January 17, 2012 – As we type this, Light Asylum are hard at work on what will be the Brooklyn darkwave duo's first full-length for new label home Mexican Summer. (You may remember their reissue of the self-released In Tension EP in June of last year.) Above, you'll find a shot of Shannon Funchess in the studio, lost in a moment. And below? A stark and spooky, Emilxa Xury?owicz and Cezary Zacharewicz-directed clip for "Skull Fuct," an older song that's lost none of its charge. Heed this official warning: "This film contains flashing lights which may not be suitable for photosensitive epilepsy."

January 13, 2012 – When considering visual complements to "Female Doctor," the synth-lined earworm from Brooklyn indie-pop outfit Miniature Tigers' forthcoming full-length, Mia Pharaoh, the group opted to go literal. Director Max Goldblatt spliced together the following cleavage-heavy clip from Eastern European reality TV footage, homing in on sequences in which female nurses chase unsuspecting patients with gargantuan enema bulbs. Enjoy. Mia Pharoah is due March 6 courtesy of Modern Art.

January 13, 2012 – According to press release legend, "mariachi-inspired" Portland indie folk collective Y La Bamba took their name from Bamba, a six-toed cat lead vocalist Luz Elena Mendoza chilled with while recuperating from an illness that ended a spiritual quest in India. Though Mendoza started out writing and recording alone in her bedroom, her songwriting has since benefitted from a wealth of musicians (including the Decemberists' Chris Funk) and caught the ear of Los Lobos' Steve Berlin, who produced their forthcoming full-length, Court the Storm. Check out the fleet-footed melodies and moves of album cut "Squawk". It's out February 28 via Tender Loving Empire. DOWNLOAD

January 11, 2012 – Sometimes all it takes is the right bass line. Such is the case with "Baby's Got a Blue Flame," the opening brush from Memphis-bred Mad Decent rock outlier Bosco Delrey's debut full-length, Everybody Wah — a track you may or may not remember reading about in this space last May. Below, spend a moment or two with the similarly submerged, psychedelic feel of its new visual accompaniment, a vintage clip that finds Monsier Delrey and his bandmates at work.

January 10, 2012 – Dream-pop journeyman Mauro Remiddi's Porcelain Raft will drop debut full-length Strange Weekend on January 24 via Secretly Canadian. Here's another tune to hold you over until that day arrives: "Unless You Speak From Your Heart," a gorgeous, lightly sweetened album cut.

January 10, 2012 – Last month, we checked in with the Fresh & Onlys as they continued work on their full-length follow-up to 2010's Play It Strange. What we didn't know at the time was that guitarist Wymond Miles had something additional works: a solo EP. Due February 7 on 12" vinyl via Sacred Bones, Earth Has Doors is "thematically based on the concepts of eschatology, anthroposophy, and Gnostic and Hermetic symbolism." Check out the skyscraping psych of "Hidden Things Are Asking You to Find Them.:

January 10, 2012 – Brooklyn noise artisans A Place to Bury Strangers presumably did not record their February 7 EP Onwards to the Wall on their iPhones. They did, however, make a video that way — check out their new clip for "So Far Away," which is comprised of snapshots singer-guitarist Oliver Ackermann took while using the "Ina' 1969 Film" Hipstamatic setting on his phone mashed together like an animated flipbook.

January 9, 2012 – Last year, Wire toured four continents in a run of dates more extensive and ambitious than anything the reunited British punk prophets had previously attempted in their 30-so years as a band. (All in support of their latest, the wondrous, still essential Red Barked Tree.) On February 7, they'll release The Black Session - Paris, 10 May 2011, a former tour-exclusive recording (available during their U.K. dates in the autumn) captured in front of a live audience in Radio France's Paris Studios last year. Below, you can check out its throbbing rendition of "Drill," the closing cut from 1987's A Bell Is a Cup.

January 9, 2012 – On April 10 (the 9th worldwide!), Ribbon Music will unveil Mr Impossible, the latest full-length opus from neuron-melting New York noise vets Black Dice. Above, behold band member Bjorn Copeland's cover art. And below, check out the appropriately damaged, band-made clip for first single "Pigs," which you can also download for free over at their new label home's site, right over here.

January 6, 2012 – On March 6, Matador will release Zoo, the latest full-length from forward-thinking hardcore outfit Ceremony. While it's their first for the New York indie-rock institution, Zoo looks to be a delicious addition to a dazzling, near-perfect run of releases that stretches back to 2005's Ruined 7" and peaked (we thought) with 2010's Rohnert Park, named after the Northern Californian city they call home. Below, check out the white-knuckle moves of "Hysteria," album opener and brutal A-side to a 7" single set to drop on February 7.