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Karaoke inSeattle
One Seattle bar advertises karaoke 365 days a year, and it has ten nightly rivals. The question here is never whether there is karaoke tonight — only whether you want a stage or a door that closes behind you.
19written up in this guide86tracked in and around Seattle
This guide walks the standouts. The full Seattle map lives in the KaraokeList app — free, kept current by the singers who use it.
Seattle sings on a school night. Eleven confirmed venues run karaoke seven days a week, spread from Capitol Hill to Greenwood to White Center, so a Tuesday here is genuinely no harder than a Friday. Most cities save it for the weekend; Seattle never bothered.
The choice between singing to a room and renting your own is unusually even here too. Capitol Hill and the Chinatown-International District each hold both kinds within a few blocks of each other, and one Capitol Hill venue does both under the same roof.
4 confirmed venues
Every night of the week
No planning required. These four run karaoke seven days, and between them they cover most of the city.
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Hula Hula
1501 East Olive Way · Capitol Hill365 days a year, 7pm to 2am, by its own account. The most dependable karaoke in the city and it starts earlier than most.
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Rickshaw
322 N 105th St · GreenwoodA long-standing Greenwood dive with nightly karaoke from 9pm. The north-end answer, and the one locals name first.
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Ozzie's
105 W Mercer St · Lower Queen AnneEvery single night at 9pm, with DJ takeovers at 10pm on Friday and Saturday. Convenient for anything happening at Seattle Center.
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Boombox Bar
9608 16th Ave SW · White CenterKaraoke every night, 9pm to 2am, barring special events. Out in White Center, and worth the trip if you want a room that is not full of Capitol Hill.
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4 confirmed venues
If you want your own room
Seattle's private-room karaoke is concentrated in two places: Capitol Hill and the Chinatown-International District, plus one on the Ave up by the university.
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Rock Box
1603 Nagle Pl · Capitol HillDoes both under one roof: public karaoke in the bar from 7pm to 1:30am, and private rooms with last seating at 12:30am. Open daily from 4pm.
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Vox Karaoke
601 S King St #102 · Chinatown-IDPrivate rooms seven nights a week, 5pm to 2am, in the International District.
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Novabox Karaoke
4744 University Way NE · University DistrictRooms nightly from 6pm, with songbooks in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Built for groups rather than couples.
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Orient Express
2963 4th Ave S · SoDoBar and karaoke rooms, open until 2am daily, in a set of converted railway carriages south of downtown.
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67 more where these came from.
We keep tabs on 86 karaoke spots in and around Seattle — this guide writes up 19. The rest are on the map in the app, next to the part that matters: what you’ll sing when the book comes around.
East Olive Way, and the rest of Capitol Hill
Crescent Lounge at 1413 East Olive Way and Hula Hula at 1501 are a block apart and both run karaoke every day of the week — the Crescent from 6pm, an hour earlier than its neighbour. It is the most concentrated karaoke on the hill and the easiest place to switch rooms mid-evening.
The rest of Capitol Hill fills in around them. The Cuff Complex on 13th runs nightly from 9pm. Unicorn on East Pike does Mondays, 9pm to 1am. Twilight Exit on East Cherry takes Sundays, 9pm to 1am, and Rock Box on Nagle Place covers both formats daily.
The Chinatown-International District
South King Street has two very different rooms within a block of each other. Vox Karaoke at 601 rents private rooms nightly until 2am. Bush Garden at 714 is the older institution — open-mic karaoke nightly at 9:30pm, six days a week, closed Tuesdays.
Nights with a name attached
A good deal of Seattle karaoke is organised around a particular host rather than a particular bar, and those nights are worth planning for.
Little Red Hen in Green Lake runs Wednesdays at 9pm with DJ Forrest Gump. Julia's on Broadway does drag karaoke hosted by Shay Fox. The Monkey Pub in the University District runs live karaoke three nights a week, typically from 10:30pm. Columbia City Theater does Wednesdays with sign-ups from 8pm in the Bourbon Bar, and Karaoke @ the Eagles in West Seattle runs on the second and fourth Fridays of the month only, 8pm to midnight.
Questions
Where can I do karaoke in Seattle tonight?
Eleven venues run karaoke seven nights a week, so any night works. Hula Hula on East Olive Way advertises 365 days a year from 7pm; Rickshaw in Greenwood, Ozzie's in Lower Queen Anne, Boombox Bar in White Center and The Cuff Complex on Capitol Hill all run nightly from 9pm.
Where are the private karaoke rooms in Seattle?
Three areas. Rock Box on Capitol Hill has rooms alongside its public bar karaoke. Vox Karaoke is on South King Street in the Chinatown-International District. Novabox is on University Way in the U District, with songbooks in four languages. Orient Express in SoDo also has rooms.
Which Seattle karaoke bar is open the most?
Hula Hula on East Olive Way, which states it runs karaoke 365 days a year from 7pm to 2am. Its neighbour a block away, Crescent Lounge, also runs daily and starts an hour earlier at 6pm.
Is there drag karaoke in Seattle?
Yes — Julia's on Broadway runs drag karaoke hosted by Shay Fox. Capitol Hill has a broader queer karaoke scene around it, including The Cuff Complex, which runs nightly from 9pm, and Unicorn on East Pike on Mondays.
Is this every karaoke bar in Seattle?
No. This page covers the shape of the scene and the venues worth knowing first. The full verified list for Seattle 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 Seattle venues is in there too.