Ne-Yo, Rihanna, and the Jonas Brothers -- these are some of the hugely successful artists who have performed at 107.9's Endfest in the past. The radio station's festival consistently brings popular artists as well as up-and-comers to Sacramento, and this year is no exception with Flo Rida, Lady Gaga, and headliner All-American Rejects.

This year the crowd will definitely include a diverse amount of audience-goers, many of them hip youth, who will also be there to see opening bands 3oh!3 and White Tie Affair, both on the brink of the big-time.

Colorado pop duo 3oh!3 recently had their single "Don't Trust Me" go platinum, and White Tie Affair's single "Candle (Sick and Tired)" recently reached the third on Billboard's list Hot Dance Club Play.

Singer/rapper Nathaniel Motte is one half of 3oh!3, the other member is singer/rapper Sean Foreman. The Sacramento Press spoke with Motte by phone on Wednesday:

You guys are really representing "the 303" with your album's cover art [which says 303 on it], and your band's name. Where are you from and how has it influenced you?

We're from Boulder, Colorado, a little college town about half an hour north of Denver, and obviously you can tell we're proud of where we're from. Colorado is a cool place. It's pretty open and a musically diverse place. There were a lot of cool shows coming through. Sean and I grew up and were real interested by all the music. We both were hanging around the underground hip hop scene. And we love where we're from and we'll keep repping it until we die.

In some of your songs there seems to be a Southern hip hop influence. Is that one of your influences?

Yeah, we draw influences from a lot of places. A lot of them are subconscious. I think that definitely one of them is [Southern hip hop]. As a producer I tried to imitate some of the Atlanta Crunk sound, mainly what was going on with Lil' Jon and those dudes down there when they started making it. It's just made rap fun again. It was crazy, hard, edgy, fun and different.

You are a duo. What is the live instrumentation like for the band? Is there a DJ?

It varies a lot. On this tour we've been playing with a drummer and a bass player. Sean and I will be singing. Occasionally [we have] a DJ, and stuff, but the bare bones is just Sean and I onstage with a CD player rocking a party, and making sure everyone goes crazy. That's how we started.

So far, what has the biggest moment for your band been?

There have been so many big moments. It just keeps getting on a bigger scale, but the feeling remains the same. I can remember selling out our local venue, the Fox, in Boulder, 600 or 700 people, and that being amazing. Then being on Warped Tour, and seeing 3,000 or 4,000 people every day in a place we've never been to was incredible. Then just recently we sold over one million copies of our single "Don't Trust Me", and we were presented with plaques onstage. It's like picking a favorite child. There were just wonderful moments throughout.

Ever been to Sacramento before? If so, what did you like about it? If not, what are you looking forward to about the trip?

We have been to Sacramento. We went there on the Warped Tour, and we played the [Convention] Center. It was crazy, it was great, it was super hot, and I was almost passed out after the show. I had to pour ice on myself. The kids are dope, and then we came back, and we were in Orangevale outside of Sacramento on our own headlining tour in the fall. It was great; kids out there go nuts and really appreciate live music, and that's all we could ask for.

Are you looking forward to the Endfest concert this Sunday with Flo Rida, Lady Gaga, and All-American Rejects -- and who are you looking forward to seeing?

They all make great music, music that's fun, so yeah. We've played a couple shows with All-American Rejects, and those dudes are really cool and put on a good show. We love Flo's stuff a lot, and we've been back and forth and in touch because he's actually on our label, a little sub-label of Atlantic.

Recently, you have released a great album in Want, and a platinum single in "Don't Trust Me." What's next for you guys?

I think this summer we're going back out on Warped Tour and that's going to be huge. We played a huge festival called Bamboozle in New Jersey in the neighborhood of 25,000 people in our crowd, watching our set. I just see great live shows, bigger and bigger productions on our part. And then our next single "Starstrukk" is coming out over the summer. I'm really excited to see where that goes. Really, after Warped Tour, we're going to get down and concentrate on writing and producing new stuff, and we've been doing that continuously this whole time, but locking down and getting into the studio for next year. We're always working and excited about making music, because it's what we do for a living, but also what we do for fun.

3oh!3 will be back to Sacramento on the Warped Tour in late summer.