Covering a band whose members are still in college is inherently tricky. Sure, they could turn out to be Jukebox the Ghost (***), but there’s that weird deadline that appears at the end of four years that can spell certain doom for bands whose members get jobs in other cities, are too busy with grad school to think about performing, and so on. But when such a band consists of a brother/sister duo, the members are less likely to lose contact, and the group, more likely to endure. Let’s hope that this is the case with Wild Fictions.

American University students Chris and Kelly DeWitt combine a garage rock raw power with a tinge of the blues that would work just as well at a house party as at the Black Cat. Their energy during live shows and their overall skill level on the drums and keyboards overcomes any forgotten chords or technical difficulties. At last night’s Mt. Pleasant Benefit concert, their keyboard broke halfway through one of their songs, but they finished it off as if it was no big problem. Chris also uses some of that energy to run the new, locally-based Dream Committee Records, which includes among its ranks one of last month’s Three Stars artists, Black & White Jacksons.

Photo by Charlotte Kesl