Indie-rockers The Republic Tigers [ tickets ] are set to continue their current US headlining tour behind the band's debut album from May, "Keep Color."

The Kansas City-based five-piece--which launched the outing over the weekend in Oklahoma City, OK--will continue the run tonight (7/21) in Austin, TX, the first of nine remaining dates on the tour. Details are below.

The band signed with start-up imprint Chop Shop Records to release "Keep Color," which follows the group's self-titled EP, which was released last December.

"It's a sound that's half organic and half synthetic, kind of like how all our lives are now," said frontman Kenn Jankowski in the band's online bio. "It's the common theme throughout all of the songs and we tried to approach it audibly as well."

Jankowski and fellow Kansas City musician Adam McGill formed the band in 2006 after the dissolution of Jankowski's previous outfit, The Golden Republic, soon adding guitarist/pianist Ryan Pinkston, bassist Marc Pepperman and drummer Justin Tricomi to the lineup.

"'The Republic Tiger' was my high school mascot and the name always rang to me in a nice way," Jankowski added, explaining the band's unusual moniker. "I don't like band names very much and I don't like thinking about them either, so I just took something that I knew was timeless to me, and big enough that we could color it with our music and create its meaning with our songs."

Several of the band's songs are streaming on the Tigers' MySpace page.

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