The moniker for Skinny Moth and the Prospect may have come from a band name generating website, but the music is a mix of genres uniquely created by the five musicians of this indie group.

Hailing from Rochester, Marion, Middleboro and Bridgewater, the band members came together largely as a result of guitar teacher Louis LoCicero from whom members Rob Matthews-Forte, Shane Fitzgerald, Cam Simmons and Eli Kovacevich all take lessons.

The four wanted to be part of a band and found that their varied taste in music fit well together.

“Each of us shows each other something different every time we play,” said guitarist and vocalist Matthews-Forte, a college freshman from Bridgewater. “I learn something new everyday with these guys.”

The group went through a few lead singers before Old Rochester Regional senior Holly Frink joined the group.

Frink sang a song with Skinny Moth during ORR’s senior day at Ned’s Point. After that she was hooked, and fortunately, so were the guys in the band.

“Eli texted me and begged me to join,” she joked. “I jumped at the opportunity. They’re a solid group of guys.”

Frink, a Marion resident, already knew half of the band. Kovacevich and Fitzgerald, who play the drums and guitar, respectively, are also seniors at ORR. Simmons, the bassist, is a senior in Middleboro High School.

The five band mates are young, but their taste in music reveals them to be old souls.

Matthews-Forte said his uncle, a jazz trumpeter, turned him onto the guitar at age 7.

“He sent me a video of Eric Clapton live playing ‘Cocaine.’ I fell in love with Eric Clapton,” he said.

At age 12, he discovered Chuck Berry, and has been taking guitar lessons ever since.

Kovacevich said his father used to play James Brown CDs in the car, and he later discovered a stack of vinyls in the basement. He said it took playing with Fitzgerald and other musicians to really appreciate the music he grew up with.

For Simmons, a “little ukulele-sized six-string” guitar started him off on music, and lessons with LoCicero introduced him to disco, blues, jazz and funk. Simmons started out looking to play folksier music, but also got the LoCicero treatment and has taken on blues, jazz and rock.

Frink, who sings with a decidedly bluesy tone, said she was “forced into an eclectic taste in music” with a dad who loved classic rock and three older sisters who played pop music such as Taylor Swift.

All of these styles have combined to form the band’s sound.

“We take blues, funk, rock, jazz, R&B and we try to put it through a pop filter,” explained Fitzgerald.

Not quite a garage band (they opt for the cozier digs of Fitzgerald’s basement), Skinny Moth has quickly gone above ground, playing at least one show a month. The group’s first real gig with Frink was at The Middle East Cafe in Cambridge.

“I was so scared I was going to forget all the lyrics and people were going to hate us,” said Frink.

That didn’t happen, and the group has gone on to play at 3065 Live in East Wareham and Gilda’s Stone Rooster in Marion.

The group plays a mix of covers, from the Bill Withers to Cage the Elephant, as well as a few originals. (Listen to one of the original songs below.)

The Moths are working up to a full album of songs, written in collaboration with each member of the group, though "They all start with a riff," said Frink. Fitzgerald and Matthews-Forte often play off of each other to form the foundation for the song with each person in the group bringing their own ideas to the session.

“It’s a lot of building off of each other,” said Simmons.

So far, Skinny Moth has five of its own songs and once there is enough for an album, the band mates hope to record it, perhaps as soon as the spring.

In the meantime, there is much writing, practicing and performing to be done. And the members of Skinny Moth say it’s been a pleasure to be a part of the something new.

Said Simmons, “It’s definitely an honor to play with these guys because these guys are really great musicians.”

Find out about new shows and other goings on with the band on Facebook (Hint: There’s only one Skinny Moth and the Prospect on Facebook).