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Bill Janovitz

@billjanovitz.bsky.social
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Guy in Buffalo Tom. Author, Leon Russell, Rolling Stones, & 2025: The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told. linktr.ee/billjanovitz

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In this Ohio diner, the Hawks still means Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm. But they do know this: it makes no difference to Senator Eric Schmitt.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New post of an old piece on Stevie's masterpiece. billjanovitz.substack.com/p/songs-in-t...
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Songs in the Key Of Life
A Close Listen on the 50th Anniversary of the Stevie Wonder Masterpiece
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Burn off all the fog And let the sun through to the snow Let me see your face again Before I have to go
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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
For The Guardian, I wrote about why Meg White is so great. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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‘A rock star on her own terms’: why we’re still so fascinated by Meg White
Recent incorrect attempts to reveal the White Stripes star’s whereabouts reflect how much we’re still obsessed with the one-of-a-kind drummer
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Cars book is coming on its first anniversary. For those who want to deep, this was a wonderful conversation with @robenfarzad.bsky.social youtu.be/tgjhALYZzyw?...
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The Cars' Rise and Decline: Bill Janovitz on Full Disclosure
YouTube video by Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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For whatever it’s worth.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
You once was a baby and now a jerk Standing close to the pyre, manning fireworks
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I did not anticipate the government mobilizing the National Guard to protect the strategic paramecium stockpile currently being developed in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool when I wrote about it earlier, but I probably should have. defector.com/promises-mad...
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Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States weren’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has...
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Trump says he loves inflation because he’s going to love to see it fall. I feel the same way about his name coming down from the Kennedy Center. In fact, we should encourage his statues to himself. It will be satisfying to have shit to inevitably tear down.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I’ve seen the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by AI photos of classic rockers, starving, hysterical, posting fake one-sentence-paragraph screeds attributed to celebrities they’ve admired, dragging themselves through social media feeds looking for a dopamine fix sated only by troll farms.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Just wake me when he is dead.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I look forward to this live chat on Friday, April 17, 7 PM ET/4 PT. We will talk about the Rolling Stones, Cars, Leon, Buffalo Tom, and more. If you'd like to join us, the link is in the comments. You can ask anything: Marriage advice, microbiology, aliens, guitar gear, etc.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
On this evening’s broadcast, ABC News horrendously yadda-yadda’d its way through Trump’s insane Easter social media post.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/04/2026
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/03/2026
Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Also, the Buffalo Tom UK/Europe/Brazil shows are selling fast. Get em early! Go to buffalotom.com
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Happy to be invited to be part of this by Steven Jenkins of the @bobdylancenter at the @thecoolidge on April 9. Link in bio.
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Jonathan Leahy @jonathanleahy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Took me a decade of politely asking @billjanovitz.bsky.social to release this track, but we finally got there. Love this one: music.apple.com/us/album/loo...
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Look After Me - Single by Bill Janovitz & Crown Victoria on Apple Music
Album · 2017 · 1 Song
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TweetLD @tweetld.art · 08/03/2026
A cartoon of Pete Kefsbreath shouts at American flag-draped coffins: “STOP TRYING TO EMBARASS THE PRESIDENT!”
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Gift article. Pointed and inspiring. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...
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Opinion | Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The douchiest dumbest dicks in high school have brought us here. Pete Hegseth, for fucksake.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Trying to keep the writing muscle exercised, I am posting to Substack. I have pieces on Springsteen, the Pixies, Keith Jarrett, and a couple of Buffalo Tom-related articles. No paywall, for those interested. Sorry for this big photo of my face. substack.com/@billjanovit...
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Bill Janovitz | Substack
New York Times Bestselling author of four books and a founding member of the band Buffalo Tom.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don’t just take my word for it. Maybe Jeff can effectively make the case.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I really didn’t think I’d be writing political songs in my 60th year on this earth. But there you go.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
New music. Commiserating is the third EP in about a month and a half. This will probably be the last stuff I release for a while, though who knows when inspiration will strike.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Whatever Putin has on, or has invested in Trump, he could not have foreseen just how much it would pay off.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Clearly a domestic terrorist. Taking down the mastermind.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
New song at Bandcamp, not yet on streaming. I was working on this the week before Renee Good was murdered. I changed the lyrics in the first two verses. Link in bio. Proceeds will be donated to the ACLU. I took the photo at a peaceful weekly protest that takes place outside an ICE facility here.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
“Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy” is solid advice. Happy New Year to you. It’s all gonna get better (it [surely] can’t get no worse).
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
On the Pixies. open.substack.com/pub/billjano...
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The Pixies
Inventing the Nineties
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft. Know the truth.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
God give it a rest ye merry gentlemen
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
While we all await the release of the Trump-Epstein Files, here is the release of a new 5-Song EP, a sibling to one I released a couple of weeks back. billjanovitz.bandcamp.com/album/way-ba...
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Way Back to the Dawn, by Bill Janovitz
5 track album
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“And everything you hated me for Honey, there was so much more.” Jason Molina had some killer kouplets
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Here's an EP of five new songs (plus an acoustic version of the lead-off track). Bandcamp for now. Streaming services to follow. Thanks for your attention to this matter! billjanovitz.bandcamp.com/album/days-o...
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Days of Heaven, by Bill Janovitz
6 track album
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Hagueseth
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This accurately brings back uncomfortable memories.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Revisiting the Cure's Songs of a Lost World. open.substack.com/pub/billjano...
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Songs of a Lost World
Revisiting Doom and Gloom a Year On.
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Greg Kot @gregkot.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We used to call the debut LP "Cars greatest hits." Somehow the 2nd LP, "Candy O," topped it, at least in my world. Can a band that sold 43 million albums still be underappreciated? Buffalo Tom's Bill Janovitz, the band's biographer, makes the case on @soundopinions.bsky.social: shorturl.at/hvsrQ
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
If you were in a band in the Seventies and didn’t pose shirtless for an album cover or promo photo, why didn’t you take your career seriously?
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Nice notice from NPR's Book of the Day, with a replay of the Here and Now segment. Neither the first nor the last time I’m paired with Tupac. www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...
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Music biographies 'The Cars,' 'Only God Can Judge Me' balance greatness and tragedy : NPR's Book of the Day
Two new biographies focus on legendary musical acts: the rock band The Cars and rapper Tupac Shakur. First, in the late 1970s, a Boston radio DJ played The Cars’ demo tape – and the band went on to in...
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Good day for the old “enemy of my enemy” calculus.
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Lindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I’m at the transgender coffee shop. I’m at the communist no pronouns universal basic income diner. I’m at the combination transgender coffee shop communist no pronouns universal basic income diner.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
(Elton John voice) “Don’t let the sun go down at three!”
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
If you’re over at Substack, stop by and say hello.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I know -- another Substack? If you're so inclined, here is my first post: open.substack.com/pub/billjano...
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I Guess There’s Just a Meanness in This World
Nebraska, Highway Patrolman, and the Tenor of the Times
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you….
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Ignore the ignoramuses.
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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Had a fun late-night (on the East Coast) fireside chat about The Cars live on LA Spectrum news. Video below. spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-...
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New book details the story of legendary band The Cars
The author joined “Inside the Issues”
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