The State College music scene is continuing to blossom.

Tonight, Sozo's, 256 E. Beaver Ave., will feature Quietdrive, the first major-label band to play the venue.

The show will also feature local acts Cloverleaf and Hopes High as well as Dropout High and the Hope Fallacy, both of Altoona.

"We're a good old-fashioned rock band," Matt Kirby, guitarist and vocalist of Quietdrive, said.

Kirby said the band has lots of influences, from Third Eye Blind to the Beach Boys to Alice in Chains. He said this broadness lends itself to a more diverse live performance.

"In one set, we'll have acoustic ballads, edgy rock songs, straight up pop tunes, long, epic numbers and some punk," Kirby said. "We try to be as dynamic as possible with our live show. We target a younger crowd, but if you're 8 years old or if you're 65, we want a song there for everybody."

The show was booked by Nittany Booking, an agency made up of members of Cloverleaf and a few of their friends.

"Since the Crowbar closed, the music scene seems to have went away," Garrett Bogden, Cloverleaf drummer, said.

"The five of us [of Cloverleaf] and a few friends got together to bring in national bands, to give kids something to do again instead of seeing a crappy cover band."

Bogden said he gained experience with booking from being in various bands for about the last seven years. He said there were a major lack of bands that play here and that a lot of the local venues are closed-minded, but Sozo's was an exception.

"There's a need for what we are in this town," Will Snyder, director of Sozo's, said. He said Sozo's gives younger people a better place as opposed to the only other venue being a bar.

"It's not a smoky, peer-pressure-filled room," Snyder said. "We keep our stage nice; it's a clean environment."

Snyder said while they've been doing worship at Sozo's for three years now, it's not only a Christian venue.

"I love the arts, and I know God loves the arts," Snyder said. "We're just providing a venue for people who make excellent music."