Legendary New York Hardcore outfit Madball will be releasing their next album this Fall. The album will be their first for (relatively) newly launched hardcore label Good Fight Music. The record is tentatively titled Empire and will be the first for the band since Infiltrate the System in 2007. The band explained:

MADBALL has come a long way from being street kids to becoming very established in our genre, and even beyond the music. We’re finally at a point in our life where we’re taking control of our things, where as before we didn’t have control of some things or didn’t choose to have control. We have the feeling that we’ve built a little empire for ourselves with our band, brand, and different endeavors. We get this reference that we’re kings of New York… There are plenty of awesome bands that have come out of the city. Agnostic Front are the godfathers of New York hardcore, Sick Of it All are one of the undisputed champs of the scene… we were always known as more of the bad guys, but now people are calling us the kings. It’s not a title we gave ourselves and it’s not that we call ourselves that, but it’s just a term of endearment and respect that people use and it plays into the name Empire.

The band will enter Mana Recording Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida to record in July.
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Josh Grabelle, founder of Trustkill Records, has launched a new label called Bullet Tooth. The label will kick off with a number of signings including The Great American Beast, Kid Liberty, Deception Of A Ghost, Victory In Numbers, First Blood, Soldiers, The Great American Beast, Most Precious Blood, Memphis May Fire and Awaken Demons.

A first track from The Great American Beast can be found on their official MySpace page.
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Streetlight Manifesto have posted the second leg of their “Ship of Fools” tour. The band heads to Europe for this leg, including stops at the Reading and Leeds festivals. This follows leg one of the tour with The Wonder Years and Dan Potthast.

The band last released their 99 Songs of Revolution in 2010.
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Our stream today comes from Sacramento, CA-based Bastards Of Young. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new EP, California Redemption. The album will be available through Swagger City Records on June 29, 2010 and the band will have a limited cassette version of the EP on hand for their upcoming west coast tour with The Secretions.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Prior to their upcoming shows with Alice in Chains and Mastodon, Deftones will have a run of dates in August and September. The band will support their new album, Diamond Eyes, on the tour which will feature support from Baroness on most dates and Circa Survive on a handful.

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Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Glory Bound have posted two new tracks from their upcoming debut LP This Too Will Fade. The band has posted the title track and “Life Is So Much Better With a .50 Cal.” You can check them out at their MySpace page.

The band released Glory Bound in 2010 which you can stream at their band profile.
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Toronto’s Billy Talent have posted the video for “Diamond on a Landmine.” The track comes from their 2009 album, III. In the spring, the band toured with Alexisonfire and Against Me! and in April, they won a Juno Award for best rock album for III.

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Riverdales have posted another two songs from their new album, Tarantula. The record was issued by Recess Records after all, and is available digitally via iTunes here

The new album is the follow up to 2009’s Invasion, USA which was itself the first record after a six year gap.

Check out the new songs – “12 to the Moon” and “Crash of the Moons” – in addition to the previously posted “Bad Seed Baby” and “Diabolik” on their Mypace page.
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Paint it Black have booked a short tour of the UK around appearances at the Reading and Leeds festivals.

The band, who last released Surrender in 2009, recently played a trio of shows in California.
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While in Hatfield, UK, Tom Gabel and Franz Nicolay of Against Me! performed a unique version of the title track from their 2010 album, White Crosses. The decidedly different take on the song features Tom on an acoustic guitar and Franz rocking an accordion.

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As some people expected a Blink 182 announcement when bassist Mark Hoppus called a press conference, Hoppus has posted an update on his blog with regards to the pop-punk trio:

In June and July we will be at the rehearsal spot, getting ready for the European tour this summer, and writing new songs. When the European tour is finished, we head back and play ONE SHOW in Southern California. Then that is IT for live shows for the rest of 2010. Why? Because we’ll be in the studio recording the new blink-182 album. Until it is finished. I cannot be more clear on this: new blink-182 music is on the way.

Believe me, when we have new blink-182 music for you all, we will make it LOUD AND CLEAR. We’ll be screaming about it. You won’t be able to get away from us talking about it. And that moment is on the way. All of us have ideas from before and after the tour last summer, and are excited to get into the studio and see those ideas come to light. Simple as that.

The band released their last studio album, Blink 182, in 2003.
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