Punk Rock Heavy Metal Karaoke

live band featuring:  
  • Rob Kemp - bass
  • David Richman - drums
  • Devin Emke - guitar
  • Greg Hoy - emcee
  • [your name here] - vocals

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UPCOMING SHOWS:
  • Friday, May 25, 2012 @ 10:00 PM
    Fontana's 105 Eldridge St. NYC
    $5.00 cover
  • Friday, June 29, 2012 @ 10:00 PM
    Fontana's 105 Eldridge St. NYC
    $5.00 cover
  • Friday, July 27, 2012 @ 10:00 PM
    Fontana's 105 Eldridge St. NYC
    $5.00 cover
  • Friday, August 24, 2012 @ 10:00 PM
    Fontana's 105 Eldridge St. NYC
    $5.00 cover

Welcome to the Original Punk Rock Heavy Metal Karaoke band’s website. We are New York City’s first and best karaoke band—accept no substitutes!

We play the songs, and you sing, or scream, or howl, whatever. Our objective to give YOU, whether you’re a professional or you have never sung in front of anyone in your life, the best possible rock and roll experience. All you have to do is get up onstage and do your best, and we take care of the rest.

Inspired by a Los Angeles-area band comprised of punk rock veterans, we played our first gig in April 1999 at Arlene Grocery in New York City; only about 25 punk rock songs were available at that time. While we returned to the venue throughout summer ‘99 to great acclaim, we added metal songs in November of that year, and the event was packed every Monday night from 2000 through 2004.

From 2001 to 2003, we also performed nights dedicated to “Arena Rock” (Journey, Styx, Foreigner, etc). We have recently restarted this event. In 2001, a documentary film concerning the event debuted at the NYC’s Knitting Factory, and as of early 2009, the band’s story has been told in Brian Raftery’s Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke Conquered The World And Changed My life.

Over the course of our 10 year career, the band has been accompanied by Jimmy Fallon, Ryan Adams, Melissa auf der Maur, Britt Daniel (Spoon), Gene Ween, Peaches, Horatio Sanz, Robbie Williams, Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think), and we are told Shakira showed up at our show once. We also had the great honor of opening for Kid Rock at Irving Plaza in 2006 and Naughty by Nature in 2003.

The band held another residency at New York’s Continental from 2005-2006 and are currently playing monthly at Fontana’s. We have also played at Irving Plaza, Webster Hall, Mercury Lounge, Southpaw, Santo’s Party House, Canal Room, Lit, Crash Mansion, Fat Baby, Rehab, Delancey, R&R and Luna Lounge.

The Punk Rock Heavy Metal Karaoke Band has worked with clients like:
  • Spin Magazine
  • Sirius/XM Radio
  • Double Fine Productions
  • Roadrunner Records
  • Nasty Little Man Publicity
  • Elle Girl Magazine
Often imitated but never duplicated, we have inspired similar events in Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta and overseas. There are also several other karaoke bands in the New York area, none of which, frankly, are fit to lick our boots.

Please join our mailing list, and come back here for info on shows and additions to our song lists. We are available for private bookings. If you are interested, please contact us via the form below.

Thank you, and we hope to see you soon!

PMK Army

SONGS: (279)

38 Special - Hold On Loosely
AC/DC - Back In Black
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)
AC/DC - Get It Hot
AC/DC - Girls Got Rhythm
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
AC/DC - If You Want Blood (You Got It)
AC/DC - Shot Down In Flames
AC/DC - Touch Too Much
AC/DC - Walk All Over You
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Accept - Balls To The Wall
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Anti-Nowhere League - So What
Bad Brains - Attitude
Bad Brains - Banned in D.C.
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
Bad Company - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love
Badfinger - No Matter What
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right
Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
Beatles - Come Together
Beatles - Helter Skelter
Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
Beatles - She Loves You
Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You
Billy Squier - Lonely Is The Night
Billy Squier - The Stroke
Black Flag - Drinking And Driving
Black Flag - Rise Above
Black Flag - TV Party
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Neon Knights
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Blondie - One Way Or Another
Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues
Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Boston - Rock and Roll Band
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
Cheap Trick - She's Tight
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Cinderella - Shake Me
Clash - Brand New Cadillac
Clash - Clampdown
Clash - Complete Control
Clash - I Fought the Law
Clash - London Calling
Clash - London's Burning
Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Clash - Tommy Gun
Clash - White Riot
Cult - Love Removal Machine
Damned - New Rose
Danzig - Mother
Danzig - Twist of Cain
Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
David Bowie - Suffragette City
David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Deep Purple - Space Truckin'
Def Leppard - Photograph
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
Devo - Mongoloid
Dio - Rainbow In The Dark
Donnas - Take It Off
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Eagles - Life In The Fast Lane
Elastica - Connection
Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down
Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
Elvis Costello - Radio Radio
Fastway - Say What You Will
Fear - Fuck Christmas
Fear - I Don't Care About You
Fear - I Love Livin' In The City
Fear - New York's Alright If You Like Saxaphones
Foghat - Slowride
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foreigner - Hot Blooded
Fugazi - Waiting Room
G.G. Allin - Die When You Die
Generation X - Ready Steady Go
Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
Go-Go's - We Got the Beat
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
Green Day - American Idiot
Green Day - Basket Case
Guns N' Roses - It's So Easy
Guns N' Roses - My Michelle
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Heart - Barracuda
Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks
Iron Maiden - Flight Of Icarus
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
James Gang - Funk #49
James Gang - Walk Away
Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
Joan Jett - Do You Wanna Touch Me?
Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You
Joan Jett - I Love Rock And Roll
John Cougar Mellencamp - Hurts So Good
Journey - Any Way You Want It
Judas Priest - Breaking The Law
Judas Priest - Heading Out To the Highway
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Judas Priest - You Got Another Thing Coming
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
Kiss - Christine Sixteen
Kiss - Detroit Rock City
Kiss - Deuce
Kiss - I Love it Loud
Kiss - Lick It Up
Kiss - Love Gun
Kiss - Rock and Roll All Night
Knack - My Sharona
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
Led Zeppelin - Bring It On Home
Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll
Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
Led Zeppelin - We're Gonna Groove
Led Zeppelin - What is and What Should Never Be
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Loverboy - Working For the Weekend
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides
MC5 - American Ruse
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Misfits - Attitude
Misfits - Bullet
Misfits - Last Caress
Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Motley Crue - Live Wire
Motley Crue - Looks That Kill
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Motley Crue - Smokin' In The Boys Room
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Motorhead - I'll Be Your Sister
Motorhead - Overkill
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog
No Doubt - Spiderwebs
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar - Hit me With Your Best Shot
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi
Poison - Nothin' But A Good Time
Poison - Talk Dirty To Me
Police - Message In A Bottle
Police - Next to You
Police - Truth Hits Everybody
Pretenders - Brass In Pocket
Pretenders - Precious
Pretenders - The Wait
Pretenders - Up The Neck
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
Queen - Stone Cold Crazy
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
Queen - We Will Rock You
Quiet Riot - Bang Your Head (Metal Health)
Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noize
Ramones - 53rd & 3rd
Ramones - Beat On The Brat
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Ramones - Commando
Ramones - Cretin Hop
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Ramones - Pinhead
Ramones - Rockaway Beach
Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy
Ratt - Round And Round
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Love Comes In Spurts
Rick Springfield - Jesse's Girl
Rihanna - Shut Up And Drive
Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Rush - Limelight
Rush - Red Barchetta
Rush - Spirit of Radio
Rush - Working Man
Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55
Sammy Hagar - There's Only One Way to Rock
Scandal - The Warrior
Scorpions - No One Like You
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
Sex Pistols - Bodies
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun
Skid Row - 18 And Life
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money
Spinal Tap - Tonight We're Gonna Rock You Tonight
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Stooges - No Fun
Stooges - Raw Power
Stooges - Search and Destroy
Styx - Renegade
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
Sweet - Fox On The Run
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar
Tommy Tutone - 8675309 Jenny
Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' Bout Love
Van Halen - Beautiful Girls
Van Halen - Best of Both Worlds
Van Halen - Dance The Night Away
Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some
Van Halen - Feel Your Love Tonight
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Van Halen - Ice Cream Man
Van Halen - Jamie's Crying
Van Halen - Panama
Van Halen - Pretty Woman
Van Halen - Running With The Devil
Van Halen - Unchained
Van Halen - Why Can't this be Love?
Van Halen - You Really Got Me
Vapors - Turning Japanese
Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Weezer - Hash Pipe
Whitesnake - Still Of The Night
Who - Pictures Of Lily
Who - Pinball Wizard
Wire - 12XU
X - We're Desperate
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours!
ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
ZZ Top - I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
ZZ Top - Tush


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