Indie rock band Marigold will return at 6 tonight to the Pollock Halls Recreation Room to headline an underground music show sponsored by The Asylum.

The Asylum is a student-run organization at Penn State that brings free non-mainstream music to students in an alcohol-free environment.

The New Jersey-based band Marigold will share the stage with current tour mate In Pieces, as well as student band The Reagan Eighties and the local Pandemic.

"When they played here last year, 200 kids were screaming every word and loving it," Jared Newman (sophomore-advertising) said.

The Asylum put Newman to the task in September, when he first started organizing the show.

After seeing Marigold in last spring's lineup, Newman was thrilled when the band offered to come back this fall.

Marigold lead singer and guitarist Vadim Taver said the band gets good reception from Penn State, and Newman expects tonight's audience to fill the Rec Room to capacity.

"It's kind of rough when people still don't know who you are," he said. "Sometimes the shows go really well and sometimes so-so."

Marigold and In Pieces are winding down their national tour this month only to start up again in November when they head to Canada.

In Pieces drummer TJ Orscher is also filling in for Marigold and described the two bands having a similar sound.

"I would call it progressive post-hardcore," Orscher said. "It has some space to it, but it can also rip your face off."

Brandon Peach (sophomore-political science) and his twin brother are the core of The Reagan Eighties, a Lebanon-based band that recently changed its sound from punk to synthetic rock.

"[Our sound] is quite different from some of the stuff students will be used to hearing," Peach said.

The advantage of being a twin in a band is that the brothers have the same vocal quality, making it easier to manipulate background vocals and create a more polished sound, Peach said.

"We do all the writing, and whoever knows the most words sings," he said.

The show opener, Pandemic, was recommended to The Asylum by a band that had previously played one of the campus shows. The hardcore metal band is a troop of four students from State College Area High School.

Since the band usually plays for a high school audience, Pandemic members are curious as to what the response will be for the college crowd, guitarist Keenan Hall said.

Pandemic has played at local venues, such as South Hills Business School and the Boalsburg Fire Hall.

The group received second place in the State College First Night New Year's battle of the bands.

"We all plan to go to PSU," Hall said. "So we'll stick around and play a lot."

The Asylum hosts about four shows each semester, each organized by some combination of the group's 80 members.

Members meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at the steps of the Electrical Engineering Building. The group welcomes new student members, and anyone can join the organization.

Tonight's show is free for students with a Penn State ID and $3 for non-students.

For more information about upcoming shows, visit The Asylum Web site at www.clubs.psu.edu/up/theasylum/index.htm.