NYHC act Madball released a video for the song “All or Nothing,” off their newest album Empire.

The video was directed by Michael Distelkamp and Freddy Cricien. Check it out here.

Empire, the group’s 8th full-length album, was released October 12th through Good Fight Music.

Cleveland, Ohio-based melodic hardcore act Heads Held High have called it a day.  The band had this to say regarding the decision:

“After six years, four vans, four releases, hundreds of shows and almost a dozen members or so – it’s time to say goodbye.  Losing a founding member and two long-time members within the past year has taken a great toll on both the morale and momentum of the band. This band has been our everything for the past six years and to continue on in a diminished capacity is not an option, so to call it quits now seems like the right thing to do.

We accomplished a number of things that we had been dreaming of since we first started playing music, including touring with some of our favorite bands, playing festivals, writing a ton of tunes and meeting some remarkable people along the way. We’re walking away from this with an ample amount of great memories and very few regrets.

For those of you who have supported Heads Held High by helping us fill tour dates, letting us sleep on your floor, feeding us, buying merch or just coming to shows and singing along; we can’t thank you enough. It’s an incredibly humbling thing to be so dependent on the kindness and compassion of strangers – so, please know that it has meant the world to us. It’s been a pleasure.”

The Ohio outfit released their latest album, Dogs And Cats, Living Together, last year on Fail Safe Records.

Vocalist Elliott Frank is now fronting the band Storms and drummer David Breda is currently playing in TV Crimes.

A farewell show has been announced for Saturday, April 2nd in Cleveland. The current line-up of the band will perform a short set before the aforementioned ex-members take the stage for a lengthy set covering material from the band’s entire run.

Florida’s Go Radio have debuted two new tracks, “Any Other Heart” and “Lucky Street,” on YouTube (no videos, just the music playing over the album cover art). Click here to check them both out!  Both tracks are set to appear on their forthcoming album, also entitled “Lucky Street.”

The new album is due March 1st on Fearless Records.

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A Skylit Drive‘s media blitz continues.  ShockHound is streaming a new track, “Ex Marks The Spot” here.  They also caught up with frontman “Jag” Jagmin and guitarist Nick Miller to discuss the story behind the song.

“Ex Marks The Spot” will appear on the band’s forthcoming album, “Identity On Fire,” due February 15th on Fearless Records.

A little breaking news for the old school punkers! NYC hardcore legends Agnostic Front announced today that two brand-spankin’ new songs, “That’s Life” and “Us Against The World,” will be debuted on a new 7-inch due out on March 8th on Bridge Nine Records.

The tracks will appear on the band’s upcoming full-length, entitled “My Life My Way,” which is due out on March 22nd (it was previously reported that the new album would drop on March 4th), on Nuclear Blast.

Fans of fast, melodic, Fat Weck in the 90’s, punk rock should check out this band.  Boldtype hale from Denver, Colorado and next month they’ll be releasing a new EP titled “Uneasy Days.”  You can give the new song, “Make Our Graves” a listen, along with tracks from former releases, on their official website.  Recommended.

Boldtype is set to hit the road next week as full support for Guttermouth’s 2011 Winter Tour on an 18 date road trip throughout the U.S. Mountain/NW region.  Check out the dates and locations here.

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New Jersey’s Aspiga technically released “Tense” last year on Solidarity Recordings via the digital and CD outlets, but as 2011 may bring the long-awaited release on vinyl (Solidarity’s proverbial bread-and-butter), the delay affords us the opportunity to take a closer look at the band’s latest album.

Aspiga has been branded as “folk-punk,” but neither of those is really a perfect fit. “Tense” falls into the category of “not-your-average-punk-album.” Acoustic rhythm guitar serves as the backbone to most of the album and allows for some rather ambitious guitar leads. Couple that with the doubled, call-and-response vocals and you get and a sound that owes more to early Modest Mouse or Built To Spill than to anything else.  Knowing little about the band’s back story, “Tense” sounds like the first release from a band formed in a college dorm basement, trying to find their way by melding everyone’s individual styles.  At times, this works extremely well.  “Oh Philadelphia,” in all its melancholy folk-punk goodness, could have been a full-band workup of a b-side from Tony Sly’s “12 Song Program.”  Lyrically, “Tense” is first-rate.  “Goodnight Virginia” is a wonderfully crafted pop song about hitting the road and “singing songs of politics and heartache “ without “looking for a minute of sleep” and “doing it all again the next night.”  The understated vocals on “Dear Self” would not sound out of place on Hum’s seminal “You’d Prefer An Astronaut.”

That being said, at times it seems like the band were trying to take on a little too much.  The vocals in “Adjust and then Adjust” are a little melodramatic for my liking, and the track would have been better served had they dialed down the electric guitar lead that swirls through the song.  “It Was Windy” suffers from the same problem and would be a stand-out song if it were stripped down and reworked.

Aspiga are clearly very talented in their individual areas, and the solid lyrics point to a band that should stick around for a while if they can flesh out a more precise direction: a common issue for many younger bands.   Were we not working on the Whole Number System here at Dying Scene, I’d probably rate this 2.5 out of 5, but I’ll round it up to 3 because it shows a band with a lot of potential.

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Southern California melodic punk act, Sic Waiting have announced that they will be recording a new EP this Spring. Their singer Jared Stinson is also working on a solo album.

Sic Waiting released their latest album Anchors Astray and you can stream it in its entirety here.

The band will be playing their next show with Te Bastard Suns, Eken is Dead and Break the Cycle on February 10th in Carlsbad at Boar Cross’n.

When last we heard from Leftover Crack, they were battling a blizzard (and before that it was an announcement that they were eventually going to record another album). Now they’ve announced a handful of spring shows.

Check out the dates here.

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Superchunk and Coliseum are joining forces to release a split EP of Misfits covers. The album is a special edition just for Record Store Day, and is limited to 1500 copies on colored vinyl. The 7-inch will be available in yellow with black splatter; magenta with black splatter; and standard black — 500 copies of each. Superchunk will be contributing the song “Horror Business” and Coliseum recorded “Bullet,” which is available for streaming here.

Record Store Day is April 16, 2011.