Pitchfork

Pop quiz, hotshots: what kind of mid-level indie band are you? Do you:

a.) Play a whole heaping bunch of instruments and make sensitive, sprawling, mellow tunes, such as those found on last year's Sub Pop release Into the Blue Again?

b.) Hail from Denmark, kick it with David Fricke, and have this nifty new record contract with Paper Bag, plus an album called Samme Stof something-or-other?

c.) Play under assumed names on your debut album, In Camera, coming out June 19 via newly christened Sub Pop offspring Hardly Art? Also, were you totally written up in Forkcast today?

d.) OMG I can't decide!

If you answered...

a.) You're the Album Leaf! Go contemplate the raindrops on your windowsill.

b.) You're Under Byen! Why aren't you the best band in the world yet?

c.) You're Arthur & Yu! You crazy!

d.) You're hopeless! Go see all of these bands as they tour together beginning next month.

The Album Leaf:

06-28 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre *#
06-29 Pomona, CA - Glass House *#
06-30 San Francisco, CA - Slim's *#
07-02 Bellingham, WA - Nightlight Lounge *#
07-03 Seattle, WA - Neumos *#
07-04 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Plaza *
07-06 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *#
07-07 Boise, ID - Neurolux *
07-08 Reno, NV - Holland
07-27 Tokyo, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival

* with Under Byen
# with Arthur & Yu

Under Byen:

06-28 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre ^%
06-29 Pomona, CA - Glass House ^%
06-30 San Francisco, CA - Slim's ^%
07-02 Bellingham, WA - Nightlight Lounge ^%
07-03 Seattle, WA - Neumos ^%
07-06 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge ^%
07-07 Boise, ID - The Venue ^
07-09 New York, NY - Knitting Factory

^ with the Album Leaf
% with Arthur & Yu

Arthur & Yu:

06-21 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe ~
06-28 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre +$
06-29 Pomona, CA - Glass House +$
06-30 San Francisco, CA - Slim's +$
07-02 Bellingham, WA - Nightlight Lounge +$
07-03 Seattle, WA - Neumos +$
07-06 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge +$

~ with A Sunny Day in Glasgow, My Teenage Stride
+ with the Album Leaf
$ with Under Byen