The Low Anthem is nearing the end of its month-long tour of the United States with Portland-based band Blind Pilot, closing things out closer to its own home base of Providence, Rhode Island, with stops up the East Coast this week and ending up at the Paradise in Boston on Thursday night. Even so, there are many more live sets in the months ahead, with shows in Europe both next week and in early 2010 on either side of several December dates with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter and a benefit concert for New York City public radio station WFUV with Rosanne Cash and Mike Doughty.

And now, the band has just announced a two-week, ten-city tour with The Avett Brothers, covering much of the American Midwest, in February and March of next year. The tour begins at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, on February 24, and continues through a final stop at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arboro on March 9, with shows in upstate New York, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois in between.

The band spoke with the Washington Post's Express Night Out about the current tour, which takes the group to DC's Black Cat on Wednesday; its Nonesuch debut, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin; and what to expect on the next album. Read the article at expressnightout.com.

For all of The Low Anthem's upcoming dates, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. Below are the newly announced dates with The Avett Brothers:

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 TOUR DATES