Evan Davies

Street Eaters playing a live set in WFMU’s Studio B

Street Eaters playing a live set in WFMU’s Studio B

Street Eaters playing a live set in WFMU’s Studio B

Coming up at the top of the hour on @wfmu.bsky.social: Oakland punks Street Eaters play live as I fill in for Rock and Roller Derby!
Plus some Japan record store finds, and a little new music! Tune in at 8pm EDT / 5pm Pacific!
Check the link in my bio for the archive if you can’t listen live!

Kind of required for today’s timeslot!

Thanks Evan!

Holding up Bill Janovitz’s Cars book in front of WFMU’s cassette library

Hello again! I’m filling in on @wfmu.bsky.social at the top of the hour (3pm EDT / noon Pacific / 8pm UK) and I’ll be talking with @billjanovitz.bsky.social about his amazing new Cars biography, and of course playing a bunch of Cars and Cars-related music! wfmu.org or on the radio if you’re lucky.

I wouldn’t argue that!

I regret the tense disagreement in this post.

I think what I miss most about the old days of Twitter were my occasional interactions with @mjmckean.bsky.social.

(Also I’m more comfortable saying he’s a WFMU fan, not sure if he listened / listened to my show specifically)

Me holding a copy of Bill Janovitz’s book about The Cars, standing in front of my copies of the first six Cars albums

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!

Attention local friends!! Get on down to A BAR in Greenpoint TONIGHT for DJ fun with my #1 DJ Superpong (aka @slocker.bsky.social) and superfriend Suzy Hotrod!! The wheels of steel start spinning at 9pm and won’t stop until 1am. Hope to see you there! (There = 597 Manhattan Av, Greenpoint BK)

Finally watching S2 E7 of Poker Face, and I am freekin DEEE-LIGHTED to see James Ransone back on my television set.

Undated publicity photo of Lene Lovich

I generally don’t like to engage in own-horn tooting, but I’m very proud of the conversation I had with Lene Lovich that aired on my @wfmu.bsky.social radio show yesterday. You can listen back anytime at
wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

I think both casual and die-hard Lene fans will enjoy it.

She is! Solo show at Alberta Rose Theater on Monday Oct 13!

Me in WFMU’s record library holding some of my Lene Lovich records

Can’t wait for you to hear my conversation with Lene Lovich on my @wfmu.bsky.social radio show today! We’ll hear about her upcoming tour, plus plenty of music from her Stiff years and beyond (and before!).
Show starts at noon EDT (9am PDT, 5pm UK), Lene chat will start at 1pm. See you there!

Screenshot of an app showing an outgoing call to Lene Lovich earlier today.

Well this was fun. I’ll share our conversation on my @wfmu.bsky.social show tomorrow (Weds the 3rd), along with a healthy dose of related music. Show starts at noon, Lene starts at 1pm. Hope you can tune in!

"On drums Mr Alan White!"

Me too!

SOME NEWS: You may have heard me mention this on Wednesday, or seen posts about the new WFMU schedule, but if not I’m sorry to let you know that my show is not on the upcoming Fall / Winter / Spring schedule. I’ve got one more weekly show this Wednesday Sept 5 (which will feature a conversation with Lene Lovich!), then after that I’ll just be doing intermittent fill-ins for the foreseeable future. It’s long been WFMU policy to have longtime DJs sit out a schedule to allow new DJs the opportunity to do a weekly show. And the silver lining here is that there will be some great new DJs on the air during the next nine months. I’ll be posting about upcoming fill-ins here and on my other social media accounts, so stay tuned!

Some news about my @wfmu.bsky.social radio show. Sorry for the text post, but I couldn’t think of a suitable image. See the alt text if you can’t read the screenshot.

Appreciate the thought, thanks for listening and supporting. Hopefully I’ll never be too far away.

At the board in WFMU’s Studio A

To be honest I can’t offer any specific reasons for you to tune in to my @wfmu.bsky.social show today apart from the opportunity to hear some great old and (mostly) new music that you probably wouldn’t hear otherwise. Is that enough? Noon EDT / 9am Pacific / 5pm UK on wfmu.org and on the radio.

Ultra Lights in WFMU’s Studio B

Ultra Lights in WFMU’s live room

Silver Synthetic playing in WFMU’s live room

Silver Synthetic playing in WFMU’s live room

Today on my @wfmu.bsky.social radio show: it’s a battle of the bands, and YOU’RE the winner!
First: Ultra Lights hit us hard, then Silver Synthetic bring us back to life.
Show starts at noon EDT / 9am Pacific / 5pm UK! Online at wfmu.org and on the radio in NJ, NYC, and lucky parts of NY state!

@rexparker.bsky.social Having spent last weekend in the company of three (3) Pomeranians/Pom mixes I agree that the answer to 104A is very much incorrect.

Me looking through the center of a company 12” sleeve with a woman puckering up

Me looking through the center of a company 12” sleeve

Me looking through the center of a company 12” sleeve with a woman eating an ice cream cone backwards

Me looking through the center of a company 12” sleeve

Boy do I love a company sleeve! And I’ve got a lot of ‘em in my record bags for my 17th annual Summertime Disco/Dance Party on @wfmu.bsky.social! (Plus LPs and 7”s, of course!)
The magic begins at noon EDT/9am Pacific/5pm UK. See you on the dance floor, by which I mean hiding in the dj booth!

Tonight’s Red Sox TV telecast is being called by an all-woman crew and it is glorious. Such a breath of fresh air! Emma Tiedemann is handling the play-by-play and she sounds great, which is no surprise really since she’s usually calling games for the AA Portland Sea Dogs. More of this please!

@eliselzer.bsky.social A Paul F. Tompkins reference *and* a Rutles mention!!

10/10, no notes.

Photoshop of the iconic Saturday Night Fever dance floor scene, with my face replacing John Travolta’s

The 17th annual Evan "Funk" Davies Show Summertime Disco/Dance Party! Wednesday, August 6th, Noon - 3pm on The Evan "Funk" Davies Show It's the hottest day of the year, no matter what the thermometer says! Once again Evan "Funk" Davies will be spinning classic dance and disco jams from the mid-70s to the early '80s, along with some new-to-you nuggets. The beat will be turned around, your whistle will be blown, and your body will be shaken down to the ground!

So far none of @wfmu.bsky.social’s Instagram team has owned up to creating this, but nevertheless: if you’re a fan of classic late ‘70s / early ‘80s disco and dance music (but, ironically, no Bee Gees) then make plans to tune in to my WFMU radio show this Wednesday at noon EDT.

THANK YOU.

omg, we had that Mother Goose record on the first page in my house when I was a little kid!

Further update: Julia informs me on another platform that she is only responsible for the layout, which itself is awesome.

'The Raincoats' Biography Book Talk + Signing Tickets | From Free | 25 Jul @ Rough Trade Below, New York | DICE Rough Trade NYC is excited to present **Audrey Golden** and **Evan “Funk” Davies (WFMU)** in conversation, discussing Audrey's new authorized biography *SHOU...

Get the book and join Audrey and me tomorrow (Friday) at 6pm at Rough Trade NYC. More info at dice.fm/event/wwogop...

Photo of a header image from a 1979 issue of New York Rocker showing The Raincoats on stage

Working on some notes and questions for tomorrow’s book event with Audrey Golden about her wonderful new book about The Raincoats and I found an early write-up in my copy of New York Rocker #18 from early 1979 — topped by a great Julia Gorton photo!