96X wants to give back to our community this Holiday Season and bring awareness to five wonderful local charities. Starting Monday, November 26th; we will highlight a different charity each day and you can help us support them. CHKD, The Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia and The Eastern Shore, Eggleston, We Promise Foundation and The…
96X Announces A to Z in celebration of 25 years of Alternative Music in Hampton Roads Instead of blowing out 25 candles, 96X is blowing out 25 Hundred songs! 96X has taken great pride in bringing the best in Alternative Rock to the Hampton Roads area for a quarter of a century. We have brought…
Massive Attack, the trip hop group out of Bristol, returned to the spotlight a couple of weeks ago with the announcement of the reissue of their instant classic, Mezzanine. Not a normal reissue by any means… they decided to continue their tradition of pushing the envelope by encoding millions of copies of the album into…
Do you want to be the Miss Coastal Virginia Auto Show Pin Up Girl?! Submit your picture and register today for your chance to be one of the top 20 finalist will compete for the BIG prizes on November 18th at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. Fill out my Wufoo form!
Early this year for record store day Mac DeMarco announced a collection of demos from his last album (and his best) This Old Dog, as well as a split 7″ with artist Shamir. Fortunately, for myself and all of those that were unable to obtain a copy, he has decided to put the release up…
“It’s so easy going’ down” is the lyric that leads us into Grapetooth’s third single this summer “Red Wine” . Following the disco bounce of “Trouble” released back in May, Red Wine follows the announcement of the Chicago duo’s debut self-titled LP out on Polyvinyl Records November 9th. You can head over there now to…
As of Monday, September 10th Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced a mandatory evacuation of ZONE A areas in Virginia ahead of Hurricane Florence. Zone A does include parts of Hampton Roads and Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Evacuations begin tomorrow morning at 8AM. For specific information on your city click on the links below: Chesapeake Currituck…
George Clanton has been deemed “the next cult electronic artist from the internet” by i-D Vice. An artist who composes, mixes, masters, and releases his own music, his claim to fame was the track It Makes the Babies Want to Cry off of his 2015 release 100% Electronica (also the name of his own music…
Grapetooth is the project of Clay Frankel and Chris Bailoni (singer/guitarist for Twin Peaks) I first heard their single ‘Trouble’ about a month ago when it was announced the duo had signed to one of my favorite records labels out of Chicago, Polyvinyl. Their debut LP is due out later this fall, and if ‘Trouble’…
Listen to 96X for a chance to win tickets to Vans Warped Tour, July 12th, 2018 at Veteran’s United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach PLUS one lucky winner will get FOUR VIP Wristbands with access to all backstage areas, Skate Deck and a Commemorative Water Bottle.