Indie rockers TV on the Radio [ tickets ] have added quite a few new dates to their upcoming fall trek, and have also produced an extra bonus or fans: a release date for the band's next studio album.

The New Yorkers kick off the trek Sept. 5 in Portland, OR, with the tour aiming for 26 cities after its West Coast leg, which takes up most of September. In October the band heads East, with highlights including a pair of shows close to home in Brooklyn, NY, (10/14-15) along with another back-to-back set in Minneapolis (10/21-22).

Detroit garage rockers The Dirtbombs will open the October and November dates, while folksinger Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson will provide support for most of the September shows. See the TV on the Radio's website for information on specific dates.

The group has set a Sept. 23 release for "Dear Science," its third studio album and the follow-up to 2006's critically acclaimed "Return to Cookie Mountain."

Earlier this year, the band's vocalist/guitarist Kyp Malone and lead singer Tunde Adebimpe teamed with hip-hop outfit The Roots to record a song for "Soundtrack for a Revolution," a currently-in-production documentary directed by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman (and executive produced by Danny Glover) for Louveture Films that highlights "some of America's top contemporary musicians as they perform new and vibrant renditions of the Civil Rights Movement's freedom songs--songs originally sung by civil rights protesters in mass meetings, on picket lines, in paddy wagons, and in jail cells throughout the American South," according to a press release.

The group released a four-song live EP, "Live at Amoeba Music," in March of last year.