Alt-rock trio Guster [ tickets ] teams with singer/pianists Ben Folds [ tickets ] and Rufus Wainwright [ tickets ] for a month-long, summer road trip.

The co-headlining run kicks off in Dayton, OH, on June 19, and wrap up in Pittsburgh on July 15. The itinerary includes a two-night stand in New York City's Central Park, as well as two shows in Guster's hometown of Boston.

Each act will play a one-hour set, and the performance order will change each night.

As noted in a message to fans posted on Guster's website, the relatively short outing focuses primarily on the Northeast.

"Many of you will notice that we're ignoring large chunks of the country," the message reads. "The Guster/Folds/Rufus tour only lasts a month, so we're planning to service the rest of you (Florida, Texas, Colorado, West Coast, etc) on our own before we retire to a rehearsal space to write a new album for the rest of the year. No one will go unserviced!"

That new album will be the follow-up to Guster's latest set, last June's "Keep It Together." In the interim, the group next month will release a new collection titled "Guster on Ice: Live from Portland Maine." The set features a 19-song DVD and 13-song CD packaged together.

Folds--who hasn't released a full-length studio set since 2001's "Rockin' the Suburbs"--issued two new EPs last year: "Speed Graphic" and "Sunny 16." He also turns up on "The Bens"--a self-titled EP featuring Folds, Ben Lee and Ben Kweller--which surfaced in January.

Wainwright continues to back last year's "Want One," which is the follow-up to 2001's "Poses." The new album was originally planned as a two-disc release, but was split in half; "Want Two" is expected to surface sometime this year.