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| - Yelp's commentary for a 2-star place of "Meh. I've experienced better." sums up August Karaoke Box in a nutshell. Admittedly I had a soft spot for this place since it was the first karaoke venue I had ever been to back in the day when I was still at ASU--but once I experienced better karaoke places elsewhere, August Karaoke Box...surprised me at how lackluster it really is this time around.
The interface of their machines was JANKY. And even that might be an understatement. There's no clear-cut way on how to navigate this thing, so good luck finding the songs you want--especially if they're in English. One minute you'll be scrolling through their Eminem catalog, and the next, you'll be looking at a wall of Japanese characters when trying to find your T-Swift jams. What?! It also seems like some American songs appear in other the section of other languages, written in other languages, but still sung in English? It requires a lot of patience and effort to find all the songs you want and navigate the system with any sort of clarity, cause they may be buried under some other category in some other language somewhere.
As Dave N. mentioned in the review below me, the sync between songs and lyrics are OFF. I noticed it especially when doing Lose Yourself by Eminem, where the lyrics seemed to be multiple beats behind the actual music (I'm 150% sure Eminem doesn't rap that slow!). This seems to be a common thread with some of their other songs as well.
One big gripe we had here was: ALCOHOL IS NOT ALLOWED. Seriously?! Your average karoake-goer NEEDS alcohol just to have a good time, and there's not a single karaoke place I've been to that hasn't done AT LEAST the patented "$1 per bottle" cover for beer. You have been forewarned to pre-game karaoke here ahead of time.
For a little over two hours of karaoke in their largest room, the total came out to be around $150. For the number of people we had in there, the total was about $10-15 a person. We exceeded the maximum number of people (12-15 or so), but there's strength in numbers here! Not bad for the amount of time spent, that's for sure.
TL;DR: For lack of better options, this place will do. But don't expect too much. They've got some problems with their system that need fixing ASAP and they don't allow alcohol on their premises (for the third time: SERIOUSLY, WTF), but their pricing is good and they've got enough songs to keep you occupied.
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