MUSIC NEWS | Incubus, David Bowie and Green Day

Incubus will release its new album, "Light Grenades," on Nov. 28 and begin its North Amercian tour in early January. That tour stops in Kansas City on Feb. 7 for a show at the Uptown Theater. If you pre-order the album at the band's Web site, you become eliglble to pre-order tickets to the show.

Bowie, Tom Waits and Green Day DVDs

Three music documentaries/videos are due for release over the next several weeks, including "David Bowie Under Review 1976-79: The Berlin Trilogy." Here's a synopsis from the studio, MVD:

"David Bowie Under Review 1976 - 1979 The Berlin Trilogy features live and studio performances by Bowie, rare interviews and a host of other features all interspersed with the independent review and criticism from a panel of esteemed experts. These include; former members of both Neu! And Cluster (and key Bowie influences), Dieter Moebius and Michael Rother; broadcaster, journalist and ambient author, Mark Prendergast; author and Melody Maker/Mojo journalist, David Stubbs; Journalist and author Daryl Easlea; style aficionado, Paolo Hewitt and many others."

Release date is Nov. 21, the same day MVD releases a 90-minute film called "Tom Waits Under Review: 1971-82." 

"The program charts his rise from bar-room crooner to the extraordinary performer, songwriter and vocalist he had become by the early part of the 1980s. Showing also how he developed as a scintillating raconteur, how he was more than willing to draw on a vast range of unorthodox influences and how his records progressed in sophistication exponentially during the course of a decade, this film is the most detailed, enlightening and downright entertaining film ever to have emerged on this legendary artist."

Other upcoming releases: "Nirvana: In Utero" (due Nov. 21) and "Green Day Under Review: 1995-2000 -- The Middle Years," due in January.

| Timothy Finn, The Star