Fabulous Muscles is Xiu Xiu's (pronounced "shoe shoe") third record, which will be released March 9, 2004 on 5 Rue Christine. Fabulous Muscles is Xiu Xiu's most pop and experimentally influenced record to date.

Xiu Xiu's is 5RC's hardest working band, having toured the US four times in 2002 and three times in 2003. They have played SXSW, NXMW, San Francisco Noise PoP, More than Music Festivals and Gathering of Goodness. Since their beginning in late 2000, Xiu Xiu have made music that people have lovedmadly (a month of daily mail deliveries of knitted pink heart underpants covered in blood) or hated feverishly (getting punched in the chest after a show in Houston).

Portland-based Minmae got started when Sean Brooks of TheePsychicHearts found himself stuck with some studio time his band couldn't use. So he went in alone, recorded a few tracks, and found himself with a bona fide side project. He chose the name Minmae in honor of the singing space celebrity beauty queen of the popular Japanimation sci-fi epic Robotech. Minmae wanders all over the musical map, even in the course of a single song, and the adventures are numerous -- both sleepy and noisy, offbeat and emotional.

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