Just got confirmation from Matt Harnish (of Bunnygrunt http://www.myspace.com/therealbunnygrunt ), who booked this show:
I, Crime from Detroit will be opening for Ryan Anderson of Austin, Texas http://www.myspace.com/ryananderson and Bad Folk from St. Louis http://www.myspace.com/badfolk at CBGB on South Grand in St. Louis http://www.myspace.com/cbgbstl on Monday, July 30th.

Beyond their stick twirling and alcoholic flair, I, Crime truly is a band of songwriters. Creating songs from influences as estranged and arresting as traditional olde-time, power-pop, psyche-punk, honky-tonk, ’50s crooning and high-strung, straight-up rock ‘n’ roll.

Their new brand of romantic rock will blow your ears with harsh punk urgency and your mind with excruciatingly gorgeous boy-girl harmonies. Their song, “It Ain’t Right,” reached #1 on Brown Student Radio in Providence, RI, which called their sound “Black Sabbath meets the Marvelettes.”

Ryan Anderson is recording and playing a lot in Austin now, but comes from Florida, via Savannah, Georgia. A bunch of us saw him play at Mr. Hutto's house party last summer and I've been listening to his TRAINS TAKE AWAY OLD FRIENDS ever since. He is on an extensive tour in support of The Garden Path, which is an album set for release in July 2007 on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records.
"Anderson is a poised wordsmith, using pure and simple emotion as his weapon of choice, and breeching subjects from the awkward stages of love to heartfelt sentiments of pain and loss." - Stephanie Gordon, UrbanPollution.com

"He can be wistful and sincere just as much as he can be unnerving, but he's rarely actually incoherent. This cat is just plain surreal, like Daniel Johnston, but with a (generally) fuller, more accessible sound." - Jeremy Mutant, TheChickenFishSpeaks.com

...and of course, Bad Folk is a St. Louis gem busting out of the alt-country and cow-punk entrapments to make original music with traditional instruments...and with rock-star experience from the likes of Tim Rakel, Anne Tkach, Joey Gavin, Bruk Longbottom and Adam Hesed they deliver. They should be crammed into that front window and ready to tear through a vicious set for this one, 'cause they always are...the atomic bomb, indeed, but with better intensions than melted faces...somebody mentioned Nick Cave and Tom Waits and David Lynch, but with banjo and slide guitar...don't forget the ladies on bass and drums, sometimes saw and just get your ass out to this show.