What began with a German minimalistic rock opera Sunday night at The House, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, ended with a capsized canoe.

Playing to a standing crowd of more than 160 people, Troubled Hubble headlined the four and a half hour show.

Opening the set, bassist Andrew Lanthrum snapped a string, and drummer Nate Lanthrum looked heated enough to waste a few drum sticks or shatter his warranteed cymbals.

Troubled Hubble encored with “Canoe.” During the song, six or seven of what appeared to be uncoordinated high-schoolers jumped onstage, “dancing” during the last chorus.

German minimalist Melon Boat rocked out with its opera, kicking off the indie rock night featuring Where’s Jimmy K At?, Millimeter’s Mercury, Inspector Owl and Troubled Hubble.

“Shifty and Deeter’s Less than Stellar Monochromatic Home,” Melon Boat’s rock opera 12 years in the making, marked the duo’s operatic debut and came complete with minimalist cardboard settings.

Afterward, ambitiously aloof indie rockers Inspector Owl branded the stage with synthesizer-heavy, iPod-backed rock ‘n’ roll.

Millimeter’s Mercury played a short but full melodic set in a vein similar to emo puppets Coheed and Cambria.

With fluorescent Aerosmithian scarves knotted to the microphone stands, Where’s Jimmy K At?, the dorm-bred four piece played distorted-guitar-laden tracks from its debut, “Soothing. Delicious.”