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Concert Review - The Rebirth of Rock: Incubus at the Wiltern Theatre in
Los Angeles, California on February 13, 2007

By Michael Cooney


Incubus is back. Well, the Los Angeles-based quintet never actually
stopped making music, but the recording industry as a whole of late has
seemed fixated almost incessantly upon marketing mediocre American Idol
wannabes and watered-down hip-hop that was built for suburban white
boys. So, it might have been easy to forget that rock 'n' roll ever even
existed. Equally problematic is the fact that Incubus' 2005 studio
effort A Crow Left of the Murder turned out to be less than stellar.
Although its most recent work -- last year's Light Grenades -- spawned a
handful of smaller-scale hits, it hardly was a return to the start of
the decade when the group virtually ruled the airwaves of modern rock
radio. When the guys returned Los Angeles in mid-February and took the
stage for the final performance of a sold-out, three-night stay at the
Wiltern Theatre, however, Incubus single-handedly managed (for one
night, at least) to revive the raw power of rock music.

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