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Austinist Indieroke Holiday Party!

Everyone knows at least one karaoke warrior. It’s that guy who sings Don’t Stop Believin’ a little too well. Asshole’s GOT to be taking classes for it to sound so goddamn sweet.


But don’t let him and his tribute myopia stop you this Saturday, oh no. Because on Saturday, your renditions of all those beloved showerjams will go beyond the boundries of fair authoritative representation. You will own the mic. Your lyricism will set all stages of the world simultaneously ablaze! My friend, you are going to BLOW!

Them away.

Trust.

Listen, the point of karaoke is to get up there and belt that shit out. If you’re the type who really, really, really wants to stay true to the original version, then that’s great. But you don’t have to. Feel free to kick a leg out. Bend down and pump a fist. Throw some scat in there. Or scatology. Whatever one might choose to call “improv noise crap between actual word-based vocals”. That stuff. Do that stuff. No one really cares, including you, and that’s the beauty of the whole thing.

Just check out this very, very brief listing of songs that will be available for you to kick the living shit out of, and if this list don’t impress, well then that’s because your soul is little more than a used ball of tinfoil. Or, you’ve simply got different tastes, which is cool too. Not as cool as a soul made of crumpled tin, but it’s passing. Follow the jump for some Indieroke band + song listings!

SONG --------------------------------- ARTIST
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I'm Not In Love ---------------------- 10cc
Highway To Hell -------------------- ACDC
The Sign ------------------------------ Ace Of Base (oh snap!)
Hand in my Pocket --------------- Alanis Morrissette
Movies --------------------------------- Alien Ant Farm
Rehab --------------------------------- Amy Winehouse
Punk as Fuck ---------------------- American Analog Set
Wake Up ----------------------------- Arcade Fire
Leave Before The Lights... ----- Arctic Monkeys
Mr. Wendel -------------------------- Arrested Development
Sk8ter Boi (HOLY SHIT!) ------- Avril Lavigne (WELL GODDAMN!)

And that’s just after picking over all the names in the As! (and 10cc) Plus there’ll be songs by the following (as well as several hundred others, left off for brevity’s sake):

Basement Jaxx, Bjork, Bloc Party, BLUR, Breeders

Candlebox, The Cars, The Clash, The Cure

Daft Punk, Dead Milkmen, Death Cab For Cutie, Depeche Mode, Digable Planets, Doves

Electric 6, Elliott Smith, ELO, Everything But The Girl

Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand

Gorillaz, Goldie Lookin Chain

Hall & Oats, Hold Steady, Hives, Hot Hot Heat

Interpol

Jawbreaker, Joy Division/ New Order

Kaiser Chiefs, Kate Bush, Keane, Kriss Kross

Leonard Cohen, The Libertines, Lightning Seeds, Lou Reed

Magnetic Fields, Mars Volta, Modest Mouse, The Smiths/Morrissey, Muse

The National, Nine Inch Nails

OK Go, OMD

Pixies, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Psychedelic Furs

Radiohead, The Ramones

Scissor Sisters, Sex Pistols, Spinal Tap, Spoon, The Streets, The Strokes

T. Rex, Talking Heads, Tenacious D, Tori Amos

Ultravox, Underworld

Violent Femmes

Weezer, Wheatus, White Stripes

Yazoo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

And then a bunch more. Like Wreckx 'N Effect (for those who enjoy the Pharrell's earlier work).
There will be well over 7,000 songs for you to pick amongst when deciding exactly how you’re going to ROCK EVERYONE ELSE’S SHIT. Don’t let yourself down. Get on that mic, and rock that mic right.

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Comments [rss]

  • truecraig

    THERE'S ANOTHER INDIEROKE ON JAN 9TH! I'M YELLING ON THE INTERTUBES! OMFGROFLMSOYSSMPPRN!!!1!uno! BOOYAH!

  • 12229065

    crrrrrrrrraaaaapppp! I missed this! When are you doing this again!!!

  • cymblue

    Wow - I was planning on heading out of town tomorrow afternoon, but I just may have to put that off a day so I can karaoke my heart out!

  • cymblue

    Wow - I was planning on heading out of town tomorrow afternoon, but I just may have to put that off a day so I can karaoke my heart out!

  • Bre

    Dammit all to hell. I'm going to be out of town. But I will not give up on my dream to see Truecraig karaoke his drunk heart out. No, I will not.

  • greycat

    They should really make this a regular weekly thing.

  • Maximillian24

    Will drunk santa make an appearance?

  • themo

    trust me when i say, Truecraig is one of the finest Karaoke performers, in earnest, as you will find. He hams it up (in his pants) and sounds good. sublime.

  • itza

    Is there something wrong with someone who can really ham it up, yet still sound good? What's wrong with both?

  • Covert Curiosity

    Let me clear my throat...

  • deadflowers

    This looks fascinating.

  • truecraig

    I love a good success story.

  • cram
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