Tame Impala announces Aug. 7 show at the Gorge

Tame Impala, the wildly popular Australian psychedelic-rock band led by Kevin Parker, has announced its North American tour schedule for next year, including an Aug. 7 show at the Gorge in George.

The band’s late-summer show at the amphitheater overlooking the Columbia River is the last stop of the tour.

The band’s upcoming U.S. tour, which opens in Chicago in May, comes in conjunction with the official release date of its highly anticipated fourth album “The Slow Rush,” dropping on Valentine’s Day.

The band will have a few select dates in California and Mexico in March, as well as a show in London before beginning its stateside stint.

Perfume Genius, the project of Everett, Washington-raised singer/songwriter Mike Hadreas, is slated to open for the band at the Gorge, as well as for most of the other U.S. dates for Tame Impala.

Other openers for the tour include lo-fi singer/songwriter Clairo for dates in San Diego, San Francisco and two nights at the Forum in Los Angeles, while MGMT will open in Mexico City.

Additional Pacific Northwest dates include shows in Portland (Aug. 3) and Vancouver, B.C. (Aug. 5).

Tame Impala’s upcoming album marks the group’s latest studio effort since 2015’s “Currents,” which spent 20 weeks at No. 4 on the Billboard album charts.

Parker returned with the band’s first new music in four years with an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in March, playing singles “Patience” and “Borderline” before its attention-grabbing headlining shows at Coachella in April.

Both singles shot into Billboard’s Top 10 Hot Rock Songs chart, with the band’s October single “It Might Be Time” charting at No. 8 and garnering 4.8 million views on YouTube.

Since then, Parker released “Posthumous Forgiveness” this month, which has netted 1.3 million views on YouTube.

Tickets are available now through Live Nation ($49-$156) and StubHub (starting at $93).