Los Lobos line up dates ahead of new album

by Tjames Madison
liveDaily Contributor

Los Lobos have added several new dates to their perpetual touring calendar, which will find the band supporting its as-yet-untitled new album later this year.

New dates added by the East Los Angeles roots-rockers include several new shows in California and two new dates in the Colorado Rockies, to go along with a previously announced July 28 show in Snowbird, UT, and a pair of overseas festival billings, Aug. 15 at the Marktrock Festival in Leuven, Belgium, and Aug. 19 at the Drammen Festival in Drammen, Norway.

The band’s new album–which doesn’t have a name yet–is set for a Sept. 12 release, according to the band’s record label. Saxophonist/keyboardist Steve Berlin recently told the Yes! Weekly of Greensboro, NC, that the album was nearing completion.

“As we speak we’re at the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute of a new record,” Berlin said in the interview. “It’s just a question of, is everything we want to say in there?”

“With the last record and ‘Good Morning Aztlan’ we wanted to get back to more songwriting with the traditional verse-chorus thing,” he added. “This record’s much more impressionistic. I think we’re back to the ‘Kiko’ era. It’s kind of like picking up mercury. We’ve spread pieces all over the floor and we’re trying to pick it up.”