Indie-rock experimentalists The Apples in Stereo [ tickets ] will play a mix of headlining and festival dates beginning next month as the group supports its latest compilation CD.

The Denver-based band will kick off the run July 18 in Louisville, KY, and has 13 appearances lined up over the summer months, including a July 20 slot at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival. Details are below.

Early last year, the group released "New Magnetic Wonder," its first new studio album in five years. The video for the song "Energy," which marks actor Elijah Wood's directorial debut, is streaming at The Apples' MySpace page alongside the video for the band's latest single, "Can You Feel It?"

The album was produced by the band's frontman, Robert Schneider, with additional production and mixing by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Evan Dando). The set is the group's first for Simian Records--formed by Wood, reportedly a huge fan of the group--and also the band's first album not to be released on the now-defunct spinART label.

The band recently released its third compilation album, "Electronic Projects For Musicians," which collects all of the group's non-album cuts from the last 12 years, according to Schneider. The set includes the cut "Dreams," which was originally intended for inclusion on 1997's "Tone Soul Evolution," but was unfinished in the studio sessions for that album. The band re-recorded instrumental parts for the song's release on "Electronic Projects."