THE OCTOPUS PROJECT WORK ON NEW ALBUM!
Austin’s The Octopus Project are collaborating with fellow sound experimentalists Black Moth Super Rainbow for a new album entitled The House of Apples and Eyeballs.  The record, set to be released October 31st on Graveface Records, is the band’s first release since being voted to play Coachella by a Myspace band contest in May.  According to the band the Coachella news came as a complete surprise; they weren’t aware they had entered the contest.

The Octopus Project - The Adjustor (mp3)
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippy Eye (mp3)

SUBPOP MAKES GREEN HISTORY!
Earlier this week Seattle label SubPop Records made history by becoming the first ‘Green-e certified’ record label in the United States.  Although we have little idea what that means, everyone at Invisible Limb is proud of them.  To learn more about the Green-e program (it has to do with the use of renewable energy sources) click here for the official press release. 

Ok, now the real reason why we posted this news.  Mp3s!

Unreleased tracks:
Chad VanGaalen - Flower Gardens
The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt
Comets On Fire - Dogwood Rust

Previously released tracks:
CSS - Let’s Make Love and Listen Death from Above
Iron & Wine - Woman King
Iron & Wine - Naked as We Came
Damien Jurado - Paperwings
Low - California
Low - Monkey
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
The Shins - Kissing the Lipless
The Shins - So Says I
The Shins - Know Your Onion
Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers
Sleater-Kinney - Entertain
Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner

LAKES RELEASE DEBUT EP!
Musician Seth Roberts is no stranger to band name changes.  When his first band Watashi Wa broke up in July of 2004, Roberts started a new band called Eager Seas.  However, his label Tooth and Nail Records didn’t like it and forced him to change the name back to Watashi Wa.  So he did.  Now a year later, their contract with T&N is up and Eager Seas/Watashi Wa has changed their name to Lakes.  Their innaugeral release as Lakes will be a 5 song EP on the Militia Group set to be released on September 5th.

AbsolutePunk.net is offering the entire EP for download at their Lakes artist page.  Click here to check it out.  It reminds me a lot of the Long Winters.

HEATH LEDGER ANNOUNCED AS THE NEW JOKER!
Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger has been announced as the new Joker in the up coming Batman Begins sequel, ‘The Dark Knight’.  Ledger joins Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Gary Oldman as stars who have already signed on to the picture (hmmm, anyone notice a certain missing actress?).  Also announced is the return of director Christopher Nolan who had left his involvement in the Batman sequels unconfirmed until recently.  ‘The Dark Knight’ was written by Nolan’s brother Jonathan Nolan and will begin shooting in early 2007.

TIM YOUNG COVERS VOXTROT!
Tim Young, the mastermind behind our favorite podcast Contrast Podcast, has just posted a neat little cover he recorded for Voxtrot’s ‘The Start of Something’.  Check out his blog to download both the cover & original versions.

http://thefaceoftoday.blogspot.com/2006/08/is-this-end-or-just-start.html

SWAN LAKE ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW!
Public beware, there is a new indie supergroup in our midst and they are called Swan Lake.  Made up of Dan Bejar of Destroyer and New Pornographers, Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes, and Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake is burning up the music blog world with their hit mp3 ‘All Fires’.  Their debut album, Beast Moans, is being released on November 21st by Jagjaguwar Records.

Swan Lake - All Fires

INVISIBLE LIMB WEEK IN REVIEW
Here is a recap of the articles published this week.

Download:  Drag the River - ‘I’m a Little Bit Country’
Interview: Dengue Fever
Download: MLB Trade Deadline Music
Download: Say Hi To Your Mom - Impeccable Vampires
Contest: Headlights Giveaway