Built To Spill, Jets To Brazil, and Rainer Maria have growing and devoted followings, despite playing thinking persons’ rock – the kind of music that tends to get ignored by the mainstream media. No matter. They’re making up for that oversight by bringing their multilayered live sounds straight to the fans.

Hailing from the rock hinterlands of Boise, Idaho, Built to Spill has been steadily cultivating their audience since 1993. They capped a string of highly-regarded studio albums with a concert record, Live, in 2000.

They’ll perform mainly in the western U.S. starting June 7 in Salt Lake City and continuing on to at least 12 more cities.

The trio will make its way along the West Coast, playing a number of large clubs with multiple dates in some markets, including a four-night stand at Slim’s in San Francisco.

The outing so far runs through June 30, where Built To Spill closes a three-night stand at the Showbox in Seattle.

Jets To Brazil has an even more ambitious schedule, taking their powerful sound across North America including several Canadian gigs. Their tour launches April 12 in Washington, and stretches through at least May 26 in New York City – and more shows may yet be added.

Some of the stops in support of their latest, Four Cornered Night, include Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, St. Louis and Toronto.

Rainer Maria is a Madison, Wisconsin-based emo trio which rose in 1995 from the demise of another poetically-inspired band called Ezra Pound.

The band is currently supporting their third full-length album, A Better Version of Me, released in January. They’ll spend most of early May in the Northeast and in Canada, with stops in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toronto and Montreal.