Good Luck Karaoke (Dallas) – Set up, as most things in Dallas are, in a converted double-wide, ultra-rowdy Good Luck hosts constant costume parties with themes like rodeo clowns, zombies, and Portlandia. You will be seriously tempted to sing Motley Crue’s entire catalog. Not bad company at all.Ĭourtside Karaoke (Cambridge, MA) – A dingily amazing townie bar where only the bravest Harvardites tread, Courtside’s got karaoke that’s the stuff of legend, taking place in what appears to be the basement of your super-cool uncle who was once in a Boston tribute band and totally hooked up with the chick from the Jefferson Starship cover band.ĭevil's Point's Stripperoke (Portland) – Since everyone’s either in a band or a stripper in PDX (or in a stripper-band, which is a thing), this Satanic nudie bar combines both into the glorious Stripperoke, where you take the stage and belt it out as dancers hit the poles.
Nowhere else is a screamed rendition of “Sweet Caroline” an almost instant aphrodisiac.Īrlene's Grocery (New York) – Allowing you to live out the best rock ‘n roll fantasy since Paul Rodgers joined the local D&D chapter, Arlene’s lets you take the massive stage and front a full band that fires out an impressive collection of rock and metal tunes. 24 beers poured from a tap that includes everything from the Silver Bullet to Rogue. Jelsomino (New York) – Combining elements of a sleek night club, a cabaret, and an old-school ‘roke joint, this NYC haven hooks you up with a high-class bottle service while you belt it out on a light-up stage while backup singers compensate for your flat voice and dancers get down like extras from Step Up, minus the threat of getting in an epic dance-fight with rival crews.Ĭrunchy's (East Lansing, MI) – Your social lubricant at this dark Michigan State burger-ery is a bucket of beer - not the six Coronas in ice kind, but an actual mop bucket full of appx.
Rock Box (Seattle) – Turning Japanese, not in the icky sense of that ’80s song, but in the sense that it offers private-room karaoke, Seattle’s Rock Box features rooms ranging in size from 15 to 35 people, and each “box” allows patrons on the outside to see your glowing silhouette…so you and your crew’d best get better at coordinating the dance from “I Want It That Way.” Manhattan Inn (Brooklyn) – You might have trouble holding back your inner Jessica Rabbit and controlling your urge to drape your body across the baby grand at this Brooklyn institution, where a dude who’s played with everyone from the Ramones to Ryan Adams rocks the ivories while you sing.