fun.fun., with Hellogoodbye, Limbeck, My Favorite Highway at Chop Suey, 6 p.m., $15 adv., all agesSupergroups seem back in vogue these days, from Tinted Windows to the Dead Weather to Them Crooked Vultures. Add fun. to that list. Despite the lower-case lettering, the trio of Nate Ruess (ex-The Format), Andrew Dost (ex-Anathallo), and Jack Antonoff (Steel Train) projects a huge sound on Aim And Ignite, its over-the-top debut. Produced by Red Kross’s Steven McDonald, the album explodes with hooky, harmony-happy power-pop in the vein of the Raspberries, Big Star, and Badfinger. The robust tunes come front-loaded with piano, horn and string sections, gospel-style backup singers, and other gaudy adornments to match Ruess’s theatrical singing, pitched between Broadway and Queen. There are highlights galore, from the Weezer-indebted midsection of opener “Be Calm” to the smoldering beauty of “The Gambler.” As power-pop goes, you can’t get much more reverent than a song like “All The Pretty Girls,” and fun. reveal the true extent of their bombast on the nearly eight-minute finale, “Take Your Time (Coming Home).” It’s a blast. . DOUG WALLENTerence Blanchard at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, today and tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., $21.50, all agesA household-name figurehead of the mainstream jazz vanguard led by the Marsalis brothers, trumpet player Terence Blanchard is perhaps best known as Spike Lee’s go-to guy for film scores. Given the peer group he is most often associated with, it goes without saying that Blanchard’s approach is marked by technical proficiency on a highly cerebral level and, of course, an unmistakably traditionalist mentality. But although Blanchard has always demonstrated a penchant for melodies, he is, in a sense, a changed man since the Katrina disaster. With his naked, radiantly mournful playing on Spike Lee’s documentary, When the Levee Broke, Blanchard sought to connect more deeply with universal themes–and succeeded by cutting through the bravura and aiming straight for the listener’s heart. SABY REYES-KULKARNI