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...time is long overdue for moderate Muslims to conspicuously join against terrorism and the al-Qaeda network." BOYD C. BAIRD Traverse City, Mich...
...tummy-baring T shirts to take part in a unicorn-drawing contest. Too bad for them. At the behest of guitarist Mike Einziger's unicorn-obsessed girlfriend, a competition to draw the mythical creature was under way. Using a wooden food-service table as his canvas, lead singer Brandon Boyd has laid down a medieval unicorn with wings in thick black marker. Einziger draws something destined for a rainbow-colored sticker. The would-be groupies wait for their turns with the pen and ask for hugs and autographs when they work up the nerve, but mostly they are silent, staggered...
...this particular moment in pop music, the confusion is opportune. The record industry, like every other business, is struggling to move product in a post-disaster world. Incubus, which released its fifth album, Morning View (Epic), on Oct. 23, has a patina of metal hardness that attracts teen boys; Boyd, recently named one of "The Hottest Guys in Music" by TEEN PEOPLE, attracts young girls; his lyrics, unapologetically hopeful and New Age-y, are a potential salve for twenty-somethings confronting their first global crisis. Morning View is expected to fly out of record bins...
When Incubus began as a high school experiment in 1991, it was a funk outfit, openly ripping off the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Primus. On 1999's Make Yourself, produced by R.E.M. veteran Scott Litt, the band dispensed with its early jamming tendencies and focused on melody, allowing Boyd's voice and lyric book to step to the front. The single Drive, the group's biggest hit to date, contains the lovely line, "Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there/With open arms and open eyes." It's not surprising that Incubus was the only major act scheduled to perform...
...this diversification. The last song on the record, “Aqueous Transmission,” is an eight-minute head trip accompanied by mandolin and fading strings, and sits uncomfortably among the more honest rock songs that comprise much of the album. On View, lead singer Brandon Boyd is at his most introspective. He expresses love, loss, contemplation and joy in a more visceral way than most new metal bands. The album has its share of hits and misses, but it also presents a new, very appealing Incubus—the sensitive, lovable pin-up boys of rage rock...