If you love karaoke and you love it on the weekends, then you’re human.

If you love karaoke and you love it all week, then you’re a resident of Kane County, Illinois.

Here’s the scoop on what’s up this week for our favorite midwesterners:

Full Schilling karaoke night is on Fridays. If you show up drunk, there’s no cover.
3724 N. Clark, Chicago, 773-248-3330

Celtic Crown Public House has karaoke the next night (Sat), but don’t expect it to start at 10am… because it starts at 10pm. 4301 N. Western Ave., Chicago, 773-588-1110

Pheasant Run Resort & Spa karaoke in style, baby! You have the karaoke dance party on 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, and the sweeping new phenomenon “Sing with the Band” on 10/26.

Head to the Gale Street Inn in Diamond Lake for karaoke insanity. My Uncle Frederico was sick as a dog the night we went there (too much singing the night before), but he was having so much fun, he took the mic for the incredibly difficult
“How Bizarre” by New Zealandish group OMC. 935 Diamond Lake Road, Diamond Lake, 847-566-1090

Durty Nellie’s karaoke night at 9 on Tuesdays. Need I say more? Yes, there is a $7.00 cover. Located at 180 N. Smith St., Palatine, 847-358-9150

River Lane Pub in Geneva, IL kicks it with some steller karaoke on Thursdays. 630-845-9633 for more info.

And who could hate you for wanting to hit up some State Street Pub karaoke action down in Marengo, IL? Just be quick about it, because Friday night is the only night that they “officially” sanction singing. (Don’t tell them I told you this, but you can bring your own mic other nights and sing anyway).

Kane County, what do you think????

Bobby karaoke dot com scored a major coup in the karaoke blogging world today by now ranking as the 6,975,472 most trafficked site on ther Internet, according to the mostly innacurate Alexa.

At a press conference today in downtown Venice beach, where Bobby K and his family were gathered, BK spoke through tears as he candidly discussed his “only-in-America” struggle with typing and his family’s support of his goal in karaoke-blogging.

Today is a milestone for karaokers everywhere folks. Let’s head on down to Orchid karaoke in koreatown tonight to celebrate.

I’ll see you there (though you’ll be upside down because I’ll be looking at you while I’m doing a keg stand).

Hall of Famer Suresh Joachim and Guiness Book’s number 1 Canadian record holder is going for broke in his attempt to break the world record for the longest stretch of karaoke singing … bringing the total to 50 hours.

That is difficult. What is even more difficult is doing it with grace and dignity. My friend Stacy tried it once, but she had to back out at hour 38 because she was 9 months pregnant at the time and the little guy decided to be born.

Such is life, Stacy. Such is life.

Rogers Cable in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland (What’s up!) has released a hot new karaoke Video on demand (VOD) service that is free to all of the companies digital cable customers.

With Karaoke On Demand, customers can choose from hundreds of songs to practice their karaoke gimmic. Viewers/singers simply select the song they want to sing and go to work!

Current Song List:

I know what you’re thinking… “Great, just what we need. Another Sims.” And you’re right.

Back before Electronic Arts controlled The Sims franchise, it was just little Maxis, and they developed good software about building cities. Now they have unleashed The Sims on Stage karaoke site. And as a twice-daily singer of karaoke, this sickens me.

Get off the couch and into the pubs, folks. The REAL singing is just down the street at your local karaoke bar or VFW hall. It seems Robert Putnam’s theory on civic engagement even applies to the communication art form of karaoke. A collective withdraw of talented singers… simply looking to tune out, drop acid, and sing to their webcams.

Another sad day. I hate you Electronic Arts.

Any thoughts?

USC’s amazing Daily Trojan newspaper served up a true gem this week by providing karaokers with a quality viewers guide for the two hottest television shows currently on air: Don’t Forget the Lyrics (FOX) and The Singing Bee (NBC).

NBC and FOX first aired their “reverse karaoke” shows this summer. NBC’s “The Singing Bee” premiered July 10, beating FOX’s “Don’t Forget the Lyrics!,” which premiered July 11 , by one day. The summer release date of “Don’t Forget the Lyrics!” prompted NBC to move the premiere of “The Singing Bee” from fall 2007 to early July.

“Don’t Forget the Lyrics!” is broadcast Wednesdays and Thursdays, and “The Singing Bee” is set to return Tuesday, September 4. For those who don’t want to spend half their week learning popular songs’ obscure lyrics, a choice must be made - FOX or NBC.

Quality journalism should not go unnoticed. Karaoke for life.

They aren’t the first to do it, and they won’t be the last.

But St. Bonaventure University will be hosting a FREE (no cover) Live Band Karaoke night. Karaoke with a LIVE BAND (real humans). Live the dream, kids. Because when you get older… all you got is those stupid television monitors and you can pray for stereo sound… but depending on where you are in the country, they’re still operating on old 8track mono karaoke. Karaoke with a band? Get out of here.

9pm - 1am on both September 6th and 7th at Campus Rathskeller. Yee haw.

Karaoke Kenny, the DJ who runs the karaoke nights at Fiesta Cantina and East West in West Hollywood has released his latest song books on the web. Dig in yodelers! This is your chance to pick out your karaoke songs ahead of time, practice, practice, practice, and then head on down to the LA westside’s very own American Idol-like karaoke competition. Karaoke with Kenny is serious stuff, so don’t get too many delusions of grandeur… you’ll get ripped apart up there by Aretha Franklin wanna-be’s and better-than-Tom-Jones Tom Jones wanna-be’s.

Check out the song book HERE. And if his site is down, you can find the karaoke songs here. Love that.

According to Inquirer.net (which may or may not be notoriously awesome), Malaysia’s information minister compared Internet bloggers to off-key karaoke singers.

Ladies and gentleman, for the sake of full disclosure: I am a karaoker first, and a blogger second. That being said, you don’t come into my house (the Internet, in this case), and kick my dogs (bloggers everywhere, in this case). The so-called “minister” doesn’t sound like he is was being very pious or holy when he made those comments. Do some people who sing karaoke suck? Unquestionably yes, they do. But do the overwhelming majority of professional karaokers rock your socks off? You bet your horse! So, even if the “minister” meant what he said about bloggers, I’d have to say, “Well then, Mr. Holier-than-thou Minister, they must be pretty good!”

It is amazing that in 2007 we still have this level of ignorance about karaoke that it is better left to the drunks and the barmaids. Once that “minister” gets off his high horse and puts a mic up to his mouth with the instrument-only track of The Fray’s “How To Save a Life,” then he will know what it is like to karaoke fo’ real.

And maybe when he gets home, he’ll blog about his experience. Too much?

BREAKING: Bobby Karaoke has caught wind of A 15 year old Finnish student who was fined Friday for doing his teacher a favor - publicizing the teacher’s karaoke work by posting it on YouTube. Call me old fashioned, but last time I checked, helping to advance someone’s music career wasn’t grounds for a fine from the government.

Nevertheless, in BIG GOVERNMENT Finland, that’s how they roll. Toni Vesikko posted the secret karaoke video on Youtube and was found guilty of “intentional defamation” (meaning: laughing unduly at a pathetic karaoke performance). Smacked with a couple thousand dollar fine, I bet his parents won’t be letting him anywhere near the family computer for awhile. And that’s a shame, because Youtube needs more karaoke vids.

God bless,
Bobby K