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Karaoke inDetroit
The every-night karaoke bars of metro Detroit are in Taylor, Hazel Park and Sterling Heights, not downtown. Forty-two confirmed venues spread across two dozen towns, three of them are bowling alleys, and an unusual number of the hosts are known by name.
25written up in this guide62tracked in and around Detroit
This guide walks the standouts. The full Detroit map lives in the KaraokeList app — free, kept current by the singers who use it.
Detroit sings in a ring. Warren holds four confirmed venues, Taylor, Hazel Park and Westland three each, and the map keeps going — Wyandotte down the river, Clinton Township up Gratiot, Ferndale and Royal Oak along Woodward. The bars that never skip a night are all suburban: Cavill's in Taylor, Eddies in Hazel Park, and the Round Table at Sterling Heights' Wellington Pub, which runs karaoke with a DJ seven days a week from 9pm to close.
The city itself keeps five confirmed venues, and they could hardly be less alike: Sid Gold's Request Room downtown on Broadway, a Saturday-night standby in Midtown, a west-side saloon that takes Wednesdays, and a private-room studio on Puritan Avenue where the karaoke is done by 9pm.
4 confirmed venues
The suburbs that sing every night
No planning required at these four. Three run all seven nights; the fourth only rests on Sunday.
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Cavill's Lounge
14383 Telegraph Rd · TaylorKaraoke seven nights a week on Telegraph Road. Taylor holds three confirmed venues, and this is the one that never takes a night off.
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Eddies
23715 S Chrysler Dr · Hazel ParkKaraoke every night on the Chrysler Drive service strip. Hazel Park holds three confirmed venues; this is the everyday one.
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The Round Table
44819 Hayes Rd · Sterling HeightsKaraoke and a DJ seven days a week, 9pm to close, at the Wellington Pub on Hayes Road.
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Tipsy McStaggers
7280 E 12 Mile Rd · WarrenMonday through Saturday from 9pm on 12 Mile. Warren has four confirmed venues; this is the one running six nights of the week.
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4 confirmed venues
Detroit proper
Five confirmed venues inside the city line, no two of them playing the same game.
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Sid Gold's Request Room
1511 Broadway St · DowntownWednesday through Saturday downtown — 9pm to 1am most nights, and a 6pm start on Fridays.
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Kidz and Karaoke Studios
7429 Puritan Ave · West sideThe city's private rooms, and they keep daytime hours: from 11am Wednesday through Sunday, closing at 8:30 or 9pm. Karaoke you can finish before dinner.
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Jumbo's
3736 3rd Street · MidtownSaturday karaoke and modestly priced drinks — the bar's own billing, and a fair one.
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Diamond Jim's Saloon
19650 W Warren Ave · West sideWednesday is karaoke night on West Warren Avenue.
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37 more where these came from.
We keep tabs on 62 karaoke spots in and around Detroit — this guide writes up 25. The rest are on the map in the app, next to the part that matters: what you’ll sing when the book comes around.
The lanes sing too
Three of the metro's confirmed karaoke venues are bowling alleys. Imperial Lanes in Clinton Township runs it Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30pm to 2am — hours plenty of ordinary bars here don't keep. Vision Lanes in Westland takes Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights in its All Star Grille and Music Bar.
Ford Lanes on Van Born Road rounds out the set with Friday night karaoke. Few metros treat the bowling alley as a standing karaoke room; Detroit has three of them at it.
Corridor by corridor
Northeast, Warren backs up Tipsy McStaggers with Johnny B Good's on Groesbeck, Fridays and Saturdays from 9pm, and Renegades in Garden City covers the west with four nights, Thursday through Sunday, 9pm to 2am. Chatters in Westland runs five nights at 9:30 — including Sunday, which most of the metro takes off.
Along Woodward, Ferndale offers a choice of temperaments: Sneakers Pub, a self-described dive bar with karaoke, and Soho, which gives Sunday night to the singers. In Hazel Park, Max Dugan's starts its Thursday night at 7pm — sharp, by its own insistence — two hours before almost anyone else opens the book.
Downriver belongs to Saturday. Speedboat Bar & Grill on Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte runs 9pm to 1am, and O'Malley's in Livonia does Friday and Saturday with no cover — the one bar here that advertises the fact.
Ask for the host by name
Detroit karaoke comes with a person attached. Ron hosts at the Cloverleaf in Southgate, which sings Thursday through Saturday. Thursday at Big League Brews in Taylor is Jamie's night; Thursday at Tailgators on Van Born Road belongs to DJ Betty from 10pm. In Westland the host is the venue — Stacyoke, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
And then there is Joe T, who plays the Northville Community Center at 1pm on the third Tuesday of the month. Daytime karaoke at the community centre is not a thing most cities have. Detroit does.
Questions
Where can I do karaoke in metro Detroit tonight?
Three venues run all seven nights: Cavill's Lounge in Taylor, Eddies in Hazel Park, and the Round Table at the Wellington Pub in Sterling Heights, which goes from 9pm to close. Tipsy McStaggers in Warren covers every night except Sunday — and Chatters in Westland is one of the few that sings on Sunday itself.
Is there karaoke in downtown Detroit?
Sid Gold's Request Room on Broadway runs Wednesday through Saturday, with a 6pm start on Fridays. Elsewhere in the city, Jumbo's in Midtown takes Saturdays and Diamond Jim's Saloon on West Warren takes Wednesdays.
Does Detroit have private karaoke rooms?
Two confirmed. Kidz and Karaoke Studios on Puritan Avenue in Detroit keeps daytime hours, 11am into the evening, Wednesday through Sunday. Icon Pix Studios in Royal Oak has three private rooms with standard two-hour sessions, four nights a week.
Which bowling alleys have karaoke in Detroit?
Imperial Lanes in Clinton Township, Wednesday through Saturday from 9:30pm to 2am; Vision Lanes in Westland, Thursday through Saturday in the All Star Grille; and Ford Lanes on Van Born Road on Fridays.
Is karaoke free in Detroit?
O'Malley's Bar & Grill in Livonia runs its Friday and Saturday karaoke with no cover charge — it is the one venue on this page that says so outright. Most of the rest are neighbourhood bars where the karaoke is simply part of the night.
Is this every karaoke bar in Detroit?
No. This page covers the venues worth knowing first across the metro. The full verified list for Detroit 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 Detroit venues is in there too.