Shout! Factory
The Wolves are at the door, following up on 2006’s “The Town and the City” and 2009’s “Los Lobos Goes Disney” with a fresh set of original material birthed nearly entirely in the studio. For the first time in a long time, the roots rockers were all together in the same room — no demos made by members in their individual home studios as a starting point.
SCI Fidelity
There’s been no shortage of jam bands in the post-Grateful Dead era: Blues Traveler, Phish, moe., String Cheese Incident, Umphrey’s McGee and Widespread Panic, as well as countless “newgrass” groups including Railroad Earth, Yonder Mountain String Band and Blueground Undergrass.
Spark & Shine
The Portland, Ore.-based power pop quintet finally releases its sophomore effort, six years after “Comes Back to You” and four years after the stopgap “Ghost Sessions” EP.
UnrefinedSugarBeats
The Toronto-based and “nearly instrumental” Henrys, founded in 1990 by last original member Don Rooke (reunited here on four tracks with bassist Paul Pasmore of the original duo), previously dabbled in mostly wordless vocals by elusive chanteuse Mary Margaret O’Hara.
429 Records
In 1994 the Subdudes were one of the brightest spots on “adult album alternative” radio. They and the Iguanas, also from New Orleans, were among the cream of that era’s Americana crop. The Subdudes’ “Annunciation” and the Iguanas’ “Nuevo Boogaloo” peaked that year at Nos. 19 and 34, respectively, on Billboard’s Heatseekers album chart.
