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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. https://linktr.ee/billjanovitz

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · Mar 24

New version of the cover, now noting the foreword written by Greg Hawkes, with my gratitude! Pre-order at the seller of your choice or check link in bio

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 1d

I think they go to those women he victimized in GA now.

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Is Spike Lee the only famous sad Yankees fan to cut to on national broadcasts nowadays? Where’s Billy Crystal?! I know Rudy is not in top shape.

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 2d

With David Fricke!

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 2d

This evening.

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever "Glamour Profession" starts, I think “Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band?”

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller, a diseased taint, is now running the country.

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 5d

As previewed here yesterday, here's my latest deep dive playlist tied into the great new book from @billjanovitz.bsky.social.
figgsrock2.substack.com/p/nights-are...

Nights Are Gettin' Strange: A Drive Through The Cars

Bill Janovitz's new book on the band is great.

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 7d

Not a bad problem to have! I do it with all the music books I read. Back in the day, say on Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music, that entailed actually going to the record store and spending serious cash.

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to Steven for covering the book!

Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, I wrote a big thing about The Cars, a great American band, in conjunction with a new biography.
www.theringer.com/2025/10/01/m...

Oh So Near: The Cars’ Deep (and Deeply Underrated) Influence on the Future of Music

A new biography on the New Wave crew underlines their unsung importance—everyone from the Strokes to the Killers to Nirvana took lessons out of Ric Ocasek’s playbook. So why are the Cars rarely mentio...

www.theringer.com

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bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social @bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social · 8d

Bill Janovitz’s "Let the Stories Be Told" shows The Cars weren’t just radio kings, they were quietly subversive, glitchy, & weird.
Our review → bookandfilmglobe.com/books/let-th...
@billjanovitz.bsky.social @thecars.bsky.social
#TheCars #RockHistory #BFGTakes

‘Let the Stories Be Told’ is a Dazzling Drive Through The Cars’ Career - Book and Film Globe

There’s simultaneously more and less than you’d expect to the story behind The Cars. And Bill Janowitz is perfectly positioned to tell the difference and

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 8d

True! Not sure if they’re still using mine though.

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks!

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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

‘Nobody is painted any worse than they actually were’: new book tells the true story of the Cars

In Let the Stories Be Told, the surviving members of the 80s band share the behind-the-scenes drama behind some of the decade’s biggest hits

www.theguardian.com

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 11d

I believe the latter, sorry to say.

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www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Meet the Alt-Rock Pioneer Whose New Book Tells the Definitive Story of the Cars

The new book 'The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told,' by Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz, talks about 'Just What I Needed,' 'Drive,' and more

www.rollingstone.com

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blakeus13.bsky.social @blakeus13.bsky.social · 12d

@billjanovitz.bsky.social and I had a wonderful conversation for @boston.com about his forthcoming biography of @thecarsofficial.bsky.social. He will discussing the book at @berklee.bsky.social Performance Center on 9/29 with Oedipus, Greg Hawkes, and David Robinson.

www.boston.com/culture/book...

Bill Janovitz tells the stories of Boston's legendary band The Cars in new biography

Bill Janovitz talked to Boston.com about "The Cars: Let the Stories be Told" in advance his Sept. 29 event at Berklee Performance Center.

www.boston.com

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 20d

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

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Evan Davies @efd.bsky.social · 26d

HEY! My first fill-in of the new @wfmu.bsky.social schedule is this Tues, Sept 16, at 3pm!
The show will mostly (maybe entirely, haven’t timed it out yet) consist of an interview with Bill Janovitz about his imminent book about The Cars, interrupted by plenty of the band’s music. Don’t miss it!

Me holding a copy of Bill Janovitz’s book about The Cars, standing in front of my copies of the first six Cars albums

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · Sep 6

Authors! All three of my previously published books are listed.

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Aug 30

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote:
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

Molly Ivins, dressed in a sort of satin blouse with a neckthing that I'm going to call a scarf?. She's smiling with every cell in her body. Beaming radiantly the joy of being righteous and kind at the same time. Her eyes closed almost to a squint, and every pearly white on display. Gods bless you, Molly, you were a hell of a person.

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · Aug 30

What a voice! What great visuals!

Emma Swift @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social · Aug 29

I have new song out today, it’s called “Impossible Air” 💜

Music video directed by my beautiful friend @rachellichtman.bsky.social ☀️

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Emma Swift - "Impossible Air"

YouTube video by Emma Swift

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · Aug 27

American exceptionalism again. It’s the fucking guns.

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · Aug 26

On demand! On demand! www.iheart.com/podcast/1002...

NightSide With Dan Rea | iHeart

NightSide focuses on a wide variety of issues, political, economic and social. Rea believes that talk radio is the best way for people to communicate their opinions and ideas on what he calls “North A...

www.iheart.com

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · Aug 25

Call in with questions about anything: The Cars, my other books, Buffalo Tom, advice on relationships, the Red Sox, best gravel bike routes, etc. You can listen it on terrestrial radio, or the iHeartRadio app. See links to the event and preordering the book in my bio.

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · Aug 25

I’ll be on WBZ AM with Bradley Jay tonight at 8:00 ET, talking about The Cars, my forthcoming book, and the book launch on September 29 at the Berklee Performance Center, in conversation with Greg Hawkes, David Robinson, and moderated by Oedipus.

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