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Joe Levy

@joelevy.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, podhost. Also sometimes the guy who said that thing on that show. linktr.ee/realjoelevy

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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BONNIE AND CLYDE LUNA
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Wrote a thing about a record. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Harry Styles Is Up for Anything on 'Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.'
Review: On 'Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally,' Harry Styles gets delightfully weird
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Robert Christgau @rxgau.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
As the kids say, some news: www.thelastcriticfilm.com
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A Documentary about Robert Christgau
The official website for "The Last Critic," a documentary about Robert Christgau, the most beloved and most loathed of all music critics, who is still grading new albums in his Consumer Guide at age 8...
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
It's dark. It's cold. It's Thanksgiving. Now more than ever you need a laugh.
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Chad Oldfather @oldfatherc.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Christgau captured the magic of Todd Snider well. RIP, Todd.
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
My sister liked the Springsteen movie. I didn't. Life goes on. But the thing from that movie I simply can't shake: Why is a John Lennon biography from 1988 on the bookshelf of Jon Landau's office in 1982?
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Over at Billboard, I wrote about five new comedy specials, including Beth Spelling's insanely great "The Landlord Special," which will take up less than 30 minutes of your life and enrich it greatly. www.billboard.com/lists/best-c...
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The Best Comedy Specials to Watch This Month: Critic’s Picks
Streaming specials from Beth Stelling, Jim Jefferies, Fabrizio Copano, Ralph Barbosa and the late Ken Flores are September's must-see comedy shows
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Mr. Smallens @audiation.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Hell yeah
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
If you need a laugh right now (and who among us doesn't?) wrote about funny people for ‪@billboard.com‬. www.billboard.com/lists/music-...
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Billboard’s Top 15 Musical Comedians Right Now (Critic’s Picks)
Music Comedians: Bridget Everett, Morgan Jay, Bo Burnham, Reggie Watts and Riki Lindhome and more top talent today.
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Saw @gangoffour.bsky.social last night with @rxgau.bsky.social and @audiation.bsky.social, and one of us wrote about it. (It was not me.) robertchristgau.substack.com/p/gang-of-tw...
Jon King hitting a microwave with a baseball bat at the Gang of Four concert at Sony Hall in NYC.
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This project has been bubbling for the last two years. Excited to see it out in the world at last. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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'Amplified': Inside the Ultimate Immersive Experience of Rock History
The creators of 'Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience' at Las Vegas' Illuminarium talk about making rock history into a groundbreaking show.
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Robert Christgau @rxgau.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Published June 1978 in "The Village Voice," the David Johansen piece “Kid Patriarch Makes His Move” is just about as close as I’ve ever come to writing one of those formulaic staples of arts journalism, a celebrity profile. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...
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The Big Lookback: David Johansen
"Kid Patriarch Makes His Move," The Village Voice, June 12, 1978
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Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
For years now, there's only been one really reliably apt Grammy Awards category, and naturally it's got nothing to do with recordings. It's Best Music Film, and I looked at all five of this year's noms for Observer. Thanks to @joelevy.bsky.social for making it happen. observer.com/2025/01/one-...
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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
In which I try to explain to normal people why I'm obsessed with professional wrestling, and why Netflix spent $6B on WWE. observer.com/2025/01/netf...
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Netflix And Max Are Betting Big on Wrestling — Here’s Why
Underneath this half-fake bloodsport where the blood is real and the sport is not you’ll find non-stop economic intrigue, reality-show gossip, and a constantly shifting narrative. All of whic…
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Doug Simmons @dougsimmons.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
RIP Jimmy, Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy . . .
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Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
My all-media Top 10 of the year is now up. open.substack.com/pub/michaela...
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BC106 - Top 10 (all media) of 2024
Some films, some sets, some sanity
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
White Flower by Agnes Martin, 1960 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift of Lenore Tawney, 1963

© 2016 Agnes Martin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Current mood
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
He likes to scratch.
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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I mean all the data these fuckers have scraped off me for the last 15 years and they really think I’m gonna stand here saying “YOLO tango” into my watch.
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
FFS . . .
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Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Brooklyn drill trio 41's latest single turns the Chill Guy meme and Gia Margaret's "Hinoki Wood" into a dissociative bop for the ages. Seriously--It's a vibe
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Brooklyn Drill Trio 41’s “Chill Guy” Is the Platonic Ideal of Meme Rap
This surprisingly relaxed track is a dissociative vibe—whether you know the chill guy in question or not.
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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
PSA for anyone who might want it: the Sign O’ the Times 8CD/DVD box set from 2020—maybe the best posthumous Prince release yet—is on sale through his official store today only for $50 (originally priced around $160) store.prince.com/product/5QCD...
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Sign...Times Super Deluxe 8CD DVD | Prince Official Store
I feel that were on the brink of something. It is going to be strict and wild and pretty. Prince, 1986 More than any other release in his four-decade-long recording career, Prince's iconic double alb...
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Great pod from the great Jenny Eliscu talking with the artists behind one this year's greatest albums. jennylsq.com/2024/12/05/b...
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Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker & Tucker Zimmerman
Podcast interview with Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker and Tucker Zimmerman about their collaborative album Dance of Love
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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Spanx, but for uncertainty about the future
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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Late last night, I was seized by the impulse to tell you what’s so exciting about the new lead single by the Sullivan Fortner Trio. It sort of boils down to six notes in sequence, along a B-flat blues scale. But it’s so much more.
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Thriving on a Riff
A new take on an old song, by the Sullivan Fortner Trio.
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Looks like they failed the test . . .
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"I've never kissed a bear. I've never kissed a goon. But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb3V...
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[Let's Have A] Party
YouTube video by Elvis Presley - Topic
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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
One of the 2024 releases I’ve listened to most this fall and am listening to again right now on this cold Sunday morning.
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Golden Loam, by Laurel Premo
10 track album
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A dispatch by RJ Smith from the @wussymusic.bsky.social album release show last week: "Nobody was bigger in Cincinnati that night; when they tore into opener 'Airborne,' the response could not have been bigger for anyone playing in the entire state." robertchristgau.substack.com/p/live-from-...
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Live From Cincinnati: Wussy
A guest post from RJ Smith on Wussy's November 15th show at the Woodward Theater in Cincinnati.
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Joe Levy @joelevy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"I started crying in the middle of their Prince cover, 'Controversy.' 'Some people wanna die so they can be free.' Attempting Prince requires a fair amount of mettle but it’s a perfect song for Weiner because he inhabits the lyrics and it makes sense, it feels exactly right." Great piece.
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