Want to hear something new and fresh on the radio? Javelanche, which provides a healthy serving of the brand spanking new and the best of the rest, can help satisfy your new music cravings on Tuesday nights at midnight. Hosted by Doctor Quinn (Caroline Connors ’11) and Alpaca (Dan Levine ’11), the show plays anything from Kings of Leon and Animal Collective to the Pixies and Van Morrison, as well as numerous new selections from the WESU New Release Shelf. Let them be your weekly dose of uninterrupted music.

 

Stefan Golangco: So why should people listen to your show?

 

Caroline Connors: The show is called Javelanche. My friend Dan and I do it together, and the main reason why people would be interested in the show is that we play a lot of music on the show without ads or much talking that nicely fits into an hour. We do a good job of combining old stuff with newer stuff and somehow manage to fit a couple of genres into that one hour without the transitions being too choppy. There’s something for everyone. Dan and I differ slightly in our taste–some of it overlaps but some of it is different. The two perspectives blend surprisingly well.

 

SG: You said you don’t talk too much on the show. Do you have any on-air quirks that remind the listeners that you guys are there for them?

 

CC: We do talk. What I try to do is be both conversational and informative. If I’m playing a certain song and we have any kind of information about them or the song we provide that to the listeners. Its nice to have that conversational element so the listeners can feel involved.

 

SG: What does Javelanche mean?

 

CC: The way that that happened, Dan and I met freshmen year when we had back-to-back shows. The show he was doing at the time had the name Javelanche, which he got from somewhere, and then when we fused our shows together the name just stuck. The name doesn’t mean anything at all.

 

SG: So what’s the chemistry like?

 

CC: Of our tastes and what we like to play, some of it overlaps, but some of it is different. What’s important is that it’s cohesive. We bounce ideas off each other, we kind of play off one another.

 

SG: Top 5 albums off the top of your head. Go.

 

CC: I’m kind of all over the place and this can change tomorrow. Current picks are:

Kings of Leon ­–Aha Shake Heartbreak

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV

Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica

Aerosmith –Rocks

 

And I have a tie for the last spot: Radiohead–Amnesiac and this year’s Old Crow Medicine Show – Tennessee Pusher.

 

SG: What about the scene right now?

 

CC: On our show we are constantly playing new music. That is something that as genres change, we try to accommodate everything into that hour. Also, the cool thing about having our show on Tuesday nights is that new music always comes out that day, so anything that was released that day we have. When the Merriweather Post Pavillion album came out by Animal Collective, everybody played it that day and we didn’t shy away from that. Everybody wanted to hear “My Girls.”

 

SG: Who are your favorite bands right now? Who should we take notice of?

 

CC: We got an album by a band called the Holy Sons called the Decline of the West. I don’t really know anything about them, just that the album is one of those gems that I picked up. I listened to it the whole way through through and there is not a bad song on there. It’s dark and mysterious. Also, Apes and Androids is a kind of pop electro band that you can dance to. That’s two sides of the spectrum.

 

SG: In an ideal world, whom would you want to perform in Spring Fling?

 

CC: I have heard so many rumors. In an ideal world, if I could get anyone that I wanted, I would get Prince. I’m trying to have a good time and not take myself too seriously in Spring Fling. I think everyone could get into Prince and he has enough