photo by Mark Hopkins

Three and-that’s-a-wrap-on-August-2010 reasons to pogo on over to the Subterranean tonight…

1. Chicago’s Community College headline with their brand of grandiose, instrumental post-rock that follows bands such as Explosions In The Sky and Sweep The Leg Johnny. Alongside Community College’s gritty, power riffs are a few indie-rock tinged moments complete with floating synthesizer lines and some mathy breakdowns. The band focuses less on true loud-quiet-loud dynamics, which is often a crutch for instrumental rockers. Instead, their changes seem to occur more organically, and that just makes their big epic moments even more intense.

2. Another Chicago group, Seafarer, are also on the bill. Seafarer bring an interesting, dare I say “Fresh?”, approach to their indie-folk sounds with songs that feature a bit of a rougher edge than typically found in that genre. The track “Watch It Flood”, which you can find on Seafarer’s Myspace, starts out as a loose assemblage of guitar, bass and drums before bringing in the big dirty riffs until it breaks down and builds up all over again.

3. Rounding out the bill are a couple more local acts. Chicago’s House Sounds play fun, noisy garage rock that always thrills. Dekalb’s “Richardson” Richardson shatter ears, undoubtedly, with their heavily abrasive, quasi-punk/noise tunes that race by in a minute or less.

8:30 p.m. Tuesday, 8/31. Subterranean. 21+. $8.