Band name: Incubus
Album name: Light Grenades
Label: Epic/Immorta
Gender: Rock/Alternative
Release date: Nov 28, 2006
ZMErating: 4/5
Website: www.enjoyincubus.com

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I’ve heard some tracks of Incubus on the radio a while back, i’ve always fancied their style, their lyrics, i virtually liked them a lot as artists, so I decided to review one of their albums, namely their last one “Light Grenades“.

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The singer [tag]Björk[/tag] could be described as a true alchemist as she finds harmony and balances the most pure feelings with fear and destruction; she does everything. What makes it special is the her way of singing, strong yet delicate.

The opening track is “Earth Intruders” and the beat is also good, courtesy of Timbaland and Konono No. 1’s electric thumb-pianos. The track includes some incantations and the way she sings harder and louder is just breath taking. You can see some original ideas also in The Anchor Song which is somewhat the opposite, being more contemplative and soft. These two set the tune for the entire album.

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This year coincides with the 30th anniversary reunion tour in 2007. The band prepares a tour and they have also released a double compilation called “The Police”.

The quality can not be denied but but this set falls just a bit short of being the definitive Police double disc. It feels a bit slim at 28 tracks. But the bad thing is not that it is slim but rather that some definitory tracks are missing.

The missing ones are “Born in the ’50s,” “The Bed’s Too Big Without You,” “Shadows in the Rain,” and “Rehumanize Yourself,” and the heavy emphasis on Synchronicity (all but three songs from the LP are present; yes, Andy Summers’ bizarro “Mother” is one of the tunes missing in action) harms the album equilibrium.

Still, it is has most of the best work and it covers all the familiar hits. With the second-tier classics it would be almost flawless, but as it is it leaves just a little sour taste. None the less, it stands as simply an excellent overview.

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[tag]John Lennon[/tag]’s former wife Yoko Ono has given permission for one of John’s greatest song “Imagine” to be immortalized as pop art.

Imagine is a utopion themed song, that first appeared in 1971, as part of John Lennon’s album Imagine. In 2004 it was voted the third best song in the world by Rolling Stone Magazine, after “Satisfaction” by [tag]Rolling Stones[/tag] and “Like a Rolling Stone” by [tag]Bob Dylan[/tag].

The lyrics from this legendary song will be embedded in 100 copies of black canvas, in a limited edition series, with each artwork signed and numbered by the artist Air Side. The paitins will be part of the “It’s Pop It’s Art” artwork display in London’s PYMCA gallery.

For information on the event in London or regarding the purchase of one of the prints please visit the “It’s Pop It’s Art” homepage.

The famous [tag]Dave Grohl[/tag] fronted alternative rock band Foo Fighters are set to release a 10th anniversary edition of their second 1997 LP: “The Color And The Shape“, which reached the 3rd position in the UK album chart of the same year.

This special edition album will be released on June 25th on a two-disc set, containing 13 remastered songs featured on the original album plus 6 rare B-sides and covers tracks.

The bonus tracks featured are:

‘Requiem’ (B-side, Killing Joke cover)
‘Drive Me Wild’ (B-side)
‘Down In The Park’ (B-side, Gary Numan cover)
‘Baker Street’ (B-side, Gerry Rafferty cover)
‘Dear Lover’ (B-side)
‘The Colour And The Shape’ (B-side)

The English quintet from Buckinghamshire [tag]Tonight is Goodbye[/tag] has recently announced details on their forthcoming British headline tour alongside Death Can Dance and You Me At Six. The band has made a name out of itself, after winning a competition on Taste of Chaos tour, at the Brixton Academy, where they played alongside band like [tag]Taking Back Sunday[/tag], [tag]Underoath[/tag] or [tag]Saosin[/tag].

The band’s EP, called [tag]The Birds and The Bees[/tag] will be available on the market on the 4th of june and their video for the “Black Dress” track will be released the 10th of June.

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The notorious “Simpsons” theme song will get a punkified version, courtesy of Grammy Award-winning rock band [tag]Green Day[/tag], as the tv show will turn to the silver screen with it’s theater debute on the 27th of july.

The Green Day Simpson theme will be published as a single and will be included on the movie’s official soundtrack, that will be released on the 24th of july, three days prior to the film’s debute.
Three different labels will be marketing the single. Warner Bros. Records will release it in the USA, Fox Music will make a digital score album available through foxmusic.com, and Extreme Music will release 25,000 doughnut cases to U.S. retailers.

[tag]Linkin Park[/tag] has announced its participation at the grand [tag]Live Earth[/tag] affair, which will reunite all the major artists of the world in a seven-continent tour.

Live Earth is designed to promote awareness of the threat of global warming to our planet, bringing together more than 100 of the world’s top music acts to engage an audience of over two billion people with solutions to the climate crisis. So Linkin Park will be joining Madonna, Bon Jovi, The Police, Sheryl Crow, Kelly Clarkson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West, Melissa Etheridge, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, John Mayer, Faith Hill, Black Eyed Peas, Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, Duran Duran, and many more, in playing Live Earth, during a 24 hour marathon on July 7th, 2007 (7/7/07).

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Everybody is all exited about [tag]White Stripes[/tag] new upcoming album, entitled “Icky Thump” scheduled for release on June 19th. A music video called as the album, “Icky Thump”, has been released a few days ago and since then caused a lot of fuss around it. I found the video awesome, some classic White Stripes hard rocking is present here, with Jack putting his guitar to good use with amazing riffs and Meg with some serious drumming.

The video is nicely made with a one eyed Mexican prostitute Meg and a no good gringo Jack, all happening in a Mexican whorehouse, pretty sweet!

Also for their 10th band anniversary the happy Whites, Jack and Meg will tour through al lot of places they’ve never been at in the USA and Canada.

“We were leery for a long time … we’d never had the trust in us to do it,” he says. “It would have been a bad idea to do that on ‘White Blood Cells.’ We had them all offering it then. But I think it would have been over very quickly for us. We would have been a new flavor of the week and probably would have been a one-hit wonder with ‘Fell in Love With a Girl.”

Tour dates
June 24: Burnaby, B.C. (Deer Lake Park)
June 25: Whitehorse, Y.T. (Yukon Arts Centre)
June 26: Yellowknife, N.W. (Yellowknife Multiplex)
June 27: Iqaluit, N.U.N. (Arctic Winter Games Arena
June 29: Calgary, A.B. (Pengrowth Saddledome)
June 30: Edmonton, A.B. (Shaw Conference Centre)
July 1: Saskatoon, S.K. (TCU Place)
July 2: Winnipeg, M.B. (MTS Centre)
July 3: Thunder Bay, Ont. (Community Auditorium)
July 5: Toronto (Molson Amphitheatre)
July 6: Montreal (Bell Centre)
July 7: London, Ont. (Labatt Centre)
July 8: Ottawa, Ont. (Cisco Systems Bluesfest)
July 10: Moncton, N.B. (Moncton Coliseum)
July 11: Charlottetown, P.E. (Civic Centre)
July 13: Halifax, N.S. (Cunard Event Centre)
July 14: Glace Bay, N.S. (Savoy Theatre)
July 16: Saint John’s, N.F. (Mile One Centre)
July 22: Portland, Maine (Civic Center)
July 23: Boston (Agganis Arena)
July 24: New York (Madison Square Garden)
July 25: Wallingford, Conn. (Chevrolet Theatre)
July 27: Wilmington, Del. (Grand Opera House)
July 28: Fairfax, Va. (Patriot Center)
July 29: Myrtle Beach, S.C. (House of Blues)
July 30: Birmingham, Ala. (Sloss Furnace)
July 31: Southaven, Miss. (Snowden Grove Park)

Sept. 4-5: Chicago (Aragon Ballroom)
Sept. 6: Lincoln, Neb. (Pershing Auditorium)
Sept. 7: Fargo, N.D. (Civic Auditorium)
Sept. 8: Rapid City, S.D. (Rushmore Plaza)
Sept. 10: Jackson Hole, Wyo. (Snowking Center)
Sept. 11: Boise, Idaho (Idaho Center Theatre)
Sept. 12: Sat Lake City (E Center)
Sept. 13: Albuquerque, N.M. (Kiva Auditorium)
Sept. 15-16: Austin, Texas (Austin City Limits)
Sept. 19: Inglewood, Calif. (the Forum)
Sept. 21: Berkeley, Calif. (Greek Theatre)
Sept. 24: Anchorage, Ala. (William A. Egan Civic Center)
Sept. 26-27: Seattle (Paramount Ballroom)