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Friday, 8/30 - Drinks Backyard
Saturday, 9/7 - Knomad Bar
Thursday, 9/19 - Grand Royale - Oklahoma City, OK
Saturday, 9/21 - miniBar - Kansas City, MO
Sunday, 9/22 - White Squirrel Bar - St. Paul, MN
Friday, 9/27 - Jardin x Contreras - Laredo, TX
Saturday, 10/5 - Knomad Bar
Saturday, 10/19 - Coral Snake - ALL 69 LOVE SONGS
Saturday, 11/2 - Knomad Bar
December 28, 2022
SAD SONGS ONLY – DEC 28 2023

Here’s this year’s songlist, 456 songs! Of course, anything on the full KU list is available if you feel like we missed adding a sad song to this list.

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – How Near, How Far
13th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me
6ths feat. Mary Timony – All Dressed Up In Dreams
7 Seconds – 99 Red Balloons (by Nina Hagen)
Adams, Ryan – Come Pick Me Up
Adams, Ryan – Magnolia Mountain
Adams, Ryan – To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
Adorable – Sunshine Smile
Afghan Whigs – My Curse
Against Me! – Black Me Out
Against Me! – FuckMyLife666
Against Me! – True Trans Soul Rebel
Air Miami – I Hate Milk
AJJ – Hate, Rain On Me
AJJ – People II: The Reckoning
Alkaline Trio – Maybe I’ll Catch Fire
Alkaline Trio – Radio
Alkaline Trio – San Francisco
ALL – Dot
ALL – Nothin’
ALL – Postage
Allo Darlin’ – My Heart Is A Drummer
Alvvays – Dreams Tonite
Alvvays – In Undertow
American Football – Never Meant
American Nightmare – AM/PM
Arcade Fire – Modern Man
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Archers Of Loaf – Wrong
At The Drive-in – Napoleon Solo
Bachelor – Stay In The Car
Bad Books – Pyotr
Bad Religion – 21st Century Digital Boy
Baker, Julien – Sour Breath
Band Of Horses – The Funeral
Barnett, Courtney – Avant Gardener
Barnett, Courtney – Before You Gotta Go
Barnett, Courtney – Depreston
Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust (by David Bowie)
Bell, Chris – I Am The Cosmos
Belle & Sebastian – Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian – Judy And The Dream Of Horses
Belle & Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane
Belle & Sebastian – Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie
Belle & Sebastian – Like Dylan In The Movies
Belle & Sebastian – Lord Anthony
Belle & Sebastian – Mayfly
Belle & Sebastian – Me And The Major
Belle & Sebastian – Seeing Other People
Belle & Sebastian – The Boy Done Wrong Again
Belle & Sebastian – The Fox In The Snow
Belle & Sebastian – The Stars Of Track And Field
Best Coast – Better Girl
Best Coast – Boyfriend
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Beths – Future Me Hates Me
Better Oblivion Community Center – Dylan Thomas
Big Boys – Sound On Sound
Big Boys – Which Way To Go
Big Star – September Gurls
Big Star – Thirteen
Big Thief – Mythological Beauty
Big Thief – Not
Big Thief – Shark Smile
Big Thief – Simulation Swarm
Big Thief – Vampire Empire
Bikini Kill – Feels Blind
Black Dresses – Thoughts And Prayers
Black Flag – Depression
Black Heart Procession – A Light So Dim
Black Heart Procession – It’s A Crime I Never Told You About The Diamonds In Your Eyes
Black Heart Procession – Square Heart
Blonde Redhead – 23
Blood Brothers – Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
Blow – True Affection
Bomb The Music Industry! – Everybody That You Love
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I See A Darkness
Bottle Rockets – Thousand Dollar Car
boygenius – Bite The Hand
boygenius – Me & My Dog
boygenius – Not Strong Enough
Bratmobile – Well You Wanna Know What
Breeders – Drivin’ On 9
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Anemone
Bridgers, Phoebe – Kyoto
Bridgers, Phoebe – Motion Sickness
Bridgers, Phoebe – Scott Street
Bright Eyes – Bowl Of Oranges
Bright Eyes – Lover I Don’t Have To Love
Bright Eyes – Method Acting
Bright Eyes – Papa Was A Rodeo (by Magnetic Fields)
Broken Social Scene – Anthems For A Seventeen-Year Old Girl
Built To Spill – Twin Falls
Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love?
Buzzcocks – What Do I Get?
Callahan, Bill – Too Many Birds
Camera Obscura – Lloyd I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing
Camper Van Beethoven – All Her Favorite Fruit
Car Seat Headrest – Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not An)
Cartalk – Wrestling
Case, Neko – Calling Cards
Case, Neko – Deep Red Bells
Case, Neko – Hold On, Hold On
Case, Neko – I Wish I Was The Moon
Case, Neko – Pretty Girls
Case, Neko – Red Tide
Case, Neko – Star Witness
Case, Neko – That Teenage Feeling
Case, Neko – This Tornado Loves You
Cat Power – Cherokee
Cat Power – Cross Bones Style
Cat Power – Nude As The News
Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds – The Ship Song
Cayetana – Scott Get The Van, I’m Moving
Charly Bliss – Capacity
Childbirth – I Only Fucked You As A Joke
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
Cloud Nothings – Pyschic Trauma
Cock Sparrer – Argy Bargy
Cocteau Twins – Cherry-Coloured Funk
Come – Shoot Me First
Company Of Thieves – After Thought
Converge – Homewrecker
Cramps – I Was A Teenage Werewolf
Crass – Systematic Death
Crooked Fingers – New Drink For The Old Drunk
Crooked Fingers – Sleep All Summer
Crooked Fingers – Under Sad Stars
Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
Cure – The Hanging Garden
Cursive – Art Is Hard
Cursive – The Recluse
Dacus, Lucy – Hot & Heavy
Dacus, Lucy – I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore
Dacus, Lucy – Night Shift
Danzig – Blood And Tears
Dashboard Confessional – The Brilliant Dance
Dawson, Kimya – All I Could Do
Dazey & The Scouts – Wet
Death Cab For Cutie – Title And Registration
Decemberists – The Chimbley Sweep
Desaparecidos – Man And Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)
Descendents – Clean Sheets
Detroit Cobras – He Did It (by The Ronettes)
DEVO – Beautiful World
Diet Cig – Harvard
DiFranco, Ani – Both Hands
DiFranco, Ani – Untouchable Face
Dinosaur Jr – Just Like Heaven (by The Cure)
Dismemberment Plan – A Life Of Possibilities
Dismemberment Plan – The City
Dismemberment Plan – The Ice Of Boston
Dismemberment Plan – Time Bomb
Distillers – City Of Angels
Distillers – Drain The Blood
Distillers – I Am A Revenant
Dollyrots – My Best Friend’s Hot
Dream Syndicate – Tell Me When It’s Over
Dresden Dolls – My Alcoholic Friends
Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down
Dum Dum Girls – It Only Takes One Night
Eisley – Real World
Erickson, Roky – You Don’t Love Me Yet
ESG – You’re No Good
Face To Face – Blind
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
Foxygen – San Francisco
Frankie Cosmos – Young
Frightened Rabbit – Head Rolls Off
Front Bottoms – Twin Size Mattress
Frost, Edith – Cars And Parties
Frost, Edith – You Belong To No One
Fugazi – I’m So Tired
Furman, Ezra – Transition From Nowhere To Nowhere
Fuvk – Glasses
Gary, The – (Eyes In The) Tap Room
Get Up Kids – Holiday
Get Up Kids – Ten Minutes
Ghostland Observatory – Sad Sad City
Girls – Hellhole Ratrace
Golightly, Holly – There’s An End
Good Life – Lovers Need Lawyers
Good Riddance – Better
Grifters – Bummer
Guided By Voices – Game Of Pricks
Guided By Voices – If We Wait
Handsome Family – Weightless Again
Harvey, PJ – Rid Of Me
Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
Heatmiser – Antonio Carlos Jobim
Helium – Honeycomb
Hole – Jennifer’s Body
Hop Along – How Simple
Hop Along – Tibetan Pop Stars
Hot Water Music – Not For Anyone
Hot Water Music – Trusty Chords
Hum – Step Into You
Hüsker Dü – I Apologize
Hüsker Dü – Makes No Sense At All
Hüsker Dü – Never Talking To You Again
Hval, Jenny – Ashes To Ashes
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – According To Plan
Inspiral Carpets – This Is How It Feels
Interpol – Leif Erikson
Interpol – NYC
Jacklin, Julia – Pressure To Party
Japanese Breakfast – Road Head
Jawbox – Savory
Jawbreaker – Do You Still Hate Me?
Jets To Brazil – Chinatown
Jets To Brazil – Sweet Avenue
Jim Carroll Band – People Who Died
Johnston, Daniel – True Love Will Find You In The End
Joy Division – Dead Souls
Joy Division – Insight
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
La Dispute – Such Small Hands
La Luz – Sure As Spring
Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
Lagwagon – Sick
Lekman, Jens – I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You
Lekman, Jens – The Opposite Of Hallelujah
Lewis, Jenny – The Big Guns
Low – Just Make It Stop
Lush – For Love
Lush – Light From A Dead Star
Magnetic Fields – All My Little Words
Magnetic Fields – All The Umbrellas In London
Magnetic Fields – Busby Berkeley Dreams
Magnetic Fields – Grand Canyon
Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Want To Get Over You
Magnetic Fields – Long-Forgotten Fairytale
Magnetic Fields – No One Will Ever Love You
Magnetic Fields – The Saddest Story Ever Told
Magnolia Electric Co. – The Dark Don’t Hide It
Mannequin Pussy – Drunk II
Marked Men – Fix My Brain
Mazzy Star – Halah
McDowall, Rose – Tibet
Meat Puppets – Plateau
Menzingers – I Don’t Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore
Metric – Now Or Never Now
Mineral – Parking Lot
Minutemen – Jesus & Tequila
Mirah – Jerusalem
Mitski – A Pearl
Mitski – I Bet On Losing Dogs
Mitski – i will
Mitski – Lonesome Love
Mitski – Nobody
Mitski – Washing Machine Heart
Modern Baseball – Fine, Great
Modest Mouse – Baby Blue Sedan
Modest Mouse – Bankrupt On Selling
Modest Mouse – Dark Center Of The Universe
Modest Mouse – Dramamine
Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash
Modest Mouse – You’re The Good Things (It’s Alright To Die)
Mogwai – R U Still In 2 It?
Morphine – Cure For Pain
Mountain Goats – Against Pollution
Mountain Goats – Cotton
Mountain Goats – Cry For Judas
Mountain Goats – Dance Music
Mountain Goats – Game Shows Touch Our Lives
Mountain Goats – No Children
Mountain Goats – Oceanographer’s Choice
Mountain Goats – Palmcorder Yajna
Mountain Goats – The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
Mountain Goats – This Year
Mr. T Experience – Sackcloth And Ashes
Muth, Zoe – You Only Believe Me When I’m Lying
Nana Grizol – Photos From When We Were Young
Nastasia, Nina – A Dog’s Life
National – Mr. November
National – Pink Rabbits
Nerves – Hanging On The Telephone
Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter
Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel – King Of Carrot Flowers, Part 1
New Order – 1963 (’95)
New Order – Ceremony
New Order – Love Vigilantes
New Pornographers – Challengers
Newsom, Joanna – Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
Newsom, Joanna – Sadie
Newsom, Joanna – The Book Of Right-On
Nico – These Days
No Use For A Name – Justified Black Eye
Normal – Warm Leatherette
Numan, Gary (Tubeway Army) – Me! I Disconnect From You
Okkervil River – Black
Okkervil River – Westfall
Old 97’s – Big Brown Eyes
Olsen, Angel – Never Be Mine
Olsen, Angel – Shut Up Kiss Me
Olsen, Angel – Some Things Cosmic
Olsen, Angel – Unfucktheworld
Owen – O, Evelyn
Palace Brothers – For The Mekons, et al
Palmer, Amanda – The Bed Song
Paramore – Brighter
Parenthetical Girls – A Song For Ellie Greenwich
Pennywise – Bro Hymn
Phair, Liz – Divorce Song
Phair, Liz – Fuck And Run
Phair, Liz – Never Said
Pinback – Fortress
Pleasure Venom – Severed Ties
Pogues – A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing
Pom Pom Squad – Drunk Voicemail
Pop, Iggy – How Do Ya Fix A Broken Part
Popper Burns – Sunday
Postal Service – Brand New Colony
Postal Service – Clark Gable
Postal Service – Nothing Better
Postal Service – Sleeping In
Poster Children – Rain On Me
Pretty Girls Make Graves – Sad Girls Por Vida
Promise Ring – A Picture Postcard
Pulley – Second Best
Pulp – Disco 2000
Pulp – Like A Friend
Pup – DVP
Purple Mountains – All My Happiness Is Gone
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
Quasi – The Poisoned Well
Quiet Company – The Easy Confidence
Rainer Maria – The Reason The Night Is Long
Replacements – Unsatisfied
Rilo Kiley – A Better Son/Daughter
Rilo Kiley – Does He Love You?
Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
Rilo Kiley – Science Vs. Romance
Rilo Kiley – The Good That Won’t Come Out
Rites Of Spring – For Want Of
Rutabega – Come Back Big Brother
Rutabega – Shiny Destination
Sarge – Beguiling
Saves The Day – At Your Funeral
School Of Seven Bells – Half Asleep
Sebadoh – Brand New Love (acoustic)
Sebadoh – Pink Moon (by Nick Drake)
Sebadoh – Too Pure
Shannon & The Clams – Baby Don’t Do It
Shannon & The Clams – Point Of Being Right
Shearwater – Century Eyes
Silkworm – Couldn’t You Wait
Silver Jews – Punks In The Beerlight
Silver Jews – Random Rules
Sincere Engineer – Trust Me
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Christine
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Dazzle
Sleater-Kinney – Buy Her Candy
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney – Heart Factory
Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers
Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl
Sleater-Kinney – One More Hour
Slint – Good Morning, Captain
Slits – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (by Marvin Gaye)
Small Brown Bike – Like A Future With No Friend
Smith, Elliott – Baby Britain
Smith, Elliott – Ballad Of Big Nothing
Smith, Elliott – Between The Bars
Smith, Elliott – Can’t Make A Sound
Smith, Elliott – Condor Ave.
Smith, Elliott – King’s Crossing
Smith, Elliott – Miss Misery
Smith, Elliott – St. Ides Heaven
Smith, Elliott – Strung Out Again
Smith, Elliott – Twilight
Smith, Elliott – Waltz #2 (XO)
Smith, Patti – Free Money
Smiths – Girlfriend In A Coma
Smog – Bathysphere
Smog – I Was A Stranger
Smoking Popes – Megan
Snail Mail – Full Control
Snail Mail – Valentine
Soccer Mommy – Circle The Drain
Soccer Mommy – Last Girl
Soccer Mommy – Your Dog
Somnia – (The Double Life Of) Ed Claiborne
Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission
Songs: Ohia – I’ve Been Riding With The Ghost
Songs: Ohia – Just Be Simple
Songs: Ohia – Lioness
Songs: Ohia – Tigress
Sonic Youth – Brother James
Spanish Love Songs – The Boy Considers His Haircut
Sparks – Here In Heaven
Spiritualized – The Straight & The Narrow
Spoon – 10:20 a.m.
Spoon – Advance Cassette
Spoon – Anything You Want
Spoon – Don’t Let It Get You Down
Spoon – Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now
Squirrel Flower – So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings (by Caroline Polachek)
St. Vincent – Cheerleader
St. Vincent – The Neighbors
Stars – Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Stevens, Sufjan – Chicago
Stevens, Sufjan – John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Stretch Panic – Vampire Love
Sun Kil Moon – Carry Me Ohio
Sun Kil Moon – Salvador Sanchez
Sundfør, Susanne – Undercover
Sunny Day Real Estate – In Circles
Sunny Day Real Estate – Seven
Swearin’ – Kenosha
They Might Be Giants – Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – Noble Experiment
Title Fight – Numb, But I Still Feel It
Tuscadero – Nancy Drew
Two Nice Girls – I Spent My Last US$10.00(On Birth Control And Beer)
U.S. Girls – Rage Of Plastics
Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
Urban Heat – Have You Ever?
Van Etten, Sharon – Seventeen
Van Etten, Sharon – Your Love Is Killing Me
Vandals – My Girlfriend’s Dead
Vanderslice, John – Exodus Damage
Vega, Suzanne – Left Of Center
Veirs, Laura – Galaxies
Velocity Girl – Pop Loser
Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow’s Parties
Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale
Walkmen – Thinking Of A Dream I Had
Warpaint – Ashes To Ashes (by David Bowie)
Waxahatchee – Lilacs
Waxahatchee – Poison
Weakerthans – Aside
Weakerthans – Tournament Of Hearts
Weakerthans – Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure
Ween – Chocolate Town
Weyes Blood – Andromeda
What Made Milwaukee Famous – Selling Yourself Short
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
Wilco – How To Fight Loneliness
Wilco – Passenger Side
Wolf Parade – I’ll Believe In Anything
Wye Oak – Civilian
Wye Oak – I Hope You Die
X – I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
Xiu Xiu – Falling (by Julee Cruise)
Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
Yo La Tengo – Sugarcube
Zen Guerrilla – Moonage Daydream (by David Bowie)

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October 26, 2022
Scary-oke on 10.27

Thursday 10/27 is the first time KU is hosting an actual Halloween-themed show, don’t miss it! It’s part of Phantom Fest and it’ll be at Central Machine Works, with a costume contest and a focus on the spookiest, scariest and creepiest songs in the KU list. Plus some cute ones. Check out the KU Scary-oke playlist on Spotify.

The whole songlist will be available of course, get ready for a fun early show from 8-11 and sing it LOUD!

999 – Homicide
Adolescents – Amoeba
Adverts – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
Agent Orange – Bloodstains
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Bad Books – Pyotr
Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust (by David Bowie)
Be Your Own Pet – Becky
Big Black – Steelworker
Birthday Party – Sonny’s Burning
Black Heart Procession – A Light So Dim
Blitz – Razors In The Night
Blood Brothers – Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
Body Count – Cop Killer
Bratmobile – Gimme Brains
Bush Tetras – Too Many Creeps
Cale, John – Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend
Case, Neko – Hold On, Hold On
Cat Power – Cross Bones Style
Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds – Deanna
Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds – Papa Won’t Leave You Henry
Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds – Stagger Lee
Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds – Tupelo
Coma In Algiers – Leipzig
Come – Shoot Me First
Converge – Homewrecker
Costello, Elvis – Watching The Detectives
Cramps – Human Fly
Cramps – I Was A Teenage Werewolf
Cramps – Strychnine (by The Sonics)
Cramps – TV Set
Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
Cure – Jumping Someone Else’s Train
Cursive – Some Red-Handed Sleight Of Hand
Dead Boys – Sonic Reducer
Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles
Death Angel – Bored
Decemberists – The Chimbley Sweep
Dinosaur Jr – Just Like Heaven (by The Cure)
Discharge – Protest And Survive
Dismemberment Plan – Time Bomb
Distillers – I Am A Revenant
Dresden Dolls – Girl Anachronism
Dukes Of Stratosphear – My Love Explodes
Elton Motello – Jet Boy Jet Girl
Germs – Lexicon Devil
Grimes – Oblivion
Grinderman – Get It On
Guided By Voices – Cut-Out Witch
Gun Club – She’s Like Heroin To Me
Helium – Honeycomb
Helium – Lady Of The Fire
Helium – Silver Strings
Hole – Pretty On The Inside
HorrorPops – Walk Like A Zombie
Hot Hot Heat – Bandages
Hot Snakes – This Mystic Decade
Interpol – Evil
Interpol – PDA
Jesus Lizard – Gladiator
Jesus Lizard – If You Had Lips
Jesus Lizard – Mouth Breather
Jim Carroll Band – People Who Died
Jonathan Fire*Eater – The Search For Cherry Red
Joy Division – Dead Souls
Joy Division – Failures
Joy Division – Insight
Joy Division – Leaders Of Men
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division – Transmission
Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
L7 – Pretend We’re Dead
L7 – Shitlist
La Dispute – Such Small Hands
Le Tigre – My Art
Les Savy Fav – The Sweat Descends
Love – A House Is Not A Motel
Lunachicks – Babysitters On Acid
Lunachicks – C.I.L.L.
Lush – Light From A Dead Star
Material Issue – Valerie Loves Me
McLusky – Alan Is A Cowboy Killer
McLusky – To Hell With Good Intentions
Meat Puppets – Lake Of Fire
Ministry – Everyday Is Halloween
Minutemen – Little Man With A Gun In His Hand
Misfits – Angelfuck
Misfits – Astro Zombies
Misfits – Attitude
Misfits – Halloween
Misfits – Hatebreeders
Misfits – Hybrid Moments
Misfits – Last Caress
Misfits – Mommy Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight
Misfits – She
Misfits – Skulls
Misfits – We Are 138
Misfits – Where Eagles Dare
Modern Lovers – She Cracked
Modest Mouse – Dark Center Of The Universe
Mountain Goats – No Children
Mountain Goats – Oceanographer’s Choice
Mountain Goats – The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
Municipal Waste – The Art Of Partying
Murder By Death – Comin’ Home
Murder City Devils – 18 Wheels
Murder City Devils – Boom Swagger Boom
Murder City Devils – Press Gang
Murder City Devils – Rum To Whiskey
Murder City Devils – Somebody Else’s Baby
Negative Approach – Can’t Tell No One
Neutral Milk Hotel – Ghost
New Order – 1963 (’95)
New Order – Ceremony
New Order – Love Vigilantes
Newsom, Joanna – The Book Of Right-On
Numan, Gary (Tubeway Army) – Me! I Disconnect From You
Okkervil River – Black
Okkervil River – Westfall
Palmer, Amanda – The Bed Song
pAper chAse – I’m Gonna Spend The Rest Of My Life Lying
Pere Ubu – Final Solution
Petrol Girls – Baby, I Had An Abortion
Pixies – Wave Of Mutilation
Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
Reatard, Jay – My Family
Savages – Evil
Scratch Acid – Monsters
Shannon & The Clams – Baby Don’t Do It
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Christine
Slant 6 – What Kind Of Monster Are You?
Sleater-Kinney – Not What You Want
Slint – Good Morning, Captain
Smith, Elliott – Strung Out Again
Songs: Ohia – I’ve Been Riding With The Ghost
Sonic Youth – Death Valley ’69
Speedy Ortiz – American Horror
Spoon – Nefarious
St. Vincent – The Neighbors
Stevens, Sufjan – John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
Stretch Panic – Vampire Love
Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized
T. Rex – Jeepster
T.S.O.L. – Code Blue
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
Television – See No Evil
Thermals – A Pillar Of Salt
Thermals – Here’s Your Future
Timony, Mary – Blood Tree
Turbonegro – Monkey On Your Back
TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me
Uncle Tupelo – Graveyard Shift
Van Etten, Sharon – Your Love Is Killing Me
Vandals – My Girlfriend’s Dead
Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale
Venom – Welcome To Hell
Waits, Tom – Singapore
Wipers – Return Of The Rat
Wye Oak – Civilian
X-Ray Spex – Genetic Engineering
X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Xiu Xiu – Falling (by Julee Cruise)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Black Tongue
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Miles Away
Zen Guerrilla – Moonage Daydream (by David Bowie)

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June 9, 2022
SAD SONGS ONLY 2022

Full songlist for this mid-year SAD SONGS ONLY show! If there’s a song on the full KU list that I didn’t include in this list, I’m a big ol’ softy and will very likely agree that you should sing it. The SAD SONGS ONLY Spotify playlist is updated, and I’ll have lots of copies of this list printed out at the show. Can’t wait, see y’all at Drinks Lounge, singing will be ready to start close to 8!

6ths feat. Mary Timony – All Dressed Up In Dreams
Adams, Ryan – Come Pick Me Up
Adams, Ryan – Magnolia Mountain
Adams, Ryan – To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
Against Me! – FuckMyLife666
Against Me! – True Trans Soul Rebel
Air Miami – I Hate Milk
Alkaline Trio – San Francisco
Allo Darlin’ – My Heart Is A Drummer
American Football – Never Meant
American Nightmare – AM/PM
Andrew Jackson Jihad – Hate, Rain On Me
Arcade Fire – Modern Man
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Archers Of Loaf – Wrong
At The Drive-in – Napoleon Solo
Bachelor – Stay In The Car
Bad Books – Pyotr
Baker, Julien – Sour Breath
Band Of Horses – The Funeral
Bell, Chris – I Am The Cosmos
Belle & Sebastian – Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
Belle & Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane
Big Boys – Sound On Sound
Big Star – Thirteen
Big Thief – Not
Bikini Kill – Feels Blind
Black Flag – Depression
Black Heart Procession – A Light So Dim
Black Heart Procession – Square Heart
Blonde Redhead – 23
Blood Brothers – Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I See A Darkness
Bottle Rockets – Thousand Dollar Car
Boygenius – Bite The Hand
Boygenius – Me & My Dog
Breeders – Drivin’ On 9
Bridgers, Phoebe – Motion Sickness
Bright Eyes – Lover I Don’t Have To Love
Bright Eyes – Method Acting
Bright Eyes – Papa Was A Rodeo (by Magnetic Fields)
Callahan, Bill – Too Many Birds
Camera Obscura – Lloyd I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
Camper Van Beethoven – All Her Favorite Fruit
Car Seat Headrest – Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not An)
Cartalk – Wrestling
Case, Neko – Red Tide
Cat Power – Nude As The News
Cayetana – Scott Get The Van, I’m Moving
Come – Shoot Me First
Converge – Homewrecker
Crass – Systematic Death
Crooked Fingers – New Drink For The Old Drunk
Crooked Fingers – Sleep All Summer
Crooked Fingers – Under Sad Stars
Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
Cursive – Art Is Hard
Dacus, Lucy – I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore
Decemberists – The Chimbley Sweep
Desaparecidos – Man And Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)
Descendents – Clean Sheets
Detroit Cobras – He Did It (by The Ronettes)
DEVO – Beautiful World
Dinosaur Jr – Just Like Heaven (by The Cure)
Dismemberment Plan – The Ice Of Boston
Dismemberment Plan – Time Bomb
Distillers – City Of Angels
Dream Syndicate – Tell Me When It’s Over
Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down
Dum Dum Girls – It Only Takes One Night
Eisley – Real World
Erickson, Roky – You Don’t Love Me Yet
Foxygen – San Francisco
Frankie Cosmos – Young
Frightened Rabbit – Head Rolls Off
Front Bottoms – Twin Size Mattress
Frost, Edith – Cars And Parties
Gary, The – (Eyes In The) Tap Room
Get Up Kids – Holiday
Get Up Kids – Ten Minutes
Golightly, Holly – There’s An End
Good Life – Lovers Need Lawyers
Good Riddance – Better
Grifters – Bummer
Guided By Voices – Game Of Pricks
Handsome Family – Weightless Again
Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
Heatmiser – Antonio Carlos Jobim
Helium – Honeycomb
Hop Along – How Simple
Hop Along – Tibetan Pop Stars
Hot Water Music – Not For Anyone
Hot Water Music – Trusty Chords
Hüsker Dü – Makes No Sense At All
Hüsker Dü – Never Talking To You Again
Inspiral Carpets – This Is How It Feels
Interpol – Leif Erikson
Interpol – NYC
Jawbox – Savory
Jawbreaker – Do You Still Hate Me?
Jets To Brazil – Chinatown
Jets To Brazil – Sweet Avenue
Jim Carroll Band – People Who Died
Joy Division – Dead Souls
Joy Division – Insight
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
La Dispute – Such Small Hands
Lagwagon – Sick
Lekman, Jens – I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You
Lekman, Jens – The Opposite Of Hallelujah
Lewis, Jenny – The Big Guns
Low – Just Make It Stop
Lush – Light From A Dead Star
Magnetic Fields – All The Umbrellas In London
Magnetic Fields – Busby Berkeley Dreams
Magnetic Fields – Grand Canyon
Magnetic Fields – The Saddest Story Ever Told
Magnolia Electric Co. – The Dark Don’t Hide It
Marked Men – Fix My Brain
Meat Puppets – Plateau
Menzingers – I Don’t Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore
Mineral – Parking Lot
Minutemen – Jesus & Tequila
Mitski – I Bet On Losing Dogs
Mitski – i will
Mitski – Lonesome Love
Mitski – Nobody
Modern Baseball – Fine, Great
Modest Mouse – Baby Blue Sedan
Modest Mouse – Bankrupt On Selling
Modest Mouse – Dark Center Of The Universe
Modest Mouse – Dramamine
Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash
“Modest Mouse – You’re The Good Things
(It’s Alright To Die)”
Mogwai – R U Still In 2 It?
Mountain Goats – Against Pollution
Mountain Goats – Cotton
Mountain Goats – Cry For Judas
Mountain Goats – Dance Music
Mountain Goats – No Children
Mountain Goats – The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
Mr. T Experience – Sackcloth And Ashes
Nastasia, Nina – A Dog’s Life
Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
New Order – 1963 (’95)
New Order – Love Vigilantes
New Pornographers – Challengers
Newsom, Joanna – Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
Newsom, Joanna – The Book Of Right-On
No Use For A Name – Justified Black Eye
Numan, Gary (Tubeway Army) – Me! I Disconnect From You
Okkervil River – Black
Okkervil River – Westfall
Old 97’s – Big Brown Eyes
Olsen, Angel – Never Be Mine
Olsen, Angel – Shut Up Kiss Me
Owen – O, Evelyn
Palace Brothers – For The Mekons, et al
Palmer, Amanda – The Bed Song
Parenthetical Girls – A Song For Ellie Greenwich
Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing
Popper Burns – Sunday
Postal Service – Brand New Colony
Postal Service – Nothing Better
Poster Children – Rain On Me
Pretty Girls Make Graves – Sad Girls Por Vida
Promise Ring – A Picture Postcard
Pulley – Second Best
Pulp – Disco 2000
Pulp – Like A Friend
Pup – DVP
Quasi – The Poisoned Well
Quiet Company – The Easy Confidence
Rainer Maria – The Reason The Night Is Long
Replacements – Unsatisfied
Rilo Kiley – A Better Son/Daughter
Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
Rilo Kiley – Science Vs. Romance
Rutabega – Come Back Big Brother
Rutabega – Shiny Destination
Saves The Day – At Your Funeral
Sebadoh – Brand New Love (acoustic)
Sebadoh – Pink Moon (by Nick Drake)
Sebadoh – Too Pure
Shannon & The Clams – Baby Don’t Do It
Shannon & The Clams – Point Of Being Right
Shearwater – Century Eyes
Silkworm – Couldn’t You Wait
Silver Jews – Punks In The Beerlight
Silver Jews – Random Rules
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Christine
Sleater-Kinney – Buy Her Candy
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers
Sleater-Kinney – One More Hour
Slint – Good Morning, Captain
Small Brown Bike – Like A Future With No Friend
Smith, Elliott – Baby Britain
Smith, Elliott – Ballad Of Big Nothing
Smith, Elliott – King’s Crossing
Smith, Elliott – Miss Misery
Smith, Elliott – Strung Out Again
Smith, Elliott – Twilight
Smith, Elliott – Waltz #2 (XO)
Smiths – Girlfriend In A Coma
Smog – Bathysphere
Smog – I Was A Stranger
Snail Mail – Valentine
Soccer Mommy – Circle The Drain
Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission
Songs: Ohia – I’ve Been Riding With The Ghost
Songs: Ohia – Just Be Simple
Songs: Ohia – Lioness
Songs: Ohia – Tigress
Spanish Love Songs – The Boy Considers His Haircut
Spiritualized – The Straight & The Narrow
Spoon – 10:20 a.m.
Spoon – Advance Cassette
Spoon – Anything You Want
Spoon – Don’t Let It Get You Down
Spoon – Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now
St. Vincent – Cheerleader
Stevens, Sufjan – Chicago
Stevens, Sufjan – John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Sun Kil Moon – Carry Me Ohio
Sun Kil Moon – Salvador Sanchez
Sunny Day Real Estate – In Circles
Sunny Day Real Estate – Seven
Swearin’ – Kenosha
They Might Be Giants – Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
Title Fight – Numb, But I Still Feel It
Two Nice Girls – I Spent My Last US$10.00(On Birth Control And Beer)
Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
Van Etten, Sharon – Seventeen
Van Etten, Sharon – Your Love Is Killing Me
Vandals – My Girlfriend’s Dead
Vanderslice, John – Exodus Damage
Vega, Suzanne – Left Of Center
Veirs, Laura – Galaxies
Velocity Girl – Pop Loser
Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow’s Parties
Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale
Walkmen – Thinking Of A Dream I Had
Waxahatchee – Lilacs
Waxahatchee – Poison
Weakerthans – Aside
Weakerthans – Tournament Of Hearts
Weakerthans – Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure
Ween – Chocolate Town
Weyes Blood – Andromeda
What Made Milwaukee Famous – Selling Yourself Short
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
Wilco – Passenger Side
Wye Oak – Civilian
Wye Oak – I Hope You Die
Xiu Xiu – Falling (by Julee Cruise)
Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater

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March 2, 2022
Stage 3, it is on – March 10 at Drinks

FREE • 21+ • 9-close • Drinks Lounge

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November 13, 2021
SAD SONGS ONLY 2021 – CANCELLED

Was really looking forward to seeing all of you this Thursday at Drinks Lounge, but after talking it over with the bar we decided to cancel the show while the omicron variant is running so wild. Stay safe, get vaccinated and boosted, and hopefully the more optimistic projections that this will be a relatively short spike turn out to be correct.

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December 31, 2019
Goodbye 2019: wrapping 15 years of KU

Another year in the books, a little busier than the last two. KU had shows in Chicago, Minneapolis, LA, San Francisco and Seattle, which we hope to revisit in 2020 along with half a dozen more cities in the midwest at least. Lots of Austin highlights, including celebrating our 15th anniversary with our friends in Karaoke Apocalypse. Big thanks to all the local venues that hosted KU: Knomad and Indian Roller every month, plus Cheer Up Charlies, Drinks, The Brixton, Barracuda, Dozen Street, Hole In The Wall and last-but-certainly-not-least, the dearly departed Beerland. There’s a new bar there using the same name, but it’s not Beerland.

Not much change in the top Songs and Artists from previous years, but it’s always fun to keep tabs on that. Sing it LOUD in 2020!

SONGS
1. Le Tigre – Deceptacon
2. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
3. Rilo Kiley – Portions For Foxes
4. The Mountain Goats – No Children
4. New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
6. Interpol – Evil
6. Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away
6. The Replacements – Can’t Hardly Wait
9. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
9. The Mountain Goats – This Year

ARTISTS
1. Misfits
2. The Mountain Goats
3. Pixies
4. Rilo Kiley
5. Elliott Smith
5. The Velvet Underground
7. Pavement
8. Le Tigre
9. Interpol
10. Guided By Voices

We’ll be announcing the final results of the UNSUNG challenge tomorrow, New Year’s Day. Stay tuned!

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December 7, 2019
6th Annual SAD SONGS ONLY


The sadder the song, the better the song – that’s the motto at SAD SONGS ONLY. This is the 6th year we’ve done this special show and it’s become my favorite night of KU. See below for 2018’s full list of SAD SONGS, we’ll have some new additions that fit the theme of gloom, doom and a healthy shake of venomous spite. December again has a few extra shows in addition to our regular 1st Saturdays at Knomad and 3rd Saturdays at Indian Roller, starting tonight at Knomad, Saturday, 12/7!

Saturday, 12/7 @ Knomad
Thursday, 12/12 @ Drinks Lounge – 6th Annual SAD SONGS ONLY
Saturday, 12/21 @ Indian Roller
Wednesday, 12/25 @ Hole In The Wall – Karaoke Armageddon for Christmas!
Saturday, 12/28 @ Indian Roller, JenHeartsArt birthday party!

NEW SONGS
Against Me! – Reinventing Axl Rose
Crooked Fingers – Sleep All Summer
Mitski – Nobody
Piebald – American Hearts
Saves The Day – Shoulder To The Wheel
Elliott Smith – Strung Out Again
Spanish Love Songs – The Boy Considers His Haircut
Tiny Moving Parts – Caution

As always, KU loves to play your party, rock your benefit show and help make your celebrations incredible, let’s work it out!

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2019 songlist, it’s got 35 more than last year!

Artist – Title
6ths feat. Mary Timony – All Dressed Up In Dreams
Adams, Ryan – Come Pick Me Up
Adams, Ryan – Magnolia Mountain
Adams, Ryan – To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
Against Me! – FuckMyLife666
Against Me! – True Trans Soul Rebel
Air Miami – I Hate Milk
Alkaline Trio – San Francisco
Allo Darlin’ – My Heart Is A Drummer
American Football – Never Meant
American Nightmare – AM/PM
Andrew Jackson Jihad – Hate, Rain On Me
Arcade Fire – Modern Man
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Archers Of Loaf – Wrong
At The Drive-in – Napoleon Solo
Bad Books – Pyotr
Baker, Julien – Sour Breath
Band Of Horses – The Funeral
Bell, Chris – I Am The Cosmos
Belle & Sebastian – Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
Belle & Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane
Big Boys – Sound On Sound
Big Star – Thirteen
Bikini Kill – Feels Blind
Black Flag – Depression
Black Heart Procession – A Light So Dim
Black Heart Procession – Square Heart
Blonde Redhead – 23
Blood Brothers – Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I See A Darkness
Bottle Rockets – Thousand Dollar Car
Boygenius – Bite The Hand
Boygenius – Me & My Dog
Breeders – Drivin’ On 9
Bridgers, Phoebe – Motion Sickness
Bright Eyes – Lover I Don’t Have To Love
Bright Eyes – Method Acting
Bright Eyes – Papa Was A Rodeo (by Magnetic Fields)
Callahan, Bill – Too Many Birds
Camera Obscura – Lloyd I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
Camper Van Beethoven – All Her Favorite Fruit
Car Seat Headrest – Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not An)
Cat Power – Nude As The News
Cayetana – Scott Get The Van, I’m Moving
Come – Shoot Me First
Converge – Homewrecker
Crass – Systematic Death
Crooked Fingers – New Drink For The Old Drunk
Crooked Fingers – Sleep All Summer
Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
Cursive – Art Is Hard
Dacus, Lucy – I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore
Decemberists – The Chimbley Sweep
Desaparecidos – Man And Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)
Descendents – Clean Sheets
Detroit Cobras – He Did It (by The Ronettes)
DEVO – Beautiful World
Dinosaur Jr – Just Like Heaven (by The Cure)
Dismemberment Plan – The Ice Of Boston
Dismemberment Plan – Time Bomb
Distillers – City Of Angels
Dream Syndicate – Tell Me When It’s Over
Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down
Dum Dum Girls – It Only Takes One Night
Eisley – Real World
Erickson, Roky – You Don’t Love Me Yet
Foxygen – San Francisco
Frankie Cosmos – Young
Frightened Rabbit – Head Rolls Off
Front Bottoms – Twin Size Mattress
Frost, Edith – Cars And Parties
Gary, The – (Eyes In The) Tap Room
Get Up Kids – Holiday
Get Up Kids – Ten Minutes
Golightly, Holly – There’s An End
Good Life – Lovers Need Lawyers
Good Riddance – Better
Grifters – Bummer
Guided By Voices – Game Of Pricks
Handsome Family – Weightless Again
Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
Heatmiser – Antonio Carlos Jobim
Helium – Honeycomb
Hop Along – Tibetan Pop Stars
Hot Water Music – Not For Anyone
Hot Water Music – Trusty Chords
Hüsker Dü – Makes No Sense At All
Hüsker Dü – Never Talking To You Again
Inspiral Carpets – This Is How It Feels
Interpol – Leif Erikson
Interpol – NYC
Jawbox – Savory
Jawbreaker – Do You Still Hate Me?
Jets To Brazil – Chinatown
Jets To Brazil – Sweet Avenue
Jim Carroll Band – People Who Died
Joy Division – Dead Souls
Joy Division – Insight
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
La Dispute – Such Small Hands
Lagwagon – Sick
Lekman, Jens – I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You
Lekman, Jens – The Opposite Of Hallelujah
Lewis, Jenny – The Big Guns
Low – Just Make It Stop
Lush – Light From A Dead Star
Magnetic Fields – All The Umbrellas In London
Magnetic Fields – Busby Berkeley Dreams
Magnetic Fields – Grand Canyon
Magnetic Fields – The Saddest Story Ever Told
Magnolia Electric Co. – The Dark Don’t Hide It
Marked Men – Fix My Brain
Meat Puppets – Plateau
Menzingers – I Don’t Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore
Mineral – Parking Lot
Minutemen – Jesus & Tequila
Mitski – i will
Mitski – Nobody
Modern Baseball – Fine, Great
Modest Mouse – Baby Blue Sedan
Modest Mouse – Bankrupt On Selling
Modest Mouse – Dark Center Of The Universe
Modest Mouse – Dramamine
Modest Mouse – You’re The Good Things (It’s Alright To Die)
Mogwai – R U Still In 2 It?
Mountain Goats – Against Pollution
Mountain Goats – Cotton
Mountain Goats – Cry For Judas
Mountain Goats – Dance Music
Mountain Goats – No Children
Mr. T Experience – Sackcloth And Ashes
Nastasia, Nina – A Dog’s Life
Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
New Order – 1963 (’95)
New Order – Love Vigilantes
New Pornographers – Challengers
Newsom, Joanna – Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
Newsom, Joanna – The Book Of Right-On
No Use For A Name – Justified Black Eye
Numan, Gary (Tubeway Army) – Me! I Disconnect From You
Okkervil River – Black
Okkervil River – Westfall
Old 97’s – Big Brown Eyes
Olsen, Angel – Never Be Mine
Owen – O, Evelyn
Palace Brothers – For The Mekons, et al
Palmer, Amanda – The Bed Song
Parenthetical Girls – A Song For Ellie Greenwich
Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing
Popper Burns – Sunday
Postal Service – Brand New Colony
Postal Service – Nothing Better
Poster Children – Rain On Me
Pretty Girls Make Graves – Sad Girls Por Vida
Promise Ring – A Picture Postcard
Pulley – Second Best
Pulp – Disco 2000
Pulp – Like A Friend
Pup – DVP
Quasi – The Poisoned Well
Quiet Company – The Easy Confidence
Rainer Maria – The Reason The Night Is Long
Rilo Kiley – A Better Son/Daughter
Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
Rilo Kiley – Science Vs. Romance
Rutabega – Come Back Big Brother
Rutabega – Shiny Destination
Saves The Day – At Your Funeral
Sebadoh – Brand New Love (acoustic)
Sebadoh – Pink Moon (by Nick Drake)
Sebadoh – Too Pure
Shannon & The Clams – Baby Don’t Do It
Shannon & The Clams – Point Of Being Right
Shearwater – Century Eyes
Silkworm – Couldn’t You Wait
Silver Jews – Punks In The Beerlight
Silver Jews – Random Rules
Sleater-Kinney – Buy Her Candy
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers
Sleater-Kinney – One More Hour
Small Brown Bike – Like A Future With No Friend
Smith, Elliott – Baby Britain
Smith, Elliott – Ballad Of Big Nothing
Smith, Elliott – King’s Crossing
Smith, Elliott – Miss Misery
Smith, Elliott – Strung Out Again
Smith, Elliott – Twilight
Smith, Elliott – Waltz #2 (XO)
Smiths – Girlfriend In A Coma
Smog – Bathysphere
Smog – I Was A Stranger
Songs: Ohia – I’ve Been Riding With The Ghost
Songs: Ohia – Just Be Simple
Songs: Ohia – Lioness
Songs: Ohia – Tigress
Spanish Love Songs – The Boy Considers His Haircut
Spiritualized – The Straight & The Narrow
Spoon – 10:20 a.m.
Spoon – Advance Cassette
Spoon – Anything You Want
Spoon – Don’t Let It Get You Down
Spoon – Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now
St. Vincent – Cheerleader
Stevens, Sufjan – Chicago
Stevens, Sufjan – John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Sun Kil Moon – Carry Me Ohio
Sun Kil Moon – Salvador Sanchez
Sunny Day Real Estate – In Circles
Sunny Day Real Estate – Seven
Swearin’ – Kenosha
They Might Be Giants – Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
Title Fight – Numb, But I Still Feel It
Two Nice Girls – I Spent My Last US$10.00(On Birth Control And Beer)
Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
Van Etten, Sharon – Your Love Is Killing Me
Vandals – My Girlfriend’s Dead
Vanderslice, John – Exodus Damage
Vega, Suzanne – Left Of Center
Veirs, Laura – Galaxies
Velocity Girl – Pop Loser
Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow’s Parties
Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale
Walkmen – Thinking Of A Dream I Had
Waxahatchee – Poison
Weakerthans – Aside
Weakerthans – Tournament Of Hearts
Weakerthans – Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure
Ween – Chocolate Town
What Made Milwaukee Famous – Selling Yourself Short
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
Wilco – Passenger Side
Wye Oak – Civilian
Wye Oak – I Hope You Die
Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater

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October 10, 2019
15 Years of Karaoke Underground


Come celebrate 15 years of Austin’s best karaoke shows with Karaoke Underground and Karaoke Apocalypse! Both of us started in 2004 to highlight the underground rock favorites that shaped us, and we’re all incredibly grateful to still be singing these songs with friends old and new. We’ll be alternating hour-long sets on Saturday, 10/12, starting with Karaoke Underground at 9 o’clock, come sing it LOUD!

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January 3, 2019
2019 Challenge: Sing The Unsung

As we kick off our 15th year of Karaoke Underground, we have a small problem that we don’t talk about much. Sometimes, as much as we hate to admit it, we make videos for songs and nobody sings them. So, in response to a question about the BOTTOM 10 from a friend in Austin, we’re going to unveil the list of songs nobody has sung since we started keeping track in 2014. And, to make it more fun, we’re going to enter the first person to sing any of these songs at our shows in a Sing The Unsung challenge, with a few prizes (KU house party! KU t-shirts! Record store gift certificates!) to be awarded via a drawing from all the entries we’ll hold when the songs are all sung or at the end of the year, whichever comes first.

Here’s the list of 89 songs! That’s only about 7% of our total songlist, and remember that most of these are on the Spotify playlist linked from our Songlist page if you want to practice. We’ll have an update after every show so everybody can see what’s still eligible for an entry in the prize drawing. Sing it LOUD!

Spotify playlist of the still-unsung songs HERE! (it’s missing a handful that aren’t on Spotify)

2020 update: WINNERS!
Steve for The Stooges “Down On The Street”
Mr. Green for The Stone Roses “Elephant Stone”
Paige for Veruca Salt “All Hail Me”

Thanks to everybody who sang one of these during the contest, now I can focus on singing the remaining ones to show ’em a little love!

Artist – Title
Action Swingers – Kicked In The Head
ALL – Postage Nick – 1/5
Antemasque – In The Lurch George – 11/2
Archers Of Loaf – Vocal Shrapnel Quanzi – 1/5
Audacity – Punk Confusion
Bad Religion – Joy To The World DJ Purple – 6/27
Bikini Kill – In Accordance To Natural Law
Black Flag – Clocked In Jerry – 2/16
Buffalo Tom – Birdbrain
Butchies – She’s So Lovely
Can – She Brings The Rain Bobby – 4/1
Chain Of Strength – True Till Death
Cloud Nothings – Psychic Trauma Nathaniel – 1/19
Cockney Rejects – Oi Oi Oi Steve – 1/5
Come – Shoot Me First Karl – 4/1
Dag Nasty – Can I Say
Dag Nasty – Wig Out At Denko’s Guy – 9/22
Damned – Noise Noise Noise
David Dondero – The Living And The Dead
Didjits – Killboy Powerhead Steve – 4/20
Drive Like Jehu – Bullet Train To Vegas
Dum Dum Girls – It Only Takes One Night Tashi – 2/27
Excuse 17 – Sevenwhateverteen Del – 2/2
Frumpies – I Just Wanna Puke On The Stereo
Gary Numan – Bombers Karl – 12/2
Generation X – Your Generation
Go Betty Go – C’mon
Go-Betweens – Old Mexico
Grifters – Bummer
Hot Hot Heat – More For Show
Hot Snakes – Ben Gurion
Huggy Bear – Pansy Twist Meg – 11/13
Hüsker Dü – Hate Paper Doll
Iggy Pop – Kill City Michael C – 12/2
J Church – My Favorite Place
Jesus Lizard – Gladiator
Joanna Gruesome – Sugarcrush
Lambchop – Your Fucking Sunny Day ZBill – 2/2
Le Tigre – Tres Bien
Marnie Stern – Year Of The Glad
Metz – Headache David SG – 2/27
Minor Threat – Small Man Big Mouth Maddie – 2/16
Minutemen – D’s Car Jam / Anxious MoFo
Minutemen – It’s Expected I’m Gone
Minutemen – One Reporter’s Opinion
Minutemen – The Politics Of Time
Minutemen – The World According To Nouns Robbie – 11/2
Minutemen – West Germany
Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up
Misfits – Hatebreeders Nathaniel – 3/2
Mission Of Burma – This Is Not A Photograph
Mission Of Burma – Wounded World – ZBill – 2/2
Modern Baseball – Fine, Great Wyatt – 1/5
Mr T Experience – I Love You But You’re Standing On My Foot – Melissa – 2/2
Owen – O, Evelyn
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong Nathaniel – 3/2
Pansy Division – Luv Luv Luv Argyll – 2/16
Pleasure Venom – Hunt
Public Image Ltd – Disappointed
Rocket From The Crypt – Savoir Faire George – 3/14
Rocket From The Crypt – Straight American Slave
School Of Seven Bells – My Cabal
Slant 6 – What Kind Of Monster Are You? Kate – 11/13
Sleaford Mods – Tied Up In Nottz Graham – 8/25
Sleater-Kinney – The Professional Carl X – 7/20
Spoon – 10:20 AM
Spoon – All The Pretty Girls Go To The City Nathaniel – 5/18
Spoon – Back To The Life
Spoon – Don’t Make Me A Target Nathan – 2/27
Spoon – Got Nuffin’ Amanda – 1/5
Spoon – Idiot Driver
Spoon – Plastic Mylar
Spoon – Someone Something
Spoon – Something To Look Forward To
Spoon – Take A Walk Johnny – 2/2
Spoon – Take The Fifth
Spoon – Vittorio E
Stone Roses – Elephant Stone Mr. Green – 1/13
Stooges – Down On The Street Steve – 1/5
Super Thief – bluddded
Talulah Gosh – Testcard Girl
The Men – Another Night Stephan X – 7/20
Tiger Trap – Puzzle Pieces
Velocity Girl – Pop Loser Caroline X – 7/6
Veruca Salt – All Hail Me Paige – 12/25
Waxahatchee – Poison Nathaniel – 1/19
X – True Love Tashi – 2/27
X-Ray Spex – Genetic Engineering Karen – 6/1
Youth Brigade – Sound And Fury

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January 3, 2019
2018 Top Tens

Songs
1. Portions For Foxes – Rilo Kiley
2. Deceptacon – Le Tigre
3. A Better Son/Daughter – Rilo Kiley
4. Rebel Girl – Bikini Kill
5. At Your Funeral – Saves The Day
5. Hybrid Moments – Misfits
5. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
8. Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
9. Last Caress – Misfits
10. Ask – Smiths
10. Bizarre Love Triangle – New Order
10. Gigantic – Pixies
10. Gloria – Patti Smith
10. No Children – The Mountain Goats
10. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand

Artists
1. Misfits
1. Pixies
3. The Mountain Goats
4. Rilo Kiley
5. Pavement
6. Modest Mouse
7. The Velvet Underground
8. Guided By Voices
9. They Might Be Giants
10. Spoon

Year #14 in the books, thanks everybody for continuing to sing great songs with us!

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