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.

Just wake me when he is dead.

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.

On this evening’s broadcast, ABC News horrendously yadda-yadda’d its way through Trump’s insane Easter social media post.

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.

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. 🧵

Also, the Buffalo Tom UK/Europe/Brazil shows are selling fast. Get em early! Go to buffalotom.com

Happy to be invited to be part of this by Steven Jenkins of the @bobdylancenter at the @thecoolidge on April 9. Link in bio.

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...

Gift article. Pointed and inspiring. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...

The douchiest dumbest dicks in high school have brought us here. Pete Hegseth, for fucksake.

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...

Don’t just take my word for it. Maybe Jeff can effectively make the case.

I really didn’t think I’d be writing political songs in my 60th year on this earth. But there you go.

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.

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

Whatever Putin has on, or has invested in Trump, he could not have foreseen just how much it would pay off.

Clearly a domestic terrorist. Taking down the mastermind.

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.

“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).

On the Pixies. open.substack.com/pub/billjano...

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.

God give it a rest ye merry gentlemen

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...

“And everything you hated me for Honey, there was so much more.” Jason Molina had some killer kouplets

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...

Hagueseth

This accurately brings back uncomfortable memories.

Revisiting the Cure's Songs of a Lost World. open.substack.com/pub/billjano...

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

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...

Good day for the old “enemy of my enemy” calculus.

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!”

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...

“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.

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...

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

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.

This evening.

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

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

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...

Thanks to Steven for covering the book!

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