Incubus has been around so long that the SoCal band has actually outlived its initial genre tag. If you don't remember, it was "nu metal," which was cool for a minute back when Bill Clinton was president and everybody had jobs.

Nu metal used to mean funky, Korn-spawned thrash for the kids. Somewhere along the way, though, Incubus dropped the funky and became Creed-like balladeers. The 2006 album Light Grenades brings back the funk, but applies it to an airy melodicism that oddly echoes Radiohead as well as a vague "alt-rock" feel (whatever that means in this day and age). So this music isn't for the kids anymore. It's for folks who like guitars but not metal, anger but not rage -- and a tight, shiny corporate recording. Who's that, you ask? Well, it may be worth going as a social experiment, just to see what kind of dudes are really into Incubus in 2007.