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When "Grey's Anatomy" used the Fray's "How to Save a Life" in an episode last fall, it allowed millions of ears in on a tidbit indie-music-loving teen girls knew best: The next Coldplay (who, we hear, is the next U2) is a soulful piano-driven rock-pop foursome from Denver.

The Grammy-nominated band is bringing all its catchy melodies and baby-I-love-you lyrics to the Journal Pavilion on July 15 rock/pop bands Gomez and Eisley are supporting, as is Albuquerque group Soular, a late add to the bill.

"We're honored to be part of the show," said Marsh Shamburger, keyboardist and vocalist for Soular. "All three bands are bands we really respect. And they're all good people, too."

Shamburger said Soular opened for the Fray at an acoustic Christmas fund-raiser in December 2005. He said the band members have stayed in touch.

"We've kept a connection," Shamburger said. "And they've been really busy touring, and we've been busy . . . so it's good to be able to catch up."

Soular has been on the road in support of its latest disc "Love Crash Heal." The band heads to the West and Northwest after its Albuquerque gig.

The Fray found rock radio success with all three of its singles ("Over My Head (Cable Car)," "How to Save a Life" and "Look After You"). Each song, which also received play on Christian stations, made its way up the Billboard charts.

The band had already been a sensation in Denver and with indie magazines, but it was use of the band's second single on TV's "Grey's Anatomy" that made certain nobody with even a cursory knowledge of pop culture could go without humming the Fray.

Eisley, a four-sibling-and-one-cousin act, has a large and organic fan base. The Texas group is mostly known for the beautifully melancholy vocals from sisters Sherri and Stacy DuPree. The band toured aggressively with a handful of EPs, which accounts for their bevy of devotees, before releasing its first full-length album.

Eisley's debut, "Room Noises," was released in 2005 and earned them comparisons to early Sixpence None the Richer, another Texas rock-pop group that had recently disbanded. Eisley's new album, "Combinations," will be released Aug. 14.

You might remember when Gomez tasted the big time around the turn of the decade when the band's cover of the Beatles song "Getting Better" was used in an ad campaign for Philips electronics.

The band is a thinking man's jam band, with vocals that might remind you of Pearl Jam and Dave Matthews. The group soared on Virgin Records with the bluesy, shambling "Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline" in 2000 and the tight, poppier "In Our Gun" in 2002.

Freed of major-label expectations, Gomez last year released its most polished disc to date, "How We Operate," with such catchy pop gems as "Girl-Shaped Love Drug," "See the World" and "Hamoa Beach."