Joe Levy

Writer, editor, podhost. Also sometimes the guy who said that thing that time on that show.

[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

I went to place and looked at books. Was a little surprised to be face to face with a world so alive, but also not so alive at all. Then I wrote a thing.
https://t.co/Pikj6zNBEq

[Touré @Toure]

I just dropped an epic essay about the rise of Rakim and why he is the father of all modern elite MCs and how he developed into the God MC and how John Coltrane and his family helped him become your favorite MC's favorite MC. Read it free: https://t.co/BgxmYQM181

[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

@TJNawrocki Might have imagined it. Empire state of mind and all that.

[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

Hey! How's it going? It's been a minute, and let's assume that things are going both well and apoplectically, because as Frank O'Hara once wrote "in a sense we're all winning/we're alive," and also we're all not winning, because . . . well, you know . . .

[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

@dodaistewart Haunted by the ghosts of the Pelham One Two Three. And others.

[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

It all kept going-grinding-being. Until it stopped. Anyway, there's a thunderstorm now. So I'm gonna listen to that for a while. Should be about the same. Have a good Friday night!

[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

For real, I was in awe. Some things made sense (if that's the right word). I could see/feel one of the bassists doubling his time. But lots was mysterious. Solos (if that's the right word) rose out of the bardo and disappeared into the steady-state throb, never to be heard again.

[Audiation Podcasts @AudiationHQ]

Today marks the launch of "Four Strings and the Truth: The Bassists Who Changed Music." For this first season we're focusing on the post-punk/new wave/proto-hardcore era.

Have a listen here: https://t.co/GeGbtNkb5O

Grateful to @RealJoeLevy for the show's name.

[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

@davidmyaffe @SPBPHD He and Robert Farris Thompson were pretty much the only reason I stayed long enough to graduate.

[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

@SPBPHD @davidmyaffe F'me, I didn't even know that frosh squat was called Bingham Hall. [It was kinda a squat compared to Welch Hall, which had been renovated sometime...in history.] FTR I was also known to our mutual friend for having a decent selection of hip-hop singles.
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[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

@davidmyaffe @SPBPHD She borrowed my notes once. We had a mutual friend who told her I took good notes.

[Robert Christgau @rxgau]

A little later than I would have preferred, 84 albums it would be all too retro for me to call records constitute a 2023 Dean's List topped by a 20-year-old albeit chocked as well with veterans if only occasionally literal graybeards.
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[Joe Levy @RealJoeLevy]

@ahampp @gwenstefani @WalkofFameStar @Variety If that was the first, it was already overdue.

[Andrew Hampp @ahampp]

Great Q&A w/ @gwenstefani to commemorate her @WalkofFameStar in this week's @Variety 🌟🌟, penned by the legendary @RealJoeLevy -- who, fun fact, assigned me my first Billboard artist cover story on No Doubt 11 years ago https://t.co/qj5UhgLKRv