NEW RELEASES: THE BUILDERS & THE BUTCHERS

Portland's THE BUILDERS & THE BUTCHERS have dropped their latest full-length, "Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well" (Gigantic) today and it's a disc you need to pick up. It really is a deep dark well, slithering with TRUE BLOOD music about people doing wrong and paying the fiddler for it. "Golden & Green", "Down In This Hole" and "Barcelona" are my early favorites, but this one rattles around like a TOM WAITS record and it's roots wind down into your guts.

Their tour starts on June 18th in Portland at Wonder Ballroom and twists and turns well into August, with a stop at Lollapalooza. July 17th is the LA date at Spaceland.