Eighties pop icons Duran Duran and ‘90s alternative rockers Incubus will make their Costa Rican debut at a rock festival here in April, management of national beer brand Imperial, the festival's organizer, said Friday.

The bands will join other confirmed acts including Costa Rican groups LePop and Porpartes for the 2008 Festival Imperial, scheduled for April 19 and 20 in La Guácima, a town in the Alajuela province (northwest of San José), the newswire ACAN-EFE reported.

Best known for early-career hits “ Rio ” and “Hungry Like the Wolf,” new-wave fav's Duran Duran came out with a fresh release in November, “Red Carpet Massacre,” their first album since 2004's “Astronaut.” The CD sees the boys from Birmingham, England, outfitted with spruced up beats and rapping bits by hip hop producer Timbaland, plus intermittent vocals by Justin Timberlake. But despite the contemporary veneer, hints of the classic Duran Duran style – labeled “new romantic” – still show through.

Incubus, by contrast, creates a harder, more guitar-driven sound. Although, like Duran Duran, the California band fronted by singer Brandon Boyd features vocals front and center. This can be heard in the ballad “Love Hurts” and other tracks on the November 2006 album “Light Grenades.”

Harder still was Incubus' 1995 disc “Fungus Amungus,” with the thrashing first single, “Take Me To Your Leader.”

Incubus initially scheduled to play in Costa Rica in December, according to the daily La Nación, but rescheduled for the Guácima event.

For a taste of the latest material by the bands, visit their MySpace profiles at www.myspace.com/duranduran and www.myspace.com/incubus.

To follow Festival Imperial as its lineup gets pieced together or for ticket information, check out the event's Web site: www.festivalimperial.com.