Incubus’ Brandon Boyd Has a Surprising Fascination With Fungi

Brandon Boyd may well have risen to prominence as the lead singer of the rock band Incubus, but his interests exterior of audio operate the gamut.

“I am fascinated by crops and fungi,” Boyd, 48, tells Us Weekly solely as section of his 25 Matters You Do not Know About Me characteristic. “I’ll discuss about it all day if given the chance.”

The musician went on to recount his really like of amassing publications and tattoos, painting, creating, accents, browsing and his late, beloved French bulldog, Bruce — who lived to a whopping 15 many years and 3 months!

1 of his longest-standing enjoys, even though, is audio. Boyd cofounded Incubus with Michael Einziger and José Pasillas in 1991, when they had been just 15 a long time previous. Just about 33 many years later, the Grammy-nominated band is still touring stadiums across the country.

“[Incubus] has marketed somewhere in the neighborhood of 23 to 24 million albums” Boyd tells Us. “I have a sneaking suspicion that our mothers and fathers purchased most, if not all, of these albums and are storing them in their garages.”

Retain scrolling to discover 25 factors you could possibly not know about Boyd:

1. I cry on airplanes [watching] negative videos.

2. I’ve been amassing guides considering the fact that I was a child. I adore the possibility to interact with other people’s brains, and reading through is a ideal way to do so.

3. I appreciate cartoons.

4. I have been collecting tattoos considering the fact that I was 15.

5. I began a great art print firm identified as Moonlight Arts Collective three yrs ago. We’ve been accomplishing constrained version, hand-signed print editions of original artwork by musicians, actors, comedians, athletes, and so forth.

6. I am fascinated by plants and fungi. I’ll communicate about it all day if presented the option.

7. I adore crafting, so a great deal so that I felt compelled to share extra on the Substack system.

8. I am a painter and have been making art for as extended as I can recall and showing will work due to the fact the early 2000s. My most new gallery show is up now in Dallas at Samuel-Lynne Galleries.

9. I have created a few solo albums: 2010’s The Wild Trapeze, 2013’s Sons of the Sea and 2022’s Echoes & Cocoons.

10. I cofounded Incubus with Michael Einziger and José Pasillas when we had been 15, in 1991, earning our band virtually 33 decades old.

11. I’m fascinated with accents, dialects and languages. I’m also fascinated with how other animals connect.

12. I grew up in L.A. but never ever acted right until very last calendar year, when I performed White Jesus on Reservation Puppies. It was a genuinely enjoyable experience.

13. I’ve been browsing because I was 10 several years previous.

14. [Incubus] has sold someplace in the community of 23 to 24 million albums. I have a sneaking suspicion that our dad and mom purchased most, if not all, of these albums and are storing them in their garages.

15. I’m a little bit obsessed with horror films. When completed perfectly, I see them as significant art!

16. My to start with recollection of the magic in seem was when my grandfather Isaac would engage in his nylon-string guitar and sing softly in Spanish as we fell asleep.

17. I was seriously burned as an infant by a rogue pot of coffee. I nonetheless have the scars, still by some twist of cosmic irony, espresso is a single of my dearest loves.

18. I have a bunion that I named Paul. Get it?

19. My kneecaps have names, much too: Chet and Garrison.

20. My mother had a painting she’d accomplished though pregnant in artwork faculty that was a self-portrait of herself as the virgin mom. That painting haunted my brothers and me as young children, and we would keep away from being in the exact home with it for several years. I have it in my house now.

21. I have created a jigsaw puzzle and a memory activity.

22. I appreciate to go on long walks and purposefully get misplaced.

23. When I was 6 a long time aged, I was certain the Large Undesirable Wolf lived in my bathroom. I wouldn’t go to the bathroom by itself for practically a 12 months. I resorted to shelling out my young brother my chore earnings to accompany me.

24. I may possibly have been the human to the oldest surviving French bulldog in recorded background: My dearly departed Bruce lived to be 15 several years and three months.

25. In August, Incubus is carrying out a 10-arena tour in the U.S., where by we’ll carry out Early morning See in its entirety each night.