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This Week in Retro Atlanta, March 17-23, 2014

Posted on: Mar 16th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta is scorchin’ with Kool Kats galore and all the rockin’ good times you’ve been cravin’! So, come on out and see what we’ve got on the Retro menu for you!

Monday, March 17

Get lucky Retro-style tonight because it’s St. Patty’s Day! For a night of punk rock goodness, stagger on down to The Music Room for their Bill Murray Appreciation Day/St. Patty’s Day event, featuring a raucous musical line-up of the Salts, Ganges Phalanges, Blue Tower and Awkward Sounds! Or get your rockin’ roots and folk fix at Smith’s Olde Bar with Floodwood, Donna Hopkins and Jeff Mosier! 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! 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 18

Get vintage with the vivacious vixens from both sides of the Mason Dixon as The Mason Dixie Burlesque Tour invades the Red Light Café! It’ll be a rowdy ruckus with a smokin’ line-up of sultry performances by Deanna Danger, Ula Uberbusen, Hazel Honeysuckle, Porcelain and Atlanta’s own blazin’ aerialist and fire-performer, Sadie Hawkins! Get a taste of some country punk and polka-billy at Smith’s Olde Bar with A Pony Named Olga and Prem Midha! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with The Night Travelers and Jason Bailey, followed by the mesmerizing ‘kaleidophrenic cabaret’ of Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands! It’s a night of Appalachian folk, rockabilly and bluegrass at Eddie’s Attic with Waller, Battlefield Collective and City Mouse! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of soul and rock n roll with The Holidays! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with the Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! 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. Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden light up the screen at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Billy Wilder’s classic, SABRINA (1954) during their Happily Ever After series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And catch Francis Truffaut’s French New Wave classic, 400 BLOWS (1959) at the Midtown Art Cinema!

Wednesday, March 19

Get satirical at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Olivier Assayas’ film-within-a-film, IRMA VEP (1996) and his pictorial view of the contemporary French film industry during their Global French Cinema series at Emory’s White Hall! Variety Playhouse delivers a night of late 70s British rock with The Straits, featuring original members of Dire Straits and performing their greatest hits! Skank on down to Smith’s Olde Bar as they dish out a night of Ska, reggae and surf rock with Arden Park Roots, Beauregard & the Downright and Mario Diaz & the Steady Vibes! Noah Gunderson dishes out his brand of folk, described as having the darkness of Tom Waits with the lyrical angst of Neil Young at Eddie’s Attic with two shows, 8 pm and 10 pm! Or for something a little more traditional, get folksy at the Red Clay Theater with The Stray Birds! Get jazzy at the Elliott Street Pub with Frank Barham! Lola delivers some rockin’ blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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 find out who the chauffer’s daughter picks at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Billy Wilder’s classic romantic comedy, SABRINA (1954) during their Happily Ever After series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, March 20

Shimmy on down and get a taste of some saucy burlesque and cabaret from around the world with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her Syrens of the South as they bring you the 4^th Annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest at the Wyndham Atlanta Galleria! It’s a glorious four-day event that promises bawdy burlesque performances, variety shows, vaudeville, workshops and a vendor’s room with all things pin-up and retro! Headlining performances by the Queen of Burlesque, Miss Exotic World 2008, Angie Pontani; King of Burlesque, Mr. Exotic World 2013, Ray Gunn; Burlesque legend, Penny Starr, Sr.; Penny Starr, Jr,; Ms. Southern Fried 2013, Lola LeSoleil (Keep your eyes peeled for Lola’s Kool Kat interview!); regional starlet, Kool Kat Ursula Undress and emceed by Cora Vette! Tonight’s events include a CockTail hour and the newcomer’s showcase! So, come on down and get teased with the best of ‘em!

Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a little bluegrass with Mercer & Johnson! 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 head down to Blind Willie’s for a taste of Sweet Betty & the Shadows! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Terminal West gets bluegrassin’ with Greensky Bluegrass and Larry Keel! It’s a night of bloody beehives and B-movie babes at Mary’s as the GLITZ girls present their Invasion of the Super Gunts drag variety show! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple MaiTais and some rockin’ island tunes! And it’s your last chance to catch Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden light up the big screen at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Billy Wilder’s classic film, SABRINA (1954) during their Happily Ever After series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, March 21

Get tantalized and teased because it’s night 2 of the 4^th Annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest with the Free Range Burlesque Spectacular featuring sultry Burlesque from around the world! Don’t be chicken and get out and get Retro shimmy-style! Get your garage-rock revival with a tinge of 50s and 60s rockabilly fix at The Star Bar tonight with The Fleshtones, Tiger! Tiger! and debuting Black Linen! Swing on by the Red Light Café for a night of Steampunk and swing during the Atlanta Speakeasy ElectroSwing dance night with DJ Doctor Q! 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! ICON 80s Music Video Dance Night invades Famous Pub, with tunes from The Cure to Madonna!

The Moody Blues bring their Timeless Flight Tour to The Fox! Marcia Ball delivers 30 years of ruckus raisin’ with her southern boogie and roadhouse blues at the Variety Playhouse! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Heather Luttrell & the Possumden and Billie in the Woods! Or for some soul-soaked Americana, make your way to the Red Clay Theater and get a taste of Julianna Finch and the Neil Cribbs Band! Get funky at 529 with Heavy Chevy! Or groove on down to Terminal West for a night with Dumpstaphunk and Funk You! Big Swig’s roadhouse blues and honky-tonk takes over Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Get jazzy at the High Museum with Karla Harris! Matt Wauchope gets bluesy at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get the blues at Northside Tavern with Stoney Brooks! It’s salsa dance night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with the Salsambo Dance Studio that’ll have you cha-cha’ing under the dinosaurs! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with the Mike Lowry Band! Francine Reed delivers some bluesy tunes at Blind Willie’s with the Shadows! Stomp on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a rockin’ night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Come on down to the Dekalb History Center from 6-8 pm for their free Annual Meeting & Silent Auction, locally catered and bid on all sorts of cool items for the vintage lover in you, donated for the silent auction by local businesses, so do your part and help support historical preservation! 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 22

Shimmy on down for night 3 of the 4^th Annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest because tonight it gets Hot! Hot! Hot! with the Southern Scorcher Showcase, featuring Kool Kat Ursula Undress and so many more! Stomp on down to the Northside Tavern ‘cause it’s the 2014 Chicken Raid, promising 2 rockin’ days of blues and roots honoring the life and music of Atlanta bluesman, Frank Edwards, with food catered by Fat Matt’s Rib Shack and a rockin’ musical line-up, including Albert White, Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins, Sweet Betty, Billy George & Mo’Lightnin’, Chicken & Pigs, Lola, Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, Little G Weevil, The Breeze Kings and so much more! So, come on out and pay your dues with the best of ‘em!

Kool Kat Phil Stair and Grim Rooster honky-tonk it up at the Sweetwater Bar & Grill in Deluth! Stagger on over to Famous Pub for the Blackout Classic Goth & Industrial Dance Night and get your underground, dark 80s and synthpop fix! Crosby, Stills & Nash invade The Fox while Cosmic Charlie delivers a night of Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd at their Dark Side of the Dead Event at the Variety Playhouse! David Gans (The Grateful Dead Hour) delivers a night of country blues and finger pickin’ with the Rumpke Mountain Boys at the Red Light Café! The madness and absurdity that is, Kool Kat Colonel Bruce Hampton slings over 50 years worth of his funky, jazz-infused rhythm with CBDB and Voodoo Visionary at Smith’s Olde Bar! 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! It’s the 2^nd Annual Blues Piano Duel at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with 3 generations of blues pianists; Matthew Wauchope, Bob Page and Eddie Tigner! Rock out at the Drunken Unicorn with the retro rock of Shade Tree Philosophy, Sleep the Owls and Johnny! Bad Touch! Pay tribute to The Doors at The Family Dog with the Dirty Doors! Big Tex rocks out with The Rainmen! Michelle Malone delivers 2 shows worth (7 and 9:30 pm) of her folksy, rockin’ blues at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for C hicken & Pigs! Blind Willie’s gets bluesy with HouseRocker Johnson & the Shadows! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack offers up a hoppin’ plate of some rockin’ BBQ and blues with the Larry Griffith Band! 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 23

It’s day two and your last chance to catch a rockin’ blues-filled day at the 2014 Chicken Raid at Northside Tavern! It’s your last chance to get sultry at the 4^th Annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest! 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 get a second helping of the Bonaventure Quartet at The Family Dog at 7 pm! The Decatur Bluegrass Association dishes up some foot stompin’ bluegrass at Big Tex’s Bluegrass Brunch! Slither on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for some rockin’ blues with Snakelegs! And Steve Earl and Shawn Colvin deliver a night of rockin’ blues at Atlanta Symphony Hall!

Ongoing

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

The Star Bar gets groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ QuasiMandisco every other 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, March 10-16, 2014

Posted on: Mar 10th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

You may be wary of the Ides of March, but we promise you’ll have a rockin’ good time in Retro Atlanta this week! We’ve got a goodie bag full of swell Kool Kats on top of all the vintage shenanigans you’ve been craving! So, get off that couch and live le vida Retro!

Monday, March 10

If Monday’s got you down, Retro Atlanta has the cure! For a night of raunchy garage revival and old-school punk, rock on down to the Masquerade for The Orwells, Twin Peaks and The Silver Palms! Or rawk on down to 529 for Dino’s Boys’ LP release party with Paint Fumes, The Brothers Gross and Draw Blood! For something a little unique and nostalgic, catch Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and the Bicycle Eaters along with Bear’s Den at The Earl! Blind Willie’s gets rootsy with Brandon Reeves! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues 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 11

Get tortured at The Plaza Theater as Splatter Cinema gets super gruesome at their presentation of David Cronenberg’s bizarre science-fiction and horror-filled flick, VIDEODROME (1983) at 9:30, and don’t forget to come early for some chilling lobby shenanigans and classic horror trailers! Or for something a little lighter and a whole lot more seductive, shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her Syrens of the South’s Tease Tuesday: March of Madness Edition, featuring a spicy evening with the fiery Ruby Redmayne and so much more! You can’t beat 10 acts for 10 bucks, so, come on and get teased with a little burlesque, a little Vaudeville, a whole lotta variety and everything saucy and tasty!

Rock out and drink alone with George Thorogood & The Destroyers as they deliver 40 years worth of rockin’ blues along with Fifth on the Floor at Center Stage! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Or get roots n’ bluesy at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint tonight with the Bob Page Trio! M.O.T.O delivers a rockin’ night with their 80s garage punk along with The Selfish Lovers at a special early show (8 pm) at The Star Bar followed by a rockin’ disco inferno with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Quasi Mandisco! Or get you’re your 60s neo-tropical pop folk fix at Eddie’s Attic with Adron and Faye Webster! 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 Jo e 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. Drag out those shoulder-padded suits, fluff your hair and get ambitious 80s-style at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Mike Nichols’, WORKING GIRL (1988) during their Happily Ever After series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And for all you pretty girls and bad boys, all you need is a girl and a gun at the Midtown Art Cinema’s screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS (1960), film noir at its sexiest!

Wednesday, March 12

Rock on down to The Earl for some avant-garde blues and psychedelic post-rock with The Locksmyth, England in 1819 and Absence of Ocean! The Dirty Bourbon River Show will douse you in their New Orleans Gypsy Brass Circus Rock tonight at The Star Bar! Or for a night filled with surf rock and some high-energy ‘mosh pit polka’, cha-cha on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Brave Combo! 529 rocks out Cramps-style at their Air Wolves CD release party along with the punk rockin’ Hip to Death and The Fire Tonight! Get soaked in rockin’ folk tinged with R&B at Eddie’s Attic with The Shadowboxers, Daniel Dewitt and Faye Webster! Blind Willie’s gets bluesy with a dash of jazz and southern soul with Kool Kat Scott Glazer & his Mojo Dojo! Big Tex’s Widespread Wednesday event has some bluegrass and reggae blues with Escape Vehicle! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with the Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings. 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. Get to work with Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Mike Nichols’, WORKING GIRL (1988) during their Happily Ever After series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, March 13

It’s a night of sex, drugs and bluegrass at the Red Light Café tonight with Grits & Soul, the BorderHop Trio (BorderHop Five) and Good Natured Children! Get dreamy and rock out with some blues and folk at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Stacktone Slims, Back on the Freakout and Rented Mule! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of bluegrass and Americana with the Barry Waldrep Band and Sweetwater Road! The Earl rocks out with a little folk and psychedlia with Ben Trickey, Madeline and Montanus (Long Shadows)! If you have a mischievous taste for some seething Scandinavian 90s heavy metal, rock on out to the Masquerade for a Finnish fest of rock with Children of Bodom along with Death Angel and Tyr! 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 head down to Blind Willie’s for a blues-filled night with Tommy Brown & the Shadows! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get a taste of some New Orleans funk with The Mar-Tans and a side of finger lickin’ BBQ at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Donna Hopkins dishes out her rockin’ soul at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple MaiTais and some rockin’ island tunes! And it’s your last chance to get ambitious 80s-style at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Mike Nichols’, WORKING GIRL (1988) during their Happily Ever After series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, March 14

Atlanta is the Kat’s meow tonight with Kool Kats galore! Throw on your boots and honky-tonk on down to The Star Bar for Kool Kat Cletis Reid & His City Cousins throwin’ one hell of a boot stompin’ CD Release party along with Julea & Her Dear Johns (keep your eyes peeled for Julea’s Kool Kat interview this week!) and the Blacktop Rockets! Or rev on over to The Alamo in Newnan to catch Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-DeVilles delivering a night of rockin’ psychobilly that’ll have you dancin’ all night long! Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics dish out some Georgia soul and 50s/60s R&B with a side of Factory’s doo-wop at The Earl! And you won’t want to miss our BFF blogger Kool Kat Jonathan Williams’ Wrestling with Pop Culture 3^rd Anniversary Party at Famous Pub! Don’t miss all the wrastlin’ shenanigans with Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. Prof. Morte, Atlanta’s ghost host with the most, as he gets in the ring with the Kentucky Wolfman! Monstrosity Championship Wrestling delivers a night of classic monsters vs. wrestlers, with terrifying tunes by Kool Kats Ryan Howard, Derek Obscura and Jamie Robertson of the Casket Creatures waking you from the dead with their horror punk from the unknown! So, come on out for a horrific night of monsters, rockin’ tunes and wrastlin’!

Release your inner zombie at Legend Café during their Bloody Gold Event! It’s a St. Patty’s Day party with a heavy tinge of zombie, so, rock on down and get your zombified leprechaun fix! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a rockin’ night with The Last Waltz Ensemble, the Glen Pridgen Band and Adam Klein & the Wild Fires! Stomp on down to Terminal West for a bluegrass hootenanny with The Infamous Stringdusters and Fruition! Fatback Deluxe delivers a blues-filled night at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! It’s a night of blues and soul at the Variety Playhouse with veteran bluesman, Tinsley Ellis and Diane Durrett! Rock out blues and Americana-style with two live recordings at Eddie’s Attic with Delta Moon at 7pm and 9:30 pm! Get swanky at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Bogey & the Viceroy’s old-school rock n roll, while boogying under the dinosaurs! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at Billy George & Mo’ Lightnin’s CD Release Party! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Houserocker Johnson & the Shadows or rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Rockaholics! Get jazzy at Elliott Street Pub with the Wasted Potential Brass Band! 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 15

Hey kiddies! It’s G.I. Joe’s 50^th Anniversary, and what better way to celebrate than surround yourself with pop culture’s favorite toys! Make your way to the Marriott Century Hotel for the G.I. Joe/Great Atlanta Toy Convention! The two-day toy extravaganza includes 200 new and classic dealer tables, celebrity guests including comic book artist, Tom Feister and C. Martin Croker, Animation Director at Cartoon Network, panels and a car show featuring the Batmobile, The General Lee and so much more!

Get your St. Patty’s Day party fix at the Masquerade at their 2^nd Annual Shamrock Music Fest being held in the music park with a musical lineup paying tribute to Journey, U2, Van Halen, The Blues Brothers and the Rolling Stones! Big Tex celebrates the arrival of spring with their 3^rd Annual Spring Block Party featuring a musical lineup of the Codey Bearden Band, Ralph Roddenbery, the High Strung Stringband, The Bluefields, Dangermuffin and Copious Jones! Or rev on down to Douglasville to catch Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt with the Psycho-DeVilles at the Irish Bred Pub! The Family Dog gets funky with The Deep Fried Five’s rockin’ disco! Get old-fashioned at the High Museum’s Culture Shock event featuring the tunes of The Muleskinner MacQueen Trio along with Heather Luttrell & the Possumden! The Red Light Café dishes out some rockin’ soul with Diane Durrett and Melissa ‘Junebug’ Massey! Or make your way to the Variety Playhouse for Roxie Watson’s CD Release Party delivering a night of old-country, rockabilly and bluegrass with Jamie Lynn Vessells! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets bluesy, Americana-style with EG Kight! Takenobu gets honkytonkin’ with a cello at The Earl with a little retro-revival of Casper & the Cookies and Virginia Plane’s 80’s alt rock inspired tunes! Get your Irish pride on at Eddie’s Attic as they deliver a night of Celtic Americana from the 80s with The Buddy O’Reilly Band! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack offers up a hoppin’ plate of some rockin’ BBQ and 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, March 16

It’s day two and your last chance to catch the G.I. Joe/Great Atlanta Toy Convention! It’s a toy extravaganza for the kiddie in all of us, so come on down and celebrate G.I. Joe and all the classic toys of your childhood! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs offers up a jazzy plate of Big Band Atlanta during their Jazz Brunch at 12:30! In the Wheelhouse dishes up some country and bluegrass at Big Tex’s Bluegrass Brunch! Slither on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for some rockin’ blues with Snakelegs! Get leathered up and rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with the ‘original OC punk surf power trio’ Agent Orange, along with Burns Like Fire and The El Caminos! And get psychedelic at the Tabernacle with Bob Weir, guitarist for Grateful Dead, and his band Ratdog dishing out some Grateful Dead tunes along with some Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry covers!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Opera’s presentation of ‘Faust’ at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center gets wicked through March 16^th! (LAST CHANCE!)

Georgia Ensemble Theater presents Simon Levy’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of the love, obsession and the roarin’ 20s, ‘The Great Gatsby’, through March 16 (LAST CHANCE!)

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

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 3-9, 2014

Posted on: Mar 2nd, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta offers up a varied rockin’ menu of shenanigans galore! Get fat and happy with a taste of the Big Easy’s jazzy goodness! Or get wickedly horrified with maniacal musicals! We’ve got foot-stompin’ honky-tonk, bluegrass, Americana and all the ‘billy you’ve been craving! And for those with dark little Retro hearts, we’ve got all the hard rock and dark-wave spanning decades of the morose! Don’t be square! Get out and get Retro!

Monday, March 3

Get ready for a night of rockin’ audio and visual shenanigans as Eyedrum delivers a not so gentle nod to psychedelic glam, electronica and Philip Glass with Darsombra, Easily Suede and In Sonitus Lux! Be a Goonie and catch The Fratellis reviving some garage and blues rock at the Masquerade with Ace Reporter and The Ceremonies! 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! 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 4

It’s Mardi Gras! And boy do we have some shindigs that’ll make you fat and happy tonight! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns get down dirty at D.B.A. Barbeque for their Fat Tuesday celebration! Two-step on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night of spicy cajun’ blues and honky-tonk with Hair of the Dog at their Mardi Gras Party! Trek on down to the bayou by way of The Plaza Theater as they screen Jon McBride’s crime drama, THE BIG EASY (1987), starring Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman and Ned Beatty! Or celebrate blues style at Blind Willie’s with Bob Page and his Mardi Gras Trio!

If love brings you down in real life, get your fill in your dreams! It’s Part III of Film Love’s Avant-garde Czech New-Wave affair celebrating the films of Jan Nemec, with their 35mm screening of MARTYRS OF LOVE (1967) tonight at Emory’s White Hall at 8 pm! Get a taste of Lou Reed inspired rock at Smith’s Olde Bar with a night of acoustic punk and spoken word with Hamell on Trial! Rock out to some dark-wave and post-rock, Joy Division and The Cure-inspired tunes of JoyCut, Where.Are.We and the Breathers (members of Qurious and Wowser Bowser) at The Earl! The Farewell Drifters deliver a night of 60s-inspired folk rock at Eddie’s Attic! 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. Have an adventure with Dread Pirate Roberts at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Rob Reiner’s tale of adventure, THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) during their Happily Ever After series’ screening at 7:30 pm! Or for something a little more deadly and adventurous, get your martial arts fix at Midtown Art Cinema as they screen Akira Kurosawa’s SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)!

Wednesday, March 5

Tonight’s a night of kinky Kool Kats and saucy seduction at The Brickyard as they tease with a little kink at their post- ‘Valentine’s Burlesque at the Brickyard’ event! Celebrate love and lust with an evening of striptease, tassels and feathers with performances by aerialist Sadie Hawkins, mysterious magician Chad Sanborn, Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Meredith Greer, ‘The Chameleon Queen’, Stormy Knight, Lola Le Soleil, Tora Torrid, Kool Kat Ursual Undress, Kool Kat Fonda Lingue, Sunny Midnight, Lala Leialoah and so much more! Proceeds go to support SOJOURN (Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender & Sexual Diversity), so shimmy on down and get saucy for a cause!

Put on your dancin’ shoes and swing on over to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jumpin’ jive, offering free lessons from Down South Swing! Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out 60s and 70s-style with NRBQ, The Rainmen and The Western Sizzlers! 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. Skip school and take a trip with a princess, a pirate and a couple of miscreants at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Rob Reiner’s tale of adventure, THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) during their Happily Ever After series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, March 6

The Earl has Local H and Nobody’s Darlings in all their 90s alt-rock, grunge and indie punk glory! Or stomp on down to the Masquerade for July Talk, Wild Party and Verge of Bliss! For a little homegrown Georgia bluegrass with a touch of some rockin’ punk, stomp on down to Red Light Café for My Dixie Wrecked! Shimmy on down to the Elliot Street Pub for a night with Kool Kat Talloolah Love and all things Burlesque at Atlanta Burlesque & Cabaret Society’s March meeting! 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 your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a couple MaiTais and some music harkening from the islands! Get a fill of blues’ history at the Atlanta Cyclorama as they screen Christine Dall’s riveting tale documenting how the blues was born and focuses on the lives of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and more in, WILD WOMEN DON’T HAVE THE BLUES (1989). And it’s your last chance to spend the night with a romantic pirate at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of Rob Reiner’s tale of adventure, THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) during their Happily Ever After series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, March 7

The Conant Performing Arts Center and the Capitol City Opera Company offer up a chilling presentation on a bloody platter with Stephen Sondheim’s maniacal musical masterpiece, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at 8 pm, terrifying through March 9! Or get dark and psychedelic at the Variety Playhousewith the Black Lips and Deerhunter! Famous Pub has your 80s fix at their ICON: Music Video Dance Night featuring videos and music from Madonna to Duran Duran! Let’s Dance! at The Earl with the Wham Bam Bowie Band performing Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’ in its entirety plus his classics from the 60s to the 80s! It’s Blaine Cartwright’s (Nashville Pussy) 50^th Birthday Bash, so rock on down to The Star Bar and celebrate with a little cowpunk and 90’s rock of Nine Pound Hammer, The Forty-Fives and introducing The Night Terrors! For a little rockin’ soul and dirty funk, blues on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds and Gibson Wilbanks! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt gets acoustic and wildly solo at the Buck Creek Tavern in High Falls! Eddie’s Attic gets toasty with the Smokin’ Novas and Cumberland Collective! It’s a Local Punk Rock Showcase in Heaven at the Masquerade with Triangle Fire, Eliminate Earth, White City, Forsaken Profits, Rotten Stitches and Values! Groove on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event for a night of 60s and 70s Jamaican soul with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Review, while boogying under the dinosaurs! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets cookin’ with Biscuit Miller & The Mix while The Stooge Brothers deliver a night of down and dirty blues at Big Tex! Rock on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for Tommy Talton (Cowboy) and Kenny Head! 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 8

Sell your soul to the Devil with The Atlanta Opera as they get wicked at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in their presentation of ‘Faust’ with music composed by Charles Gounod, getting sinful through March 16^th! Or rev on down to the Dixie Tavern in Marietta for some rockin’ psychobilly with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt with the Psycho-DeVilles! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues offers up a plate of blues and old-fashioned ragtime with Brad Vickers & His Vestapolitans! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night of Americana with the Tim McDonald Band and Jimmy T & Tunetrain! For a night of retro-rockin’ garage punk, rock on down to The Star Bar for the Coathangers at their LP Release Party along with The Biters, Cousin Dan and the Zoners! Or sludge on over to The Basement and rock out with the Whores, Pretty Please and Dropout! Get some deep roots and honky-tonkin’ Americana at Smith’s Olde Bar with Willie Sugarcapps, The Grahams and Lilly Hiatt! Swing on over to Big Tex for the Kris Youman’s Band delivering a night of roots, Americana and Western swing! Get some soul at The Family Dog with The Hollidays! Hottie Hawgs BBQ delivers a night of Chicago/Delta blues with The Breeze Kings! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack offers up a hoppin’ plate of some rockin’ BBQ and blues with Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Review! And, it’s DJ Romeo Cologne’s 1000^th funk show at the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge, so, get funky and boogie into his ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, March 9

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! Cedar Hill delivers some stompin’ bluegrass at Big Tex! For some bohemian cabaret and funky gypsy jazz, blues it on down to Vinyl for a night with Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas! Go back to the 90s for a night with Sharon Corr (The Corrs) and her celtic pop-rock at the Variety Playhouse! Slither on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for some rockin’ blues with Snakelegs or stomp on over to The Family Dog for the BooHoo Ramblers!

Ongoing

The Conant Performing Arts Center and the Capitol City Opera Company’s chilling presentation of Stephen Sondheim’s maniacal musical masterpiece, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at 8 pm, terrifies through March 9!

The Atlanta Opera’s presentation of ‘Faust’ at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center gets wicked through March 16^th!

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

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, February 24-March 2, 2014

Posted on: Feb 23rd, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Atlanta is a rockin’ inferno of all things Retro this week! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you! Get revved and rock out with some old-timey ‘billy music! Get to flappin’ with the roarin’ 20s! Or take a trip and get psychedelic! We’ve got whatever your little vintage heart desires! So, Don’t be square, get out and get Retro!

Monday, February 24

Get psychedelic at 529 with Quilt, Abby GoGo and Small Reactions! Cinefest gets retro as they screen William Greaves’ most well-known film, SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (1968) and his attempt to capture true reality on film, running through March 2! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night of rockin’ blues with Marshall Ruffin! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast with some finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 25

Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a Burlesque Battle of the Babes! Get saucy and spend the evening with Sa die Hawkins at her ‘Last Pasties Standing: The Glitter Dome’ event accompanied by some rockin’ songs from 80’s movies! Stomp on down to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Timo Arthur delivers his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! 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 Jo e 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. Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Qu asi Mandisco every other Tuesday! The Northlake Fe stival Movie Tavern will have you packing your bags and running off to Morocco as they screen Michael Curtiz’s classic Bogart-filled Hollywood tale, CASABLANCA (1942) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And the Center for Puppetry Arts gets really retro literary-style as they present David Simpich’s marionette-filled adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic, ‘Great Expectations’, running through March 2!

Wednesday, February 26

It’s a hootenanny and a half tonight at Smith’s Olde Bar as they kick off their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza! You’ll be stompin’ all night to the revved up and rockin’ tunes of Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-DeVilles, Slim Wray, Buck O’ Five, Whiskey Belt and so much more! Give love a bad name and make your way to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge for a night of belly-laughs as Write Club Atlanta presents their ‘Scene Missing Episode 7: Bad Love’ event, offering up a night of writing and comedy based on film where love has gone horribly wrong! Blood Drunk Records presents a night of rockin’ psychedelic punk at The Star Bar featuring the Surrogates, Doesin, Phossy Jaw and Cinema Novo! Honky-tonk on down to The Earl for Robert Ellis and T. Hardy Morris! Get Georgia on your mind and head down to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night of tunes celebrating the legendary Ray Charles, during their ‘Jazz Roots’ series at 8 pm! Frank Barham gets jazzy at Churchill Grounds while The Breeze Kings deliver a night of Chicago and Delta blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Blind Willie’s gets bluesy with a tinge of jazz and southern soul with Kool Kat Scott Glazer & his Mojo Dojo! Frankie’s Blues Mission takes you for a rockin’ blues voyage at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Get the cure for ‘love without love’ tonight at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Leos Carax’s MAUVAIS SANG (THE NIGHT IS YOUNG) (1986) during their Global French Cinema series at Emory’s White Hall! Here’s lookin’ at you, kid, so make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Michael Curtiz’s classic tale, CASABLANCA (1942) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, February 27

Rock out with some honky-punk at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta with The Law Band and Kool Kat Phil Stair with Grim Rooster! It’s a retro-infused night at The Star Bar with a little reggae and punked-out ska with Beauregard & The Down Rights along with Blackfoot Gypsies, Easy Beat and Strange Planet! Stomp on down to The Earl for Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy, Bloodkin and The Higher Choir! Blues on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Andy Margolis & The Usual Suspects! 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! Get glitzy and do the Charleston at the Georgia Ensemble Theater as they present Simon Levy’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of the love, obsession and the roarin’ 20s, ‘The Great Gatsby’, running through March 16! Or swing on down to the Elliot Street Pub for a night with Justin Chesarek and Ryan Whitehead! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings while H eathter Luttrell delivers a night of rockin’ blues and Americana at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. Catch a wave and boogie down beach-party style with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids while sipping a couple MaiTais at Trader Vic’s! And it’s your last chance to escape to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Michael Curtiz’s classic Bogart-filled Hollywood tale, CASABLANCA (1942) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, February 28

The Strand Theater gets really retro with their screening of Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor’s silent classic, SAFETY LAST! (1923) starring Harold Lloyd, accompanied by Ron Carter on the Mighty Allen Theatre Organ! Get your fill of some Avant-garde Czech New-Wave tonight, as Film Love presents part one of three screenings with Jan Nemec’s DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT (1964) at Emory’s White Hall at 8 pm! Get a taste of some browngrass (“just like bluegrass, but just a little dirtier”), and stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with the Porch Bottom Boys and Sour Bridges! Get psychedelic at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with Swami Gone Bananas! It’s a King Cake Party at Northside Tavern, so come on out and get funky with Zydefunk! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night of dirty rock n roll at Volume IV’s record release party, along with Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses an Eye, The Baphomettes and Bully! Get old-fashioned at Big Tex with The Woodshedders and their old-school bluegrass and gypsy jazz! 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! Beam me up Scotty, because ‘Captain’s Log’ is back at the Village Theatre, promising a night of science-fiction inspired comedy of space-tastic proportions! Catch a glimpse of Ol’ Blue Eyes tonight as The Electromatics deliver a night of Chicago and West Coast blues and jazz standards at Churchill Grounds! For a night of Dixie blues, head on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for Seminole Jackson! Get your party hats on ‘cause it’s Blind Willie’s 28^th year of rockin’ the blues, so come on out and celebrate with Lazy Lester and Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne! Rock on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event for the high-energy band, The Pack while sipping cocktails under the dinosaurs! The Rockaholics get bluesy at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues while The Rainmen rock out to some 60s and 70s rock n roll at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! And do the Time-Warp while spicing things up with some naughty and 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 1

You’ve got the fever, Blast Off Burlesque has the cure! Boogie on down in your snazziest platforms and polyester to The Plaza Theater for their TabooLaLa: Saturday Night Fever event! Lobby pre-party shenanigans with DJ Westwood A Go-Go begin at 9 pm! Or geek on down to Famous Pub and get infested at their Infestation 3: Halfway to DragonConevent for a night of zombies, go-go dancers and kilt-wearing lads!

It’s a Mardi Gras Party at the Drunken Unicorn with some ragtime Dixieland prohibition-era pandemonium with Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, Count M’Butu and T he Mar-Tans! It’s part 2 of Film Love’s Avant-garde Czech New-Wave series, so come on out to Emory’s White Hall for Jan Nemec’s once “banned forever,” 35mm screening of his surreal dark comedy, A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND THE GUESTS (1966) at 8 pm! Get psychedelic at the Red Light Café for their Greatful Dead Night featuring gr8FLdude & frenz and Insomniac Gypsy! Get Sham-rocked with some smooth 70s and 80s tunes with Yacht Rock Schooner at Park Tavern in Piedmont Park! Or for a night of rockin’ cow punk and alt country, rock on down to The Earl for R.E.M. co-founder, Peter Buck and Alejandro Escovedo (formerly of the 70s punk group, The Nuns)! Variety Playhouse gets sloppytonkin’ with Shovels & Rope and Hurray For the Riff Raff! Jake & The Beanstalk gets funky at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs while Heathter Luttrell rocks some Americana and blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! For some alt folk and outlaw old-timey country, rock on over to Smith’s Olde Bar for Annabell’s Curse, Southern Bred Co. and The Chris Massey Band in the Atlanta Room, or if you need something a little more funky, boogie upstairs with Freddy’s Finest with Kofi Burbridge, the Donna Hopkin’s Band and Sugarfoot! It’s your second chance to get your fill of The Woodshedders and their old-timey bluegrass and gypsy jazz at Big Tex! Montana Skies gets rootsy at the Crimson Moon Café! Come out and celebrate Mardi Gras-style at the Red Clay Theater with the swingin’ and ragtime band, Sweet Deat & The Revivalists with special guest Adron! Carolina & The Chocolate Drops and their string band get old-timey delivering some old-school blues and bluegrass at the Ferst Center for the Arts! Get glamorous at the Candler Field Museum in Williamson, GA at their ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’ gala and dinner dance with the 20s and 30s sounds of Peachtree Jazz Edition! And, it’s DJ Romeo Cologne’s 1000^th funk show at the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge, so, get funky and boogie into his ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, March 2

Get jazzy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Deb Bowman! Get your fill of some Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at The Earl during their weekly hangover-friendly ‘dunch’! The Red Light Café gets bluesy early as they offer their 89.3 WRFG Benefit Concert featuring some swell blues with Francine Reed, Matt Wauchope (The Mar-Tans), the Dianne Durrett Trio, Timo Arthur, Steve “The Blues Dude” and Albert White from 1-5 pm! And come back later for some rowdy bluegrass and stompin’ Americana with the Sweet Auburn String Band, The Last Tycoon and Kristen Englenz! The Buckhead Theater offers up a night of 90s alternative rock with Switchfoot and the Kopecky Family Band! Get psychedelic and rock on down to the Masquerade for Led Zeppelin 2 delivering Zeppelin’s live concert experience! The Red Clay Theater dishes out some rootsy blues with Bluesman Guy Davis and Fabrizio Poggi, with special guest Veronika Jackson! For a taste of some classical-infused folk pop, skip on over to the Woodruff Arts Center as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Pink Martini with The von Trapps! Get criminal in the bayou at The Plaza Theater as they screen Jon McBride’s crime drama, THE BIG EASY (1987), starring Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman and Ned Beatty! And make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the blues with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents David Simpich’s marionette-filled adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic, ‘Great Expectations’, through March 2!

Cinefest screens William Greaves’ most well-known film, SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (1968) through March 2!

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

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, Feb. 17-23, 2014

Posted on: Feb 16th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

It’s that time again, all you hep Kats and Kittens! The ice has melted and it’s a brand new week! Let us show you what Retro Atlanta has in store for you! We’ve got all the ‘billy your wretched little revved up rockin’ hearts could desire! We’ve got bawdy burlesque and Viking shindigs, taking you way-way back! We’ve got cinematic tributes to punk rockers and poets! We’ve got classic monsters and old-school punk! And as usual, we’ve got all the funk, disco, blues and soul you could ever want! No excuses kiddies! Get out and get Retro!

Monday, February 17

Get psychedelic and groove out to some rockin’ dream pop art rock at 529 tonight with Bleeding Rainbow, the Hunters, Del Venicci and Sioux City Sue! 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. Roll on down to Blind Willie’s for a night of rockin’ blues with Barrelhouse Bob Page! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast with some finger lickin’ BBQ!
Tuesday, February 18

The Loft rocks out reggae-style tonight, so skank on down for a night with The Expendables, Stick Figure and Seedless! Get folksy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with T he Night Travelers with special guest Brian Henke! Get a little soul at Blind Willie’s as they deliver a rockin’ evening with The Hollidays! 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. The Bob Page Trio gets blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! The hills are alive at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern tonight as they screen Robert Wise’s classic musical, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

What’s better than zombies, guns and kink? Nothing! So, if you were stoked to get gory last Tuesday and couldn’t due to the brutal weather, here’s your chance! Creep on down to The Plaza Theater as Splatter Cinema gets gruesome with Michele Saovi’s dark comedy horror flick, CEMETERY MAN (DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE) (1994) at 9:30, preceded by some horrifically blood-filled lobby shenanigans! Or, for something a little more saccharin and sweet, The Plaza Theater’s festival of love and lustful liaisons has been given a second chance to fill your hearts with old Hollywood romance while getting swept away during their post Valentine’s Day Movie Event that’ll have you packing your bags and running off to Morocco in search of love as they screen Michael Curtiz’s classic Bogart-filled Hollywood tale, CASABLANCA (1942)! Or get lured into the bohemian underworld of Paris that’ll have you drowning in temptation at their screening of Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant and vibrant experience, MOULIN ROUGE (2001)! Dames Aflame teases with a short pre-show event and don’t forget, there’ll be plenty of sweets for your sweetie! So, come on out and get your ‘cocktail, courtesan and Casablanca’ fix! And if you were looking forward to letting Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South seduce their way into your naughty little hearts last week, you’ve been given another chance! Red Light Café plays host to their Tease Tuesday: Valentine’s Day Edition where $10 gets you 10 sultry acts, featuring performances by Bella Entendre, Bubble Bordeaux, Ruby Redmayne, the mysterious magic of the Clark Gable look-a-like, Chad Sanborn and so much more!

Wednesday, February 19

For some raunchy rhythms and seedy tunes, rock on down to The Star Bar for Gunpowder Gray, Six Shot Revival, Randy Michael and the Pelvis Breastlies! Get your nerd-rock and rootsy old-timey folk fix at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with R_Garcia, Riverside and Vagabond Philosophy! Or get funky down at Big Tex as Jerry on the Moon delivers their southern folk and funky blues during their Widespread Wednesday event! Blind Willie’s gets down with The Electromatics and their Chicago/West Coast Blues and jazz! You won’t want to miss Lola delivering her funky hard-core blues and soul at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! The Frankie’s Blues Mission takes you for a rockin’ blues voyage at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Emory Cinematheque pays homage to the French New-Wave with Francois Truffaut’s LA NUIT AMERICAIN (DAY FOR NIGHT) (1973) during their Global French Cinema series at Emory’s White Hall! And frolic with Julie Andrews over the Austrian mountains at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Robert Wise’s classic musical, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, February 20

The Clermont Lounge revs up their usual legendary seediness with a night of heavy old-school-inspired rockin’ tunes with Beitthemeans, the Pelvis Breastlies and Six Shot Revival! Rock on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Donna Hopkins and her soulful blues! 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! Banjo on down to the Red Clay Theater for a night of old-timey bluegrass and a record release with Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings while Sweet Betty & The Shadows deliver some sugar-coated sultry blues at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. Catch a wave and spend the night rockin’ out surf-style with Grinder Nova while sipping a couple MaiTais in paradise at Trader Vic’s! It’s your last chance to escape the convent while seeking refuge at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern tonight as they screen Robert Wise’s classic musical, THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And get romantically massacred at Mary’s for their ‘Goth Nite St. Valentine’s Massacre’ event, postponed due to last week’s murderous weather! It’ll be a Goth throw down featuring classic Goth rock, synth pop, post-punk and even tunes from the New Romantic era! And, bring a personalized Goth Valentine’s card to score some free swag!

Friday, February 21

Tonight, Film Love pays a cinematic tribute to poet and rocker, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground and their relationship with their mentor and producer Andy Warhol, the granddaddy of pop art culture, at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center during their Film Love: The Velvet Underground event! Several of Warhol’s original Velvet Underground films will be screened in an immersive, multi-projection environment offering up an unforgettable experience while getting to the ‘roots’ of the cheeky and unorthodox avant garde period. Documentaries to be screened will be THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO (1966), VELVET UNDERGROUND SCREEN TESTS (1966) and THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (1966). Event begins at 8 pm!

Get in the ring at Famous Pub for a night of classic monsters duking it out at Kool Kat Shane Morton’s Monstrosity Championship Wrestling February Frenzy event with the mariachi Misfits cover band, Los Meesfits! The Fratellis revive some garage and blues rock at the Masquerade with Ace Reporter and The Ceremonies! Vinyl dispenses a night of Beatle-esque melodic pop and rock with Kick the Robot, The Roosevelts and That’s My Kid! Blues on down for night one of Mudcat’s Big Dang Band Weekend at the Northside Tavern, featuring the Atlanta Horns! For a little roadhouse rock and juke-joint blues, stomp on over to the Variety Playhouse to catch Delbert McClinton! For a night reminiscent of 90’s garage and alternative, rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Nine Times Blue’s EP Release Party featuring Radar1 and The Affenders! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs offers up a night of rockin’ Americana and blues with Michelle Malone! Get funky with the old-school red hot blues of Funky Bluester at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Francine Reed & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s while the Men in Blues deliver a night of funky blues classics at Hottie Hogs BBQ! Ike Stubblefield gets jazzy at the High Museum’s Friday Jazz event! Get your fill of some good ol’ mountain folk rock and Americana at Mac McGee’s in Roswell with Pioneer Chicken Stand! Cha-cha on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event for Salsa Dance Night with the Salsambo Dance Studio! Sal’s Soulful Sinners promises a night of deliverance at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues while The Rainmen rock out to some 60s and 70s rock n roll at Big Tex! It’s night two and your last chance to banjo on down to the Red Clay Theater for a night of old-timey bluegrass and a record release with Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott! And do the Time-Warp while spicing things up with some naughty and 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, February 22

It’s an End of the World Party, a Norse mythology viking-style rock on to Valhalla party at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club! Blast Off Burlesque Presents their Ragnarok Bingo & Dance Party! delivering a night of Bingo, dancing and surprise performances! Come dressed in your rockin’est Viking getups, win some prizes and get ready for the end of it all, with special guest Bingo callers, punk rocker Kool Kat Jayne County and our local hero and purveyor of all things delicious at Pallookaville Fine Foods, Jim Stacy!

For a night of rockabilly, Americana and honky tonkin’ blues, stomp on down to The Star Bar for Washington DC’s The Highballers, Kool Kat Caroline Engle with Caroline & The Ramblers and Kool Kat Cletis Reid with Cletis & His City Cousins! Or rock on down to the Red Light Caféfor a night of cosmic West Coast country and outlaw Americana with Interstate’s EP release along with Reverend Hylton & The Devil’s Hands! 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 22^nd Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! The Earl delivers a night of surf rock and mojo soul with St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Steelism and the District Attorney’s side project, the Party Dolls! Get the blues at Steve’s Li ve Musicin Sandy Springs with the Electromatics, featuring Jon Liebmon! Fatback Deluxe slings some classic blues and soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s gets down and dirty with Sandra Hall & the Shadows! It’s night two of Mudcat’s Big Dang Band Weekend at the Northside Tavern featuring the Atlanta Horns while Blues Hall of Famer Bobby Messano rocks out with his blues guitar at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Eddie’s Atticpromises a night of antique Americana and rootsy soul with Julia Haltigan, Kristin Diable with special guest, Marshall Ruffin! Get funky at Smith’s Olde Barwith Allgood and The Bitteroots! The circus comes to town at the Masquerade with That 1 Guy (Mike Silverman) slingin’ a psychedelic spectacle show where he gets down and dirty with his invention, The Magic Pipe, offering up a night of classical electronica which can only be described as an ethereal gothic heart-pounding experience! Or for a night of old-timey garage country, stomp on down to the Family Dog and spend the night with the Villain Family! Terminal West gets psychedelic with The BlackAngels, Roky Erickson and the Golden Animals! Today is Kool Kat Shane Morton and Monstrosity Championship Wrestling’s February Frenzy matinee show of wrastlin’ classic monsters fit for the kiddies at the Famous Pub with The Silver Scream Spookshow’s ‘ghost host with the most’, Professor Morte! Get jazzy at Spivey Hall at Clayton State University for an evening with the Monty Alexander Trio! The Loft takes you all the way to the Big Easy with their Taste of New Orleans 1^st Annual Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball with the Atlanta Brass Connection and their funky New Orleans street parade jazz! And, as usual, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, February 23

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 come back for Don Discenza & his Jazz Cabaret at 6 pm, with guest vocalist Shawn Megorden! For a night of traditional blues and new school funk, spend the night in Purgatory at the Masquerade with the Cedric Burnside Project! Francine Reed takes it back to old school blues at Eddie’s Attic! Big Tex has the Cohen Brothers Band slingin’ their style of bluegrass during their weekly Bluegrass Brunch from 11:30 to 2:30 pm! Rick Harris hosts Crimson Moon Café’s Jazz it Up Jam promising a night of classic and organic blues and jazz! The Earl gets stompin’ with the Georgia Mountain String Band during their weekly hangover-friendly ‘dunch’ event! And make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the blues with Tony Bryant!

Ongoing

Woodruff Arts Center gets Victorian with ‘Whistling Psyche’, a 19^th century tale of redemption and reflection, through Feb. 23! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

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

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, February 10-16, 2014

Posted on: Feb 9th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Hey all you lovers and hep vintage romantics! It’s a week of love and lust and romance, oh my! So, if you’re searching for that Funny Valentine or would prefer to forget the day, we have everything your wretched little heart could desire! So, come on out and take a peek at what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!

Monday, February 10

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!’. Get some soul at Blind Willie’s with Brandon Reeves! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White T oast with some finger lickin’ BBQ! And Valentine’s celebrations kick off early this week at the Woodfire Grill! It’s an evening of cabaret, wine and dinner with Georgia Shakespeare at their 6^th Annual ‘Fools For Love’ event at 7 pm! Relax with your other half while cozying up to some sultry jazz standards and songs of love performed by the artists of Georgia Shakespeare!
Tuesday, February 11

What’s better that zombies, guns and kink? Nothing! So, crawl on down to The Plaza Theater as Splatter Cinema gets gory with Michele Saovi’s dark comedy horror flick, CEMETERY MAN (DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE) (1994) at 9:30, preceded by horrifically blood-filled lobby shenanigans! (We know nothing can keep blood-thirsty zombies down! But due to inclement weather, this event will get back to creeping you out on Feb. 18th, same times!) Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for some bluegrass and honky-tonk with 8^th of January! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Wipe those tears and dance the night away to the rowdy foot stompin’ Americana of the Boohoo Ramblers 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. The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. It’s a full moon at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern tonight, so come on down and fall in love Brooklyn-style as they screen Norman Jewison’s MOONSTRUCK (1987) starring Cher & Nicholas Cage during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Come celebrate love this week while getting swept away at The Plaza The ater during their Valentine’s Day Movie Event that’ll have you packing your bags and running off to Morocco in search of love as they screen Michael Curtiz’s classic Bogart-filled Hollywood tale, CA SABLANCA (1942)! Or get lured into the bohemian underworld of Paris that’ll have you drowning in temptation at their screening of Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant and vibrant experience, MOULIN ROUGE (2001)! Dames Aflame teases with a short pre-show and don’t forget, there’ll be plenty of sweets for your sweetie! So, come on out and get your ‘cocktail, courtesan and Casablanca’ fix! (Due to inclement weather, this event will take your breath away on Feb. 18th, same times!)

And 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: Valentine’s Day Edition where $10 gets you 10 sultry acts, featuring performances by Bella Entendre, Bubble Bordeaux, Ruby Redmayne, the mysterious magic of the Clark Gable look-a-like, Chad Sanborn and so much more! (Tease! Tease! Tease! Due to inclement weather, this event will promise to seduce on Feb. 18th, same times!)

Wednesday, February 12

For some raunchy rhythms and 70s-inspired fuzzed-out tunes, rock on down to The Star Bar for The Dirty Magazines, Madre Padre and The Johnny Rebs! Get your punk fix at the Drunken Unicorn with NOBUNNY, The Hussy and Dino’s Boys! Or for some ‘no-wave-tinged post punk’, rock on down to 529 for Georges Bataille Battle Cry, Designer, Twin Studies and Suffer Dragon! Get psychedelically folksy and groove on down to The Earl and spend the night with Ben Trickey, Madeline and Montanus (The Long Shadows)! Or get funky down at Big Tex as Jerry on the Moon delivers their southern folk and funky blues during their Widespread Wednesday event! Little G Weevil gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s while F rankie’s Blues Mission takes you for a rockin’ blues voyage at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Get retro, global-style at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Ousmane Sembene, the Father of African film’s LA NOIRE DE … (BLACK GIRL) (1966) with his short BAROM SARRET (THE WAGONER) (1963) for an evening of Sub-Saharan tragedy and drama during their Global French Cinema series at Emory’s White Hall! (‘When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie…’) It’s amore at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Norman Jewison’s MOONSTRUCK (1987), starring Cher & Nicholas Cage in their Salute to the Oscars series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

And it’s a night of kinky Kool Kats and saucy seduction at The Brickyard tonight as they get tease with a little kink at their ‘Valentine’s Burlesque at the Brickyard’ event! Celebrate love and lust with an evening of striptease, tassels and feathers with performances by aerialist Sadie Hawkins, mysterious magician Chad Sanborn, Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Meredith Greer, ‘The Chameleon Queen’, Stormy Knight, Lola Le Soleil, Tora Torrid, Kool Kat Ursual Undress, Kool Kat Fonda Lingue, Sunny Midnight, Lala Leialoah and so much more! Proceeds go to support SOJOURN (Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender & Sexual Diversity), so shimmy on down and get saucy for a cause!

Thursday, February 13

And the blood-letting begins! Let the Prince of Darkness rock you while draining your veins at the Dracula: The Rock Opera CD Release Party & Concert with The Little Five Points Rockstar Orchestra, at 7 Stages running through Feb. 15! Or for a dark and blood-filled pre-Valentine’s celebration, get industrial and rock on down to Mary’s for their ‘Goth Nite St. Valentine’s Massacre’ event! It’ll be a Goth throw down featuring classic Goth rock, synth pop, post-punk and even tunes from the New Romantic era! And, bring a personalized Goth Valentine’s card to score some free swag!

For a night of fantasy and 80’s metal, rock on down to the Masquerade for a head-banging mythical evening with Manowar! The Earl gets rebellious and rocks out with The McNifficent 7, The Johnny Rebs and Wicked Pretty! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of swamp rock in the Music Room with 60s and 70s rocker, Tony Joe White (‘Polk Salad Annie’) along with Jonah Tolchin and the Scott Little Band! Or make your way to the Atlanta Room for the glam-rock stylins’ and electro pop experience of Jade Lemons & The Crimson Lust, Frisky Monkey and Evan Andree! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Jason Kenney (Homegrown Revival and The Kenney-Blackmon String Band) at their weekly Bluegrass Thursday event! Get psychedelic as Dave Mason’s (Traffic) ‘Traffic Jam Tour’ makes a pit stop and rocks out at the Variety Playhouse! For a night of 70’s-inspired euro punk, rock over to the Drunken Unicorn for GG King, the Zoners, Eel Pie and Wymyns Prysyn! The legendary Buddy Guy delivers a night of Chicago blues with Ana Popovic rockin’ it blues-style at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Family Dog delivers a night of new-wave and post-punk with Start Making Sense, a Talking Heads tribute! Steve’s Live Music gets bluesy with The UnUsual Suspects! Get swanky with some book learnin’ at the Clermont Lounge’s ‘No Camera: The Clermont Lounge’ Book Signing event, while rockin’ out with Swank Sinatra, Battlefield Collective and Blood on the Harp! Rock out with a night of tributes at 529 with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana), No Need for a Name (No Use for a Name) and Accident Prone (Jawbreaker)! Get folksy 60s-style at Eddie’s Attic with the Farewell Drifters! 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 while Deacon Bluz & The Holy Smoke Band get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. 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! It’s your last chance to spend an evening with Cher & Nick Cage at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Norman Jewison’s MOONSTRUCK (1987) starring Cher & Nicholas Cage during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And get Victorian at the Woodruff Arts Center as director Rebecca Frank presents ‘Whistling Psyche’, a 19^th century tale of redemption and reflection, running through Feb. 23!

Friday, February 14

It’s V-day Kiddies and you know what that means! We’ve dug up a variety of rockin’ vintage shindigs taking place tonight, that we know will get your blood pumping and all set for that shot to the heart, so, keep your eyes peels for our top picks and comprehensive guide for all things Retro and Valentine-y!

For those who prefer alternate history to reality and Victorian-era lifestyles and fantasy, travel back in time to AnachroCon 2014, a 3-day event celebrating historical reenactments, Steampunk, science-fiction, classic horror, literature, fashion and a cornucopia of indulgences! So, catch a train and head on over to the Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center, where you’ll catch informative panels discussing Steampunk as Victorian science-fiction, time travel, Gothic literature, vintage tales of terror (Lovecraft, Poe, Stoker), ghost stories and the classic monster flicks of Universal and Hammer!

Hey Daddy-O! Let Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles have you up and dancin’ all night at Motorheads in McDonough! It’s night two of the Prince of Darkness rocking you while draining your veins at the Dracula: The Rock Opera CD Release Party & Concert with The Little Five Points Rockstar Orchestra, at 7 Stages! Get psyched with The Casket Girls dishing out some David Lynch-inspired rock kicking off the Graveface Roadshow 2014 tour, along with The Stargazer Lillies and Dreamend at 529! Trey Anastasio (Phish) delivers a night of alt-prog rock and funky bluegrass at the Tabernacle! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack slings a little roots and blues with the Johnny Scales Trio! The Northside Tavern has Stoney Brooks dishing out the blues! Blind Willie’s gets down and dirty with the “Empress of the Blues” herself, Sandra Hall & The Shadows! And do the Time-Warp while spicing things up with some naughty and 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, February 15

It’s Day 2 of Victorian-era fantasy, so make your way to AnachroCon 2014! Get a taste of the green fairy at their Tea & Absinthe tasting event, or join the Mad Hatter at his Tea Party! And you won’t want to miss the Toulouse Lautrec-inspired, chanteuse and punk rocker, Frenchy & The Punk, Kevin Spivey’s time-lord rock group, the Steampunk rock of the Extraordinary Contraptions, the dandy Gin Rebellion and a darkly seductive cabaret show with Veronique Chevalier!

The Drunken Unicorn offers a night reminiscent of the rockin’ old-school punk with Cinema Nova, From Where I’m Standing and Cathedral Ring! Rock on over to the Tabernacle for a night of folksy punk with Flogging Molly! Terminal West gets swampadelic and old-school with Larkin Poe, The Shadowboxers and Rosco Bandana! Catch Five-Eight slingin’ their punk-inspired alt rock since the early 90s at The Star Bar with James Hall (Pleasure Club) & The Futura Bold and the Replacements & Hank Williams-inpired sounds of Sodajerk! Get nocturnal at the Masquerade because it’s Nocturnia in Hell Goth & Industrial Dance night with a ‘Post Valentine’s Cardiac Ablation Party’! Holly Golightly on over to The Strand Theater for Blake Edwards’ adaptation of Truman Capote’s glamorous classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) with a pops pre-show at 7:30 pm! Get a taste of Little G Weevil for a second time this week at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Stomp on over to The Family Dog for a night of Pioneer Chicken Stand’s mountain folk rock guaranteed to make you move! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack rocks out with The S ly Dog Band while Delta Moon delivers some bluesy Americana and roots rock at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night. And it’s your last chance to experience The Little Five Points Rockstar Orchestra rocking out at 7 Stages for their Dracula: The Rock Opera CD Release Party & Concert!

Sunday, February 16

It’s day 3 and your last chance to get your fill of Victorian-era shenanigans at AnachroCon 2014! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a good cause and a gluttonous amount of retro-inspired tunes during their Boba Bene-Fett – Help for a Friend event, featuring The Bitteroots, Nine Times Blue, Battle No More, Sodajerk, House of Cards and The Johnny Rebs! Cedar Hill gets stompin’ at Big Tex’s Bluegrass Brunch from 11:30 to 2:30 pm! Rick Harris hosts Crimson Moon Café’s Boomers Gone Wild event, slingin’ tunes of the 60s and 70s! The Earl gets bluesy with Os Ossos during their weekly hangover-friendly ‘dunch’ event! Big Band Atlanta dishes out some madcap swing and classic jazz during their Jazz Brunch at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Or make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the blues with Tony Bryant! And get the Grateful Dead concert experience at the Variety Playhouse as they get groovy with the Dark Star Orchestra performing complete Grateful Dead shows in their entirety!

Ongoing

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

Woodruff Arts Center gets Victorian with ‘Whistling Psyche’, a 19^th century tale of redemption and reflection, through Feb. 23!

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

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, February 3-9, 2014

Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Hey all you Kool Kats and Kittens! Come see what’s on the menu this week in Retro Atlanta! We promise it’s the bees knees and that’ll we’ll have you boogyin’ the night away! We’ve got Big Band and Rockabilly and Horrific Monsters, Oh My! We’ve got all the retro cinema you’ve been craving and don’t forget about our tried and true Blues and Jazz that’ll keep you on your toes! So, get off that couch and rock out Retro-style!

Monday, February 3

The EyeDrum Art & Music Gallary gets really retro as they present Ex Somnium’s magical Warhol-esque puppet performance installations, playing with shadow and light with five charming and whimsical performance installations inspired by Eric Satie’s 19^th century Gnossienne series at their ‘A Walk Through Experience with Satie’ event! Or 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. Blind Willie’s gets bluesy and acoustic with Bill Sheffield! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast with some finger lickin’ BBQ!
Tuesday, February 4

Get 80s and 90s alternative and rock on down to the Tabernacle for a night of indie rock and surf-inspired tunes with the Pixies! Or scoot on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night of old-timey country and Americana with Robbie Fulks with special guest, Dean Fields! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs has the Georgia Crackers and their old-time string band vintage 20s-inspired tunes! Honky-tonk on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall and get your fill of some old school country and bluegrass and a boot stompin’ good time with the legendary Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Spend the night with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck 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. The Entertainment Crackers gets bluesy with their folksy Americana sounds at the Northside Tavern. And the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern has made an offer we can’t refuse with their screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic 40s mobster tale, THE GODFATHER (1972) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, February 5

Get down and dirty sci-fi space punk style at The Earl with Onchi, the Salts, The Dirty Magazines and Cathedral Ring! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night of Americana and old-timey bluegrass and Delta blues with W.B. Givins and the Garrison Blagg Band! Andrew Black slings his blues at Blind Willie’s while Frankie’s Blues Mission takes you for a rockin’ blues voyage at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Put on your dancin’ shoes and skip on over to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Or 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. Keep it in the family and be a witness as the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern screens Francis Ford Coppola’s epic 40s mobster tale, THE GODFATHER (1972) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am! And run off to the Mediterranean by way of Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s PIERROT LE FOU (1965) for an evening of suspense and action during their Global French Cinema series at Emory’s White Hall!

Thursday, February 6

Get to gettin’ down at The Earl as they get revved up celebrating 25 years of Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys while slingin’ their high-energy rockabilly, Jamaican rock-steady, doo-wop and honky-tonk with Eleni Mandell and Vikesh Kapoor! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Banjolicious at their weekly Bluegrass Thursday event! Shimmy on down to the Elliot Street Pub for a night with Kool Kat Talloolah Love and all things Burlesque at Atlanta Burlesque & Cabaret Society’s February meeting! 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! For an evening of New-Wave and soul pop, make your way to Wonderroot for Twin Studies’ LP release party with Scale Model and the Shepherds! Rock on over 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 The Breeze Kings while Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. Surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a rockin’ beach party and a couple cocktails with Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids! Get down and dirty at the Clermont Lounge with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club! Get bloody and splatter on down to The Plaza Theater as their Cineprov group riff’s George Mihalka’s slasher flick, MY BLOODY VALENTINE (1981) at 7:30! Swing on over to Emory’s Schwartz Center for Emory’s 3 day Jazz Fest 2014 event’s Big Band Night, featuring the Gary Motley Trio and Barbara Morrison! And it’s your last chance to spend a blood-filled evening with the Corleones as they struggle to protect their empire at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Francis Ford Coppola’s epic 40s mobster tale, THE GODFATHER (1972) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, February 7

Get traumatized and HORROR-fied this weekend as the Days of the Dead Convention takes over the Sheraton Atlanta hotel for three days of ghastly gore-filled events! The Jabb 48-Hour Reel Horror Film Festival includes some retro and retro-inspired flicks, including Lee Vervoort’s 80s throwback film, THE TRUCK (2013) paying homage to the 70s and 80s road horror films at 8:00 pm! Tonight’s events also include zombified panels, a Roddy Piper stand up show and the Chambers of Horror Murder Ball Afterparty at midnight! So, get disturbed and get your fill of the blood-bath that is, Days of the Dead!

Rawk on down to Wonderroot for their Riot Grrrl Rawk! event for a badass rockin’ night of breast cancer awareness and fundraising with Verge of Bliss slingin’ some indie rock n roll, Blaine the Mono getting’ alternative with a bit of metal and blues, Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses an Eye delivering their old time circus rock and roll and the rockin’ kiddos of Murder Lisa! Groove on down to The Star Bar for DJ Romeo Cologne’s Stayin’ Alive! Animal Rescue Fundraiser & Disco Party! Indie rock pioneers, Sebadoh, take over The Earl tonight with Octagrape! Get jazzy and old-timey honky-tonkin’ at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Alan Evans Trio, the Georgia Soul Council and the Captain Midnight Band! Get funky at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Secondhand Swagger while sippin’ cocktails and boogying under the dinosaurs! The Masquerade gets 90s punk/pop alternative in Heaven with Yellowcard and What’s Eating G ilbert! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt gets acoustic and wild solo at the Buck Creek Tavern in High Falls! F at Matt’s Rib Shack rocks out to the blues with The Stooge Brothers! Get old-school and head on down to the Red Light Café for a night of Cat Stevens and Otis Redding-inspired tunes with Davin McCoy and get your fill of the swingin’ ragtime Piedmont blues of Jon Shain! For some horn blowin’ blues, shake on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Andy Makely Band! Or make your way to The Strand Theater and join Charles Kane in his ruthless pursuit of power as a newspaper tycoon at their screening of Orson Welles’ epic film, CITIZEN KANE (1941), preceded by a live organ pre-show! The Family Dog gets psychedelic with Swami Gone Bananas! Swing on down to the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art for their Martinis & Music event, featuring for a night of cocktails, live big band tunes with Douglas Cameron and 19^th and 20^th century art! Or get a taste of old-school soul at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center for their Masters of Soul event, celebrating Motown and tunes of The Temptations, The Supremes and so much more! Blind Willie’s gets bluesy with Bob Margolin! And do the Time-Warp while spicing things up with some naughty and 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, February 8

It’s Day 2 to get spooked at the Days of the Dead Convention at the Sheraton Atlanta! The Jabb 48-Hour Reel Horror Film Festival will be screening Susan Marks’ documentary, OF DOLLS AND MURDERS (2012) , narrated by John Waters sharing the grisly and creepy details of dollhouse crime scenes and society’s fascination with death while 80s Saturday morning cartoons will be screened for the kiddies in all of you! Be sure to catch Kool Kat Shane Morton, The Silver Scream Spookshow’s ‘ghost host with the most’, Professor Morte raising the dead live onstage at his Haunted History of the Spookshow Event! Get reunited while feeling monstrously alien-ated and good as John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) cast, including Keith David, Richard Masur, Joel Polis, Peter Maloney and Thomas Waites join together in a panel for your dreadful pleasure or catch Dee Snider spouting his bloody wisdom at his Killer Panel and don’t forget to haunt on over to the Monster Ball & Costume Contest that will have you rattlin’ your bones deep into the night!

Skank on down to the Masquerade for 22 years of Jamaican rock steady and high-energy ska of The Slackers, The Duppies and Hermits of Suburbia! The Star Bar gets rocked 70s scumbag revival-style with Bigfoot, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and Bad Friend! Get a taste of some New Orleans’ style blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with Big Al & The Heavyweights! Or for some New Orleans’ funk, groove on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the New Orleans Suspects and The Orange Constant or even make your way to The Family Dog for a little more funk from the Big Easy with the Mar-Tans! Big Tex gets rebellious with the old timey outlaw country of The Chris Massey Band (formerly of the power punk band, The Mistakes)! Shimmy on down to the Elliott Street Pub for Kool Kat Kitty Love of Cheeky Belles Burlesque’s ‘Lover’s Follies’ event, featuring lustful performances by Angelica Vice, Judy Ann Foxe, Sunshine Divine and so much more! Panic! At the Disco delivers their 60s-inspired rock pop and punk at the Tabernacle! Rev on down to the Dixie Tavern in Marietta for some rockin’ psychobilly with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt with the Psycho-DeVilles! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets bluesy with the Mike Lowery Band while Houserocker Johnson & The Shadows deliver their lowdown dirty blues at Blind Willie’s! Get retro, mobster-style with Francis Ford Coppola’s epic 40s mobster tale, THE GODFATHER (1972) being screened at The Strand Theater at 8 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, February 9

It’s Day 3 and your last chance to experience the rockin’ blood and horror fest, the Days of the Dead Convention! Today’s events include a John Carpenter’s sci-fi flick, THEY LIVE (1988) panel and a Monsters Among You panel, while The Jabb 48-Hour Reel Horror Film Festival will be screening the finest horror flicks on tape at VHSPS’s event, ‘Neon Maniacs’ followed by the 10:00 am Samurai Sunday screening of KUNG FU ZOMBIE! (1982)! So, come on and check out all the swell and retro horror goodness while you can!

Get seduced by some tasty morsels at The Baphomettes’ ‘My Bloody Valentine Bake Sale,’ featuring saucy gals in horns and sinister treats at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club from 2 to 6 pm! Get rocked at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Ramones’ drummer and punk rocker alum, Richie Ramone along with The El Caminos and the Illiterates! 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 Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday! The Decatur Bluegrass Association gets to stompin’ at Big Tex’s Bluegrass Brunch from 11:30 to 2:30 pm! Georgia Slim & The Stovetop Ramblers gets old-timey at The Earl during their weekly hangover-friendly ‘dunch’ event! Boohoo all the way to The Family Dog for the rowdy foot stompin’ Americana of the Boohoo Ramblers! Or make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the blues with Tony Bryant! It’s your second chance to rock steady with The Slackers at the Masquerade along with the traditional ska and reggae tunes of the Soul Radics! And get really retro at Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents ‘Tchaikovsky Discovers America,’ a drama featuring the historic events surrounding the composer’s arrival to New York for the grand opening of Carnegie Hall in 1891, accompanied by 25 of his musical excerpts!

Ongoing

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

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

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, Jan. 27 – Feb. 2, 2014

Posted on: Jan 26th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta is chock full of swell goodies! We’ve got rockabilly! We’ve got films of yesteryear! We’ve got blues, jazz and all the honky tonkin’ bluegrass you’ve been craving! So, If you’re needing a rockin’ good time, come on out and live la vida Retro!

Monday, January 27

Follow the yellow brick road and join the LeFont Film Society in costume as they celebrate 75 years of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) with a screening and costume party at the LeFont Theater! Or 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 Tave rn and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Pork on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for an extra helping of the rockin’ blues with The Pork Bellies!
Tuesday, January 28

Get arty, 70’s pop-style and rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night of ‘jangle pop’ and psych folk with Robyn Hitchcock (The Soft Boys) and special guest Faye Webster! Smith’s O lde Bar gets bluesy with Tommy Castro & The Painkillers! Get rowdy and old-timey with the Locust Honey String Band with The Burnt Mountain Benders opening the show with their rowdy old-time outlaw stompin’ country at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Quasi Mandisco every other Tuesday! If you’re craving some old school rockin’ blues, come on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for the JT Speed Band and some rockin’ BBQ! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Rock on down to Blind Willie’s for an for a bluesy night with Timo Arthur! 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 archeological while spending the night with the ever-daring man of exploration, Indiana Jones as the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern goes on a crusade with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ adventurous tale, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, January 29

For a night sci-fi schlock and honky-tonk punk, thrash on over to the Masquerade for a night in Hell with the Nekromantix, The Creepshow and Ganges Phalanges! Or if you’re in need of some 90’s guitar rock tinged with a little indie dream pop, groove on down to The Star Bar for The Mad Flight, Misery Loves Chachi, Where.Are.We and Bahnof! Get your soulful boot stompin’ Americana fix at Vinyl with Swear & Shake and Neulore! For some old-timey inspired lonesome cowboy tunes and psychedelic pop, stomp on over to The Earl for Ben Trickey, Madeline and Montanus (The Long Shadows)! Catch The Hollidays slingin’ their 60s soul and rock n roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Blind Willie’s gets bluesy with a tinge of jazz and southern soul with Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo! It’s Ladies Night at John ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. It’s your second and last chance to get your fill of some artsy 70’s pop and psych folk with Robyn Hitchcock and Faye Webster at Eddie’s Attic! Whip on down and get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ epic tale, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am! And Oh là là! Make your way to Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Marcel Carne’s LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (CHILDREN OF PARADISE) (1945) and get va-va-vivacious with a courtesan and her four lovers during their Global French Cinema series at Emory’s White Hall!

Thursday, January 30

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! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night of renegade traditionalists and raucous Americana with Mipso and Hazel Ra during their Bluegrass Thursday event! The Star Bar delivers a night of Americana and bluegrass with Migrant Worker, Sailing to Denver and the Todd Prusin Experience! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get funky at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with a little Memphis soul of the Swamp Funk Quartet and Bitteroots! Rock on over to the C rimson 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 The Breeze Kings while the sounds and ‘blues woman power’ of Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins takes over at Blind Willie’s! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. 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! Get really retro and experience Shakespeare’s world-renowned tale of juvenile lovin’, fatal attraction and feuding families as the Atlanta Shakespeare Company presents their rendition of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ in its 14^th Anniversary run at the New American Shakespeare Tavern until March 30^th! And it’s your last chance to take a walk on the wild side with Indiana Jones at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as they screen Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ adventurous tale, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, January 31

Make some mischief and run off with the circus, The Sexual Side Effects’ Rock-n-Roll Circus! You won’t want to miss this carnival of debauchery and fantasy with Kool Kat Amber Taylor electrifying the way delivering a tempting taste of some high-voltage post-punk, new wave space rock promising to satisfy every desire! The music line-up gets raucous with a whole lotta madness and mayhem featuring the glam rock of Jade Lemons & The Crimson Lust, some chanteuse-inspired folk rock with Geri X, a little old-time circus culture of rockin’ shenanigans of Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses and Eye and a little 70s surf and new-wave dream pop with the New York City Queens! And if that’s not enough, there’ll be a gluttonous amount of wayward and wicked performances to tickle your fancy, including Trick Oliver, The Baphomettes, The Black Lotus and so much more! So, come on down to the seediest show on Earth and get sultry while rockin’ out at the spectacle that is a true rock-n-roll circus!

Rock out 70s style at the Variety Playhouse as ZoSo delivers the ultimate Led Zeppelin experience, performing Led Zeppelin’s albums I through IV! Michelle Malone unplugs at her ‘Acoustic Winter’ CD Release Party at the Red Light Café with special guest Steed Kettles (Liberty Jones)! Do the Time-Warp and hang out with some 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! Or catch Kuei Chih-hung’s Japanese women’s prison flick, BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS (1974) at Cinefest! Eddie’s Attic delivers several decades’ worth of folk and pop rock with the Randall Bramblett Band! Jam on down to Smith’s Olde Bar and get psychedelic with the Jerry Garcia Band Cover Band (JGBCB) with a little booty shakin’ funk from Sugarfoot! Quasi Mandisco gets funky at The Family Dog! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues shakes it up with the Dan Sheffield Band! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern! Blind Willie’s gets down and dirty with Houserocker Johnson & The Shadows! Or blues it on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for Billy George! Groove on down to The Loft for the funky jazz of The Soul Rebels and Jubee & The Morning After! And boogie on over to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX for a couple of cocktails while dancing under the dinosaurs!

Saturday, February 1

Oh, boy! The Star Bar gets super ‘billied tonight at Hollyfest 6! La Bamba on down and get revved while paying tribute to the most retro and rockin’est boys around, the Daddy-Os of rockabilly, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper! Put on your dancin’ shoes and boogie on down to the Kool Kids of Rock while rockin’ out with Atlanta’s Rock n Roll Underground featuring, Kool Kat Joshua Longino with Andrew & the Disapyramids, Red Rocket Deluxe, Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, The Mystery Men?, Atomic Boogie, the Cadillac Junkies, The Cherry Bomb, The Sideburners, The Stink Bombs, Slim Chance & The Convicts, Divorce, Inc, and so much more! It’s a night you won’t want to miss, so all you Kool Kats and Kittens, shake a tail feather and come on down!

Rev on down to Smith’s Olde Bar as Cigar Store Indians delivers some foot stompin’ rockabilly with the Replacement-inspired tunage of Tim O’Donovan & The Longshot Saints and Buck o’ Five! Get rowdy and stomp on down to the Red Light Café for an evening of bluegrass and gypsy jazz with Smokey’s Farmland Band, Rae Fitzgerald and the Sweet Auburn String Band! Get folksy at The Earl with the Radio Birds, Besides Daniel and Small Houses! Or make your way to Cinefest for a kung-fu and Hong Kong horror double feature with Ho Meng-Hua’s BLACK MAGIC (1975) from 5-7 pm, followed by Chang-Hwa Chung’s FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH (1972) from 7-9 pm! Pop on over to The Strand Theater for Yacht Rock Review’s Schooner dispensing an evening of Steely Dan, including their 1977 album, ‘AJA’ performed in its entirety, followed by Electric Avenue, their alter-ego paying tribute to 80’s pop from A-Ha! to Tears For Fears and more! It’s night 2 of some 70s rock at the Variety Playhouse as ZoSo delivers the ultimate Led Zeppelin experience, performing Led Zeppelin’s albums V through ‘In Through the Out Door’! The Red Clay Theater dishes out ATL’s entertainment tradition of Spring Break party favorites with Banks & Shane! Eddie’s Attic gets rootsy with the Blue Dogs and Willie Sugarcapps! Jazz on down to the Northside Tavern and get bluesy with Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo! Or trek on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for Mudbone Turner’s Blues Band! Francine Reed belts out the blues with the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get geeky at Studio Space Atlanta as Markster Con Productions presents Hair of the Dragon, Winter 2014 edition, a Costumed Photo Studio Party! Come on out and meet some of the best photogs in the Atlanta costuming community and party it up with your fellow Cosplay pals! 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, February 2

Get vivacious and come out and play with the ever sultry Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the Syrens of the South as they get voluptuous at 7 Stages with their Vixon’s Valentease Show! Get your fill of a little love and a whole lotta lust with the saucy seductresses Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Lola lesoleil, Bourgeois Betty, Roula Roulette, Candi le Coeur, Greta Vontrol Lop, Tora Torrid and the mysterious magic of the Clark Gable look-a-like, Chad Sanborn! Or spend the day with a few Shaw Brothers’ productions at Cinefest as they screen a double-feature with Chang Cheh’s KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (1979) and Tokusatsu’s science-fiction flick, THE SUPER INFRAMAN (1975)! Get jazzy at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Deb Bowman’s Jazz Brunch at 12:30 pm! Or get a taste of some gypsy jazz with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at The Earl’s ‘dunch’ show! And Banjolicious gets honky-tonkin’ at Big Tex for their Bluegrass Brunch from 12 to 4 pm!
Ongoing

Act 3 Playhouse presents Neil Simon’s play, ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ through Feb. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

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

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, Jan. 20-26, 2014

Posted on: Jan 19th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

Hey all you Retro guys and gals! Come and see what’s swell and happenin’ on the Retro Atlanta menu this week! We’ve got everything you need to stay warm and toasty while getting’ hip to the jive! So, get to rockin’ and see what we have for you!

Monday, January 20

Make your way to the EyeDrum Art & Music Gallary for a little ‘not so silent cinema’ as they screen the ever hilarious Buster Keaton’s classic comedic shorts with live original musical scoring by the New River Ensemble! The Plaza Theater whets your retro musical appetite with their screenings of George Cukor’s spectacular, MY FAIR LADY (1964) and Vincente Minnelli’s classic, GIGI (1958) at 9:30 tonight! 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 N orthside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Pork on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for an extra helping of the rockin’ blues with Pead Boy & The Pork Bellies! And get a taste of some roots and soul at Blind Willie’s with Brandon Reeves!
Tuesday, January 21

Get rebellious and dance on over to Hell’s Kitchen as The Plaza Theater gets musical gangland-style with their screening of Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins’ musical update of Romeo & Juliet, WEST SIDE STORY (1961) featuring scores by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein! If you’re craving some old school rockin’ blues, come on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for the JT Speed Band and some rockin’ BBQ! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s B urgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! Boogie on down to Blind Willie’s for an evening with The Hollidays slingin’ their 60s soul and rock n roll! Have a folksy evening at Steve’s Live Music with The Night Travelers! 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. And join Charles Kane in his ruthless pursuit of power as a newspaper tycoon at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of CITIZEN KA NE (1941), directed, produced and starring Orson Welles during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, January 22

Thrash out surf-style with eLfOSSIL at The Earl along with the rockin’ punk chicks of Brawful and Sioux City Sue! Or get some rockin’ love at Smith’s Olde Bar with Big Daddy Love’s Americana, Appalachian rock and some 20s jug band, ragtime and Dixieland sounds with the Jugtime Rag Band! The Elliott Street Pub gets jazzy with Steven Wood & The Woody’s! Catch The Hollidays slingin’ their 60s soul and rock n roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! The Electromatics dishes out their brand of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s Ladies Night at J ohn ny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Spend an evening with the legendary chanteuse Judy Garland as she sings her way into your heart at The Plaza Theater at their screening of Vincente Minnelli’s musical classic, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) at 7:30 and 9:30 pm! And spend the afternoon with Charles Kane gettin’ ruthless at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of CITIZEN KANE (1941), Orson Welles’ first feature film, during their Salute to the Oscars series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, January 23

For a rockin’ night of old-school punk, get you fill of the legendary Descendents at The Ea rl’s event, FILMAGE: THE STORY OF DESCENDENTS/ALL 2013 documentary, screened sharply at 9:30, followed by the Descendents tribute band, Rafay Goes to College! Get retro with some old-school alt-rock at The Star Bar for a taste of the Cheap Trick and Replacements-inspired tunes of Tim O’Donovan & The Long Shot Saints along with Sailing to Denver and the Todd Prusin Experience! Shimmy on over to the Kit Kat Klub and get jazzy with Liza Minnelli as The Plaza Theater screens Bob Fosse’s classic musical, CABARET (1972) at 7:30 and 9:30 pm! The Red Light Café gets vintage and old timey with a little country and folksy bluegrass of Little Country Giants and City Mouse! 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! Terminal West gets funky with The Ringers! Rock on over 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 The Breeze Kings while Sue Foley and Pet er Karp offers up their foot stompin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Steve’s Live M usic in Sandy Springs gets bluesy with the Randy Chapman Trio! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. Surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a few cocktails and a raucous night of surf rock with Grinder Nov a! It’s your last chance to spend the evening with Orson Welles as the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screens CITIZEN KA NE (1941), during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm! And, come experience the misadventures of a boy coming of age during the Great Depression as the Act 3 Playhouse presents Neil Simon’s play, ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ through Feb. 2!

Friday, January 24

Get deep into the nostalgia of the 50s, the real 1950s, for two nights only, at the 14^th Street Playhouse as Gathering Wild presents their newest multi-media dance performance, ‘Circa 50’, performing to the tune of the greats of the 50s, including Sinatra , Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline and much more at 8 pm! (And keep your eyes peeled for a Kool Kat of the Week posting for Gathering Wild’s artistic director, Jerylann Warner coming soon!) Stomp on over to The Earl as they get rockin’ Prohibition-era style with the 20s ragtime and Dixieland jazz of Blair Crimmins & The Hookers along with the Darnell Boys! Or get old school and punk out at 529 as Clashinista delivers a rockin’ night of Clash favorites with special guest, Zen Arcade paying a rockin’ tribute to Huskar Du! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt gets acoustic and wild solo at the Buck Creek Tavern! Groove on down to the Variety Playhouse and get psychedelic as Yacht Rock Review performs Pink Floyd’s entire Dark Side of the Moon album! Honky-tonk on over to Smith’s Olde Bar as Rolling Nowhere delivers some junkyard roots along with The Banditos, A Brilliant Lie and Sam Koon! ATL Collective rocks out to Paul McCartney’s entire RAM album at the Elliot Street Pub! Rock on over to the Highlander as they get southern-fried and rockin’ with Red Rocket Deluxe and Vagrant Justice! Get some soul and slither on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for Snakelegs! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern! Blind Willie’s gets down and dirty with Houserocker Johnson & The Shadows! Or jump and jive on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night of electrifying vintage energy with Atlant a Boogie’s Kansas City/West Coat blues! Get bluesy at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX with the Electromatics and their brand of Chicago and West Coast blues! And spend the night with the Dread Pirate Roberts at The Strand Theater as they get adventurous and vengeful with Mel Brooks’ classic kooky tale of true love and revenge, at their screening of THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 7:30 pm!

Saturday, January 25

Get your Elvis on and shimmy on down to the Variety Playhouse as they deliver some retro Vegas glitz, with Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier and his Kingsized Rock-n-rol l Orchestra’s Elvis Royale show featuring the sassy show-girl glamour of Dames Aflame! It’s Boobiepalooza at The Star Bar! Rock out with some rockin’ chick badassery while supporting a great cause with The Coathangers, Tikka and Shantih Shantih at their Breast Cancer Awareness show! The Red Light Café dishes out the madness and absurdity that is, Kool Kat Colonel Bruce Hampton and Madrid Express slinging over 50 years worth of funky, jazz-infused rhythm! Rock on over to The Buckhead Theater for some rockin’ blues with Big Head Todd & The Monsters at 7 pm! Come join the funky disco and blues rockin’ ruckus at Smith’s Olde Bar with Moontower, The Deadfields, the Daniels Brothers Band and Brian Whiltsey! Stomp on over to the Tabernacle for some rockin’ bluegrass with the Yonder Mountain String Band and The Travelin’ McCourys! Vinyl gets groovy with Voodoo Visionary and The Orange Constant! For some old-timey bluegrass and garage country, honky-tonk on down The Earl and get rockin’ with I Want Whisky, the Villain Family and City Hotel! The Susi French Connection doles out some 70s era pop and disco at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with some retro-inspired tunes at The Drunken Unicorn with Glen Iris, Monsoon and Sex BBQ! For some classic rock and Motown, shake it on down to The Strand Theater for the Paradocs! Catch the Mike Lowry Band bluesin’ it up at The Family Dog! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern! Blind Willie’s gets down and dirty with Sandra Hall & The Shadows! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out some classic rock, blues and jazz with the Barry Richman Band! Get your prescription filled at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack with Dr. Dixon “The Blues Physician”! It’s your last chance to experience the real 1950s, at the 14^th Street Playhouse as Gathering Wild presents their newest multi-media dance performance, ‘Circa 50’, performing to the tune of the greats of the 50s at 8 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, January 26

Get your fill of some swanky Reinhardt gypsy-jazz with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at The Family Dog! Or surf on over to The Earl for their Tag Team Goes to Hawaii ‘dunch’ with tasty tropical frozen drinks at 1 pm! Stomp on over to Big Tex for the bluegrassin’ City Hotel! Get rootsy at the Variety Playhouse with Amy Ray (Indigo Girls)! The Midtown Men take over the Cobb Energy Center with their 60’s throwback to rock n roll with their renditions of The Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Temptations, Jackson 5 and much more! Get super cool and retro at the Morris and Rae Frank Theater as The Beatniks deliver their unique tribute to The Beatles! And Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets rockin’ with Fat Back Deluxe!

Ongoing

Act 3 Playhouse presents Neil Simon’s play, ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ through Feb. 2!

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

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, Jan. 13-19, 2014

Posted on: Jan 12th, 2014 By: Anya99

by Melanie Crew
Contributing Writer

‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta promises the jolt you’ve needed to kick Old Man Winter’s tail and spring into action like the good little misfits and miscreants you are! So come on out, make a little mischief and rock out with the rest of us! From juke joints to musicals to tantalizing burlesque, Retro Atlanta has it all! So, get out and get hep while the gettin’s good!

Monday, January 13

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! Pork on down to Fat Matt’s R ib Shack for an extra helping of the rockin’ blues with Pead Boy & The Pork Bellies! And blues it on down to Blind Willie’s for a little classic and 60s rockin’ blues with Blues Station!
Tuesday, January 14

Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café and get tempted with a taste of Burlesque and a little debauchery and ballyhoo! Spend the night with Koo l Kat Katherine Lashe and her saucy Sirens of the South as their Tease Tuesday event feeds every fantasy, with special guest, Pac o Fish, exposing his tantalizing ‘boylesque’ fervor as part of his Burlesque Vanguard Tour! You can’t beat 10 acts for 10 bucks, so, come on out and get sultry with a little Vaudeville, a little variety a whole lot to savor!

Boogie on down to The Star Bar and get groovy with The Funk Godfather, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Quasi Mandisco every other Tuesday! Get your fill of some rockin’ Americana with Howe Gelb with special guest Tracy Shed at Eddie’s Attic! If you’re craving some old school rockin’ blues, come on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for the JT Speed Band and some rockin’ BBQ! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues or maybe hit up Blind Willie’s for an evening of rockin’ blues with BooHoo Ramblers! Get your dancin’ shoes on and boogie on down to Steve’s Live Music for The Georgia Polka Connection with D on Erdman, Marty Martin and Matthew Kaminski! 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 Northsid e Tavern. And go on the lam with Carey Grant at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for a thrilling night of mystery and suspense in Alfred Hitchcock’s, TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Wednesday, January 15

Get zombified and rock out at the Elliott Street Pub with The Living Deads and their psychobilly horror punk! Or get some moody psych rock and post punk at The Earl with Hip to Death, The Hotels, the Lowbanks and Plague of Pilgrims! For some retro pop, stroll on down to Smith’s Olde B ar for Will Mitchell, Ghostrain and Willie & The Giant! Get folksy at the Variety Playhouse with the Jefferson Airplane spinoff, Hot Tuna with their lively acoustic show and the bluesy rock of Leon Russell! Catch The Hollidays slingin’ their 60s soul and rock n roll at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues while the John Sosebee Band delivers some country blues and old-timey Appalachian juke joint rock at Blind Willie’s! Or get funky at Big Tex at their Widespread Wednesday with Confunktion Junktion! 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 to the French Riviera as Northlake Festival Movie Tavern screens Alfred Hitchcock’s, TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ matinee screening at 11:30 am!

Thursday, January 16

Power Pop icon Paul Collins’ Beat (the Nerve) gets raucous and riles it up at The Earl along with Parasite Diet, Dinos Boys and Vito Romeo! For a night of psychobilly and honkytonk, rev on down to the Clermont Lounge and get down and dirty with Kool Kat Phil Stair with Grim Rooster, the Pelvis Breastlies and their all-female Elvis tribute band along with The Living Deads! Get your fix of authentic roots and reggae and rock out at the Masquerade with The Wail ers and British Dependency! For some Americana with a twist, head on over to the Red Light Café for L aura Monk & High Cotton! 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! Rock on over 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 The Breeze Kings while Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials offers up their foot stompin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs gets rockin’ as Donna Hopkins spreads her swampy funk with a dash of John Lee Hooker! Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for the groovin’ island sounds of the Volcanauts with Tracey Wolfe! It’s a party at PinUpGirls! Cosmetics, a Pure Romance Party! So, be a doll, get saucy and schmooze with the best of ‘em! And it’s your last chance to get mysterious and spend the night with Carey Grant and Grace Kelly at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern in Alfred Hitchcock’s, TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) during their Salute to the Oscars series’ screening at 7:30 pm!

Friday, January 17

Rock out at The Star Bar tonight with a little power pop and glam with Cheap Time, the Priests, GHB and a little sci-fi punk with Onchi! Or cross the pond and make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar as they present Yacht Rock Review’s Beatles Tribute band, Please, PleaseRock Me! The Red Light Café gets rockin’ with some bluesy Americana with Alex Guthrie and Drew Davis! Stomp on over to the Crimson Moon Café for a night of bluegrass with Sally Barris with special guest, Mark Garrison of Bluebilly Grit! The High Museum gets jazzy with the Laura Coyle Quintet at their Friday Jazz event! Rumble on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for some rockin’ blues with Rumblefish! For a taste of Americana and a little rockabilly, rev on down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for the Charlie Sheets Band! Darwin’s Bur gers & Blues delivers a night of high-energy roots and blues with the Piedmont Playboys, headed by Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! The Northsid e Tavern gets bluesy with Stoney Brooks! Blind Willie’s gets down and dirty with the “Empress of the Blues” herself, Sandra Hall & The Shadows! And cha-cha under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX for a cocktail or two and little salsa featuring the Salsambo Dance Studio! And get bourgeois at T he Plaza Theater as they screen Vincente Minnelli’s classic, GIGI (1958)!

Saturday, January 18

Put on your dancin’ shoes and get your fill of three decades of classic musicals at The Plaza Theater tonight! Dance the night away with Gene Kelly in Stanley Donen’s, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)! Or get a grammar lesson with Eliza Doolittle in George Cukor’s spectacular, MY FAIR LADY (1964). And don’t forget to follow your heart instead of getting married away in Norman Jewison’s classic, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971)! “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it Ain’t Got That Swing)!”, so come on out and get elegant at the Atlanta Lyric Theater as they present, ‘Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies’! You won’t want to miss the musical legacy of Duke Ellington in their stylish and brassy retrospective featuring tunes from the Speak Easy era of the Cotton Club and more!

For a night of rockabilly, American and swingin’ blues, stomp on down to the Red Light Café for an evening with Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, the Barrow Boys and Divorce, Inc! The Earl gets psychedelic and rocks out with the Mood Rin gs, Small Reactions, Factory and Boating! Eddie’s Attic gets root rockin’ and funky with the Freddy Jones B and and the Bitteroots! Or make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for an evening with the Rebirth Brass Band, gettin’ funky since 1983! Jam on down to the Va riety Play house for The Grapes as they celebrate 28 years of rockin’ out southern-style! Get twangy at the C rimson Moon Café with the bluegrass tunes of Red June! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra along with the Georgia Humanities Council hosts the Georgia Roots Music Festival from noon to 6:30 pm, at the Woodruff Arts Center, featuring the tunes of McIntosh County Shouters, the Georgia Crackers and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! Catch The Hollidays slingin’ their 60s soul and rock n roll at The Family Dog! The Cazanovas deliver some rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern! Francine Reed belts out the blues at Blind Willie’s while Gracie Curran & The High Falutin Band delivers a night of blues, classic R&B and soul 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, January 19

The Red Light Café gets wildly frisky and risqué as they host the madness that is Freaksheaux to Geaux, the live musical and Vaudevillian extravaganza of debauchery that hails from the Big Easy and will be dispersing their twisted brand of flair! Their show will feature Thugsy Da Clown, Kitty Kaos (the Mad Mistress of Ceremonies), Sam Aquatic (the magical and brilliantly bendy contortionist), Mistress Kali, Atlanta’s very own award-winning Burlesque performer, “The Chameleon Queen”, Meredith Greer and a rockin’ cornucopia of music and circus sideshows with a southern gothic twist at 8pm! It’ll be a shocking night of shenanigans you won’t want to miss!

Or make your way to the Masquerade as Captain & Maybelle host the Sowell Rebuild Benefit bringing Atlanta together in all its coolness for one of its own! This raucous rockin’ event will be held club-wide and will feature a surplus of tunes from bands channeling influences of the past, featuring Obsidion Sky, the Atlanta Funk Society, The Locksmyth, Dark Room, Charlie P., Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, Joe McGuinness, Maggie Smith, The Six Shot Revival, Awaken the Ancient, Moon Goddess Cotillion, Dead Rites, Blackwater Creek, The Wheeler Boys, Kickin’ Valentina, Flat Rock Swing, Waking th e Bates, Harvester-Band, Avenue of the Giants, Beitthemeans, the Villain Family, Daniel Burdette Moll of 1978 Champs, Radio Birds and the Garrison Blagg Band! So, get rebellious and get your retro rock fix while dancing the night away for a good cause!

Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs gets jazzy with a little madcap swing at their Big Band Atlanta Jazz Lunch! Or get a taste of the blues and a little Brazilian jazz as Os Ossos headlines The Earl’s ‘dunch’ show! And it’s your last chance to get your classic musical fix at The Plaza Theater at their screenings of Gene Kelly in Stanley Donen’s, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) and Norman Jewison’s classic, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971)!

Ongoing

The Strand Theater gets carnivorous with, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ through Jan. 19! (LAST CHANCE!)

The ARTStation shimmies with their Trolley Stop Cabaret through Jan. 18! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

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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