Incubus Go Live for Charity : Rolling Stone

Incubus have formed their own charitable organization, the Make Yourself Foundation. Over the next year, the band aims to raise $1 million, which it will donate to various charities.

"I know it sounds so righteous and all that but it's something we wanted to do for a long time," guitarist Mike Einziger told Rolling Stone yesterday after a conference to announce the foundation at Los Angeles' House of Blues.

"We had the time to get that together while we've been off the road."

One way Incubus hope to raise cash is through selling live CD recordings, the first of which comes from last summer's Lollapalooza tour. "It's very similar to what Pearl Jam has done," Einziger said of the first disc in the series, available exclusively at IncubusBootlegs.com. "I think it's a really great way to just get your music to people. A lot of bands put out live recordings and they edit them. We're not doing anything to ours."

The California rockers plan to spend the fall in Atlanta recording their next studio album with producer Brendan O'Brien. "Brendan made a lot of the records we grew up listening to, like the Rage Against the Machine records, the Pearl Jam records, the Stone Temple Pilots records," Einziger said. "He's a really smart, intuitive person, and I think together all of us could do something really amazing."

Incubus have about twenty tunes already written for the sessions. The songs include "Megalomaniac" and "Pistola," both of which the band debuted live during Lollapalooza, and newer ones like "A Crow Left of the Murder" and "Talk Shows on Mute."

The album is due February 10th on Epic, now that the band settled its lawsuit with the label's parent company Sony in April. "That whole lawsuit thing had a nice way of resolving itself," Eizinger said. "I hate having to think about money and the business aspects of what we're doing. We got through all of it, and now I'm excited to record all of this music that we've been working on. I feel like we're about to go record our first record."

Incubus plan to return to the road in January.

JOLIE LASH
(October 3, 2003)