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The frontmen of four bands are going it alone, together, for an upcoming acoustic tour.

The Where’s the Band? tour will feature The Get Up Kids’ Matt Pryor, Thrice’s Dustin Kensrue, Saves The Day’s Chris Conley and Bayside’s Anthony Raneri in a 10-date run across the U.S. beginning Jan. 21.

The four will play solo acoustic sets and may even collaborate on stage, according to the official release.

No Canadian dates have been announced.

Pryor has been busy with his band The New Amsterdams following The Get Up Kids’ retirement in 2005. He recently toured in support of his first solo album, “Confidence Man,” and played a reunion show with The Get Up Kids last week in their hometown of Kansas City.

Meanwhile, Kensrue has followed up his debut solo album, 2007’s “Please Come Home,” with the recent release of an online-only Christmas album, “This Good Night Is Still Everywhere.”

Although Conley and Raneri have yet to release their own solo albums, they have played solo shows in the past.

Here are dates for the Where’s The Band?’s tour:

Jan. 21 – Dekalb, IL @ The House Cafe
Jan. 22 – East Lansing, MI @ Union Ballroom
Jan. 23 – Columbus, OH @ The Basement
Jan. 24 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small’s Theatre
Jan. 25 – Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
Jan. 27 – Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Cafe
Jan. 28 – Nashville, TN @ Rocketown
Jan. 29 – Covington, KY @ The Mad Hatter
Jan. 30 – Pontiac, MI @ The Pike Room at The Crofoot
Jan. 31 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean

Thrice singer Dustin Kensrue will embark on a ten-date club tour this summer in support of his first solo acoustic album, reports Billboard.

The tour comes at the end of a two-year recording process for the upcoming album, which was inspired by a brief solo tour Kensrue undertook in 2004, live recordings of which spread quickly through the Internet.

Supporting Kensrue will be Ben Nichols of Lucero on the East Coast portion of the tour and former Hot Water Music member Chuck Ragan and Yellow Red Sparks on the West Coast.

The tour begins July 27th in Philadelphia and wraps August 6th in San Francisco.

Meanwhile, Kensrue is taking a break from writing for Thrice’s next Island studio album. Thrice’s 2005 album “Vheissu” debuted at a career-best No. 15 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 195,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.