Pants Karaoke: The Substack
All the karaoke that's fit to karaoke, every Sunday night at the Kensington Club.
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- Sep 27, 2026
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09/27/2026 - Pants Karaoke presents: Giving Me the CBGBs (opens the original)
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R.I.P. CBGB. A classic NYC venue. A nesting ground for New Wave & Punk bands of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Collateral damage of the “rent is too damn high” movement of the 2000s. And now, even from beyond the grave, a victim of Mother Nature herself.<source type="image/webp
09/20/2026 - Pants Karaoke presents: Disco 1978 (opens the original)
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This Sunday is my actual factual birthday. Come celebrate with me! We’re going with a Britpop theme this year, so bring your Bluhs, your Suedes, your Oases. Most importantly, bring your Pulp! We’re going to be attempting to do a Different Class entire album rock block starting sometime around 9pm. What, you don’t know that album?! Well, consider this my gift to you. Twelve songs, and not a dud among them.Mis-ShapesPencil SkirtCommon PeopleI SpyDisco 2000Live Bed ShowSomething Changed<li
09/13/2026 - Pants Karaoke presents: Dollywood, Part 2 (opens the original)
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Sorry about the last minute karaoke cancellations, folks! I’ve been assured that it won’t happen again this Sunday, so we’re going to do a take two on the tribute to Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and other famous people we’ve lost recently.Don’t have time to write anymore, I’m about to head out on the road, but I’ll be back on Sunday in time for karaoke!See y’all there? Awesome.Love Pants.
09/06/2026 - Pants Karaoke presents: New Order T-Shirt T-Shirt (opens the original)
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Band shirts, amirite? It’s a rite of concert-going passage: Go to a concert, check out the merch booth, wait in line, decide, eh, it’s alright, guess which size of this particular shirt type will fit the best (you’re not trying it on there, after all), pay $45, take it home, toss it in a drawer, save it for a special night.Ladies and gents, that special night has arrived. This week, at Pants Karaoke, we’re celebrating the greatest of all souvenirs, the thing that made instant friends (and enemie
08/30/2026 - Pants Karaoke presents: The People Who Died (opens the original)
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Sorry for the delay with this post. I’ve been trying to come up with a silly way to combine Dolly Parton and Tim Curry into the title of the event, but I’ve failed. We lost a couple of good ones this week, folks. They took the wrong 80-year-old. Then they took the wrong 80-year-old. And then we relived childhood trauma with the death of Optimus Prime.Subscribe nowThis week at Pants Karaoke, we’re doing a karaoke tribute to artists we’ve recently lost. Dolly Parton. Tim Curry. Pet
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