July 28, 2008; Washington, D.C. - Iconic singer-songwriter Tom Waits is adding an extra stop

grrrrr scanned this and got out of it that Tom Waits was adding a stop in DC to his tour.

feh

Radio broadcast head up: In about two hours (22:00 Israel time) 102fm, aka Radio Tel Aviv, aka The Radio Station With The Most Annoying Commercials EVER is gonna broadcast the New York Dolls show live from The Barby, Tel Aviv.

So, if someone's interested, etc., this is their more stable link for online listening.

(Note: knowing my country, the show probably won't start on time, and I have no idea if they have an opening show).

Edit: I was right. They're filling up the time with songs until the show will begin.

A friend on LJ was making the following inquiry earlier today and I figure I'd throw it out here in case anyone could think of the song fitting the description:

What is the present equivalent of a song like Radiohead's "Creep", you know, I hate myself/the world and I want to die (but not really)-style teenage angst music? I am sure there must be something from that legion of American emo bands but I don't know any of their output at all. It has to be something as well known as "Creep" though, rather than obscure. It has to be well known enough that a factory in China would put it in a musical toy. Is there such a song?

What is the present equivalent of a song like Radiohead's "Creep", you know, I hate myself/the world and I want to die (but not really)-style teenage angst music? I am sure there must be something from that legion of American emo bands but I don't know any of their output at all. It has to be something as well known as "Creep" though, rather than obscure. It has to be well known enough that a factory in China would put it in a musical toy. Is there such a song?

There are others here more expert than I on the current crop of emo bands, but "Creep" was the signature song of the 90s "pathetic aesthetic" of which there were a large number of songs filled with self-loathing. But I don't really know what the contemporary equivalent would be.

Alkaline Trio would be great for that sort of thing, but they are certainly not at Radiohead's level. Some samples:

"Blue in the Face" (2003):
it's about time that i came clean with you
no longer fine
i'm no longer running smooth
I thought that i found myself onto something new
just one more line i repeat over and over again
'til i'm blue in the face with a choking regret
as i talk in circles 'round you on my bed
can't say i blamed you one bit when you kept it all inside
when you left that night
it's about time that you got sick of me
no longer fun and so far from interesting
I thought that i found me a cure for feeling old
just one more line to keep me sleeping loudly and cold
in disgrace with a shameful regret
as i talk in tongues to myself in my bed
can't say i blamed you one bit when you kept it all inside
when you left that night
and all that followed fell like mercury to hell
somehow we lost our heads for the last time
and all that followed fell like mercury to hell
somehow we lost our heads for the last time
and i don't dream since i quit sleeping
and i haven't slept since i met you
and you can't breathe without coughing at daytime
neither can i so what do you say?
your coffin or mine?

Or, the delightful opening to "This Could Be Love":
I've got a book of matches
I've got a can of kerosene
I've got some bad ideas involving you and me
I don't blame you for walking away
I touched myself had thoughts of flames
I shat the bed and laid there in it
Thinking of you wide awake for days
Wide awake for days

With its chorus of:
Step one -- slit my throat
Step two -- play in my blood
Step three -- cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house
Step four -- stop off at Edgebrook Creek and rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers, one by one

It's really quite catchy actually.

For something more well known, maybe Garbage's "Bleed Like Me"?

There isn't really a "current crop of emo bands".

Several people can give you the history better than I can. They will surely show up and do so.

It's a "thing".

By "emo", she's probably referring to the ones that belong to the whole bandom phenomenon. I know the term's problematic, but a lot of people outside the fandom don't know good alternative descriptors. And the song doesn't have to be from those bands -- as long as it fits the theme and is popular enough, I think it'd suffice.

Megan, I suspect Alkaline Trio would be too obscure for what she's looking for. Now, Garbage is certainly famous enough. Hmmm.

It has to be well known enough that a factory in China would put it in a musical toy.

Vonnie, do you mean that the song actually is in a toy, and she's trying to identify it, or that she's trying to think of a song that could fit this description?

Hmm. I actually don't know. She mentioned it in passing on her LJ, and knowing her, I think it was probably just a colourful description of how well-known the song'd have to be.

"Emo" is such a loaded word, as others have mentioned. If she actually wants a song that's about personal sorrow (rather than something from a band labeled "emo" that isn't actually emo), I'm reminded of Dashboard Confessional's "Vindicated." Though I can't imagine a toy that someone would put that song in.

If the search is for the genre name, rather than the content, I'd suggest "Sugar We're Going Down" or "Dance, Dance", both by Fall Out Boy, and both of which were big enough singles that they would merit the level of fame to end up in a toy. But neither really have that "emo" feel, they're much more pop-punk.

The intended usage for this information would make it so much easier to guess! I have probably not been helpful.