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Where else does Wednesday karaoke come with a live church organist and a choir robe? Atlanta splits its singing between an intown circuit of personalities and a Korean private-room corridor running up Buford Highway to Duluth, where every one of the metro's seven-night venues sits.
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This guide walks the standouts. The full Atlanta map lives in the KaraokeList app — free, kept current by the singers who use it.
The rooms live northeast, and in numbers. Duluth alone holds nine confirmed venues and Doraville four more, strung along Buford Highway and Pleasant Hill Road, where DoReMi, Luxor and RED Lounge sit within a couple of hundred street numbers of each other. Twice on this corridor, two karaoke bars share a single address. All seven of the metro's seven-night venues are here, most running to 2am or later.
Inside the Perimeter the format flips to open mic, and none of it is ordinary. Metalsome sings from 10:30pm to 3am in a club below a tavern. Sister Louisa's Church hands you a choir robe and a live organist. The Clermont Lounge takes Tuesdays. And the northwest suburbs — Marietta, Kennesaw, Roswell — run a DJ-hosted bar circuit of their own.
4 confirmed venues
Duluth: the rooms district
Nine confirmed venues in one suburb, mostly rooms by the hour, three of them on Pleasant Hill Road alone. All four picks here run seven nights.
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DoReMi
2550 Pleasant Hill Rd #206 · DuluthRooms seven days — from 5pm on weekdays and 2pm at the weekend, running to 2am on Friday and Saturday.
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Luxor
2472 Pleasant Hill Rd · DuluthAn Egyptian-styled karaoke bar with eleven private rooms and a library spanning English, Korean, Chinese and more, nightly from 8pm.
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RED Lounge
2442 Pleasant Hill Rd · DuluthKaraoke rooms that welcome walk-ins, seven nights from 7pm — to 2am midweek and 3am on Friday and Saturday.
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Gangnam Style
2645 N Berkeley Lake Rd NW · DuluthOpen every day, 5pm to 1am, with open mic every night — and it shares its address with Everysing Karaoke, which is rooms only.
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4 confirmed venues
Intown: karaoke with character
Inside the Perimeter the rooms mostly disappear and the personalities take over.
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Metalsome
816 North Highland Ave · Virginia-HighlandRuns 10:30pm to 3am at 10 High Club, below the Darkhorse Tavern on North Highland.
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Sister Louisa's Church
466 Edgewood Ave NE · Old Fourth WardWednesday is Church Organ Karaoke: a real church organ, a live organist, a pulpit, and choir robes for anyone singing. Sundays run an organ night of their own.
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Moondogs
3179 Peachtree Rd NE · BuckheadThursday from 8pm, Friday and Saturday from 9pm — all three nights running to 3am.
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Clermont Lounge
789 Ponce de Leon Ave NE · Poncey-HighlandKaraoke every Tuesday from 10pm at the Ponce institution.
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49 more where these came from.
We keep tabs on 76 karaoke spots in and around Atlanta — this guide writes up 27. The rest are on the map in the app, next to the part that matters: what you’ll sing when the book comes around.
Buford Highway keeps the rooms
Follow Buford Highway southwest from Duluth and the rooms keep coming. Hangbok - Happy Karaoke runs seven nights from 6pm, to 3am on Friday and Saturday. In Doraville, Sapphire Karaoke & Restaurant takes Tuesday through Sunday, and Let's Go Karaoke shares 5979 Buford Highway with Karaoke Melody — one address, two karaoke bars, the corridor's second doubled-up address after Gangnam Style and Everysing in Duluth.
The corridor also holds the metro's strangest calendar and its latest weeknights. Mics Karaoke in Doraville opens Monday to Thursday only, 6pm to 2am — the week everyone else takes off. And Ai Tunes in Norcross runs Monday through Saturday from 6pm to 2:45am, the latest regular close we have confirmed in the metro. Hanshin Pocha Usa, back in Duluth, opens its doors at 2pm every day.
Midtown's shared address
The address-sharing habit is not just a corridor thing. At 1492 Piedmont Avenue, Mixx runs Karaoke Wednesdays from 9pm to 2am, and Balls Deep Karaoke @The Atlanta Eagle takes Thursdays from 9 to midnight — same building, different night.
Around the corner, Felix's Atlanta covers three nights: Monday karaoke with Betsi, a Tuesday night with more than 340,000 tracks to pick from, and a Saturday karaoke party. And The Local on Ponce keeps Monday at 9pm.
OTP, northwest
Marietta and Kennesaw run the bar-night circuit, and one host anchors a surprising amount of it: DJ Sarge is the resident at Karaoke at Highlands in Kennesaw on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and takes Fridays at Jimmy Mac's in Marietta, which runs Thursday through Sunday, 9pm to 1:30am. The Rusty Barrel sings Thursday to Saturday, and The Karaoke Spot in Kennesaw runs Thursday through Sunday from 7:30pm.
Further out: Chaplins in Roswell stages live DJ-operated karaoke shows Wednesday through Sunday, and iKaraoke in Douglasville is the rare private-rooms venue this far west — six days a week, closed Tuesdays.
Questions
Where is the karaoke district in Atlanta?
The Buford Highway corridor, northeast of the city. Duluth has nine confirmed venues — DoReMi, Luxor and RED Lounge are all on Pleasant Hill Road — Doraville has four more, and Hangbok and Ai Tunes hold the Atlanta and Norcross ends. It is almost entirely private rooms.
Where can I do karaoke in Atlanta tonight?
Seven venues run all seven nights, every one of them on the northeast corridor: Ai Tunes, DoReMi, Gangnam Style, Hangbok, Hanshin Pocha Usa, Luxor and RED Lounge. Gangnam Style also runs an open mic every night if you would rather sing to the room.
How late does karaoke go in Atlanta?
Ai Tunes in Norcross runs to 2:45am Monday through Saturday. Hangbok and RED Lounge reach 3am on Friday and Saturday, and intown, Moondogs and Metalsome both go to 3am.
Where are the private karaoke rooms in Atlanta?
Mostly Duluth and Doraville: DoReMi, Luxor, RED Lounge, Everysing, Sapphire, Let's Go, Karaoke Melody and Mics. Closer in, Hangbok is on the Atlanta stretch of Buford Highway and FamFam Karaoke is intown on Wood Street, Thursday to Sunday. West of everything, iKaraoke in Douglasville runs rooms six days a week.
What is the most unusual karaoke night in Atlanta?
Wednesday at Sister Louisa's Church on Edgewood Avenue: a real church organ, a live organist and choir robes for the singers. Metalsome, in a club below the Darkhorse Tavern, and Tuesday nights at the Clermont Lounge are the other two answers locals give.
Is this every karaoke bar in Atlanta?
No. This page covers the districts and the venues worth knowing first. The full verified list for Atlanta lives in the KaraokeList app, with the nights each one runs.
You found the bar.
Now what are you singing?
KaraokeList keeps every karaoke song you can actually pull off — and when the list runs dry, it finds you new ones, each with a reason. The full verified list of Atlanta venues is in there too.