Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

Inspired by the straight edge movement and Fugazi's business ethics, the shows at Lemp are always all-ages, drug and alcohol free, and cost five dollars for admission at the door, with the majority of the money paid to the music performers directly.

The venue also strictly avoids booking bands and musicians with a commercialized sound and/or music industry standard of practice, or any performer who promotes "violent or reckless behavior" or "a discriminatory, lewd, degrading or immoral message.

"[6][7] NoisefeSTL inaugurated in October 2004, and has occurred annually until its latest showcase in 2013. Notable touring acts who have played at the Lemp over the years include Animal Collective, Mount Eerie, Wolf Eyes, Xiu Xiu, Deerhunter, Julie Doiron, Joe Lally (of Fugazi), Megafaun, This Town Needs Guns (TTNG), Phosphorescent, Yacht, Ariel Pink, Man Man, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Parts & Labor, The Rosebuds, tUnE-yArDs, Colleen Green, Liturgy, La Dispute, Hop Along, The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, An Albatross, Mirah, Piglet, Bullet Train To Vegas, Mischief Brew, Defiance, Ohio, Pit Er Pat, Shoplifting, Frog Eyes, Emperor X, Ad Astra Per Aspera, CAVE, Pomegranates, We vs.

The Shark, Ian Svenonius, Joe Jack Talcum, The Low Budgets, Nat Baldwin, Viking Moses, Neptune, Fat Worm of Error, Yukon, Extra Life, Zs, The Flying Luttenbachers, Ahleuchatistas, Upsilon Acrux, Jon Mueller, Bull of Heaven, Caroliner, Yellow Swans, Khanate, Jackie-O Motherfucker, The Body, John Wiese, Sissy Spacek, Panicsville, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, Modern Life is War, Against Me!, Crime in Stereo, Magrudergrind, HeWhoCorrupts, Pissed Jeans, Fear Before the March of Flames, Loma Prieta, We Be The Echo, Arms and Sleepers, Caspian, Tiny Moving Parts, Empire!

[8] The venue has also hosted and/or incubated a great number of local bands and musicians in its history, such as Yowie, Darin Gray (of Dazzling Killmen and Brise-Glace), Grandpa's Ghost, Jack Callahan, So Many Dynamos, Angel Olsen, and the prior bands of the members of Foxing[9] Since 2009, Lemp has operated a program called Orchestrating Diversity, "a social change program" that provides free education in orchestral music to inner-city youth of Saint Louis.