If you ever wanted to do Bikini Kill karaoke for a cause, now’s your moment.
Patch.com, March 7, 2017
Fundraising for the cause
If you ever wanted to do Bikini Kill karaoke for a cause, now’s your moment.
Patch.com, March 7, 2017
Organized by Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago, the event will raise money to pay for the legal defense of Kara Wild, a Chicago-based trans woman and activist jailed in France in connection to a labor reform protest.
“A lot of us can’t be out in the streets, physically combating people who espouse racist terror against black and brown people but what everyone can do is show up, give money and sing for these nine young people’s medical legal bills,” said Danielle Villarreal, Punk Rock Karaoke organizer.
DNA Info Chicago, July 25, 2016
“Never mind the bollocks on the city’s runways. At this punk pageant, the Pine Box Rock Shop in Williamsburg will be CBGB for a night.”
The New York Daily News, February 07, 2014
Karaoke enthusiasts tired of the standard catalog of Neil Diamond and Journey songs can stretch their vocal chords tonight by belting out punk rock classics
Chicagoist, January 9, 2014
Leave your work clothes on the floor and morph into the anarchist, Mohawked, drug-afflicted punk rock god you’ve always wanted to be.
Chicago Reader, January 9, 2014
co-organizer Patrick Tyrrell spoke with Westword about the Punk Rock Karaoke Collective’s formation, the importance of collaborating with grassroots organizations and why he geeks out over seeing Bikini Kill and Jawbreaker duke it out for the most requested karaoke spot.
Westword, June 20, 2013
It may have been intended as satire, but Black Flag’s “TV Party” loses some of its irony when you’re following the lyrics on a blue screen. This phenomenon is made possible by Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago, a collective dedicated to producing sing-along renditions of punk’s most iconoclastic anthem
Groupon, May 31, 2013
At Punk-Rock Karaoke, people swarm singers, freely grab extra microphones, and even throw themselves into the audience for a proper stage dive.
The Brooklyn Paper, May 8, 2013