Unified Theory [ tickets ]--featuring former members of Blind Melon [ tickets ] and Pearl Jam [ tickets ]--will follow its current opening slot on the Counting Crows-Live tour with additional dates opening for Vast, according to the band’s management.

The group’s stint with Counting Crows and Live began on Tuesday (9/12) in Milwaukee, and is scheduled to run until that tour’s Sept. 20 show in Sacramento. The band also has an in-store acoustic performance scheduled at Tower Records in Seattle on Friday night (9/15), according to its official website.

After finishing its run with Counting Crows and Live, Unified Theory [ tickets ] has a headlining gig scheduled at Los Angeles’ Viper Room on Sept. 21. The event will serve as the group’s official album release party for its self-titled debut disc, which actually hit stores last month. The album features the group’s first single “California.”

The band is then scheduled to hit the road with Vast--touring in support of its latest release “Music for the People”--from Oct. 12 through Oct. 26.

Unified Theory is comprised of lead singer and guitarist Chris Shin, former Blind Melon [ tickets ] guitarist Christopher Thorn and bassist Brad Smith, and former Pearl Jam [ tickets ] drummer Dave Krusen. Blind Melon disbanded in 1995 after lead singer Shannon Hoon died of a drug overdose. Krusen, meanwhile, left Pearl Jam shortly after completing work on that band’s first and most successful album “Ten.”