Justin Levine

Happy 69th birthday to the most beautiful, amazing, joyous, kind hearted, mama, grandma, artist, friend, and truly full of light human being that I know! You’ve given @butseriouslyryan and I every tool we need to be the best versions of ourselves, we, and everyone else who knows you, are so lucky to have you 🥰🥰🥰 @robieheartwork

Such a fun weekend at the Ventura Half Marathon, love to all that ran and came to support, my amazing mama @justine.parkin , @magicmeara and @andrrewwwwww for making these super size poster board cutouts of my noggin, and @samdabestan for filming the video of my finish where I totally miss the big heads!!

Dadding ❤️

So grateful for this beautiful fam right here!!!

The last 24 hours of cuteness, I can hardly take it!

My little fresh eucalyptus baby girl ❤️

GREAT MISTAKE IS LIVE!!! Please give it a listen :)))) @thelonious_bear_music

My birthday this year hit a bit different. Just two weeks before my day of birth came the birth of my daughter, our first child, Ada Marama Levine. Born 10/26 and barreling into the world at 9lbs 5oz and stretching 23” long, she is a true force of nature. I’ve always known I wanted to be a Dad, I’ve certainly had the greatest examples of what it means to be a parent in my own parents, so I guess it was very natural for me to want to carry the torch and build upon the foundation they so selflessly built in raising my brother and I. There are no words to express how lucky I am to have Justine as my life partner and now Mom to our Ada. Justine was born to be a Mama, like everything else she takes on in her life, she’s tackling being a new Mama so incredibly well and I am beyond proud and inspired by her, she’s an absolute superhero. Named after her Great Grandmother Ada Rose Palmer who was a fierce Māori woman born under a giant Pōhutukawa tree on Aotea, a small island about 60 miles off the coast of Auckland, NZ. Justine and I have spent invaluable time on the island and it’s also where we were just before we found out Justine was pregnant, so it’s a pretty special place to us to say the least. Ada’s middle name, Marama, is the Māori word for moon, and the moon energy is strong in this one. We can’t wait to see our Ada girl grow up, we’re excited to hold her hand along the way, accepting the challenge of trying to be the best parents we can be to our little girl. We know it won’t be easy, but we will work as well as we can to lay a foundation of trust, love, and honesty with her, and promise to always show up for her and ourselves along this wild ride. Here’s to being new parents, we’re ready for one heck of an adventure!! And oh yes, it is my birthday, well actually yesterday (November 8th was) but who’s even reading this far down to know that!!

**GREAT MISTAKE IS LIVE & OUT NOW** Great Mistake is a dreamy little song about messing up and trying to figure out what to do about it; what path to take, whether to let sleeping dogs lie or perhaps you should just rip off the bandaid and let the blood flow, you know, those sorta questions. This song was recorded live in Nashville, Tennessee with the invaluable help of Ryan Levine @butseriouslyryan and Andrew Ampaya @munsimusic We took a couple hours out of the day during Americana Fest and tracked vocals, acoustic guitar, drums, and keys all live at Ryan’s home studio, Mirrorwall. It was truly an inspired, spur of the moment recording, I had only just written the song a couple weeks before and I even mess up a lyric or two during the recording, but you’ll never know where because only I know what the lyric was supposed to be! Anyhow, it felt really fun to make, organic and full of heart. I can’t thank my bros Ryan and Andrew enough for bringing this song to life with me, I am forever grateful for you two! I also want to thank the fabulous Meara McDonald @magicmeara @osaststudio for taking the cover photo for the single, Meara is a master lensewoman who knows how to capture the Bear’s best angles. I also have to thank my incredible life partner Justine Parkin @justine.parkin , she is my ultimate muse and without her almost none of my songs would exist, I love you and thank you for putting up with me in whatever mood I might find myself in :) Drums/Shakers by Ryan Levine @butseriouslyryan All Guitars & Vocals by Justin Levine @thelonious_bear_music All Piano Things by Andrew Ampaya @munsimusic Produced and Mixed by Ryan Levine at Mirrorwall Studios @butseriouslyryan Mastered by @thetimsmiley Cover Photo by @magicmeara Great Mistake is out in its entirety Friday November 7th, 2025 on whatever soul sucking streaming platform you subscribe to (don’t worry, I’m guilty too but I do now use Tidal for my personal song streaming which feels better than giving those vampires at Spotify my money) Love always, T. Bear ✌🏽❤️🧸 Follow @thelonious_bear_music 😘

**TOMORROW** Great Mistake is out tomorrow 11/7, I really hope you’ll listen and that you enjoy this sweet lil bop ✌🏽❤️🧸 @thelonious_bear_music

Great Mistake is out in two days!!! Really excited for y’all to hear all of what we made ✌🏽❤️🧸 Please pre save the song by clicking the link in my bio, just do it I promise it’ll be worth it :)

Great Mistake Is Out Everywhere This Friday November 7th!!! Can’t wait for y’all to hear this one, I really love it. It’s a little peak into the worlds inside my mind, delivered to you by high speed internet service at a discounted rate of FREE, you just can’t beat that now can you. Please listen and let me know what you think about the song or anything else for that matter, we are all in this together ✌🏽❤️🧸 **Hit that pre save link in my bio!!!