Incubus' return to active duty will include a return to theaters in early 2007. Guitarist Mike Einzinger tells Billboard.com that the California quintet -- whose sixth album, "Light Grenades," comes out Nov. 28 via Epic -- is excited about returning to smaller venues with a North American tour that will begin in January, most likely in Vancouver.

"We haven't played theaters in a very, very long time," Einzinger says, "and we just decided it was a really good time in our career to kind of just step back. We were playing in these massive arenas for, like, the last five years, and it was fun, but it just seems like it needs to be small again, and special for us."

But Einzinger adds that the initial "Light Grenades" road trip "doesn't mean we won't play those big places anymore. I hope we still do. But I've always loved playing in theaters."

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