Caribou
06/23 Zagreb, Croatia – T-Mobile INmusic Festival
06/24 Belgrade, Serbia – Rafract Festival
06/25 Cologne, Germany – c/o Pop Festival
06/26 Evreux, France – Le Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats
07/01 Hong Kong, China – Grappas Cellar
07/02 Shanghai, China – Dream Factory
07/03 Beijing, China – Yugong Yishan
07/06 Tokyo, Japan – Unit
07/09 Seoul, South Korea – V-Hall
07/12 Chicago, IL – Millennium Park
07/14 Quebec City, Quebec – Quebec City Summer Festival
07/15 Mariaville, KY – Camp Bisco 9
07/16 New York, NY – The Beach at Governor’s Island
07/31 London, England – Field Day
08/05 Salzburg, Austria – Stuck! Festival
08/07 Herefordshire, England – Eastnor Castle Deer Park
08/08 Palermo, Italy – Ypsid Rock Festival
08/11 Oslo, Norway – Oya Festival
08/12 Gothenberg, Sweden – Way Out West Festival
08/13 St. Malo, France – La Route Du Rock
08/14 Leicester, England – Summer Sundae Weekender
08/15 Helsinki, Finland – Flow Festival
08/19 Lausanne, Switzerland – For Noise Festival
08/21 Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpp Festival
08/22 Groningen, Netherlands – Noordenzon Festival
08/28 Leeds, England – Leeds Festival
08/29 Reading, England – Reading Festival
09/03 Vlieland, Netherlands – Into The Great Wide Open
09/04 Stradbally, Ireland – Electric Picnic
09/09 Lille, France – Radar Festival
09/10 Berlin, Germany – Berlin Festival
09/11 North Dorset, England – End of the Road Festival
09/12 Isle of Wight, England – Bestival
09/24 Cincinnati, OH – Midpoint Music Festival
09/25 Urbana, IL – Pygmalion Music Festival

Image by Matea Jocic

Cut Copy
07/10 Jakarta, Indonesia – Bengkel Club
07/16 Lisbon, Portugal – Super Bock Super Rock
07/17 Valencia, Spain – Benicassium Festival
07/18 London, UK – Lovebox Festival
07/20 Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory
07/22 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso w/ French Horn Rebellion
07/24 Mamaia, Romania – Orange PrePay Party@ H20 Beach*
07/25 Warsaw, Poland – Palladium^
07/27 Helsinki, Finlad – Tavastia^
07/29 Emmaboda, Sweden – Emmabodafestivalen
07/30 Arrhus, Denmark – Train
07/31 Oslo, Norway – Rockafeller
08/06 Chicago, IL – Official Lollapalooza Aftershow$
08/07 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
09/25 Gold Gost, Australia – Parklife at Gold Coast Parklands
09/26 Perth, Australia – Parklife at Wellington Square
10/02 Melbourne, Australia – Parklife at The Sidney Myer Music Bowl and Surrounds
10/03 Sydney, Australia – Parklife at Kippax Lake/Moore Park
10/04 Adelaide, Australia – Parklife at Botanic Park

* With Mika
^ With French Horn Rebellion
$ With Dragonette

Deerhoof
06/25 Omaha, NE – Waiting Room %#
06/26 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue ~%
06/27 Fargo, ND – The Aquarium $@
06/28 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Jazzfest at Pyramid Cabaret +
06/30 Calgary, Alberta – Central United Church =
07/01 Calgary, Alberta – Republik <
07/03 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom &
07/04 Olympia, WA - The Capitol Theatre &
07/05 Seattle, WA - The Vera Project $%
07/06 Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan $%
07/08 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill $%
09/30 Ottawa, Ontario  - Capital Music Hall *
10/03 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
10/05 Bloomington, IN - Rhino's *
10/06 Cincinnati, OH - The Northside Tavern *
10/07 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop *
10/08 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place *
10/09 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street *
10/10 Boston, MA - Paramount *
10/11 Portland, ME - Space Gallery *
10/12 Milford, CT - Daniel Street *

* With Xiu Xiu, Father Murphy
% With Southeast Engine
~ With WHY?
@ With Sleepy Sun
+ With Mahogany Frog
& With Lorrie Matheson, Wild Choir
< With Mini Mansions, Women, the Posies
= With Fond of Tigers
> With Au, Parenthetical Girls
$ With the Donkeys
& With Danielson
# With Broken Spindles

Jenny and Johnny
09/01 Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theater
09/02 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
09/03 Oakland, CA – The New Parish
09/05 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
09/06 Seattle, WA – Bumbershoot Festival
09/08 Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
09/11 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
09/12 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
09/13 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
09/14 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
09/16 Washington, DC – Black Cat
09/18 Boston, MA – Agganis Arena *
09/19 Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Waterfront *
09/21 Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s
09/22 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Center ^
09/23 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
09/24 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
09/25 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge

!* With Pavement
^ With Superchunk

MGMT
07/15 San Diego, CA – SDSU Open Air Theatre
07/16 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
07/18 Pomona, CA – Fox Theater
07/21 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
07/24 Vancouver, Canada – Commodore Ballroom
08/04 Montreal, Canada – Metropolis
08/05 Toronto, Canada – Kool Haus
08/08 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
08/10 Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion
08/11 Holyoke, MA – Mountain Park
08/12 Burlington, VT – Lake Champlain Maritime Festival
08/14 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post PAvilion
08/15 Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center
08/17 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
08/18 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
08/21 Atlantic City, NJ – Borgota Events Center
09/16 Dublin, Ireland- Olympia
09/20 Glasgow, Scotland – Barrowland Ballroom
09/21 Glasgow, Scotland – Barrowland Ballroom
09/23 Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy
09/24 Bournemouth, UK – O2 Academy
09/26 Manchester, UK – Manchester Apollo
09/27 Leeds, UK – O2 Academy
09/29 London, UK – Brixton Academy
09/30 London, UK – Brixton Academy

The Foals
06/24 Cariff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
06/26 Pilton, UK – Glastonbury Festival
07/02 Belfort, France – Les Erockeenes
07/04 London, UK – iTunes Festival at The Roundhouse
07/15 Tonsberg, Norway – Slottsfjell Festival
07/16 Near Dessau, Germany – Melt Festival
07/18 Valencia, Spain – Benicassim Festival
07/21 Nyon, Switzerland – Paleo Festival
07/24 Adelaide, Australia – The Gov
07/26 Melbourne, Australia – Hi-Fi
07/27 Melbourne, Austalia – Hi-Fi
07/28 Sydney, Australia – Manning Bar
07/30 Woodford, Australia – Splendour in the Grass
08/01 Naeba Ski Resort, Japan – Fuji Festival
08/13 Cannes, France – Pantiero, Festival
08/14 St. Malo, France – La Route du Rock
08/20 Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpop Festival
08/21 Holland, Netherlands – Lowlands Festival
08/27 Paris, France – Rock en Seine
08/28 Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival
08/29 Reading, UK – Reading Festival
09/03 Ireland – Electric Picnic

The Roots
06/24-07/04 Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest 2010
06/27 Cleveland, OH – Arts Collinwood Cafe*
06/28 Winnipeg, Canada – TD Winnipeg Jazz Festival
06/29 Toronto, Canada – Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival
06/30 Montreal, Canada – Roots Festival 2010 (Metropolis)
07/01 Milwaukee, WI – Roots Festival 2010 (Briggs and Stratton Big Backyard)
07/17 Hameenlinna, Finland – Ms-silvermoon^
07/23-31 Luzern, Switzerland – Blue Balls Festival 2010
08/07 Columbia, MD – Summer Spirit Festival 2010 (Merriweather Post Pavilion)
09/03 Denver, CO – Zephyr Lounge$!

* With The Champagnes
^ With Risteily
$ With Rhythm
! With Roots and Rhythm

The Walkmen
07/02 St. Paul, MN – Taste of Minnesota 2010 (Harriet Island)
07/16-18 Camden, NJ – Xponential Music Festival 2010 (Wiggin’s Park)
08/06-08 Chicago, IL – Lollapaloooza 2010
08/12 New York, NY – The Beach at Governor’s Island*
08/25 London, UK – O2 Academy Islington
08/27-29 Reading, UK – Reading Festival 2010
09/08 Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market^
09/09-12 Portland, OR – Musicfest NW 2010
09/09 Vancouver, Canada – Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park$
09/10 Vancouver, Canada- Malkin Bowl$
09/11 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall^
09/15 Hollywood, CA – The Music Box at the Fonda%

* With Grizzly Bear
^ With Hello Sequence
$ With The National
% With Japandroids and Dan Mangan

The xx
06/25-26 Glastonbury, England – Glastonbury Festival
07/01 Werchter, Blegium – Rock Werchter
07/02 Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France – Festival Beauregard
07/03 Belfort, France – Eurockeennes
07/05 Milan, Italy – Alcatraz
07/06 Rome, Italy – Cavea Auditorium Parco della Musica
07/08 Oeiras, Portugal – Optimus Alive!
07/09 Vigo, Spain – Vigo Transforma Festival
07/10 Trencin, Slovakia – Pohoda Festival
07/13 London, England – Somerset House
07/16 Ferropolis, Germany – Melt! Festival
07/17 Southwold, England – Latitude Festival
07/18 Lyon, France – Les Nuits de Fourviere
08/06-08 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
08/13 Gothenburg, Sweden – Way Out West Festival
08/14 Oslo, Norway – Oya Festival
08/15 Helsinki, Sweden – Flow Festival
08/20 Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpop
08/21 Luxembourg District, Luxembourg – Den Atelier
08/22 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands – Lowlands
08/26 Cologne, Germany – E-Werk
08/27 Munich, Germany – Tonhalle
09/10 Isle of Wight, England – Bestival
09/22 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium *^
09/23 Oakland, CA – Fox Theatre *^
09/25 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre *^
09/29 Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall *

* With Warpaint
^ With Zola Jesus

Image by Terryfy

Ty Segall
06/24 San Diego, CA – Bar Pink Elephant
06/25 Los Angeles, CA – Spaceland
06/26 Visalia, CA – Howie and Sons
06/27 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
06/28 Seattle, WA – Comet Tavern
06/30 Calgary, Canada – Sied Island Festival
07/01 Calgary, Canada – Sied Island
07/02 Vancouver, Canada – Media Club
07/03 Portland, OR – East End

Remember marveling at the kids in school who could pat their heads and rub their stomachs at the same time? Ty Segall possess a similar, if slightly more advanced, set of enviable skills. In live shows, he can simultaneously play the drums, strum the guitar and sing, for instance. This ability (among others) is testament to his creativity as a musician, and something that sets him apart from most neo-this, post-that, garage rockers who attempt a similar sound with a band of three or more.

Melted is Segall’s third full-length, and it captures the essence of what it is to improve as a singer-songwriter. Earlier work, like his self-titled debut and last year’s Lemons, established Segall as a loud, energetic musician to watch in the Bay Area. On those records he unleashed a sound that seemed to come from a single amp cranked to its peak in a small closed concrete room; it’s an intimate sort of loudness, and Melted further builds on that particular foundation. It blends Segall’s noisy demeanor with broader variations in songwriting, and the album underwent a more complementary mix in the studio to create his most balanced recording to date.

He’s also singing a lot more these days. Songs like “Caesar” and “Imaginary Person” prove there’s more to the reverb-laden yelling Ty we’ve become accustomed to with previous work. Less than a third into “Caesar” begins what is perhaps the most melodic moment on the record, where Segall sings “why must the people cry?,” a line that gets repeated through the rest of the song, which also includes an intervening piano solo and ends lightly with a flute. Granted, the reverb is still there, and the yelling is a mainstay, because both are fruitful contributions to Segall’s aesthetic. But there’s a sense about Melted that the elements just mentioned are balanced to a near perfection.

As a whole, Melted is best suited for close spaces and parks with friends. The opener, “Finger,” is the kind of song you want to stumble upon at the bar after a couple pitchers, and when it ends, you realize how badly you want the rest of the album to play. The title track takes fuzz to a new level just before sputtering into the trippy “Mike D’s Coke,” which is essentially an interlude track at the halfway mark. Another standout, “Sad Fuzz,” answers the question of what the Beatles might sound like if they were from San Francisco in the post-grunge era.

Segall doesn’t generate a single dull moment here, but rather, creates a solid album that avoids the one big pitfall many garage-rock records face—becoming a blur of reverb and distortion rather than a collection of distinct tracks. You won’t be asking, “wait, didn’t we just listen to this song?” Melted elicits urges to ride a wave, take psychedelics, dance at a show, lay in the sun, chug a beer and ultimately be as cool as it sounds.