At SXSW I finally got to me the irrepressible Jeff Croft and Scott Phelps, creators of Barstar, the Foursquare of karaoke. If you haven’t tried it, you have to go sign up for the beta right RIGHT NOW! It’s a brilliant app that lets you share what you’re singing and where. Like Foursquare, it makes [...]

Black lights, neon, and multiple lyrics screens inside a cab? When I get to Austin for SXSW for next week’s the karaoke panel, I’m going to have to hail this car down for the ride of my life. Austin’s “Land Yacht” as owner Scott Powell calls it is equipped with 30,000 songs of all genres [...]

Monica gets singer of the week since she’s not afraid to get down and dirty. Much props!

Thanks Kozy for this extra awesome pic.

There was a week or two where I didn’t actually karaoke. That time is over. I’ve been going quite a lot lately. We hit Max Karaoke downtown after the Giant Robot Biennale closing party last Thursday, which was super. Almost as super as these two stellar performances by Derek Kirk Kim and Kozy Kitchens of [...]

I’m glad my parents immigrated to the US because if I were a mainlander, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy singing all sorts of lewdness. No 50 Cent, Yin Yang Twins, or Samantha Fox for me. According to a recent article,
176 karaoke places in Chongqing has installed the karaoke content management system, once someone selects [...]

So whenever I’m going through the family archives, I keep finding more karaoke photos. Maybe it’s because that’s just what I did with my family growing up in the early 90s, when karaoke was sparkly new and the Laserdisc was the medium of choice.
Here’s a few photos of my mom and aunts singing their hearts [...]

Yup, it’s been a long while since I threw one of these. With work, random family stuff, and other non-karaoke activities, it’s been tough getting back on track. My original goal was throw a karaoke book party every week… er month… er few months. But my friends Angie and Ted, better known the artist-made goods [...]

What what? Another karaoke-related killing? Asians get really feisty over the mic (remember Malaysia?) so be careful when you wanna sing “Anyway You Want It,” but the rest of the room isn’t feeling your pre-pubescent Steve Perry.
A late night shooting in Koreatown has claimed one life, and left another person wounded. The incident took [...]

Sometimes karaoke box rooms dank with peeling wood paneling from 1975, but whore house? I know in Asian sketchier karaoke places are synonymous with prostitution. I mean, they do rent by the hour. Here are some Manhattan puritans getting up in arms about the oldest Asian profession. Um, karaoke!

Will it be a flesh joint — [...]