Incubus says Morning View tour is a “change in the way people listen to music”

In an age of endless niches and personalized playlists, rock band Incubus offers concert-goers the kind of shared experience they had growing up together in Calabasas, California, just outside of Los Angeles. The quintet is currently on a ten-city tour, Morning View + The Hits, and is playing their album Morning view in its entirety before adding eight or more favorites (like 1999's “Drive”). Do it yourself and a version of The Beatles’ “Come Together”).

The albums are “nostalgic experiences,” says guitarist Mike Einziger Billboard's Behind the tracklist Podcast. For the band's older fans, the concert could lead them to repurchase the Morning view The CD was released in 2001 and listened to from start to finish. “But people don’t consume music that way anymore,” he says. For the band’s younger fans, who are more comfortable listening to online playlists, the Morning View tour might be the first time they hear the songs in their original sequence. “So, in my opinion, it’s kind of a really welcome change in the way people listen to music,” Einziger says.

For all the familiarity that comes with playing an album in its entirety, the songs are not an exact copy of the versions originally released in 2001. While the band was re-recording the songs on Morning view for their latest release, Morning view XXIIIThey realized they were no longer performing songs the way they did when they recorded the album decades ago. Parts of the songs had “naturally evolved and sounded different,” says singer Brandon Boyd. “For example, ‘Echo’ has a different ending that we added to it. The song ‘Nice to Know You,’ which starts the record, starts differently.”

The band's lineup has changed since then. Morning view It was also originally released. Boyd, Einziger and drummer Jose Pasillas founded the band in 1991. DJ/keyboardist/multipurpose musician Chris Kilmore has been with the band since 1998. Original bassist Alex Katinuch's replacement, Ben Kenney, left in February. “We have a new bassist, Nicole Rowe, who kind of brought her own new energy into the mix of what we're doing,” Einziger says. “A new band member just changes a lot of the dynamics.”

The Morning View + The Hits tour will stop at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Thursday (August 29), arrive at TD Garden in Boston on August 31 and head west before wrapping at Chase Center in San Francisco on September 12.

Listen to the full interview with Brandon Boyd and Mike Einziger via the embedded Spotify player below, or go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music either As long as.