X96 Meet the Bands

Caity 4 Short sat down with Martin Johnson from Boys Like Girls to talk about their upcoming tour kicking off right here in Salt Lake City and reminisce aboutt he past! **I apologize for my mic sound, things weren't connected properly and I didn't find out until after**

Todd Nuke'em chatted with Mike Shinoda about putting together the 20th anniversary of Linkin Park's 2nd album, "Meteora" and about his new track, "In My Head" that was made for Scream VI.

Todd Nuke'em talked with Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode back in October of 2021 about his latest album “Imposter” with his band Gahan & Soulsavers. The album was released on November 12th, 2021.

Todd Nuke'em talks with The Killers' Brandon Flowers about touring with Johnny Marr, The Killers' new sing, "Boy", and getting back on the road. | X96 Utah's Original Alternative

-Lovelytheband on No Spaces in the Name: “We were trying to think of ways to write the name, and we thought it looked simple and clean” -Lovelytheband on the album and what’s coming: We’re really proud of it, and glad it’s released finally and we just started our first headline tour” -Lovelytheband on Headlining: :It’s exciting, and it’s good to have in finally be our show and have time to make th...

-Bear Hands on Salt Lake City: “I genuinely love Salt Lake City, and it’s obviously a very beautiful place. We’ve had so many fun shows there and can’t wait to get back.” -Bear Hands on playing intimate shows: “I always prefer to play in intimate settings. It’s just so much more fun to have people lean into you, sweating” -Bear Hands on their new music video: “The idea for the video was basically...

-Awolnation on Richie: “’Richie’ has a little more of a party aspect than just ‘Richard.’ Richard would be more of your substitute teacher, but Richie would hand out beers” -Awolnation on Utah Connections: “My wife has family in Utah, and that’s the cool thing about music and traveling to play music, is you get to see all sorts of family members that you wouldn’t get the chance to see otherwise” -...

-Albert Hammond Jr on Reading Negative Comments: “There’s a lot of discipline in separating yourself from it. My interaction with people at a live show is [far more important] because everything else, you really have no control over” -Albert Hammond on his Best Friend: “In high school, I had one best friend and we did everything together. My personality is one that enjoys a few good things, as opp...

-Joywave on what Daniel likes: “It’s a very short list. I like coffee, I like hockey a lot, and I spend most of my time making music” -Joywave’s Daniel on Making Music: “I will write the song, and usually I come up with a skeleton of everyone’s parts. But everybody else is better at playing instruments than I am. I like to think of myself as the [band] president, and not the dictator”

Excited to come back to Utah Jared Leto loves Muselix. We talk Dangerous Night and pink pajama pants.

Pete Wentz takes Fatherhood, activism, their new song "Church" and about Cell phones ruining concerts.

Visited with Kyle Morris from The Unlikely Candidates

As they approach their twentieth anniversary, CAKE’s adherence to their original guiding principles has only grown stronger. Formed during the nineties as a somewhat antagonistic answer to grunge, CAKE’s democratic processes, defiant self-reliance, and lucid yet ever-inventive music has made them a nation-state unto themselves, with no obvious peers, belonging to no school. In addition to writing,...

Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you’ll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” -thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Will’s first love, rendere...

This space doubles as a creative lab for the three brothers of the critically acclaimed three-piece AJR—Adam[bass, vocals], Jack[vocals, guitar], and Ryan[ukulele, piano, vocals]. It’s here that these young men assemble a handcrafted hybrid of sticky pop hooks, cinematic electronic beats, live instrumentation,theatrical panache, nineties nerd rock energy,and cleverly colloquial lyrics. This unpred...

New Jersey to New York to L.A. It's lovelytheband in one of their first interviews.

Alice Merton signs with Mom + Pop Music! Her single "No Roots" has already captured an immense amount of attention with millions of global plays on Spotify and YouTube. At the age of five she started taking classical piano lessons, four years later she was introduced to vocal training. After spending many years being classically trained, Alice discovered the art of songwriting through one of her h...

K.Flay has been nominated for two GRAMMY® nominations for Best Rock Song ("Blood In The Cut")and Best Engineered Album.

The first ever Facebook Live/Ask Your Questions Meet The Bands with IDKHow But they Found Me