Indie-rockers the Heartless Bastards [ tickets ] are heading out on a US fall tour to preview material from their forthcoming album, "The Mountain."

The power-trio will start this Saturday (9/13) with a performance at the Southern Comfort Music Experience in Altamont, NY, and visit nearly 35 cities across the country through late November. Dates include a Sept. 28 performance at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

Heartless Bastards will team with Langhorne Slim & Dead Confederate in September/October and with The Broken West in November. The full itinerary is listed below.

"The Mountain," due in January, is the Heartless Bastards' third record on Fat Possum Records and features a new lineup and new instrumentation that weaves in mandolins, banjos and strings. An unmastered version of the title track is streaming at the group's MySpace page.

Last October, Ohio-bred singer/songwriter/guitarist Erika Wennerstrom moved to Austin to write the new album and work with producer Mike McCarthy (Spoon, Trail of Dead). She spent six months holed up in an apartment writing, and then assembled a new group featuring Cincinnati brethren Dave Colvin (drums) and Jesse Ebaugh (bass), who actually played on the Heartless Bastards' original demo.

The lineup on the fall outing will also include Bill Elm on lap steel and occasionally will feature Zy O. Lyn on violin.