Shorts

Gang vocals galore: Shai Hulud’s “A Human Failing”

Dan Friel’s “Thumper,” a bass-backed love letter to chiptune melody

Psych-rock allegory: The Black Angels’ “Don’t Play with Guns”

Mobile metal: Earache offers Metalizer app

Fred Armisen on Portlandia, Trenchmouth, and his “love letter to punk”

Odd couples: Buke & Gase and Ahleuchatistas to tour US

Reigned-in freak-outs: Math-rock group Tera Melos keeps it “simplified” on “Tropic Lame”

The superlative singer-songwriter: Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky announces new solo EP

Re-enter the Coliseum: Southern punk stalwarts announce Sister Faith

Poland’s Antigama grinds its way back to studio

Less psychedelia, more intimacy: Kinski to share Cosy Moments this April

Earth Crisis by Candlelight