red Clay Theater! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo invades the Northside Tavern! Get jazzy under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with CC Booker III featuring Will Scruggs! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, May 3

Get medieval and really retro this spring in Lilburn at the 29^th Annual Georgia Renaissance Festival running through June 8^th! Geek out at the Masquerade as MarksterCon presents their Bash of the Empire III Star Wars Party, featuring costume contests and more! Eric Clapton delivers a night of rockin’ blues at Chastain Park! Rev on down to Stars & Stripes in Monticello and get your second helping of Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Rock out at the Drunken Unicorn with the Hermits of Suburbia, Wakingthe Bates, Crazy Bag Lady and Phossy Jaw! It’s a booty shakin’ get down at the Red Light Café with Sugarfoot and Corduroy! Stomp on down to The Family Dog for a night with The Owner of the Sun! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs has The Uncle Mike Band delivering a night of classic rock, ‘80s and more! Or get the blues at Blind Willie’s with Big Bill Morganfield! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Dean Shot and Mikey Junior featuring the Little G Weevil Band! The madness and absurdity that is, Kool Kat Colonel Bruce Hampton slings over 50 years worth of his funky, jazz-infused rhythm at the Northside Tavern! It’s a night of swingin’ ‘60s at Big Tex with The Backyard Birds! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for The Barefoot Movement! Or let Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet entertain you with their hot club jammin’ and gypsy swing! The Buford School of Ballet presents ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Gwinnett Arena through May 4! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, May 4

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

Ongoing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, April 21-27, 2014

Posted on: Apr 22nd, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Hey all you rockin’ vintage lovers! This Week is the Kat’s Meow with ATLRetro’s Kool Kats doing what they do best, delivering a whole ‘lotta swell rockin’ Retro events! So, come on out and see what’s on the Retro menu! Get your fill of all the classic horror-ific blood-filled flicks your dark little heart desires! Or boogie down to the tune of Dixieland to ‘70s vintage rock to all the punk you can handle! And of course we’ve got all the old-school blues and soul you could want! So, get off that couch and get Retro!

Monday, April 21

Re-live your big screen childhood fantasy this week at Cinefest as they screen Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi film, E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) through April 27! Or for something a little more wicked and blood-splattered come a little later and celebrate the bloodbath that will be their last week screening in 35 mm, kicking off the week with Tobe Hooper’s gore fest, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE PART 2 (1986) at 9 pm! Rock on down to Wonderroot for a NY punk and folksy Americana-filled night with Killing Kuddles, Warm Needles, the Seagulls and Above Repute! 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 No rthside 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 with some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, April 22

Get terrified at Cinefest as they screen Larry Cohen’s IT’S ALIVE (1974) at 7 pm followed by Alfred Sole’s ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976) at 9pm! It’s a night of Burly-Q musical classics, “Minnie the Moocher”, “Mack the Knife” and more at the Red Light Café during Sadie Hawkins’ “Burlesque Battle of the Babes”, Last Pasties Standing event, every fourth Tuesday of the month! It’s Bettie Page’s birthday, so find a ‘viewing party’ and celebrate with Aneles at the debut of their music video, featuring a gaggle of gorgeous gals, for “Bettie Loved”, their Bettie Page tribute song. Swing on down to the Roswell Cultural Arts Center for the Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s presentation of ‘Sounds of the Big Band Era’ event featuring Joe Gransden and his 17-piece Big Band at 8 pm! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every other Tuesday! Blues Station gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. Get the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with the J.T. Speed Band! The Bob Page Trio gets bluesy at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! And get lured by the femme fatale in Billy Wilder’s classic film noir, DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their L.A. After Dark series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, April 23

Rock on down to the Drunken Unicorn for a night of vintage 70s rock with The Johnny Rebs, The Stacktone Slims and Mad Dog 20/20! Or for a little Cream and Led Zeppelin-inspired rock, get down and dirty at Smith’s Olde Bar with The London Souls, Jessy Lynn Martens and Kool Kat Rob Hamdallah! Dick Valentine (The Wild Bunch/Electric Six) delivers a night of disco, punk and New-Wave infused rock with Soda Jerk at The Earl! Get some gritty R&R at 529 with The Dirty Magazines, Sons of Hippies and R_Garcia! It’s Scene Missing’s The Importance of Being Ernest event at the Highland Ballroom, so come on by for a night of laughs as they deliver writing and comedy exploring Ernest P. Worrell’s films at 9 pm! Get terrifyingly chilled at Cinefest as they screen John Hess and Lewis Teague’s horror flick, ALLIGATOR (1980) at 7 pm followed by David Cronenburg’s sci-fi horror classic, THE FLY (1986) at 9 pm! Or for a little throwback ‘60s spy farce humor, chuckle on down to Emory’s White Hall as Emory Cinematheque screens Michel Hazanavicius’ OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES (2010)! It’s a night of Romanian and Ukrainian Gypsy folk tunes at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Lola delivers the blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo invades Blind Willie’s with their blues, jazz and Southern soul! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack has The Hollidays! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. And it’s murder at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Billy Wilder’s classic film noir, D OUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) during their L.A. After Dark series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, April 24

Get hellishly spooked at Cinefest as they screen Bernard Rose’s CANDYMAN (1992) at 7 pm followed by Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER (1987) at 9 pm! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at Red Light Café, so stomp on down to catch Waller, C aleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen and Austin House Letters! For a taste of vintage rock and saucy gals, rock on down to the Clermont Lounge for the Joy Kills and their record release party, along with Swank Sinatra, Plastic Visions and Ganges Phalanges! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of retro rock with the Geisha Hit Squad, Goodbye June and Spi vs. Spy in the Atlanta Room, or for all you indie lovers, rock on down to the Music Room for the Elliott Smith and Steely Dan-inspired dream pop of Misery Loves Chachi, OAMI, Teach Me Equals and Bahnof! The Claire Lynch Band dishes out their Americana and bluegrass at the Red Clay Theater! 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! Heather Luttrell delivers a night of rockin’ blues and Americana at Blind Willie’s! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and the rockin’ surf, beach party tunes of Kool Kat Joshua Longino and Andrew & the Disapyramids! Uncle Johnny’s Band delivers a Grateful Dead tribute at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And it’s your last chance to catch Billy Wilder’s classic film noir, DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) on the big screen at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their L.A. After Dark series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, April 25

Hey all you misfits and retro rockin’ mischief lovers! Tonight begins the Atlanta Mess Around in East Atlanta Village through April 27, day events at 529 and nights at The Earl! Doors open at 3 pm at 529 with the Ex Humans, Ryan Dinosaur (Bukkake Boys), Manic and the Vincas! Head to The Earl at 8 pm for The Marked Men, the B arreracudas, Predator, King Louie & the Loose Diamonds, AJ Davila y Terror Amour and Games! Or rev on down for a rockabilly throw down at the Diesel Filling Station for Kool Kat Rev. Andy’s Rockabilly Ruckus event, that’ll have you dancin’ the night away to tunes from Elvis to Brian Setzer to the Nekromantix! Or 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!

Get sacrilegious at Cinefest as they screen Lamberto Bava’s DEMONS (1985) AT 9 pm! Doria Roberts & the Black-Eyed Susans deliver a night of rockin’ folk and blues at the Red Light Café! Get a fill of some really old-time country and western tunes with the coal miner’s daughter herself, Loretta Lynn at the Mill Town Music Hall in Bremen with Mama’s Blue Dress! Get some retro rock at 529 with the Radio Birds, Charlie & the Foxtrots and Poison Coats! Rock on down to The Star Bar for Ed Roland & the Sweet Tea Project (Collective Soul) with Five Eight and special guests! Or stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a little Americana and roots jams with Yarn, Copious Jones and The Reluctant Saints in the Music Room and a little honkytonkin’ with Marshall Seese, Sweet GA Brown, Matthew Thomas and Eric Norman in the Atlanta Room! The Jugtime Ragband delivers some vintage Dixieland at Big Tex! The Crimson Moon Café delivers a night of old-timey vintage ‘20s string music with the Georgia Crackers! Get funky with the Pimps of Joytime and the Bird City Revolutionaries at the Drunken Unicorn! 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! Rev on down to the Buck Creek Tavern in High Falls for a rockin’ night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Sin City Atlanta delivers a rockin’ AC/DC tribute at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! The Mavericks are back on the scene tonight, dispensing a night of rockin’ country blues at Center Stage! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets bluesy with the Katie Martin Band while SaNa Blues gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Francine Reed & The Shadows deliver a night of saucy blues at Blind Willie’s! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at The Northside Tavern! The Breeze Kings deliver a night of Chicago and Delta blues at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! 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, April 26

For National Puppetry Day make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts to catch their presentation of iLamb Chop 2.0, featuring Mallory Lewis (Keep your eyes peeled for her Kool Kat interview this week), daughter of the late and great Shari Lewis, creator and Lamb Chop puppeteer, with an unveiling of a new commemorative postage stamp featuring the famous duo! It’s day 2 of the Atlanta Mess Around in East Atlanta Village, so rock on down to 529 at 2 pm and fill your day with some retro punk rockin’ tunes with The Coathangers, The Audacity, Dinos Boys, Brain F/, Shantih Shantih and Plastic Pinks! Then later, rock over to The Earl for The Spits, GG King, Tyevk, ShockedMinds, Greg Ashley (Gris Gris) and The Golden Pelicans! And celebrate Southern Appalachian culture at the Bear on the Square Mountain Festival with an old-timey and foot-stompin’ vintage musical lineup of Sons of Bluegrass, John Lilly, Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones, Bluebilly Grit, Playing on the Planet and The Freight Hoppers on Dahlonega’s historic square through April 27!

If you’re craving something a little more sinister, a little more over-the-top, spend an evening in Hell at the Masquerade with ‘Dracula’s nasty little brother’ and carnival barker better known (or maybe not) as Unknown Hinson, adding a little psycho overdrive to that ‘billy music of the ‘50s and ‘60s! 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! The Star Barhas Jimbo Mathus & the Tri-State Coalition, Bad Friend and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer! Santana invades Chastain Park with his ‘60s & ‘70s rock and Latin fusion! Or chill with “The Boss” Bruce Springsteen at Aaron’s Lakewood Amphitheatre! Stomp on down to the Re d Light Café to catch The Bitteroots, Greco, Sleuth Hound and Kristen Englenz! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty blues-style at Blind Willie’s! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at the Northside Tavern! Get folksy at Eddie’s Atticwith Barnaby Bright, Minton Sparks and Cicada Rhythm! Roxie Watson delivers her harmony-soaked honky-grass at the Crimson Moon Café! Get a taste for the blues with Sweet & Salty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! For a night of comedic opera, make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for the Atlanta Opera’s presentation of ‘The Barber of Seville’, directed by Jose Condemi through May 4! Get morose at Famous Pub with Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s BLACK OUT event featuring dark ‘80s, Goth and industrial every fourth Saturday of the month! Secondhand Swagger gets grungy at the The Family Dog! Get revved up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles at Traxx Lounge & Grill! 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, April 27

It’s day 2 of the Bear on the Square Mountain Festival in Dahlonega, so come on out for the Georgia Pick & Bow Allstars, Jason Kenney & Leah Calvert, C urtis Jones & Primal Roots, The Locust Honey String Band and The Deja Bluegrass Band! It’s day 3 of the Atlanta Mess Around in East Atlanta Village, featuring ‘Dunch’ at The Earlwith King Louie’s One Man Band! Or make your way to Marietta for the 21^st Annual Taste of Marietta festival from 11 to 7 pm, featuring great food and rockin’ tunes with Yacht Rock Schooner, Three Way Street, Lauren St. James and The Goodbye Machine!

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, and catch them later on in the day at The Family Dog! Ralph Stanley delivers some old-timey bluegrass at Eddie’s Atticat 2 pm and 7 pm! Stomp over to Big Texfor their Bluegrass Brunch featuring The Rhubarbarians! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Caféfor The Powerhouse Burlesque Show, featuring performances by Bettina May, Vita deVoid and our local favorites, Kool Kats Taloolah Love and Ursula Undress, Sadie Hawkins and more! And make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack and get rockin’ with Fatback Deluxe!

Ongoing

Georgia Ensemble Theatre gets really retro with ‘Camelot’ Broadway-style through April 27! (LAST CHANCE!)

Out of Box Theatre presents ‘Always…Patsy Cline,’ running through April 27! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, April 14-20, 2014

Posted on: Apr 13th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

As the temperatures rise, so do the number of rockin’ events in Retro Atlanta! Come on out and see what we have for you ‘This Week’! From vintage cinema galore to 70’s psychedelia and funk to all the old-fashioned blues and rock your little Retro hearts desire! Don’t be square! Come on out and play Retro-style ’cause the Kool Kats are on the prowl and are ready to roar!

Monday, April 14

Get your fill of 70s sci-fi and Japanese animation at Cinefest as they screen Rene Laloux’ stop-motion animated picture, FANTASTIC PLANET (1973) and Eiichi Yamamoto’s BELLADONNA OF SADNESS (1973) screening through April 20! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get soulful and rootsy at Blind Willie’s with Brandon Reeves! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast with some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, April 15

Midtown Art Cinema gets dramatic with John Cassavete’s critically-acclaimed film, A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (1974) in 35 mm! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every other Tuesday! Bobby Bare, Jr. rocks out Americana and roots rock-style at The Earl! Head on over to Blind Willie’s for that deep blues sound of the Little G Trio with Little G. Weevil! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm. The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. Get the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with the J.T. Speed Band! And tag along with Vincent Vega and Jules as they take you on a bloody ride during their shooting rampage in Quentin Tarantino’s cult neo-noir classic, PULP FICTION (1994) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their L.A. After Dark series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, April 16

Eddie’s Attic gets some delta ‘billy jug band soul as they host the The Ben Miller Band with special guest Sarah Michaud! Get funky at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Main Squeeze, the Clibber Jones Ensemble and Comrade Blue! The Breeze Kings deliver their Chicago and Delta blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! You won’t want to miss the blues-stylings of The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! Get some soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with The Hollidays! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. And ditch school for a life of crime as the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern screens Quentin Tarantino’s cult neo-noir classic, PULP FICTION (1994) at during their L.A. After Dark series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, April 17

Get geeky and ‘Greek’y old-school style and join the misfits and sociopaths that are, The Deltas, at The Plaza Theater as they throw the biggest toga party in town with their screening of NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978), directed by John Landis, at 7:30 and 9:45 pm! Vinyl delivers a night of outlaw folk and Americana with Wild Child, Them Wagoneers and The Good Graces! 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! Get sugary sweet and low down at Blind Willie’s with Sweet Betty & the Shadows! Spend an evening with Bogey & The Viceroy Quartet as they deliver a little swanky soul and rock ‘n roll at Trader Vic’s and enjoy a cocktail or two! Rock out roots-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Donna Hopkins! And it’s your last chance to catch Quentin Tarantino’s cult neo-noir classic, PULP FICTION (1994) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their L.A. After Dark series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, April 18

Rock on down to Centennial Olympic Park for the Tenth Annual Sweetwater 420 Fest, a three-day event delivering a musical line-up chock full of retro-inspired awesomeness! Tonight, catch the Cajun, New Orleans funk of Galactic; a little reggae roots with Steel Pulse and some bayou Americana and roots rock with the Honey Island Swamp Band, while enjoying tasty food and beverages!

Get really retro with Cecil B. Demille at The Strand Theater as they screen his epic picture, KING OF KINGS (1927) accompanied by the live original musical score by legendary Hollywood composer, Hugo Riesenfeld! Hey all you miscreants and misfits! Rock on down to The Star Bar for The Evils, The El Caminos and Maiden Atlanta! Abbey Road LIVE! invades the Variety Playhouse with their Beatlemania Anniversary Show performing ‘The Red Album’ (1962-1966) at 8 pm! Or get your Beatle’s fix at Smith’s Olde Bar for the Yacht Rock Review’s Beatle tribute band, Please Please Rock Me in the Music Room! Or get in the ‘round with Donna Hopkins, Carly Gibson, Hannah Zale (Boomfox) and Julie Holmes at the Red Light Café! Hey Daddy-O! Rev on down to Motorheads in McDonough for a rockin’ night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! The Milk Carton Kids deliver a night of their Simon & Garfunkel/Everly Brother’s-infused folk rock at the Buckhead Theatre! The Breeze Kings dish out their Chicago/Delta blues at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! It’s an ‘ICONtroversy’ with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at the Famous Pub with his ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night at 10 pm! For a little Americana, rockabilly and bluegrass, stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for Destitute Way and Battlefield Collective! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets bluesy with JP Blues! Get funky with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Houserocker Johnson & The Shadows deliver a night of down and dirty blues at Blind Willie’s! Get jazzy with Joe Gransden at the High Museum for their Jazz Fridays event! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Georgia Railroad and their twangy bluegrass! The Northside Tavern gets bluesy with Stoney Brooks while Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs dishes out some 1940’s cabaret blended big band jazz and vintage roots with Melon & the Mayhem! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so come on out and cha-cha under the dinosaurs while enjoying a few cocktails with the Salsambo Dance Studio! Emory Cinematheque screens Frank Perry and Sydney Pollack’s surrealist drama, THE SWIMMER (1968) during their Burt Lancaster: Centennial Film Fest series! 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, April 19

Blues on down to the Northside Tavern for their Sixth Annual Tribute to Sean Costello from 7pm to 2am featuring a musical lineup of rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas, Bill Sheffield & Jon Liebman, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, the Georgia Flood, the Larry Griffith Band, Abe Lincoln & the Log Lawyers and Frets on Fire! And it’s day two of the Tenth Annual Sweetwater 420 Fest, dishing out retro tunes by Wesley Cook, Sublime with Rome, Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers and Anders Osborne!

It’s Saturday movie madness! Creep on down to Eyedrum as Kyle Eyre Clyd performs a little voodoo with his interpretation and live soundtrack performance accompanying F.W. Mernau’s classic horror picture, NOSFERATU (1922)! Or head on over to Emory Cinematheque for their screening of Alexander Mackendrick’s SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957) during their Burt Lancaster: Centennial Film Fest series! And The Plaza Theater is screening Peter Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventures, LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY – DIRECTOR’S CUT at 1 pm!

For a little taste of Dick Dale-inspired surf rock, catch a wave to the Elliott Street Pub for Grinder Nova! It’s a retro rock revival at 529 with The Love Language, Antique Firearms and Casper & The Cookies! Wishbone Ash dishes out four decades of British rock at the Variety Playhouse! Don’t stop believin’ at The Strand Theater as Departure pays tribute to Journey! Blues on down to the Red Clay Theater for Francine Reed & Friends or rock out blues-style at The Family Dog with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack rocks out with the Wild Oats while Blind Willie’s delivers a bluesy night with Big Bill Morganfield! Swing on by Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Dennis Gruenling & Doug Deming! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with EG Kight and her Americana and blues! It’s Record Store Day, so rock on down to Wax’n’Facts to catch Kool Kat Julea Thomerson & her Dear Johns rockin’ out with their vintage boot stompin’ sounds! Or stomp on down to Mojo Vinyl in Roswell and catch the foot stompin’ bluegrass of Lauren St. Jane & the Dead Westerns and Rye! 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, April 20

Groove on down to Candler Park for the 25^th Annual Great Atlanta Pot Fest featuring roots reggae, 70s psychedelia and a whole lot of rock ‘n roll with a musical lineup of Culture, Tribute [Allman Brothers Tribute Band], Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club, Swami Gone Bananas and Naked Truth! It’s day three and your last chance to catch some rockin’ retro tunes at the Tenth Annual Sweetwater 420 Fest, with the DirtyDozen Brass Band, G. Love & Special Sauce, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Kung Fu!

Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers their Big Band Atlanta Jazz Brunch! Blues on down to The Earl for ‘Dunch’ with Os Ossos! Or stomp on down to Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch with the Decatur Bluegrass Association (D.B.A)! Rock on down to the Red Light Café for an evening of Americana and jazzy folk with Cicada Rhythm, Ruby the RabbitFoot and Christian Lee Hutson! Make your way to Emory Cinematheque for their screening of Jules Dassin’s film noir prison drama, BRUTE FORCE (1947) during their Burt Lancaster: Centennial Film Fest series at 7:30 pm! The Plaza Theater is offering an encore screening of Peter Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventures, LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY – DIRECTOR’S CUT! And make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack and get rockin’ with Fatback Deluxe!

Ongoing

It’s a hard knock life at the Atlanta Lyric Theater as they present ‘Annie’ through April 20^th! (LAST CHANCE!)

Georgia Ensemble Theatre gets really retro with ‘Camelot’ Broadway-style through April 27^th!

Out of Box Theatre presents ‘Always…Patsy Cline,’ running through April 27^th!

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, April 7-13, 2014

Posted on: Apr 7th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Rock out while living la vida Retro and come check out what we have for you ‘This Week’! From vintage-inspired tunes to old-timey flicks, Retro Atlanta has it all! So, come on out and be the Kat’s Meow with Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, April 7

Chill on down to the Actor’s Express tonight at 7 pm for their Cult Classic Cabaret featuring music from Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and more, with a pre-party at 6 pm, so come on out and Time-Warp it up! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-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 Blind Willie’s for an evening with Bill Sheffield! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast with some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, April 8

Get subliminal and join the conspiracy at The Plaza Theater as Splatter Cinema presents John Carpenter’s science-fiction flick of yuppie aliens vs. the rest of us, THEY LIVE (1988) at 9:30 with a special screening of The Biters’ ‘They Live’ tribute music video. And don’t forget to come early for some alien-tastic 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: Spring Chickens &April Showers Edition where $10 gets you 10 sultry acts! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy at The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne’s Funk Royale featuring DJ Quasi Mandisco every other Tuesday! Wipe those tears and dance the night away to the rowdy foot stompin’ Americana of the Boohoo Ramblers at Blind Willie’s! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm. The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. Get the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with the J.T. Speed Band! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with 8^th of January! The Bob Page Trio gets bluesy at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Help Charlotte save Wilbur at the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present ‘Charlotte’s Web’ through May 25^th! Enter (if you dare) Hollywood’s world of illusion with William Holden and Gloria Swanson at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Billy Wilder’s classic, SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) during their L.A. After Dark series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And the Midtown Art Cinema screens Jean Cocteau’s retelling of the classic fairy tale, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946) at 7 pm!

Wednesday, April 9

It’s a gritty rock n roll revival at The Star Bar with Swank Sinatra, Naptaker, R_Garcia and Cinema Novo! The Earl gets rowdy and lawless with the old-time bluegrass-infused punk of I Want Whisky, Lily & The Tigers and Avi Jacob! Funk on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night of funky blues and soul with the Robert Cray Band and AJ Ghent! It’s Widespread Wednesday at Big Tex with Escape Vehicle! For some Dylan-style folk and Americana, make your way to the Red Clay Theater for Chuck Brodsky and Andy Offutt Irwin! Lola delivers some rockin’ blues at S weet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Tad Robinson gets bluesy at Blind Willie’s! Get some soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with The Hollidays! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. And take a trip with William Holden and Gloria Swanson to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Billy Wilder’s classic, SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) during their L.A. After Dark series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, April 10

Get a taste of Bob Dylan’s ‘Blonde on Blonde’ album at the Red Light Café as ATL Collective pays tribute by performing the album in its entirety! Get down and dirty at the Clermont Lounge with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club! For a night of psychedelic and 70’s-inspired rock, make your way to Purgatory at the Masquerade for a night with Kadavar and Mothership! Punk on down to Wonderroot for Wicked Pretty, The Hotels, Tight Genes and Sunday Whiskey! For a little Rosanne Cash-style bluegrass and rock, stomp on down to the Red Clay Theater for Missy Raines & the New Hip and Poor Old Shine! 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 Th e Cazanovas! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a few cocktails with Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier and his Polynesian pop lounge band, Tonga Hiti! The Unusual Suspects get the blues at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get really retro with King Arthur, Guenevere and Sir Lancelot in the Broadway musical, ‘Camelot’ at the Georgia Ensemble Theatre through April 27^th! It’s your last chance to catch Billy Wilder’s classic, SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their L.A. After Dark series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And become a star at The Plaza Theater as their Cineprov group riff’s Albert Magnoli’s, PURPLE RAIN (1984) at 7:30!

Friday, April 11

Georgia State University’s School of Music presents Robert Ward’s operatic adaptation of Arthur Miller’s classic tale set during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, ‘The Crucible’ running through Sunday, April 13^th! Or get old-fashioned country style and make your way to the Out of Box Theatre as they present ‘Always…Patsy Cline,’ delving into the friendship that spawned between Patsy and her most devoted fan, Louise Seger, running through April 27^th! Get really retro at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center as the Atlanta Ballet presents Stephen Mills’ ‘Hamlet’ with music by Philip Glass, through Sunday, April 13^th! Tonight begins the 78^th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival in Piedmont Park, spanning 3 days, chock full of live music, tasty food, art vendors, cultural performances and so much more! Tonight, you won’t want to miss The Georgia Flood, Partial Cinema, Norman Frank & The Ghost Dance and so much more!

Get your fill of retro-inspired down and dirty punk at The Earl with Turf War, Concord America, Ranch Ghost and Majestico! It’s a night of Delta blues and hillbilly fervor at The Star Bar with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and the Dex Romweber Duo! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Jesse & the Great Perhaps, Beauregard & His Down Rights, Bahnof and Threadbare Skivvies! For a little Bob Dylan and Beatles-inspired tunes, make your way to the Basement for Interstellar and Sacred City! It’s a Halfway to Halloween Party at Legend Café, produced by Markster Con featuring costume contests and a musical lineup of industrial, Goth, 80s and electronica! The Dirty Guv’nahs rock out with vintage zest along with Cereus Bright at Terminal West! The 5^th Annual Reagan Rock Prom invades Park Tavern in Piedmont Park with the Yacht Rock Review’s ‘yachty’ 80s jams and rockin’ 80’s fashion! ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night gets rockin’ with their Guilty Pleasures Edition at Famous Pub, and don’t miss out every Friday night with a different theme (And check out our Kool Kat interview with VJ Anthony coming this week!) Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets bluesy with Lady D while Blind Willie’s has Sandra Hall & The Shadows! The Shuffle Junkies dish out the blues and classic rock at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Swami Gone Bananas delivers a night of psychedelic 70’s rock at the Northside Tavern while Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs delivers decades’ worth of pop folk with Randall Bramblett and Hank Barbee! It’s a night of New Orleans’ funk, blues and jazz under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The Mar-Tans! Donna Hopkins gets rootsy, rock-style down at the Moonshadow Tavern in Tucker! Emory Cinematheque screens Louis Malle’s ATLANTIC CITY (1980) during their Burt Lancaster: Centennial Film Fest series! 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, April 12

Hey Daddy-O! Rev on down to the Dixie Tavern for Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Punk on down to The Star Bar for the Zoners and Onchi’s 7” Release Party with the Get High Boys! It’s Day 2 of the 78^th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival at Piedmont Park and you won’t want to miss the retro sounds of 38^th Parallel, Reaspec, Jubee & The Morning After and Secondhand Swagger! Take a magic carpet ride through the historic Arabian-themed Fox Theater as they kick off their ‘Spring Fling withWild Things’ tours running every Saturday through May 17^th, featuring animals from ZooAtlanta, where will have a chance to mingle with Kool Kat Scott Hardin, the Fox Theater’s projectionist since 1978! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night of bluegrass with the Packway Handle Band! Francine Reed delivers a night of sultry blues at Blind Willie’s while Ike Stubblefield gets down and dirty at Northside Tavern! It’s a night of Americana and cosmic rockin’ boogie at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Steve Baskin and Scott Shiflett’s Client 9 from Outer Space with Playing on the Planet, followed by the ‘psychedelic junkyard roots’ of RollingNowhere! Get swampy at Big Tex as Zydeco Ya Ya delivers a night of Cajun blues and swing! For a night of classic old-school rock, make your way to Wonderroot for Scarlett, Livingstone and Forecaster! The Michelle Malone Banned rocks out at the Crimson Moon Café! The Family Dog delivers a night of rockin’ blues with TheBrotherland! Stomp on down to Terminal West for the Steep Canyon Rangers and CicadaRhythm! Lady T gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets old-school and bluesy with Mac Arnold & Plate Full of Blues with Little G Weevil! 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, April 13

Dita Von Teese delivers a night of temptations and sultry tease at her “Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray!” Variety Show at the Tabernacle! It’s day 3 and your last chance to catch the 78^th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival, featuring a musical lineup of Jack Preston & Dojo Collective, Neil Cribbs, All the Locals and Sailing to Denver! It’s a bluegrass brunch at Big Tex with The Cohen Brother’s Band at 11:30 am! 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 hootenanny ‘Dunch’ at The Earl with Georgia Slim & The Stovetop Ramblers! Francine Reed and The Jez Graham Trio get bluesy at The Family Dog! For some Americana and foot-stompin’ bluegrass, make your way to Eddie’s Attic for The Brothers Comatose with special guests, BattlefieldCollective! And make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack and get rockin’ with Fatback Deluxe!

Ongoing

It’s a hard knock life at the Atlanta Lyric Theater as they present ‘Annie’ through April 20^th!

Georgia Ensemble Theatre gets really retro with ‘Camelot’ Broadway-style through April 27^th!

Out of Box Theatre presents ‘Always…Patsy Cline,’ running through April 27^th!

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, March 31-April 6, 2014

Posted on: Mar 30th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

It may be April Fools, but it’s no joke that Retro Atlanta is hot, hot, hot ‘This Week’! Come on out and see what’s on the menu this week! We’ve got all the ‘billy your little ‘ole hearts could desire! We’ve got cosmic rock! We’ve got 80s dance night! We’ve got swing and blues and jazz, Oh My! And we’ve got all the retro flicks you’ve been craving! So, leave the cold behind, get off that couch and get Retro!!

Monday, March 31

Get your little black hearts crammed full of horror rock and psychobilly at 529 with Calabrese, Kool Kats Ryan Howard, Derek Obscura and Jamie Robertson of the Casket Creatures, Crypt 24 and Radio Cult! Or get vintage at Eddie’s Attic with Pokey LeFarge delivering some swingin’ old-time jazz, ragtime, country blues and Western swing! Owner of the Sun and The Working Effective rock out Americana and bluegrass-style at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or relive the glory days at the Morris & Rae Frank Theater as they present ‘Glory Days: The Music You Grew Up With’ celebrating the 50s and 60s with Motown, Broadway, doo-wop performances and more! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-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 Blind Willie’s for Marshall Ruffin! Blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for an extra helping of the blues with The Pork Bellies and some finger lickin’ BBQ! And get jazzy, mobster and bootlegger-style at the Woodruff Arts Center as the Alliance Theater presents Francis Ford Coppola’s star-studded ‘30s gangster flick, THE COTTON CLUB (1984) at 7:30 pm!
Tuesday, April 1

529 delivers a night of horror-billy and rockin’ bluegrass Americana with Cute Boots, The Pine Box Boys, Battlefield Collective and Blood on the Harp! Tonight indie-rock alumn Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean & Britta) rocks out with the Boogarins at The Earl! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm. The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. Get the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with the J.T. Speed Band! City Mouse gets folksy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s a night of corruption and law enforcement at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Curtis Hanson’s 50s crime drama, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) during their L.A. After Dark series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And the Midtown Art Cinema screens Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963) at 7 pm!

Wednesday, April 2

It’s a night of art punk and new-wave at the Variety Playhouse as Television deliver a little rowdy NYC rock! Maryline Blackburn gets old school and jazzy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Ryan Whitehead! Get mischievous and skank on down to the Masquerade for a night of devilish Ska and punk with Mephiskapheles, The Taj Motel Trio, and Hermits of Suburbia! 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 funky at Terminal West with Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band and the Georgia Soul Council! Get some soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with The Hollidays! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. And get criminal at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Curtis Hanson’s 50s crime drama, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) during their L.A. After Dark series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, April 3

It’s a night of soul and dance pop at Vinyl with The Mowgli’s, Misterwives and Baby Bee! Rock on down to The Earl for a screening of BREADCRUMB TRAIL (2014), Lance Bang’s documentary of post-rock pioneers, Slint and the Louisville music underground where they emerged! 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! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and some music by Alex Gordon Hi-Fi featuring Marshall Ruffin! And it’s your last chance to get a taste of some dirty cops at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Curtis Hanson’s 50s crime drama, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) during their L.A. After Dark series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, April 4

Get cosmic and rock on down to The Star Bar and help celebrate the music of Gram Parsons, featuring Slim Chance & The Convicts, Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, I Want Whiskey, Blake Rainey & His Demons and Rolling Nowhere! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt gets acoustic and wildly solo at the Buck Creek Tavern in High Falls! 529 delivers a night of delta psych and garage rock with Bipolaroid, Tiger! Tiger! and Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! The Strand Theater delivers a night of Bond, James Bond, as they screen Guy Hamilton’s classic spy flick, GOLDFINGER (1964) starring the one and only, Sean Connery at 8 pm, with a pre-show variety pops show at 7:30! DJ Anthony’s ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night gets rockin’ with the Lost Boys Edition at Famous Pub, and don’t miss out every Friday night with a different theme (Keep your eyes peeled for DJ Anthony’s Kool Kat interview soon!)! It’s a night of soul with The Hollidays at Big Tex! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for David Peterson of 1946 delivering some high-energy bluegrass! Swagger on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night of Kansas City Blues with Atlanta Boogie! The Sweet & Salty Blues Band gets down and dirty at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for Railroad Earth and the Dead Winter Carpenters! Webb Wilder and Gibson Wilbanks get rootsy Americana-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! It’s a night of Chicago and West Coast blues under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with the Electromatics! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of down and dirty blues with the Cody Matlock Band! It’s a hard knock life at the Atlanta Lyric Theater as they present ‘Annie’ at 8 pm through April 20^th! 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, April 5

Shimmy on down to Elliott Street Pub as Kool Kat Kitty Love presents Cheeky Belles Burlesque ‘Flashbacks’ featuring music from the past eight decades and performances by Angelica Vice, Salvador Charli, Monique LaMystique, Sunshine Divine, JudyAnne Foxe, Kitty Love and so much more! Or, get geeky and throw on your cape and get villainous at Markster Con’s Super Hero Pub Crawl beginning at the Diesel Filling Station in Virginia Highlands from 4 to 10 pm! So, come on out and save the world one drink at a time followed by costume contests and two after-parties!

The madness and absurdity that is, Kool Kat Colonel Bruce Hampton slings over 50 years worth of his funky, jazz-infused rhythm with special guest Eric Norman (Sightless Fish) at the Red Light Café! It’s night two of Railroad Earth’s rockin’ Americana and bluegrass at the Variety Playhouse with Have Gun Will Travel! Rev on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for the Charlie Sheets Band and Boomfox! For a little gutter-billy and punk, rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for The Goddamn Gallows, The Vaginas and Holy Quit! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night of 70s/80s Canadian metal with Anvil with Leaving Babylon in Hell! Or get a taste of the 60s, greasers and drive-ins at The Strand Theater as they present Francis Ford Coppola’s classic, AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) at 8 pm with a variety pops pre-show at 7:30 pm! The Family Dog rocks out and gets some soul with The Hollidays! For a little punk-spiked bluegrass and country, rock on down to Terminal West for The Whiskey Gentry, Radiolucent and The Defibulators! Ron Cooley gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Cazanovas get bluesy at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, April 6

It’s a bluegrass brunch at Bi g Tex with Cedar Hill! Or maybe get jazzy at Steve’s Live Music with Deb Bowman during their jazz brunch at 12:30 pm! Get retro, VHS-style at The Earl during their Found Footage Festival showcasing videos found at garage sales, thrift stores and the like, with a ‘guided tour’ by Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher as they present their latest and greatest finds! And make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack and get rockin’ with Fatback Deluxe!

Ongoing

It’s a hard knock life at the Atlanta Lyric Theater as they present ‘Annie’ through April 20^th!

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

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

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 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.

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This Week in Retro Atlanta, March 24-30, 2014

Posted on: Mar 23rd, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Spring is here, all you Retro lovelies! So, leave the frigid cold behind, lose the layers and come out and play! Retro Atlanta has all the rockin’ good times you’ve been craving, from revved up rockabilly, honky-tonk, 70s rock n roll and everything in between! And as always, we’ve got all the blues and jazz you could ever want! So, don’t be square and live la vida Retro!

Monday, March 24

Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get down and dirty with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! And blues it up at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for an extra helping of the blues with The Pork Bellys and some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, March 25

Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a Burlesque Battle of the Babes! Get saucy and spend the evening with Sadie Hawkins at her Last Pasties Standing event accompanied by some rockin’ blues and Southern rock! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Ro meo Cologne and DJ Quasi Mandisco every other Tuesday! Take a trip to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night of folksy tunes with Sailing to Denver! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets bluesy with the Bob Page Trio! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm. Timo Arthur rocks out country blues style at Blind Willie’s! The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. It’s serendipity at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at their screening of Nora Ephron’s romantic comedy, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE(1993) during their Happily Ever After series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And get trippy in outer space with Andrei Tarkovsky’s, SOLARIS (1972) at the Midtown Art Cinema at 7 pm!

Wednesday, March 26

Honky-tonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar because it’s a hootenanny and a half tonight as they deliver their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza with the stompin’ and boogyin’ tunes of Atomic Boogie, Kool Kat Caroline Engel & The Ramblers, Whiskey Belt and Big Boss Man! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night of raunchy rock n roll with The Johnny Rebs, The Dirty Magazines and Madre Padre! Get a taste of some Americana, pop and Appalachian rhythms at Eddie’s Atticwith Cicada Rhythm’s CD release and Loves It! Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins gets down and dirty blues-style at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Frankly my dears, we do give a damn, so make your way to the Margaret Mitchell House & Museum and join Atlanta History Center’s Party with the Past event, celebrating the 75^th Anniversary of GONE WITH THE WIND and let Sue Verhoef give you the scoop on the 1939 World Premier! Get your fill of some rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! Stomp on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack ‘cause it’s a flood of rockin’ blues and funk with The Georgia Flood! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. And ‘You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss’, at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Nora Ephron’s romantic comedy, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE(1993) during their Happily Ever After series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, March 27

It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down and get your fill of City Mouse, Caleb Warren & The Perfect Gentlemen, Kristina Murray and Reverend Hylton & The Devil’s Hands! It’s an old-timey retro revival at Smith’s Olde Bar as Big Daddy Love and The Jugtime Ragband raise an Appalachian and Dixieland ruckus! Get your dancin’ shoes on and spend an evening, jumpin’ and wailin’ Big Easy-style with Aaron Neville and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band as they celebrate the roots of jazz and New Orleans at the Cobb Energy Center! The Randy Chapman Trio 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! 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 or stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a little Americana and blues with Heather Luttrell & the Possumden! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple Mai Tais and get toasty with the steamy island funk of The Volcanauts with Tracey Wolfe! And it’s your last chance to get fated at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Nora Ephron’s romantic comedy, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993) during their Happily Ever After series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, March 28

The Star Bar gets post-punk and psychedelic with Abby Gogo, Georges Bataille Battle Cry, Shepherds and Sheeba Darwin! The Elliott Street Pub delivers a night of avant-garde Zappa/Mr. Bungle-style with Opposite Box! It’s a night of Americana at Eddie’s Attic with The Black Lillies and Josh Oliver! 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! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for The Free Byrds, The Dirty Doors and Scene of the Crime! It’s a night of retro rock at the Drunken Unicorn with Swank Sinatra, The Hungry Ears, BearKnuckle and Hot Wives! Groove on down to Big Tex for Gr8ful Dude & Frenz! Rock out roots style with Cody Marlowe & The Dead Flowers, Back City Woods and Young America at Vinyl! Get psychedelic at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with Swami Gone Bananas! Suzy Bogguss pays tribute to Merle Haggard at the Red Clay Theater! The Caroline Aiken Band with special guest, Greg Hester, delivers a night of rootsy blues and jazz at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Slink on down to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get your salsa, soul and martini fix at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with the Orquesta MaCuba that’ll have you cha-cha’ing under the dinosaurs! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of down and dirty blues with Leonard Blush! Sandra Hall delivers some bluesy tunes at Blind Willie’s with the Shadows! Get funky at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with the Swamp Funk Quartet! Spend the night with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr at The Strand Theater as they screen Walter Lang’s presentation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic musical, THE KING & I (1956) at 8:00 pm, with a live organ pops variety show at 7:30 pm! ICON 80s Music Video Dance Night invades Famous Pub, with their special John Hughes’ Soundtrack Edition! 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, March 29

Bend over and squeal like a pig because it’s Bacon Fest 2014 at the Masquerade’s Music Park at 1 pm! Leave the kiddies at home because it’s a porkin’ party for the 21+ crowd filled with rockin’ music, carnival games, booze and all things piggy! The rockin’ musical and entertainment line-up features the Timblerig Circus, the sultry geeky teasers that are Blast Off Burlesque, a rockin’ street marching band, The Seed & Feed Marching Abominable, The Dirt Poets, Jesse & The Great Perhaps, The Fingerin’ Bros., The Soggy Top Boys and so much more! So, rock on down to the Masquerade and get your fill of pork-galore and a rockin’ bacon-y good time!

It’s‘A Night of Furry Fury’ at The Star Bar as they benefit Paws Atlanta with a rockin’ musical line-up of Bigfoot, Bad Friend, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters, the Night Terrors, Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses and Eye and Artificial Kid, with an early 6pm show featuring Sodajerk! Rev on over to The Pointe in Conyers to catch Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-DeVilles delivering a night of rockin’ psychobilly that’ll have you dancin’ all night long! Swing on down to the Elliott Street Pub and get a taste of Jacob Deaton! Get a taste of some delta blues and soul at Vinyl with Nathan Angelo, Matrimony and Steve Means! Bluebilly Grit delivers a night of Americana and bluegrass at the Crimson Moon Café! The Bitteroots rock out with some soul at Big Tex! Bela Fleck and his wife Abigail Washburn bluegrass it up at the Rialto Center for the Arts! Or stomp on down to Stone Mountain Village for their 5^th Annual Blue Grassroots Music and Arts Festival for two days of old-time music, arts, crafts and folk dancing in celebration of the City of Stone Mountain’s 175^th Anniversary! Hot Sauce & Honey get funky and old-school in rockin’ Burlesque-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! The Kerry Hill Band gets bluesy at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack while The Nighthawks deliver a night of rockin’ roots and blues at Blind Willie’s! Victor Wainwright has the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues and you won’t want to miss Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck firing up his rockin’ blues at Northside Tavern! Take a hilarious trip with King Arthur and his knights as they embark on a trek for the Grail at The Strand Theater as they screen MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at 8 pm with a pre-show variety pops show at 7:30 pm! 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, March 30

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! Greg Trooper and Brandon Reeves deliver a little Memphis soul, Greenwich Village folk and Nashville twang at Eddie’s Attic! Mang pays a rockin’ tribute to Ween at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jez Graham and friends deliver a night of jazz, rock and blues at The Family Dog! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets funky, New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans! And slither on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for some rockin’ blues with Snakelegs!

Ongoing

New American Shakespeare Tavern presents ‘Romeo & Juliet’ until March 30^th! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

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 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.

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