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Bradley Nowell's Son is Sublime's New Singer. His Path Hasn't Been Easy

Jakob Nowell goes deep on what it was like to grow up in the shadow of a rock tragedy — and why he didn't love Sublime with Rome

So there’s a certain poetry to the fact that this is the year Jakob is taking over as the new singer of Sublime, starting at April’s Coachella festival, alongside original members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh. And for the longest time, fans got to buy tickets and go to shows and get to hear Sublime songs being played by at least one of the guys that wrote them. And so there will be confusion with some of the fans like, “wait a minute, I’d heard Sublime was playing Cali Roots.” And every time I hear that, it breaks my heart a little bit.

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