Somewhere in the midst of a manufactured, translucent fog on a dive bar stage, a blonde with incandescent skin is bellowing melody. All around her, the rhythms and harmonies that she's coalesced with are sublimating from her band mates. Somewhere inside everybody listening, the little voice that pipes up when you've found the right drug, says, “Put it in my vein.”

If Kissing Violet is a drug, then it's definitely some sort of heavy opiate – something for the daughters of Chinese emperors to make love to each other with. But according to the band, there's no such inference on its behalf.

“Violet is the last color of the rainbow, so if you were falling off the edge of the earth, you'd be kissing violet,” explains Emily Carlstrom, the effervescent, alabaster-skinned chanteuse whose brilliant voice provides a crystal clarity to the band's music.

Music that may have never been if producer/keyboardist David Vaughn hadn't decided that his previous project wasn't right and didn't come from the heart. But after some soul searching he made a hard decision to croak the Rock Candy Rebels and look for what he really wanted.

“We had a vision; we wanted to find somebody that would agree with it but would make it their own, and then it would turn into greater than the sum of its parts,” Vaughn explains. “When Emily came and auditioned, I knew that day that this person gets me artistically and musically. I had a gut feeling.”

It must have been meant to be because when Carlstrom showed up on the scene, she even had a similar idea to Vaughn's for the band name. “I had always had this name that I liked … Dropping Violet, and Kissing Violet was a name that David had,” she says.

The vision was so unified that the music they have made together, which Carlstrom describes as “intense, danceable, melodic, electronic, industrial pop rock,” seems to carry with it a clarity of purpose that's easily accessible to anyone listening.

Vaughn touts it as “edgy, and not afraid to combine dark and light and put them on display in a very unabashed way. We're not trying to be so heavy and so dark, and at the same time we're not trying to be pop.”

“Every song is a different beast,” Carlstrom continues. “It'll start with an emotion and … [David and I] will mess around with it. We'll say ‘what is this track making us feel?' Sometimes we'll have a melody in our heads that we're singing for three weeks.”

Their writing process is centered around emotions rather than ideas, and it's this uncensored expression that foments Kissing Violet's expressive legitimacy. But as any successful band knows, writing great music is only one part of the equation.

Kissing Violet's business sense promises to ensure that there are no gaps in its plan. Working closely with his wife, Holly, Vaughn has taken the lead in securing the deals that have made Kissing Violet something more than a bar band, including being featured on an underground music compilation called Riot on Sunset , becoming a regular fixture at Club Fiend at Dragonfly and recently inking a deal with Tokyo Pop, the largest Anime and Manga distributor in the world.

The band members have contributed to the soundtrack of an indie horror film, Night of the Dead, and thanks to them, those songs you're inundated with at the theaters will become slightly less annoying after they start working with Movie Tunes promoter, Bob Martin.

The group is currently putting the finishing touches on its debut album, and when it's released, Kissing Violet will undoubtedly become a household name.

“We are not fucking around,” Vaughn asserts, and anybody who's seen them play live can attest to it. It's now just a matter of when the overdose will come – and how sweet it'll be.

Kissing Violet will perform April 18 at the Dragonfly in Hollywood. For more information, visit www.kissingviolet.com.