Iman Lababedi

Founding Editor of Rock NYC. Iman Lababedi was a freelance rock critic in the 1980s, took a break of 20 years, and has been writing and editing the music blog rocknyc.live since 2009. He considers this to be in many ways a golden age for pop music and hopes you are enjoying it too.

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More On The Transgendered Rock Star

They think that pointing out that wanting to be a woman might include looking like one is transphobic. They might have said, as Stephanie mentioned, that some women are in transition, so it is a very very touchy subject.

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BILLBOARDS TOP 100 BEST SELLING SONGS 50 – 41

I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston – 1992 – Today it is her signature tune and at the time nobody believed for a moment that Dolly Parton sang it. Still, listening to it, you can hear echoes of everyone since, every Beyonce and Kelly, echoing through her vocal – A+

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US Top 10 Albums, 8-31-13

That Luke album is such a dog and while K. Michelle isn’t a dog, it isn’t that much either. Between the two they are as boring a lead of the charts as we’ve seen all year.

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David Bronson's "The Long Lost" Reviewed

I am actually happy to hear The Long Lost alone, I’d rather not think about Story at all:I enjoy the integrity of giving the audience no easy answer, not even a difficult one, just leaving them riddling on the deep, troubling, beautiful flawed album

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"Paranoia" Reviewed (More Or Less)

It looks pretty and wealthy enough, and I wouldn’t mind Liam’s apartment if I could get my hands on it but the movie stretches credibility so well passed the breaking point that it becomes hard to ignore even in a “B” movie

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Billboards Top 100 Best Selling Songs 70 – 61

Of course, the song is complete nonsense, the white keys on your piano are natutal and the black keys are flat and no folks, they are far from being in “perfect harmony”. Nobody does sincerity worse than McCartney; does he think we’re all morons? Why didn’t Stevie Just Say No??- F

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That Was The Week Of August 12th, 2013, That Was

This was the week of the single and while I applaud “Applause” and deplore “Roar” and having nothing against the new TVOTR and Regina Spektor either one way or the other, still as week goes the week completely and totally was overshadowed by the pop single

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Hear Ye: what rock nyc is listening to 8-17-13

Who Knows Where The Time Goes – Sandy Denny – This is a very precise and beautiful solo take on the song given a more vigorous workout by Fairport Convention. Given added by poignancy by her early death, it both sees time as immoveable and watches as it disappears – A+

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US Top 10 Albums, 8-24-13

Sure, The Civil Wars is a good album. But is 116,000 units sold gonna make anybodies career hum? Plus after that is a compilation of single hits and than nothing much at all.

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