In the realm of the almighty business world, a band with the turnaround potential of Autolux is pure gold.

Not even a year after releasing its debut “Future Perfect,” the California alt-rock trio is enjoying spots on tour with bands nearly decades its senior.

Although the band has already added opening spots for Nine Inch Nails and the White Stripes to its resume, drummer and vocalist Carla Azar says the bands haven’t been the only positive encounters the members have had.

“The crowds have been great,” Azar says. “We’re meeting a lot of different bands and everyone is amazing. It’s a lot of fun.”

She says the crowds helped the band make the shows memorable.

“Some of the shows we’ve done while on the tour were so amazing,” she says. “It felt like they were our shows because of all the crowd support and cheering.”

Touring with acts as influential and as far-reaching as it has may, to some bands, have been an unexpected opportunity. But to Autolux, it was all part of the plan. Azar says there were two goals the band had in mind when it formed four and a half years ago.

“We wanted to make music that we loved and be successful while doing it,” Azar says.

The band’s drive, however, has not stopped there. Azar says the next goal of the group is to have another album come out sometime this summer.

“We just want to make an album better than the first one,” she says. “Maybe our music will even branch out to other outlets, such as movies.”

Like many bands of their ilk, Autolux has several musical influences, such as the Beatles and more modern groups, but wants to make sure its influences don’t cloud the finished product.

“We love other bands, but the music came out of our group – out of us,” she says. “Not one specific band has influenced us.”

In the past year, Azar says media coverage of the band has increased. As the band’s music has quickly made the accession to up-and-coming, Azar says it hasn’t phased them. She says they aren’t the band that is going to get hung up on one bad review.

“We don’t read it because it doesn’t matter to us. In fact, we’re more concerned with the music,” Azar says. “However, anything that we have come across has been positive feedback.”

– Dante Sacomani contributed to this article