The Low Anthem is joined by Timber Timbre and The Barr Brothers (of The Slip) for one more night of touring the West Coast, at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe tonight, before The Low Anthem heads inland for the next leg of its headlining North American tour. Nathaniel Rateliff opens for the next week, as the tour swings through Salt Lake City, Boulder, Omaha, Chicago, and Ann Arbor, with Jason Collett of Broken Social Scene supporting as well at a Daytrotter-presented set in Rock Island, Illinois. The Barr Brothers and Timber Timbre return as the tour heads back East in the coming weeks. For complete tour information, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

As Paste magazine reported, The Low Anthem gave the crowd at last Friday's Great American Music Hall show in San Francisco some insight into the forthcoming follow-up to the band's Nonesuch debut album, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. The band had played a number of tunes from both albums for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic earlier in the week. Before the tour began, The Low Anthem had walked Paste writer Jay Sweet through the abandoned pasta sauce factory where they recorded the new album. He calls it "a fitting backdrop for a band steeped in Kerouac-fueled romps and hardscrabble ballads." Read Sweet's report at pastemagazine.com.

In a recent San Francisco Chronicle interview, band member Jeff Prystowsky explained that the factory once manufactured sauce made by infamous Providence mayor Buddy Cianci, known, incidentally, "for beating some guy into tomato pulp." Prystowsky and his band mates believe the place to be haunted.

No word yet on when the new album will be released. In the mean time, the band has released a limited-edition vinyl 7-inch of its single "Charlie Darwin," featuring the Oh My God, Charlie Darwin album track plus two staples from the band's live show, the previously unreleased "Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From" and "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around." Pick up a copy now in the Nonesuch Store.