The first eight cities--mostly on the West Coast--have surfaced for what is expected to be a lengthy tour for Sacramento alt-rock band Cake [ tickets ].

The band is backing its fourth album, "Comfort Eagle" (Columbia), which hit stores last month. More than 100,000 copies of the album have sold to date, according to industry sources. The band's two previous releases have surpassed the 1 million sales mark.

The video for the album's first single, "Short Skirt/Long Jacket," is currently in rotation on MTV, and is at No. 9 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Cake [ tickets ]'s lineup for "Comfort Eagle" included original members John McCrea (vocals, acoustic guitar), Vince DiFiore (trumpet, keyboards) and Todd Roper (percussion), as well as Xan McCurdy (guitar) and Gabriel Nelson (bass), both of whom played on Cake's previous release, 1998's "Prolonging the Magic" (Capricorn).

Roper left the group after it recorded "Comfort Eagle," and has been replaced by Pete McNeal. "Todd now has two children," McCrea said in a press release. "The last thing he wants to do is be on the road for the next two years. Would you?"