Crowbar, 420 E. College Ave., takes a one-night reprieve from its regularly scheduled programming of hard rock and punk when Virginwool and Yve Adam perform sets of straightforward pop Monday night.

The bands are co-headlining the Venus Music Tour, a string of dates aimed at university students that takes place on college campuses across the nation.

Each band is touring behind a new debut album. Yve Adam's Fiction was released in July, while Virginwool dropped its Open Heart Surgery in August.

Yve Adam formed its moniker by combining the names of its two members, Yve Narlock and Adam Popowitz. The two played together previously in Mollies Revenge, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based band that gained a strong regional following after tours with fellow Canadians Moist.

After Mollies Revenge broke up, Narlock and Popowitz soldiered on as a duo, getting their recorded start with "Don't," a song they contributed to the Message In a Bottle soundtrack.

While Mollies Adam was a rock band, Yve Adam plays contemporary dance-pop with Narlock singing and Popowitz playing guitar. The duo augments its sound with trip-hop beats and synthesizers while mixing in influences of Everything But the Girl and Macy Gray.

Yve Adam played the Lilith Fair in 1998 where it performed acoustically.

Virginwool, like Yve Adam, is trying to make a name for itself on a national scale after developing a strong regional following. The band gained acclaim throughout Florida after touring its home state with popular bands such as Matchbox Twenty and Creed.

Virginwool scored a radio hit in Florida in 1998 when "You're the Girl," a song from its Women EP, wound up being played on Orlando stations. Virginwool has since re-recorded the song, and it appears again as the centerpiece of Open Heart Surgery.

The band hired Brad Wood, who has worked with Liz Phair and the Smashing Pumpkins, among others, to produce the album. It features chiming guitars and humorous lyrics about relationships.

Virginwool claims Tom Petty and R.E.M. as influences, but its debut album differs from the early work of those artists in at least one aspect. Virginwool eschews those acts' folk stylings in favor of Wood's studio effects and makes frontman Jordan Pouzzner's tales of broken hearts the focus of each of its songs.

Wood provides a mix of samples, layered keyboards and chiming guitars that sounds not unlike his work on the Smashing Pumpkins' 1998 release, Adore.

In addition to Pouzzner, Virginwool includes guitarist Gar Willard, bassist Adam Loewy and drummer Brett Crook.