Three bands are bringing their all-original music to State College for the first time at tonight's Skellerpalooza.

The youngest band, New York City-based chancer, starts off the night at 10 at the All American Rathskeller, 108 S. Pugh St. The band got together in May and started playing in the New York area in June. Chancer just played its first show in Philadelphia and heads out to Ohio, and then Washington, D.C. after Skellerpalooza.

"We've never really played to a college audience," lead guitarist and singer John Ashbridge said. "It's something we're looking to do more of, to start playing for more of a younger crowd."

While the band has not been in the studio yet, plans are being made to record an EP of chancer's Radiohead, Travis and "Brit-poppy stuff" influenced music, Ashbridge said.

At 11 p.m., ENTITY hits the stage with a somewhat abridged set of its conceptual, heavy music.

"We have to tailor [the set list] down, because some of our songs are longer -- there's one that's upwards of 37 minutes long," the trio's guitarist and vocalist Ron Fleeger said. "We'd either have to play one song, or more of our refined songs."

ENTITY recorded its first album, Time Resistant Metamorphisis, about a year ago, and the band's material has gotten some airplay in ENTITY's hometown, Williamsport.

Even though the band is promoting Time Resistant Metamorphisis in shows now, the set list is dominated by material from ENTITY's as yet untitled follow-up record. With enough original music for four more albums, the band stopped playing covers entirely back in February, Fleeger said.

Playing all original music has its challenges, though - most venues in State College and in other local areas are geared more toward cover bands, he said.

"It's hard to find a cool outlet for our music, because we're too loud for coffeehouses," Fleeger said.

Last to play tonight is .luca brazi., taking the stage at midnight. The Pittsburgh-based band has been together since 2001.

"We're upbeat rock 'n' roll, not rap metal or anything like that, and we don't claim to be doing anything groundbreaking like any of the indie college bands," lead singer and guitarist Ben ("I usually only go by my first name") Crew said. "We're straightforward rock 'n' roll."

.luca brazi. has played shows since 2001 and recorded its first full-length album, The Stranger the Beautiful, in New York City in 2002.

The band created its own label, Kallisti Records, to release the album, and has been selling The Stranger the Beautiful "out of the back of the van," Crew said.

Since the album's release, .luca brazi. has played in Pittsburgh, Ohio and New York City to a lot of different crowds, but playing in State College will be a different experience.

"When I think of the college crowd, I think frats and cover bands, and we're pretty much the opposite of that," Crew said. "We're doing everything ourselves. We're trying to expand as much as we can ... it should be pretty fun."