Tina and the B-Sides is set to perform Saturday at the M-Shop, but this will not be the first time the band has played in Ames. The Minneapolis-founded band toured all over the Midwest in the 1990s.

Tina Schlieske, lead vocalist of the band, has loved music since she was young and saw the way music affected her parents. She always had the desire to influence people through the power of music. She played in a band in high school along with her brother, and that band grew into Tina and the B-Sides.

They performed in any bar that would take them in the Minneapolis music scene, and eventually ended up touring around the midwest for the greater part of the 1990s. Tina and the B-Sides rolled out the music until they disbanded in 1999.

“I feel like the B-Sides, the way we disbanded that was different from other bands is that we didn’t have that typical story that everyone hated each other and there was fighting,” Schlieske said. “So, when we disbanded in 1999, through the years it has kind of left like an unfinished chapter. I knew that I wanted to continue it somehow in some way, I just didn’t know when.”

The B-Sides got back together to release their album “Barricade” in 2014, and to Schlieske, playing together felt like nothing had changed. They may not be able to perform together very often, but the band feels like family to Schlieske.

“It was kind of a cool experience for me because when the band broke up, I was just writing my own material for myself and doing my own stuff. It was really nice to go back and then write in the frame of mind as a band,” Schlieske said. “It was kind of cool to stand back and then come back to it. It made me appreciate so much more of what we did and what we accomplished as a band. It is a huge family.”

Tina and the B-Sides’ music is classified as rock, but, Schlieske said, they pull inspiration from many genres of music. To Schlieske, the band has one goal with their music.

“I just feel like life is hard and unfortunately it gets harder every day,” Schlieske said. “As a musician if you can just give people a little bit of a break from all the crap that is happening in the world then you have done your job, really.”

Schlieske never stopped playing music, even when the band was apart. Throughout her journey she has performed with many bands. She has played with musicians such as Lenny Kravitz, Benmont Tench and Stewart Copeland. Despite everything she has accomplished, she doesn’t feel as though she has truly “made it.”

“I have not had that moment, but if I ever did I think it would be the time when I would stop and then become like a basket weaver or something or find something else,” Schlieske said. “I think part of the beauty of being an artist is that continuous feeling of growth and never quite [being] there. It is also the curse side of it that you are never quite satisfied because you always feel like you could do it better.” 

Tina and the B-Sides perform at 8 p.m. Saturday. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are sold in advance for $20 or $15 with an ISU student ID. More ticket and show information can be found on the Student Union Board’s website.