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“It kind of meant everything at the time, because we all loved music so much,” said Tesler-Mabe. “I was playing with Jack and someone else at the time, but hadn’t really met anyone else who was as into music as I was until going there and meeting all of these people who were. It’s pretty inspiring when you’re starting out.”

She credits the slide influences on Louie with a youth spent listening to her parents’ classic rock records and putting her own spin on it. The lead in the song was one of many random acts in the studio.

“We were listening back to the end of Louie in the studio with Cadien and Colin (Croome of Twin Peaks) and they suggested we do something at the end of the song and I just went for it,” she said. “A lot of the process was organic expression on our instruments.”

“We’re not setting out with specific goals,” said Anderson. “Songwriting involves jamming around ideas and is pretty organic.”

But how does a band of players all under 20 manage to have more Velvet Underground in its sound than post-grunge garbage? Calpurnia covers Where Is My Mind by the Pixies and El Scorcho by Weezer in its concerts as well as Twin Peaks’ Wanted You — important to the band as it was the first cover the group every posted to YouTube under its own name — but you almost think they could drop a Beatles or a Stones song in the set too.

“All those bands from that sixties and seventies era are much more interesting to us, I think, because the artists are more unique and being themselves,” said Wolfhard. “There are some really great artists out there now too, sure, but everything sort of becomes like a fad. If you were a punk and everyone’s parents hated you, now that music is mainstream on the radio and the same with skateboarding and so on.”