When the late Bradley Nowell’s son, Jakob Nowell, joined the reunited Sublime with original members Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson, he originally thought it would be a touring-only project. “The Sublime catalog is sacred,” he says now. “We don’t wanna ruin it.” But when he started experimenting with singing along …
Read More »
Rome Ramirez, former frontman of Sublime with Rome, has teamed up with reggae rockers Dirty Heads for a new song, “Slow & Easy. In a statement, Rome calls the breezy summer tune “the culmination of my mantra, my friends, and my family all wrapped into one.” The accompanying video, directed …
Read More »
In the new book Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World, authors Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn get in the pit with influential bands like Social Distortion, the Offspring, Sublime, the Adolescents, and No Doubt to trace the history of Southern California punk …
Read More »
Jakob Nowell, son of late Sublime singer Bradley Nowell, made his official debut as the revived band’s frontman at Coachella last year, and now he’s working with original members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh on a potential new album — which would be the the first from Sublime since 1996’s …
Read More »
Sublime is coming to Vans Warped Tour DC, 30 years after headlining its first edition. On Monday, the band — which reunited last year with Bradley Nowell’s son Jakob — announced that they’ll be performing at the Washington, D.C. edition of the festival in June. Sublime and Warped Tour announced …
Read More »
Lenny Kravitz, Sublime, and Alanis Morissette are set to headline BeachLife Festival this May. The Redondo Beach, California, music festival also features seaside performances by Pretenders, Jackson Browne, the Beach Boys, Train, Cake, Mt. Joy, Susanna Hoffs, Marcus King, and more. Tickets for the 2025 three-day fest areavailable now. The …
Read More »
The upcoming Sublime biopic seems to have cast its Bradley Nowell, with Riverdale lead KJ Apa set to play the late singer. Deadline first reported the casting, and Apa reposted the news on his Instagram Stories on Thursday, tagging the film’s director Justin Chon. The decision comes two years after …
Read More »
Sublime, with Bradley Nowell’s son Jakob at the helm, deliver a pristine rendition of their classic “Santeria” in a preview of their upcoming performance on Howard Stern, premiering exclusively on Rolling Stone. The rendition of “Santeria” shows just how well Nowell has settled into the band since he joined earlier …
Read More »
In early 1996, the three members of Sublime —frontman Bradley Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh —were jamming in Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Studio in Austin, Texas, when they broke into an improvised, half-formed song that bootleggers would later call “Eireen.” Frontman Bradley Nowell, who would die of an …
Read More »
Jakob Nowell stepped into his role as the lead singer of Sublime before thousands of fans on Saturday night, as the reunited band rocked out on the Coachella stage. The legendary ska group first disbanded following the tragic death of lead singer Bradley Nowell in 1996. Nearly 30 years later, …
Read More »