Bill Janovitz
@billjanovitz.bsky.social
Guy in Buffalo Tom. Author, Leon Russell, Rolling Stones, & 2025: The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told. https://linktr.ee/billjanovitz
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?
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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?
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...
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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November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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...
Good day for the old “enemy of my enemy” calculus.
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Good day for the old “enemy of my enemy” calculus.
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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.
(Elton John voice) “Don’t let the sun go down at three!”
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
(Elton John voice) “Don’t let the sun go down at three!”
If you’re over at Substack, stop by and say hello.
I know -- another Substack? If you're so inclined, here is my first post: open.substack.com/pub/billjano...
I Guess There’s Just a Meanness in This World
Nebraska, Highway Patrolman, and the Tenor of the Times
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If you’re over at Substack, stop by and say hello.
I know -- another Substack? If you're so inclined, here is my first post: open.substack.com/pub/billjano...
I Guess There’s Just a Meanness in This World
Nebraska, Highway Patrolman, and the Tenor of the Times
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I know -- another Substack? If you're so inclined, here is my first post: open.substack.com/pub/billjano...
“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….
October 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
“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….
Ignore the ignoramuses.
October 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ignore the ignoramuses.
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-...
New book details the story of legendary band The Cars
The author joined “Inside the Issues”
spectrumnews1.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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-...
Coming to my alma mater next week. Hope folks in the Pioneer Valley can make it. arts.umass.edu/performing-a...
Words and Music: An evening with singer-songwriter and author Bill Janovitz : Fine Arts Center : UMass Amherst
Buffalo Tom frontman and UMass alum returns to campus to celebrate his new book about The Cars!
arts.umass.edu
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Coming to my alma mater next week. Hope folks in the Pioneer Valley can make it. arts.umass.edu/performing-a...
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UP NOW on the RECORD STORE DAY PODCAST
BILL JANOVITZ returns to our program to test drive his new, and definitive, biography of The Cars, Let The Stories Be Told.
The Record Store Day Podcast
Wherever you get your podcasts or: bit.ly/RSDPODCAST
BILL JANOVITZ returns to our program to test drive his new, and definitive, biography of The Cars, Let The Stories Be Told.
The Record Store Day Podcast
Wherever you get your podcasts or: bit.ly/RSDPODCAST
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
UP NOW on the RECORD STORE DAY PODCAST
BILL JANOVITZ returns to our program to test drive his new, and definitive, biography of The Cars, Let The Stories Be Told.
The Record Store Day Podcast
Wherever you get your podcasts or: bit.ly/RSDPODCAST
BILL JANOVITZ returns to our program to test drive his new, and definitive, biography of The Cars, Let The Stories Be Told.
The Record Store Day Podcast
Wherever you get your podcasts or: bit.ly/RSDPODCAST
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.
October 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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.
Whenever "Glamour Profession" starts, I think “Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band?”
October 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Whenever "Glamour Profession" starts, I think “Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band?”
Stephen Miller, a diseased taint, is now running the country.
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Stephen Miller, a diseased taint, is now running the country.
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As previewed here yesterday, here's my latest deep dive playlist tied into the great new book from @billjanovitz.bsky.social.
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Nights Are Gettin' Strange: A Drive Through The Cars
Bill Janovitz's new book on the band is great.
figgsrock2.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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...
figgsrock2.substack.com/p/nights-are...
Thanks to Steven for covering the book!
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...
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...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thanks to Steven for covering the book!
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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
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
bookandfilmglobe.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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
Our review → bookandfilmglobe.com/books/let-th...
@billjanovitz.bsky.social @thecars.bsky.social
#TheCars #RockHistory #BFGTakes
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@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...
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
September 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
@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...
www.boston.com/culture/book...
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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.
September 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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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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!
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!
September 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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!
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!
Authors! All three of my previously published books are listed.
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.
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
September 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Authors! All three of my previously published books are listed.