Shorts

Back to Blackjazz: Norway’s Shining presents “The One Inside”

Battered but not beaten, Baroness gets back on the road

Four days in Philly: This Is Hardcore Fest announces 2013 initial lineup, selling multi-day passes

Battlefield Life: Modern Life Is War to record first album in six years

Head East to go West: Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s Monkey hits NYC

Mike Patton and Ryan Gosling, together at last

Which way to Western Ave.? Get “Directions” from Serengeti’s Chi-town super-fan, Kenny Dennis

Southwestern symphony: Calexico offers orchestral Record Store Day release

Sludge stream: Hear all of Zozobra’s Savage Masters

Back to the ’60s: Indie-folk outfit Dark Dark Dark details “What I Needed”

The World’s Shortest Album: Earache issues 83 seconds of brutality for Record Store Day

Inspector Gadget gone crunchy: Hear Finntroll’s “Mordminnen”