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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

“….May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” Samuel Adams via Bill McKibben today.

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 1d

“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 · 1d

Ignore the ignoramuses.

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 3d

And I'm never (well, maybe occasionally) going back to my old school.

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 3d

We have not covered it. Good notion, but I wouldn’t be able to remember and deliver the rap at the end.

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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 11d

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

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 13d

With David Fricke!

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 13d

This evening.

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 14d

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

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 16d

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.

figgsrock2.substack.com

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 18d

Thanks to Steven for covering the book!

Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 19d

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

bookandfilmglobe.com

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks!

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 21d

I believe the latter, sorry to say.

Bill Janovitz @billjanovitz.bsky.social · 22d

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 · 23d

@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 · Sep 19

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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