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Out promoting new album If Not Now, When?, Incubus head to East Asia for five dates starting July 23 and have marked a rite of passage usually reserved for metal bands and groups of that ilk.
In preparation for the July 28 concert at Araneta Coliseum in The Philippines, a text message began circulating and reads: “PRAYER ALERT !!Out promoting new album If Not Now, When?, Incubus head to East Asia for five dates... more
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Brandon Boyd is the lead singer of the multi-platinum band Incubus, a prolific artist, an award-winning surfer, a credible musician and a female ‘heart throb.’ Despite all of his time in the spotlight, Boyd remains as friendly, down to earth, ego-free and socially aware as ever.
This summer, Brandon Boyd teamed up with artist and friend, Kristin Klosterman, for the TOMS Shoes Collaborative Canvas Project. The pair created works of art on massive canvases, which were then cut up to create special limited-edition TOMS Shoes.
Causecast’s Brandon Deroche caught up with Boyd at the release party to speak with him about how the shoes came to be, the higher form of communication presented in music and the hope for a singular state of mind known as peace.
Causecast: Can we talk briefly about how this came to be, and was it a tough decision to make?
Brandon Boyd: It was not tough to decide to want to do. I had met some of the people from TOMS previously and we talked about doing some type of collaborative project, but we didn’t really know what. We just knew that there was some sort of similar energy at work. So I kept seeing them, we kept just sort of brainstorming, and I was just saying to a friend before that I kind of assumed that they had already done a project like this. I think it would have come up sooner had I known. And we started brainstorming, you know, this came up, this idea of doing original canvases that they made into shoes. They hadn’t done it before so we were like “let’s do that.” And then they asked if I knew anybody that I thought would want to collaborate with something like that. So my friend Kristen is a friend, a really good artist, and my neighbor too, so it all just sort of came together, it wasn’t hard. It was hard to do because…it hadn’t been done before and there was no like, road map for it. Untreated, unstretched canvas is really hard to paint on too. So that part was difficult.
CC: That’s what I wanted to ask you – collaboration in music is one thing, but when it comes to painting, how do you decide what you want to paint together?
BB: (laughs) It seems kind of boring to present it like this, but…I never know what I’m going to paint until I’m painting it, and in this case with the TOMS collaboration, it was no different. Got to Kristin’s studio, and they had massive pieces of canvases in big rolls, and we rolled them out and duct taped them to the floor, and had a bunch of paint…just started painting, so…that’s my favorite way to paint. I don’t really like pre-meditating things too much. I’m still hell-bent on like the experience of painting, you know the process of painting, as opposed to like trying to achieve an immediate end result. So, I started working and the first canvas I did on my own, I was kind of feeling it out. On the second canvas, the one we ended up collaborating on, I started to get this flow, line work. I think some of the better shoes in the collaboration are from the second canvas, that was the one that Kristin and I did together.
Read the whole article at http://www.causecast.org/musicBrandon Boyd is the lead singer of the multi-platinum band Incubus, a prolific artist,... more
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Causecast’s music manager, Brandon Deroche, spoke with guitar player Mike Einziger at this year’s Mile High Music Festival in Denver about social consciousness, Nazi rallies, hippie chicks on acid, and how music plays a role in all of it.Causecast’s music manager, Brandon Deroche, spoke with guitar player Mike... more
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Oh noes! Steven Tyler is old and falling down, plus Incubus... well Incubus suck... or is it Incubus sucks? Watch the video and find out, and submit your best caption for the pic of the week. It's clearly not a caption contest, because there is no prize, but don't let that stop you from writing a great joke about Steven Tyler, God bless his injured soul.Oh noes! Steven Tyler is old and falling down, plus Incubus... well Incubus suck... or... more
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I will always have a special place for these guys. I've been listening to them since about 5th grade. I'm now 20. Basically, I've seen them progress over the past 10 years and emerge as one of the biggest modern rock bands of their time. Check out this killer photo album of them doing what they do best.I will always have a special place for these guys. I've been listening to them... more
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This Saturday Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, the Flaming Lips, Incubus and Tenacious D will play tribute to the Who at VH1’s annual Rock Honors concert in Los Angeles. This Saturday Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, the Flaming Lips, Incubus and Tenacious D will... more
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Activision has finally decided to spill the entire track listing for its upcoming Guitar Hero Smash Hits, one of the five “Hero” games scheduled for the remainder of 2009.
Taking the “best” songs from the previous versions of the Guitar Hero series, Smash Hits has an amazing soundtrack. As the name implies, they’re almost entirely “smash hits,” with few exceptions. It’s also important to note that all of the tracks are masters, and in some cases live tracks. As far as the game is concerned, it brings some of the songs to the full band experience for the first time. It's what Activision is calling "innovation," which is questionable.
Guitar Hero Smash Hits is scheduled to his PlayStation 3, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii on June 16.
Guitar Hero
* Blue Oyster Cult - "Godzilla"
* Boston - "More Than A Feeling"
* Deep Purple - "Smoke On The Water"
* Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"
* Helmet - "Unsung (Live)"
* Incubus - "Stellar"
* Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - "I Love Rock N' Roll"
* Ozzy Osbourne - "Bark At The Moon"
* Pantera - "Cowboys From Hell (Live)"
* Queen - "Killer Queen"
* Queens Of The Stone Age - "No One Knows"
* The Donnas - "Take It Off"
* The Exies - "Hey You"
* White Zombie - "Thunder Kiss '65"
Guitar Hero II
* Alice In Chains - "Them Bones"
* Avenged Sevenfold - "Beast And The Harlot"
* Danzig - "Mother"
* Foo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench"
* Iron Maiden - "The Trooper"
* Jane's Addiction - "Stop!"
* Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son"
* Lamb Of God - "Laid To Rest"
* Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Free Bird"
* Motley Crue- "Shout At The Devil"
* Nirvana - "Heart-Shaped Box"
* Rage Against The Machine - "Killing In The Name"
* Reverend Horton Heat - "Psychobilly Freakout"
* Rush - "YYZ"
* Stone Temple Pilots - "Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart"
* The Police - "Message In A Bottle"
* The Sword - "Freya"
* Warrant - "Cherry Pie"
* Wolfmother - "Woman"
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
* Anthrax - "Caught In A Mosh"
* Extreme - "Play With Me"
* Judas Priest - "Electric Eye"
* Poison - "Nothin' But A Good Time"
* Ratt - "Round and Round"
* Twisted Sister - "I Wanna Rock"
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
* AFI - "Miss Murder"
* DragonForce - "Through The Fire And Flames"
* Heart - "Barracuda"
* Kiss - "Rock And Roll All Nite"
* Living Colour - "Cult Of Personality"
* Pat Benatar - "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
* Priestess - "Lay Down"
* Slayer - "Raining Blood"
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
* Aerosmith - "Back In The SaddleActivision has finally decided to spill the entire track listing for its upcoming... more
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Rapper/producer and one third of the music group N.E.R.D Pharrell Williams has made himself into a quiet, yet powerful force in the music industry. Releasing the Billionaire Boys Club clothing line, the Ice Cream shoe line, five albums to date, and earning two Grammy Awards for his production work on Justin Timberlake's solo debut Justified, Pharrell's influence is undeniable. He recently talked about his inspiration regarding his fashion industry endeavors.
"Billionaire Boys Club is a lifestyle brand," he told the Associated Press. "Ice Cream is a little more affordable, but BBC is different. I created that brand because I had a lot of admiration for Ralph Lauren, but I wanted to take that concept and pretend that Willy Wonka was the head designer. So it's different, and the clothes are made in Japan, so there's a price that goes along with that. Ice Cream, on the other hand, is like our silliness mixed with a huge, huge respect for skating and how I saw things when I was a kid. It's kind of like me making the clothes I never got to have when I was 15."
According to him, a television show about the Ice Cream shoe brand is currently in development, but he declined to elaborate on the topic. In any case, a television show would only add to the large list of projects Pharrell is currently involved in. In addition to his work outside of music, he is currently finishing up work on Shakira's album, Usher's upcoming CD, and will soon be hitting the studio with Rihanna, Incubus, and Sara Bareilles. His production work with the diverse group of artists only signifies his affinity for eclectic music.
Read more on Pharrell here...................
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.9248Rapper/producer and one third of the music group N.E.R.D Pharrell Williams has made... more
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Tom Morello is doing a Justice Tour and he is playing the Boston State House, and a show in Boston to benefit Healthcare-NOW! Read below:
Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave who plays firebrand folk guitar as The Nightwatchman, launches the Justice Tour in Los Angeles on April 15. The two-week outing stops in New York, New Orleans, Asheville, NC, Washington, DC and Boston before concluding with a May Day show in Chicago on May 1.
Each stop of the Justice Tour will include a day of activism to focus on a sphere of social justice in America: homelessness (Los Angeles), safe, secure and affordable housing (New Orleans), a living wage (Asheville), peace and veterans care (Washington, DC), affordable healthcare (Boston) and labor organizing (Chicago). In addition, Amnesty International?s TearItDown.org Campaign to Close Guantanamo, Project Noise and Morello’s own Axis Of Justice have joined as partner organizations throughout the tour. The itinerary also includes a previously announced show April 17 at New York’s Nokia Theater to benefit Road Recovery, a nonprofit that helps young people forge a future free from addiction and other adversities.
"There has been much talk about change this election season, but real change must start with people, not politicians. No matter who is elected, we the people must create justice on the ground," said Morello, who will perform on the Justice Tour as The Nightwatchman.
Sharing the stage with The Nightwatchman will be different special guests on each stop of the Justice Tour. Among those who have signed on are Ben Harper, Slash, Perry Farrell, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Davey Havok of AFI, Boots Riley of the Coup, Maynard James Keenan of Tool and Puscifer, Shooter Jennings, State Radio, Mike Einzinger of Incubus and MC5 founder Wayne Kramer. In addition, each stop of the tour will include a local special guest artist.
While the tour’s activism highlights the hard work that must be done to achieve social justice, its mood is celebratory. "Each night of this tour is going to be a freedom party," Morello said. "We are going to create a little bit of the world we?d like to see."
"Throughout American history, progressive change has always been driven by activists who blow the winds of social change," said Danny Goldberg, longtime activist and band manager and the author of How The Left Lost Teen Spirit. " Without such energy, even the most idealistic public officials cannot prevail against the self-interested partisans of the status quo."
Tour dates are below:
04/15 - Los Angeles, Troubadour, Axis of Justice and People Assisting the Homeless
04/17 - New York, Nokia Theater, Road Recovery
04/20 - New Orleans, Parish Room at Sweet Home New Orleans and the House of Blues Amnesty International
04/22 - Asheville, NC, Grey Eagle Tavern, Just Economics & Music Hall
04/24 - Washington, DC, Black Cat, Iraq Veterans Against the War
04/28 - Boston, TBA, HeathCare-Now
05/01 - Chicago, Park West, Service Employees Intl Union
* This show is a previously announced benefit for Road Recovery, featuring Slash, Jerry Cantrell, Wayne Kramer and others.
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inspired by Heiner Müller’s “Quartett” and Søren Kierkegaard’s “Either/Or”
Concocted by Amy Stebbins
Starring Catrin Lloyd-Bollard as the Marquise de Merteuil and Dan Pecci as the Vicomte de Valmont.
Play meets rock concert meets video installation meets horror show. Featuring original music from Incubus lead-guitarist Michael Einziger, DUETT brings you your favorite bad guys from ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ to reveal the silent pact of “reality” that global society unknowingly made once upon a time. Ever oscillating between the real and surreal, this bold adaptation offers a ruthless critique of elitism, religion, and that once useful form of political discourse: the theater.
7.30pm May 28th, June 10th, 11th, 18th.
8.00pm May 29th, 30th, June 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th.
2.00pm May 31st, June 7th, 14th.
The Loeb Drama Center: Loeb Experimental Theater,
64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office. $8 for students. $12 for non-students.inspired by Heiner Müller’s “Quartett” and Søren... more
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Everyone has that band that you have followed from the beginning. You remember when they were cool, back when they were relative unknowns. Then they become popular and everyone loves them forcing you to outwardly hate them and call them "sell outs" to make yourself feel better about supporting the band since its inception.
For some, that band might be Metallica or whoever. For me, it was Incubus. I watched them grow from a small club band to a main stage headliner. Now they have crashed and burned with two album "A Crow Left of the Murder" and "Light Grenades" that are a very different sound from "Morning View." I didn't care I still bought them.
News comes that Incubus will be taking a break so the band can pursue other things. For instance, guitarist Mike Einziger will unveil an orchestral piece at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA.
For Einziger, the concert will serve as a precursor to his enrollment in Harvard’s music school to study composition next year. But he’s not the only one returning to higher education, as Brandon Boyd also plans to enroll in a university art program.
Brandon says about the band's hiatus:
“I’m of the mind to say it wouldn’t be a bad thing to disappear for a year or two years,” he says. “A lot of people would say culture moves too fast and you need to remind people, but I would argue there’s not any rush. Maybe they’ll be a sex scandal or an arrest or something to keep us in the news.”
Fans still have a chance to catch the band in action before the break: Incubus will play the VH1 Rock Honors tribute to The Who on July 12, alongside Tenacious D, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters and The Flaming Lips.
The show will tape in Los Angeles on July 12 and is scheduled to premiere on July 17 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on VH1, VH1 Classic and MHD.
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The lineup for the second Outside Lands Music Festival has been announced, with Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and the Beastie Boys leading the top of the lineup. M.I.A., Ween, The Mars Volta and many more are also going to rocking Golden Gate Park the weekend of August 28-30, 2009, the returning site of the festival. This year will feature a full Friday lineup as opposed to the shortened day that welcomed Radiohead as last year’s Friday headliner.
Tickets will go on sale Sunday April 19th at 10am PST via www.SFOutsidelands.com, and the festival’s presale for Visa and Visa Signature cardholders will take place April 15-18th. Visa cardholders will get advance access and limited time “eager beaver” pricing for three-day passes. Visa Signature cardholders also get exclusive access to VIP three-day passes during the presale. A significant portion of every ticket sold will directly benefit San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department.
Outside Lands Lineup:
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
Beastie Boys
Incubus
Black Eyed Peas
M.I.A
Jason Mraz
Ween
The Mars Volta
Thievery Corporation
Modest Mouse
Band of Horses
TV on the Radio
Dead Weather
Atmosphere
Tom Jones
Silversun Pickups
The National
Q-Tip
Brett Dennen
Built To Spill
Mastodon
Raphael Saadiq
Calexico
Os Mutantes
Midnite
JJ Grey & Mofro
Kinky
Deerhunter
Lila Downs
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
The Dodos
Bettye LaVette
Dengue Fever
Heartless Bastards
The Dirtbombs
Lenka
Akron/Family
John Vanderslice
Matt and Kim
Portugal. The Man
The Morning Benders
The Duke Spirit
Zee Avi
Blind Pilot
SambaDa
Ryan Bingham
West Indian Girl
Extra GoldenThe lineup for the second Outside Lands Music Festival has been announced, with Pearl... more
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See our video gig playing “Bento” by Iwan Falls and “Anna Molly” By Incubus, at the same gig.See our video gig playing “Bento” by Iwan Falls and “Anna... more
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On this week's infoMania we watch Wolf Blitzer shake his groove thing, Brett warns us of the dangers of dropping a deuce, Conor discovers the canine Dear Abby, Sergio counts down the top selling Modern Rock songs according to Billboard, we take a look at MTV's new line of spin-off's: Bromance and The City and Ben heads to Los Vegas to visit the Consumer Electronics Show
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at infomaniafacebook.com.On this week's infoMania we watch Wolf Blitzer shake his groove thing, Brett... more
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This week, Offspring sticks to their formula, Apocalyptica rocks it with cellos, Shinedown gets the montage omage, Incubus shows us home videos, and Kings of Leon light their sex on fire.
Sergio's White Top 5 is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at infomaniafacebook.com.This week, Offspring sticks to their formula, Apocalyptica rocks it with cellos,... more
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