VAIL, Colorado — EVE 6, which plays in Vail Thursday, has had an eventful career. The group, which plays a free show at Vail's Snow Daze, has had hit singles, platinum albums and world tours, and has already broken up once and reunited.

The group, which plans a new album next year, describes its music as “psychedelic groovy power-pop-punk.” Its members are of Max Collins, on bass and vocals, Tony Fagenson, on drums, and Matt Bair, on guitar. Collins and Fagenson answered a few questions from the Vail Daily

1. Vail Daily. Talk about highlights, low points?

Eve 6: Highlight: Getting paid to basically hang around in a beautiful ski resort for a few days. Fame, renown, and glory are nice too. Low point: Having to leave said ski resort. Lip-synching on German TV shows.

2. VD. What would you say is the driving force behind your music?

Eve 6: Subway, Lipton Brisk, and a desire to communicate and express our musical and lyrical passions.

3. VD: How would you describe your music? How has it evolved over the years?

Eve 6: I'd describe it as ... golly that's hard. The power-pop-punky thing I said above is pretty apropos. Just take a listen!

4. VD: Lyrics seems to be a big part of your songs. What are you trying to capture in your lyrics? Are there recurring themes?

Eve 6: Max is the lyric man, and he is quite good at what he does, never hesitating to use the most vivid and colorful imagery and wordplay to get the idea across. Many of the classic themes are touched upon; love, alienation, mortality.

5. VD: Talk about the response to your music from fans.

Eve 6: Nothing short of slack-jawed adulation. But seriously, our fans are terrific and have always been supportive and have stuck with us through the years.

6. VD: Performing any new songs at the moment? Planning a new album?

Eve 6: A current Eve 6 audience will hear a couple new songs in the set that will most likely appear on our next release (and first in five years), set to come out in 2010.

7. VD: What are you expecting from a performance at a world famous ski resort? Do you play a lot of shows outdoors in the winter?

Eve 6: We expect hard nipples and shrinkage. We've done outdoor shows in the cold, and it's excitingly silly.