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| - Only one review? I thought this place was pretty popular. Regardless, I came out for the Live Band 'Punk' Karaoke. Once a month, Howlers is host to a band which plays about(Just over, and increasing monthly) 100 songs. Write your name on the whiteboard and they'll call you up and play your pick, provide backup vocals, and your own goofy stage banter. You just have to stand there and do anything from get stage-fright to rip your shirt off and roll around on the floor singing. I put punk in quotes, because you shouldn't expect to come here and listen to The Ramones and Germs all night - they have a fairly loose definition of what punk is including Pixies, Devo, The Violent Femmes and more.(To be fair they do in fact advertise the New Wave part).
I knew prior to going that there was a $3 cover, so I headed in prepared at around 11pm(There are nightly 9-11pm specials as well - $2 Yuengling bottles that night) and I could hear Mission of Burma being sung through the outside window. Walking in, you can tell that they allow smoking, and people were indeed smoking, but for as much as there was my girlfriend and I really didn't notice it while we were there. Maybe they have good ventilation. There was nobody at the door to take our cover, so we walked right on in and ordered beers. They have East End on draft, two of those ran me $11. The bar is split up into two sections - The bar and the 'stage' area. You can watch the stage area on TVs in the bar, and the sound is surprisingly isolated.
We walked to the stage area which is where they took our cover - sneaky, but I like that. You can still come here without paying if you don't want to, just stay in the bar. Also, the first 40 or so people get a token(coaster) for a free domestic or well drink at the bar - which we got(and later traded for tall PBRs) - so that made everything totally worth it. We sat to watch the karaoke, each table has a one-page list of songs that you pick from. If you want to go, write your name on the board and they'll call you up when its your turn (IE no DJ to pocket-veto your request). Next to the stage, a line-up of $1 Seagrams shots.
I have to say, it was a ton of fun, and I didn't even get drunk and sing(Although I wanted to sing, since there were definitely a few I knew by heart. [I got a.. I got a broken face, uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh ooh]). The list of songs is short and hand-selected, translation: You know what you're going to get. For me, it's perfect, I love this kind of music, and I don't have to worry about hearing an awful interpretation of Adele(and hell, punk music is meant to be sung poorly anyways). The band is quite good, and a lot of the singers were great too, everyone had a sense of humor and some got really into it.
Again, I didn't really notice the smoke even though people were definitely smoking. However when I got home my clothes had definitely become casualties. The place probably wouldn't make sense if it was willingly non-smoking, but still, that's my only complaint about the night.
And a shout-out to Amy C. for reminding me of what day this was via the event.
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