Iman Lababedi

the woman has only one talent, besides disgracing her family name, that is self promotion. And she has nothing whatsoever to do with music. Zero talent. That doesn’t mean LMFAO and Afrojack can’t fashion an excellent album for me.

On “No Future” Craig claims “The devil lives”. He means: the devil lives. For an old time agnostic like myself, it is like watching a ballgame when you don’t support either game. You might enjoy the game, but there is nothing much at stake

The Iron Lady” -a biography of former English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is terrible and it is terrible because it is rushed and it is rushed because half of the movie is spent in the present day with Thatcher haunted by her late husband Dennis.

Quite a week for rap, if you including Nicki’s guest starring appearance, half of the charts is rap. And the only newcomeer is Tyga’s fabulous ode to mamarries

Change is good and the Hot 100 tends to change much faster than the singles charts. Though not here. Only David Crowder has worked his way in. The reason? The Crowder album is very good AND there is nothing else out there

Back when I was a 12 year old whippersnapper, I flipped out over this caper flick filled with English dollie birds all over Mchael Caine and a fonal three with mini coopers zipping through the streets of Turin as they life $4M in gold!

Cloud Nothings on January 26th at the Studio At Webster Hall and Jonathan Wilson on January 19th at Mercury Lounge.

I was on the phone with a friend of mine who was loudly bemoaning that his girlfriend and her friends had got tickets to cross the country and sweat and maybe die from the heat while watching rock bands from 50,000 miles away. I understand kids will be kids, but claiming you’ve seen a band after catching em at Coachella is like saying you’ve been to the moon after seeing it through a telescope.

I love the Bruno album but it’s two years old!!! More interesting, memo to Maccabees: next big rock albums shouldn’t enter the charts at #4. And Kasaban never released their album Stateside? Why???

“I hate life. I hate death. My sickness is that I see things clearly,” which is about as punk as a sentiment can get. Disenchanted youth, disillusioned youth, is the language of rock and roll.

Christopher Paul Stelling, the Texan folkie, always slams it live. So Laurel Canyon boy Jonathan Wilson, the headliner at Mercury Lounge on Thursday, is something on added plus.

Sure do love my Jessie J but this has been out since summer, so why is it in the charts now? I might say something similar about the best song off Guetta’s last album. Oh, and four of these songs aren’t available in the States. Olly Mur is a particulalrly bizarre loss

Wow, January sure seems like a waste of time. I wanna hear the Lana Del Rey album, and I haven’t heard anything new by Ani DiFranco in years so I’ll be checking that out. case the winter isn’t miserable enough..

I had a friend in the 1980s who fronted a country cover band and his band was about as good as Norah Jones foray into c&w. They ever made it out of the bars, but they were always up for a party. Little Willies were never in the bars and if their lackluster “Fist City” is anything to go by, they don’t know how to party. Grade: B-

Munro’s beautiful reworking of an Italian pop song, plays over the opening titles of the chase movie “The Italian Job” from 1969. The movie doesn’t stand up, the song does. A sense of time having passed and a twinge of loss, “on days like these I wonder what became of you, maybe today you’re singing songs with someone new

Just Because – John Lennon – Dr. Winston O’Boogie clowns through the spoken parts and the rhythm slows down the song, but the vocal is immaculate and a reminder of how tough and tender our (debatably) greatest rock and roll singer could be

On Tuesday, Lana released a four song teaser for the upcoming album and all four songs are excellent. “Video Games” -a moody blue deep love song we all know and love (made my best of 2011 list). Grade: A

What does a thousand bucks buy ya in 2012? I don’t know. I went for the cheapest tix I could find for Bjork at Roseland and ponied up a mindboggling $90 + for the honor of looking at the back of lots of peoples head

But just take a look at the trailer: it is so New York and has “All My Friends” ever sounded more thrilling. A must see movie, of course…

Surprised to see SafetySuit on the charts and happy to see Florence still hanging in the there. Drake had one of the best albums of 2012 and me and the zeitgeist concur for once.

Can we not get that pestilence Adele out of the damn charts? It feels like it is gonna go on forever -cmon, folks… any suggestions. Good for Mraz, charting on past history alone since the song sucks