The Asylum club's last concert of the semester will be headlined tonight by I Am the Avalanche.

"It's a good way to end the year," said Lauren Graham (sophomore-media studies), Asylum treasurer. "We wanted a bigger budget show where we could book a bigger band, and the sound is going to be awesome."

The Asylum is a student group with about 30 members that meets weekly to plan event and shows. This show will take place at 9 tonight in HUB Heritage Hall.

Austen Talbot (freshman-psychology), another member of Asylum, said the larger venue had other advantages in addition to the ability to book a bigger band."There's going to be a real stage," he said, in comparison to the Pollock shows during which the band is on the same level as the crowd.

I Am the Avalanche (IATA) is a five-piece punk-pop-post-hardcore outfit from Brooklyn, led by singer Vinnie Caruana, formerly of the Movielife. Though the name of the band and the musicians around him may have changed, Caruana's current band sounds an awful lot like his old one.

"This is like the new Movielife," Andrew Visnovsky (sophomore-political science), Asylum president, said. "If you're a fan of the Movielife and you don't go see this concert, I think there's a big problem with you."

Visnovsky, a fan of the Movielife himself, said I Am the Avalanche was extremely similar in sound, a "straight-up pop, punk band." He said IATA has a heavier feel when they play live as compared to its recorded material and that it was "a band you have to see live."

The selection of the other two bands playing tonight was done unconventionally compared to the way The Asylum typically picks its acts.

Usually, the club has a listening session for potential bands, sitting down together and listening to either a CD or at least the MySpace of several different bands.

For the night's opener, the club sent out a Facebook flier soliciting any local band that might want to play the show to send in a demo.

After giving it a democratic vote, the Asylum awarded Montdale's Melded with what Graham called "the honor of getting to play unpaid on a Thursday night."

Originally a third band was slotted to perform along with the other two groups, but at the last minute realized that they would not be able to perform.

Asylum decided not to replace the band and to keep the bill with the remaining two for that evening's show.