Australian alt-rockers Silverchair [ tickets ] have mapped out their first North American tour since 1999 to support their recently released album, "Young Modern."

The trio will kick off the run July 13 in San Diego, the first stop on a 17-city headlining tour outlined below. The band will also hit the stage Aug. 4 at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival.

After the American dates, the group heads to Europe for a brief tour, details for which are posted at the band's website.

"Young Modern" is Silverchair [ tickets ]'s fifth studio album, and follows 2002's "Diorama." The album recently became the band's fifth consecutive No. 1 album in its native Australia, according to the group's publicist, a feat never accomplished by such Aussie icons as Midnight Oil, INXS and AC/DC.

Silverchair co-produced the album with longtime associate Nick Launay, and legendary Beach Boys collaborator Van Dyke Parks was brought in to pen orchestrations for three of the set's songs.

The new album "is all about acceptance," the band's frontman, Daniel Johns, said in a press release. "It's about embracing who we are as band and just really enjoying ourselves because that's all that really matters. Hopefully, listening to this album will make other people feel what we feel when we play these songs together because I've finally figured out that that's a very special feeling."

The video for the album's first single, "Straight Lines," is currently streaming at the band's MySpace page.