Nine Volt Audio has released Action Drums - a collection of 100 new loops designed to convey movement, power and excitement.
Action Drums One Hundred is FREE through August 31st with the purchase of any Nine Volt Audio.
Video demo
Action Drums One Hundred can also be purchased separately for $9.99.
Specifications:

The Download contains 100 loops in the [...]

Tim Prebble demonstrates effects made with bowed cymbals. Bowed cymbal sounds interesting forward and backwards, as the video shows.
The question I have is this: if you play a cymbal with a bow, is it still a percussion instrument?
More at the Substation site.

Submersible Music has announced two new drum libraries featuring the grunge rock sound of Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden) and the R&B grooves of Jonathan “Sugarfoot” Moffett (Michael Jackson, Madonna).
The new CameronPack I and SugarfootPack I DrummerPacks are designed for DrumCore and the free DrumCore LT DrummerPack player. The DrummerPacks feature drum loops (plus fills [...]

Submersible Music is now shipping KitCore Deluxe, which bundles KitCore (a MIDI drum instrument based on DrumCore) with the drum/percussion sounds and MIDI grooves found in DrumCore Deluxe.
KitCore Deluxe gives MIDI-based musicians (on both Mac and PC) access to the drumkits and MIDI beats found in DrumCore Deluxe at an affordable price. It works with [...]

TP Works has released Drumhound, a VST instrument for Windows that offers 128 drumkits with 2048 sounds sampled from a huge range of vintage machines.
Features:

16 voices
16 Stereo drumchannels
Extensive filtering options
Over 2.000 drumsounds included
Range of controls on every channel:

Gain [Volume adjust]
Release [Release time]
Tune [Tune the sound one whole note up or down]
Peg Decay
Peg Env [Amount, to [...]

Sinevibes has introduced a new sample library called Beat Constructor, a large collection of distinct and highly inspiring sounds for professional rhythm composition.
The library features over 500 samples which include everything the most demanding music-making lover needs: loads of kicks, snares, hats, drums, percussion, as well as a wide range of effects, hits, scratches, lo-fi [...]

EASTWEST has announced the debut of Zero-G’s Carnival Drums — over 2,000 samples and 1.4GB of the exciting sounds of the Brazilian carnival.
The library features the main drums of the Brazilian Samba Baterias (samba percussion ensembles), which perform every summer at the Rio Carnival. For this project, 10 professional Brazilian percussionists, who perform annually at [...]

Alesis has introduced a cool new drum pad controller/drum machine, the Performance Pad. It’s a drum machine, an electronic percussion instrument and you can use it as a MIDI input device.
Performance Pad features eight velocity-sensitive drum pads and a built-in electronic drum machine with professional sounds and features.
Features:

8 natural feeling, velocity-sensitive drum pads with Dynamic [...]

Alesis announced today that they are now shipping the Trigger I/O, USB/MIDI, pad trigger interface.
The Trigger I/O uses electronic triggers placed on traditional acoustic percussion sources (such as drum heads or cymbals) or electronic drum pad triggers, and converts them into MIDI note messages. With MIDI and USB 1.1 Plug and Play connectivity and ten [...]

Ueberschall has released Liquid Instrument Series Vol. 8 Drums, a new VST that makes it possible to move, pitch, stretch or even delete any single note of the snare, hi-hat, or bass drum loop without affecting the rest of the groove. All loops and single sound loops automatically adjust their tempo to your arrangement.
Try radical [...]