Unearth has announced dates in support of their upcoming live DVD ‘Alive from the Apocalypse‘ which due out on March 18th. Tour dates include:

March 27th in Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
March 28th in Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
March 29th in Toledo, OH @ Headliners
March 30th in Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
March 31st [...]

The Foo Fighters have already begun working on new music for their next studio album which will likely hit stores in mid-2009.

Killswitch Engage have announced dates for a tour with Throwdown, Poison the Well and The End, they are:

May 10th in Toronto, ON @ The Sound Academy
May 11th in Kitchener, ON @ Elements Night Club
May 13th in Quebec City, QC @ Capitole du Quebec
May 14th in Montreal, QC @ The Metropolis
May 16th in [...]

Rob Zombie has begun work on his next full length studio album. More info will be made available in the coming months.

Despite filing for bankruptcy earlier this month, TVT Records has renewed a deal originally agreed upon with Qtrax in 2006, the ad supported free download service that was supposed to launch in January. The service is expected to launch eventually.

Skindred have streamed their latest single “Trouble” on their MySpace. The track will impact radio on April 22nd.

A lot of people have talked about selling stock in bands as a means to help finance promising musicians. In Great Britain, a company called slicethepie.com is enabling fans to trade shares of music acts the way they would a publicly traded company. The Web start-up has financed 13 bands and generated the equivalent of nearly $80,000 for [...]

Thrice has streamed the title track from their upcoming digital EP ‘Come All You Weary‘ on their MySpace page. The EP will be released on March 4th.

Flyleaf’s self-titled debut has reached the Platinum mark for shipments in excess of 1 million copies.

Fiver Eleven’s latest album ‘Them vs. You vs. Me‘ has reached the Gold mark for shipments of 500,000 copies.

A live version of Saosin’s “It’s Far Better to Learn” has been posted at this location. The track is taken from the bands upcoming live CD/DVD ‘Come Close‘ which is due out on March 11th.