The Vault has been doing a great job of bringing diverse music and adventurous groups together in the name of if-it's-good-it's-good, pluralistic aesthetics. Tonight is a prime example, with four bands of widely variegated tastes converging on the barely-downtown gallery (702 Main St, 8pm, $5). Brooklyn's Berth Control isn't unlike drummer Brent “Strictly Beats” Cole's former project, The Moldy Peaches: catchy anti-folk meets Pat Stolley Pop with sweetly sung male-female harmonies. Beyond Say are a bit heavier, and will be bringing their tightly woven, instrumental math compositions all the way up from Baltimore. A couple of local acts finish the bill, with glittery post-grunge courtesy Black Umbrella and Nick Gordon's alt anthems of Queen City doom and redemption.

Twenty years from now, your kids are going to ask, “Did people really listen to all these different types of music at the same time back in the day?” And basking – momentarily weightless – in the gloaming nostalgia, you're going to say, “Shut up and eat your nutrition capsules, space kids.”