Los Angeles trio Eve 6 currently sits atop the Modern Rock charts with its new single, "Inside Out," [600k QuickTime] and the band is out on the road opening for Our Lady Peace and Third Eye Blind on The Bonfire Tour -- no small feat considering that the oldest member of Eve is only 19.

Eve 6, which takes its name from a character from an old "X-Files" episode, first started playing together in 1993, and wound up signing a major label deal two years ago while singer-bassist Max Collins, guitarist Jon Siebels and drummer Tony Fagenson -- producer Don Was' son -- were still in high school.

The band sat down with MTV News recently and explained how the label deal permitted them enough time to evolve as a group before releasing their self-titled debut.

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said. "It was a development deal because they signed us and gave us time to develop on our own.

They completely left us alone," agreed Collins.

A record was guaranteed," Fagenson added.

It wasn't like they said, 'We'll see if your songs get to a certain point,'" Collins said, "and they gave us money to record a couple of seven inch singles and get studio experience. [The label] just basically let us write and play around town a lot.

Eve 6 opens for OLP and 3EB when The Bonfire Tour sweeps across the War Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Thursday.