"Over the many thousands of cities that Xiu Xiu will be passing through on this next grueling, 40+ date tour of theirs, their March 30th show right here in St. Louis is going to break the mold. For starters, they will be playing (and selling out) the Lemp Arts Center, the tiny art gallery in the historic Lemp brewery neighborhood with a most unassuming facade. But enter inside, and behold - the quaintest, 'all-ages, DIY, experimental,' couch-lined living room of a venue you ever did see. Perhaps that's why Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart has christened the Lemp his favorite venue in America (from a 2008 interview with Pitchfork). Tour after tour, Xiu Xiu has played a full house there, and the tiny 100 person venue, run by an army of wry young artists and students, is always packed full with the most ravenous, blood-soaked Xiu Xiu fans this side of the Mississippi. The experimental duo will be excellent, as always, accented by the art-filled nooks and crannies of the Lemp; but, this time around, their performance will be further aggrandized by openers tUnE-yArDs.

TUnE-yArDs is the relatively new but rapidly arising experimental/indie rock band and brainchild of Merrill Garbus, a soul as rare and anomalous as her music. With a voice described as, 'somewhere between Aretha Frankliin and Yoko Ono,' Garbus yodels, screams, and yowls, and though her vocal recordings paint pictures of anything from a band of aborigines to a children's choir, she is always and absolutely a one woman tribe on stage."

Also, this bill is not complete without Br'er (http://www.myspace.com/brrer), and Talk Normal (http://www.myspace.com/talknormaltalknormal).