This summer’s concert tour featuring Australian rockers Jet brings its summer concert tour to Columbus tomorrow, playing the Newport with Canadian alt-pop group Sloan and fellow Melbourne band The Everyones.

Based on the strength of the Jet’s first international album “Get Born,” its mega-single “Are You Gonna Be My Girl,” and the pervasive radio play it received, Jet has become one of the most popular acts both here and abroad.

Sloan achieved a fair level of success in the early ’90s, emerging as an alternative to the Pacific Northwest’s grunge explosion, and while enjoying excellent reviews throughout its career, Sloan has never reclaimed the popular success of 1996’s “One Chord to Another.”

While some Jet fans may remember Sloan singles, such as “Good in Everyone,” The Everyones will almost assuredly be an unknown entity to concert goers.

Having achieved quite a bit of success in Australia, the band earned its first North American tour. Originally conceived as a solo tour, the opportunity to tour with Jet presented itself.

“This is great timing for us because we just signed (with American label Tee Pee Records),” founder Stephen Pinkerton said. “The Jet thing came up, and it’s a great kickstart, and you get to meet all those people.

We will be touring up right after this solo, coming back across – maybe not as far down as Florida, but definitely the East Coast. It will be something like a ‘Back to Reality’ tour for us, going to small places again.”

Not unlike The Sleepy Jackson, arguably the best Aussie band playing today, The Everyones incorporate pop sensibilities with sonic experimentation to great effect.

The Everyones’ songs demonstrate potential if the band can escape townsmen Jet’s shadow – first single “Pocket” has a Lemonheads-like jangle, incisive lyrics and a chainsaw guitar, and “Rubin” is an eerie, airy country ballad that Pinkerton describes as “a parody – not trying to take a piss, but still a parody.”

One potential pitfall that has caused consternation – and quite a bit of self-effacing humor – has been the band’s name. Earning its initial success in Australia and the United Kingdom, the band was known as The Anyones when it opened for luminaries such as Morrissey,The Music and The Vines.

However, a legal dispute with a Los Angeles-based band culminated in a cease-and-desist order just two weeks before this tour began.

Promotional materials had been printed, and an ugly sticker proclaiming “The Anyones have been forced to change their name to The Everyones” plastered the CD used to write this story.

Through it all the band has kept a sense of humor, even when desperately deciding its new name in a matter of minutes before the tour began.

“There are so many obstacles behind doing all this, the record labels and the albums and everything and then this metal band comes and tells us we can’t use that name … so we figured we’ll just be the Everyones, which we are after a few beers anyway.

It’s been all kinds of problems, the T-shirts misprinted and everything, but we think it’s funny,” Pinkerton said.

“It’s strange for us because we started out in a country of 20 million and thought we could take over the world, then we get here and there is band for every person and someone has our name.

“We are quite pleased with the bill, we are fans of Sloan and Jet and they are genuinely lovely guys that are great to hang out with – (with Jet) we are just a couple of geeks in a bar,” Pinkerton said.