With a new album in the bag and already climbing the charts through Internet pre-sales, Maroon 5 [ tickets ] will launch a short but sweet tour of small clubs and theaters at the end of the month.

The "intimate club tour," as the pop band's publicist terms it, will kick off May 30 in Boston and cover smaller venues in six cities. The complete list is included below. The group intends to launch a much larger tour of mainly arena-sized venues later this year, according to its record label.

"We're getting back to our roots on this tour," frontman Adam Levine said in a press release. "We love the sweaty intimacy of playing in a tightly packed room; you can literally taste the energy.

"Anyone who comes to these shows will see us at our core with no frills. Good times guaranteed for all!"

The group is set to ship "It Won't Be Soon Before Long"--its second studio effort and first since its 2002 debut, "Songs About Jane"--on May 22. Aside from a pair of live albums, the group has been content to issue a handful of singles in the five years between studio works.

Maroon 5 worked on the new album in a Hollywood mansion reputed to have once been owned by legendary magician Harry Houdini, where the group spent several years "recording jams, building songs, and basically releasing the pent-up creativity that had amassed over the years," Levin said in the band's online bio.

Pre-sales of "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" have already climbed to the number one spot on the iTunes album-sales charts, with the first single from the album, "Makes Me Wonder," hitting the top spot on both the singles and video iTunes charts.