A new light!

We have returned from our globe-trotting karaoke pilgrimage. Aside from learning how rap in the whistle register, we received a divine message from the great singalong goddess in the sky: our karaoke residency @ Tandem Bar has successfully bestowed blessings upon Bushwick and it's time to move up to the next note on the staff of life. Go forth, rent a booth in Korea-town, and sing in peace!

You're divine spiritual leaders in all things karaoke,

Black Waterfall and Bobby Service.

Our Religoius Pilgrimage for December and January!

Your final three chances to sing with us at Tandem Bar in 2011 are upon us!

TONIGHT, WED. NOV. 16th, and WED. NOV. 30th

We've had a butt banging time singing with you ALL YEAR ROUND but it's time for us to retreat into our souls and find the true meaning of karaoke.

Your beloved karaoke hosts will travel to Jerusalem, the Great Pyramids, and the Garden of Eden en route to the holiest of all sites, Kobe Japan where we will worship a god that sings amongst us, Daisuke Inoue - the heavenly creator of the karaoke machine.

It's almost time to shave our ourselves and surrender to the Daisuke within. Until then, cut a couple inches off your hot pants and pad your jock straps.

We be cooking with grease!

(If we're still part of the physical world, our karaoke night shall resume in February 2012.)

1,000 New Songs for your pleasure!

We've added 1,000 new songs to our catalog for June and July!! They're included in our on-line database. It's like magic. Type Nicki Minaj and presto! SUPERBASS!!

Who needs Harry Potter when you have sorcery like this?

Let the songs begin anew!

Our heavenly karaoke is back in business this Wednesday night! Come sing, drink, cool yourself down, then pass out in a cloud of fog. Our catalog is growing faster than Ron Jeremy at nude hot dog eating contest.

Tandem Bar. 10pm - 1:30am.

In the meantime, search our catalog online or on your smartphone: m.newsoundkaraoke.com


See you there!!

NO KARAOKE JULY 6 or 13, BACK on the 20!

We must all endure a little pain for the promise of overwhelming pleasure.

This and next week, TANDEM BAR will construct THE SECRET GARDEN OF KARAOKE, a mecca where we can sing as loud as we please. PARADISE, VALHALLA, IKEA. In this mystical wonderland our golden vocals will bounce with joy like rainbows from one end of the room to the other!! It will be glorious, sweet ambrosia for your soul (and your face!)

But the Edge of Glory comes at a price, and we're hanging on a moment with you -- for the magic dust that creates paradise prays on the succulent moistness your rima glottidis. The little voice box you hold in your throat is a delicate jewel that must be protected at all costs.

In the meantime, pull up the covers on your California King Bed and allow yourself to cry just a little bit. It feels like we're 10,000 miles apart. We know you wanna go all the way and take out your freak tonight, but you can't. Have patience until July 20, where we'll dance on table tops and have a menage a trois!

Love,
Waterfall and Bobby

IPHONE CATALOG!

For your singing pleasure, our catalog is now on your IPHONE @

http://m.newsoundkaraoke.com

It's always up to date with our latest entries.

Fuck flipping those pages, bitches. This ain't the stone age. Query our search engine like you mean it and get your ass to our microphone in double time.

(Maybe it's good on the blackberry too, I dunno..)

X Bobby

Don't Quit Your Day Job!!

We know how much you sacrifice to sing that last song at karaoke on Wednesday nights.

You get home at 3 AM, fall asleep and find yourself floating naked in the clouds with your gorgeous hosts Bobby Service and Black Waterfall. Just as you're about to reach that fever pitch the alarm rips you back to grim reality. You throw the clock across the room and desperately try to return to paradise but the cloud has drifted away. You scream. You cry. You crawl across the floor. You throw a chair through the window. You grab a bottle of anything that will ease the pain. Days later, you wake up in a haze. You've been fired. You've been dumped. Your vocal teacher has changed their lock. You fall to your knees and pray, "If only karaoke could start 30 minutes earlier!!"

Well, count your prayer ANSWERED!!!

Starting on Wednesday, May 18th our residency at Tandem Bar will start at 10 PM!!

Best of all, we'll send you off to bed at DREAM FRIENDLY 1:30 AM.

Finally, you get to sing that last song, make sweet love to us in the heavenly clouds, AND get to work the next morning. No more tears. No more drama. Isn't life great?

See you Wednesday!!!

NEW SONGS!

10,000 Maniacs,Like The Weather
Adam Ant,Desperate But Not Serious
Adele,Don't You Remember
Adele,Promise This
Adele,Rolling In The Deep
Adele,Set Fire To The Rain
Alexis Jordan,Good Girl
Andrea Bocelli,Ave Maria
Avril Lavigne,Smile
"B52's, The",(Meet) The Flintstones
Bananarama,Shy Boy (Don't It Make You Feel Good)
Biffy Clyro,Many Of Horror
Birdy,Skinny Love
Black Eyed Peas,Just Can't Get Enough
Black Eyed Peas,"Time, The (Dirty Bit)"
Blue,I Can
Bonnie Tyler,Total Eclipse Of The Heart
"Boomtown Rats, The",I Don't Like Mondays
Bow Wow Wow,Do You Wanna Hold Me
Breakage & Jess Mills,Fighting Fire
Britney Spears,Till The World Ends
Bruno Mars,Count On Me
Bruno Mars,"Lazy Song, The"
Bruno Mars,Marry You
Bruno Mars,"Other Side, The"
Bruno Mars,Runaway Baby
Bruno Mars,Talking To The Moon
Bryan Adams,I Thought I'd Seen Everything
Cage The Elephant,Shake Me Down
Cee Lo Green,"Bright Lights, Bigger City"
Cee Lo Green,It's Ok
Cee Lo Green,It's Ok (Clean Version)
Cher,Welcome To Burlesque
Cheryl Cole,Flood
Cheryl Cole Ft. Dizzee Rascal,Everyone
Cheryl Cole Ft. Travie McCoy,Yeah Yeah
Chipmunk Ft. Keri Hilson,In The Air
Christina Aguilera,Bound To You
"Church, The",Under The Milky Way
Clare Maguire,The Last Dance
David Guetta & Rihanna,Who's That Chick
Def Leppard,Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad
Diddy & Dirty Money & Swizz Beatz,Ass On The Floor
Diddy Dirty Money Ft Skylar Grey,Coming Home
Dionne Bromfield Ft. Diggy Simmons,Yeah Right
"Dr Dre, Eminem & Skylar Grey",I Need A Doctor
Dr. Dre. Ft. Eminem & Skylar Grey,I Need A Doctor
Duran Duran,Girls On Film
Dusty Springfield,Son Of A Preacher Man
Ellie Goulding,Lights
Elton John,Rocket Man
Elvis Presley,Bossa Nova Baby
Enrique Iglesias & Ludacris,Tonight (I'm Loving You)
Evelyn Champagne King,Shame
Falco,Jeanny
Fantasia,I'm Doing Me
Fantasia,It's All Good
Fantasia,When I See U
Far East Movement Ft. Ryan Tedder,Rocketeer
Felony,"Fanatic, The"
"Foo Fighters, The",Rope
Ginuwine,What Could Have Been
Goo Goo Dolls,Not Broken
Gossip,Jealous Girls
"Gossip, The",Listen Up
Gwen Stefani,Orange County Girl
Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes,If You Don't Know Me By Now
Heart,Magic Man
Hedwig & The Angry Inch,Wig In A Box
Iggy Pop,Real Wild Child
Iggy Pop & The Stooges,Gimme Danger
Jazmine Sullivan,Excuse Me
Jennifer Hudson,Where You At
Jennifer Lopez,On The Floor
Jessie J,Casualty Of Love
Jessie J,Do It Like A Dude
Jessie J,Nobody's Perfect
Jessie James,I Look So Good Without You
Jet,Shine On
Joan Baez,Farewell Angelina
Jodi Connor Ft. Tinchy Stryder,Bring It
Joe McElderry,Somebody Wake Me Up
Jonathan Richman & The Modern,Roadrunner
Josie Cotton,He Could Be The One
Justin Bieber,Pray
Justin Bieber & Jaden Smith,Never Say Never
Katy B,Broken Record
Katy B & Ms Dynamite,Lights On
Ke$ha,We R Who We R
Kelly Clarkson,Sober
Kelly Price & Stokley,Not My Daddy
"Kelly, R. & T-Pain",I'm A Flirt
Kesha,Cannibal
Khia,"My Neck, My Back (Lick It)"
Kings Of Leon,"Immortals, The"
Kings Of Leon,Pyro
Kirk Franklin,I Smile
Kris Allen,Alright With Me
Lady Gaga,Born This Way
Liam Lynch,United States Of Whatever
Linkin Park,Waiting For The End
LMFAO Ft. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock,Party Rock Anthem
Lou Reed,Vicious
Mann Ft. 50 Cent,Buzzin'
Marsha Ambrosius,Far Away
Martin Solveig Ft Dragonette,Hello
Matt Cardle,When We Collide
Men At Work,It's A Mistake
Michael Buble,End Of May
Michael Jackson,Dirty Diana
Michael Jackson & Akon,Hold My Hand
Missing Persons,Destination Unknown
Moulin Rouge,Nature Boy
Moulin Rouge,Pitch (Spectacular Spectacular)
Moulin Rouge,Sparkling Diamonds (Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend)
"Muppets, The",Bohemian Rhapsody
N-Dubz,Morning Star
Nas,Hip Hop Is Dead
Neil Diamond,Act Like A Man
Neil Diamond,Forgotten
Neil Diamond,Home Before Dark
Neil Diamond,If I Don't See You Again
Neil Diamond,One More Bite Of The Apple
Neil Diamond,"Power Of Two, The"
Neil Diamond,Whose Hands Are These
Neon Trees,Animal
Nero,Guilt
Nicki Minaj,Girls Fall Like Dominoes
Nicki Minaj Ft. Drake,Moment 4 Life (Clean)
Nicole Scherzinger,Don't Hold Your Breath
"Nightmare Before Christmas, The",Oogie Boogie's Song
Nine Inch Nails,The Day The World Went Away
Nirvana,All Apologies
Noah & The Whale,L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N
Olly Murs,Heart On My Sleeve
Olly Murs,Heart On My Sleeve
OneRepublic,Secrets
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark,If You Leave
Parade,Louder
Pink,Fuckin' Perfect
Pixie Lott,Can't Make This Over
Plain White T's,Rhythm Of Love
Plan B,Love Goes Down
Plan B,Writing's On The Wall
Prince,Dinner With Delores
Prince,The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
R. Kelly,Just Like That
Rihanna,California King Bed
Rihanna,Fading
Rihanna,If It's Lovin You Want
Rihanna,S & M
Rihanna & Drake,What's My Name
Rihanna & Nicki Minaj,Raining Men
Script,If You Ever Come Back
Shinedown,Second Chance
Snoop Dogg,Sweat
Snoop Dogg & David Guetta,Sweat
Split Enz,I Got You
Squeeze,Black Coffee In Bed
Sting,Shape Of My Heart
"Strokes, The",Under Cover Of Darkness
Taio Cruz & Kylie Minogue,Higher
Take That,Kidz
Take That,S.O.S.
Tammy Wynette,Stand By Your Man
Taylor Swift,"Story Of Us, The"
Team America,"America, Fuck Yeah"
Tears For Fears,Change
The Trashmen,Surfin' Bird
Tinie Tempah & Ellie Goulding,Wonderman
Tinie Tempah & Kelly Rowland,Invincible
Tinie Tempah Ft. Ellie Goulding,Wonderman
Tom Waits,Martha
Train,Marry Me
Trashmen,Surfing Bird
Usher,More
Usher,More
Velvet Underground,Cool It Down
Velvet Underground & Nico,Femme Fatales
Violent Femmes,Kiss Off
Wanted,Lose My Mind
"Wanted, The",Gold Forever
Willow,Whip My Hair
Willow Smith,21st Century Girl
Wiz Khalif,Black & Yellow (Clean)
Wretch 22 Ft L,Traktor
ZZ Top,Cheap Sunglasses

Anni Rossi video premiere tonight @ Tandem!

Songbird-songwriter and Brooklyn hot cookie Anni Rossi will be joining us @ Tandem Bar tonight to premiere the KARAOKE video for her new single, LAND MAJESTIC (made by yours truly, Bobby Service.) And really, why bother making a music video when karaoke is the next big thing? It's all to celebrate the release of Ms. Rossi's latest album, Heavy Meadow. So strap on your G-clefs and come sing.

Spring Time Karaoke!

Our residency at Tandem Bar is a super charged electromagnet for those hungry to be a part of New York City's most cutting edge karaoke scene. From a Karen-Finley-esque version of Straight-Up to a loin-moistening send-up of Prince's Kiss - we are hotter and wetter than our rooftop hot tub.

And while our bible of 15,000 songs may be plenty for most, our most-faithful have expressed a deep desire to delve into the uncharted realms of the silvery mesh. We have answered your call.

From this point forward, we offer each and every singer the option to IMMEDIATELY purchase any song that isn't in our karaoke catalog. For $5, your holy karaoke calling will not only bring you a lip's distance from your dream song, it will whisk you straight to the top of the cue! As soon as your song enters our vault, no force of nature will keep you from singing it.

Can we get an AMEN up in here?

KARAOKE FOR A CURE on MAY 1st

On Sunday night we will fire up our karaoke machine to support AIDS WALK 2011.

Karaoke, drink specials, & a silent auction!!!

KARAOKE FOR A CURE
hosted by Jesse Parks & Chaundra Nelms

Tandem Bar Brooklyn NYC
236 Troutman St. Btw Wilson Ave/ Jefferson Ave off the L Train

New Orientation & Videos Galore at Tandem Bar

Broadway may not have discovered us yet, but the blogs are on fire - and our Wednesday karaoke night at Tandem Bar is a disco inferno!

NEW ORIENTATION!
We've been working round the clock designing the best possible singing experience, and tonight our technical drawings will become miraculous reality. Take it from your happily married heterosexual hosts, we are well "versed" in "orientation change."

YOUR BIRTHDAY IN SONG!
Tell us a week in advance, gather your friends, and we'll give your party a $25 drink tab.

WORLD PREMIERE EVENTS!
Have the B-flats to direct your own karaoke art video? We'll give you a star-studded premiere to remember and a $50 tab for you and your ravenous entourage!

The silvery mesh will never feel so good pressed against your lips as you infuse it with a shower of C#!

Find yourself in our 12,000 song catalog!
Cheer on our brave troupe of daring singers!
Witness the dawn of new age in Avant-garde karaoke-making!
(And get drunk while doing it..)

Sing with us in 2011!

2010 was a big year for us! We took one giant leap to the forefront of the New York Karaoke Avant Garde - and to make sure our B's are razor sharp in 2011 - we've taken up residency at TANDEM BAR in Bushwick. Every Wednesday night we are sharing our 12,000 song catalog with one and all!

Feel in the mood for a self-loathing goth number? We have it. Perhaps you wanna shake your ass to a daring Beyonce tune? No problem, we've racked up all her hits. Perhaps you can show Katy Perry how to sing Firework? Angry Death Metal? Gospel? Glee? Po-dunk Hillbilly? We have it all!!!!

Search our catalog right here newsoundkaraoke.com, then get your ass to Tandem Bar!

TANDEM BAR
236 Troutman Street
Bushwick
(L Train to Jefferson)

P.S. We are planning special events for February AND working out special deals for birthday groups. What better way to celebrate a birth?

SING WITH US EVERY WEDNESDAY AT TANDEM BAR!

Starting this Wednesday you can open up the best Kwanzaa gift you ever wished for: our karaoke catalog!

How can we say this? At our last venue, your karaoke wailing was so passionate, so boisterous, so soul-bearingly epic that the neighbors rang ten times to tell us to keep our karaoke excitement in our pants. Oops. Honestly though, karaoke is not an art sung in half-measures. Don't you agree?

Each and every Wednesday night you'll be able to carol your little hearts out where we feel most at home - IN THE BACK ROOM! And really, what better way is there for a Microphista to usher out a glottis-drying even numbered year?

Songbirds new and old are cordially invited to come shake us to the core with their vibrato or just observe the shimmering glory of those all those who dare to show off their chords behind the silvery mesh. As Shonelle sings in her 2010 hit single Impossible (now available in our catalog), "Shout it from the rooftops!"

Tandem Bar
236 Troutman Street
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 386-2369 ‎

10pm-2am
EVERY WEDNESDAY!

Art In General Blow Out & The World Premiere of TELL IT TO MY PRETTY FACE

We blew the roof off Art In General's 3rd Annual Saturday Night Party, which wasn't easy with subterranean brick vaulted ceilings in a club that was once known as the MAN HOLE in the 1970's. The former den of hot, horny naked Bears swinging appendages to Diana Ross saw new life with 200 hungry fans packed like meat into the the Meat Packing District's brand new Bunker Club.

Many thanks to the folks at Art In General for giving us the opportunity to host their very important fundraiser this year. We are two octaves closer to establishing KARAOKE as the hottest new art-craze in New York City. Special thanks to our special guests and karaoke pioneers Ben Coonley who premiered a hand-raising video for Taio Cruz's Dynamite, June Fagley who rocked two diva classics, Baby Mama (aka Jeanine Oleson) who selflessly re-lived the birth of our former baby with Hold On, and Michael O'Niel who brought us into A Whole New World with a video animated by Danny Balgley!

Extra special thanks to KINHO KARSYN, the brilliant cartoonista from Brazil who animated our latest video - and to AVA OMEGA JARDEN who tirelessly produced the brilliant track! Without further ado, the internet premiere of TELL IT TO MY PRETTY FACE:



The entire event was photographed by Julian Mackler Studios, the entire album can be seen here.

NEW SOUND KARAOKE TO HOST ART IN GENERAL'S ANNUAL SATURDAY NIGHT PARTY - featuring a new video animated by ** K I N H O ** K A R S Y N **

Art in General’s Annual Saturday Night Party young patron benefit is an evening of exciting artist performances, drinks, and dancing in support of the organization’s exhibitions and programs

This year’s event is November 20th and will feature THE NEW SOUND KARAOKE, with performances by husband & wife duo, Black Waterfall & Bobby Service who present their complicated and intimate lives through the art of karaoke. The dynamic characters perform re-conceived and rewritten mashups of popular songs to tell their story alongside music videos re-created by the artists. For the characters’ performance at Art in General’s benefit party, the artists’ set will feature a new song, TELL IT TO MY PRETTY FACE, produced by Ava Omega Jarden & a new video premiere animated by youtube sensation KINHO KARSYN, in his distinctive lo-fi frame-by-frame animation technique.

The night will also feature performances from guest vocalists Ben Coonley, June Fagley, Khaela Maricich, Michael O’Neill, and Jeanine Oleson. Guests will also have the opportunity to perform karaoke with the duo by choosing from an extensive video catalog of over 10,000 songs: www.newsoundkaraoke.com

Tickets are $100 each, click here to pay online using PayPal, or contact Kara Meyer: kara@artingeneral.org, 212-219-0473 x26.

Generously sponsored by:
Bear Flag Wines, Effen Vodka, Grolsch, Hornitos, Mackler Studios, Old Grand-Dad!!

All proceeds benefit Art in General’s programs and exhibitions in support of emerging artists.

Bunker Club
22 1/2 9th Ave. (at 13th St., under Bill’s)
New York NY

10-17-10 We Start Again!

After a scintillating summer-long trip across the orient to trace Black Waterfall's melody infused roots back to the Ming Dynasty, we have returned to our homeland -- the good ole US of A -- and boy are we ready to sing our wedding bands off!

Your blissfully traveled duo will start a new regular night of open mic karaoke at VERONICA'S PEOPLE CLUB in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Don't refresh that page, you read correctly. Every OTHER week, starting on the 17th we shall fire up the baddest-ass karaoke system in New York City, then turn the silvery mesh over to you.

Won't you come?

Location:

Veronica's People's Club

105 Franklin St.

Brooklyn, NY, 11222

Phone:

(718) 349-2901

Find us on Facebook to keep up to date on all of our upcoming musical endeavors.

Until the 17th!!!

New Sound @ Movement Research Festival: Alive From the Waist Down

Bobby Service and Black Waterfall return to you Limber and Refreshed from their marriage rejuvenating karaoke video explorations into the body and mind. Join us FRIDAY June 4th as we share our newest discoveries at HARDCORPS @ Movement Research Festival. We promise to make you feel Alive From the Waist Down with a combination of live movement and ecstatic song.
Find us in the backroom...

Jimmy's No. 43
43 East 7th Street
(between 2nd and 3rd Ave)
Friday June 4th, 10:30 pm
Free entrance, cash bar

NEW SOUND PORNAOKE. APRIL 10.

Dear Karaoke Krazy Hearts,

You may have been wondering, where has your blissfully married duo gone off to? We must come clean.

After Baby left, Bobby hit the Apple Pucker Scnapps hard and found himself passed out naked under a urinal at Pumps Gentlemen's Club in Bushwick. Waterfall went straight to the Foxwoods Casino with our karaoke spoils only to be forcibly removed from the pinochle table for wagering her clothing instead of casino chips. That's called ROCK BOTTOM.

We can't deny the black hole we've been sucked into. We know how hopeless it is to fight the darkness with the light. A quick trill and a spin around the rosary won't deliver us from the evil in our hearts. We have come to feel the painful sting of marriage and it's burns like the glowing embers of a Newport Light as it kisses the porcelain smooth flesh of our Domino's Pizza boy.

Yes, Black Waterfall and Bobby Service have allowed themselves to be seduced and perverted by the caress of leather as is clings to our skin - singing its rapturous anthem while lashing out furiously against raw, supple flesh. Our muscles glistening, moist and hard beneath the leathery surface as we raise our cat o' nine tails in the ultimate release. Karaoke S&M.

We ask you to embrace your hot center and let the sizzling flow rush forth as jungle tom-toms strike your vocal cords into an erotic explosion, unparalleled. Red lights are flashing on and off at fever pitch. We are bursting forth on our hirsute quest for hardcore karaoke satisfaction. In and out, we have bent the art karaoke over the kitchen table and plunged the strict, stiff code of Waterfall-Service deep within - in one glorious, victorious, smoldering eruption.

No babies this time, only the blistering rush of SATISFACTION.

On April 10. Invite Only.

Get a Brazilian at the Alligator Lounge???

Dear Weekly Karaoke Fanatics,

After months of vocal-crunching and room-busting Karaoke nights at the Alligator Lounge, we must announce that we are moving our weekly sing-a-thon to a new location in Williamsburg.

Strangely, the Alligator Lounge has decided to become a full-service Bikini Wax and Tanning Salon, and UNISEX at that! Even more strangely, they will continue to serve FREE PIZZA with each leg (or "side") waxed. Strangest of all, it will still be called the Alligator Lounge. We are simply without words!
Furthermore, Waterfall and I were asked to transform our Thursday night Karaoke slot into live music-therapy for those undergoing the painful wax process, because free cheese-wiz pizza just isn't enough to numb the pain. However, just like Conan O'Brien, we must stand our ground! Simply put, singing a rousing rendition of "Fire Down Below" during a European is not our idea of a KARAOKE night!

Fear not, we already have something more glamorous in the works. Our Karaoke Love Machine will be fired up well before Avatar wins the Pulitzer prize! We wish Alligator many a happy wax in 2010! Feel free to mention the coupon above. In the meantime, do your lip trills or at least have them waxed.

We see you,
Ms. Waterfall and Mr. Service.