Musical siblings Virgil and Brit Price took different routes toward releasing their new debut collaboration as The Prices (wearetheprices.com).
The Awesomeness (3T Records) wasn’t recorded while they attended the same area high school or even the same college but, rather, after Brit settled in Chapel Hill, N .C ., and Virgil took a circuitous route back to South Florida.

Both New York City natives moved locally to attend The Benjamin School, where each starred in basketball before graduating to attend Davidson College near Charlotte, N.C. Multi-instrumentalist Virgil, now 25, studied history there; vocalist Brit, 23, majored in English. But music always factored in, because Brit also studied classical piano and minored in music, and Virgil would leave school to tour with bands through Spain and Australia.
The Awesomeness was recorded at Echo Beach Studio in Jupiter last year, and features the Gwen Stefani-influenced vocals of Brit — but with a harder-edged instrumental sound than that of the singing star’s band, No Doubt.
Virgil plays bass and keyboards on the CD, and co-wrote six of the eight songs with his singing sibling. The other two tracks were composed by guitarist Brent McCormick, who also appears on the disc along with guitarist Mike Lyons (of Jupiter reggae-rockers B-Liminal), guitarist/keyboardist Patrick Boyd, drummers Brian Dunne and Jonathan Erickson and backing vocalist Carey Sims.
“Brit and I had recorded together before in home studios when we were in school,” Virgil says, “but never on a full album like this.”
Each of the Prices has released a solo CD within the past three years, with Brit also recording an original Christmas tune called Merry Christmas, Mary.
“The Awesomeness is a lot less pop-oriented than my solo stuff,” she says.
The Prices’ new disc will have them on the road through the summer in locations from local to New York City, Philadelphia, New Hampshire and North Carolina.
See The Prices open for B-Liminal (b-liminal.com) at 10 p.m. on Friday at Swampgrass Willy’s, 9910 Alternate A1A, Palm Beach Gardens (561) 625-1555.

Round town …

Former Misbehavin’ guitar great Mario LaCasse has a new blues band in addition to his self-titled quartet. Lowdown 13 (lowdown13blues.com ) also features vocalist/harmonica player Willy Lojo, guitarist Doug Bent, bassist Steve Strickland and drummer Danny Leach, and plays at 9:30 p.m. on Friday at the Back Room Blues Bar, 7200 N. Dixie Highway, Boca Raton (561-988-8929) and at 9 p.m. on Saturday at The Orange Door, 798 10th St., Lake Park (561-842-7949) . … Another longtime area guitar icon, Frank Axtell (frankaxtell.com), also plays with a new jazz band called The Inner Court from 5-9 p.m. on Sunday at South Shores Tavern, 502 Lucerne Ave., Lake Worth (561-547-7656) . … Yet another South Florida guitar vet, “Famous” Frank Ward of blues band the Nucklebusters (nucklebusters.com), hosts the popular series called “Blue Tuesdays” — with forthcoming special guests in Sean Carney (on May 11) and Sarasota Slim (May 18) — from 8:30-11:30 p.m. every week at Boston’s on the Beach, 40 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach (561-278-3364).