<\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nI was at Warped Tour in Long Beach last year when you guys played and \u2014<\/b><\/p>\n
Nowell: <\/b>That was my favorite set!<\/p>\n
To me that felt like it encapsulated what you were talking about with the multi<\/b>generational groups of fans that have enjoyed you guys and associate you with Long Beach. <\/b><\/p>\n
Gaugh: <\/b>It was like a homecoming for me. I remembered playing the Chili Cook off, you know, right over there in the same area [as Warped Tour], and it was just bringing me back 30 years. It\u2019s so meaningful to be in our backyard playing our music again, right there. This is where it all started. It\u2019s come full circle.<\/p>\n
Nowell: <\/b>It was like playing at a local bar in a cool way. I had this huge group of people up front, they were just talking and shouting and saying stuff, like f\u2013ing with us and joking around. I was like \u201cDamn this is great!\u201d<\/p>\n
How about you, Eric? How\u2019d you feel playing Warped?<\/b><\/p>\n
Wilson: <\/b>[Mumbles] It was f\u2013ing awesome.<\/p>\n
Now that you\u2019ve played all these festival shows, from Coachella to No Values, you\u2019ve got your own festival going on. Can you talk a little bit about Sublime Fest and your Sublime Reef Madness Cruise and how you came up with it?<\/b><\/p>\n
Nowell: <\/b>We could put on a bunch of the bands we love, and some of our boys, like Vandals, and make it our own vibe.<\/p>\n
Gaugh: <\/b>You walk around Coachella and there\u2019s so many different elements there. Wouldn\u2019t it be neat if we could make like all this like a Long Beach element, a Sublime<\/i> element. Looking at this thing, it\u2019s like \u201cOh wow. So we can actually get some of our friends and set up like a tattoo booth, and have our idea of art and everything out there, and mix it all together \u2014 food, art, music \u2014 bringing all these different elements, and friends of ours that play music. We get to decide who\u2019s going to share the stage with us, so it\u2019s really neat. It\u2019s like planning a high school party or something like that.<\/p>\n
Nowell: <\/b>The biggest backyard party ever seen.<\/p>\n
You guys always had your own sound going on, what\u2019s it like to see that the fans still want it?<\/b><\/p>\n
Wilson: <\/b>It took a lotta years to catch on, but it did.<\/p>\n
Nowell: <\/b>Yeah, the kids really want that, like \u201890s, Y2K kind of vibe. That was the last era of like cool authenticity and stuff. You can see it when young people make stuff to look retro … when things get so high fidelity, we\u2019re almost losing a little element, so I think these festivals kind of seek to bring some of that back in a way that everybody can get into.<\/p>\n\n
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With \u201cUntil the Sun Explodes,\u201d Sublime\u2019s first album in three decades, Jakob Nowell, Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson rediscover their studio chemistry, jamming new songs that feel instantly familiar onstage.<\/p>\n
(Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n
You guys also have the timeless iconography of the Sublime sun logo. The title of the album is \u201cUntil the Sun Explodes.\u201d Does that title have any particular meaning to you?<\/b><\/p>\n
Nowell: <\/b>It\u2019s almost just another way of saying \u201cforever,\u201d like \u201cOh baby I\u2019m gonna love you till the sun blows up.\u201d That\u2019s gonna happen in billions of years, if at all. The fact that [Sublime\u2019s] lasted this long and has this many fans is evidence to me that we wanna be here forever. I think that\u2019s what everybody wants for themselves.<\/p>\n
Jake, you\u2019ve taken steps to advance your own aspirations and music with your label, Sunburnt Records, how does that fit into where Sublime is right now?<\/b><\/p>\n
I was inspired by the whole Skunk Records thing [Sublime\u2019s first label], Evan Zinger with [his lifestyle brand] SRH, and just all the local brands I grew up with when I was a kid. So just trying to do a cool, chill local thing that has that vibe of putting on small shows and kind of getting to use this new notoriety to be like, man, I have so many friends in these small bands like Strange Case and Eight Ball, and other bands up and down Southern California. Let\u2019s put on shows and sneak them on a Sunburnt Stage at [Sublime Fest] and if people really like that Sublime sound here\u2019s a bunch of kids who are carrying the torch like Slightly Stoopid did when they started out. Mike Watt always said \u201cstart your own band!\u201d So the more we can inspire people to do that and be some small part of that, it\u2019s a dream come true.<\/p>\n
Do you feel like this version of Sublime is something Brad would be proud of?<\/b><\/p>\n
Gaugh: <\/b>We all kind of brought our own element to the music orignally. So we just kind of followed that recipe. Jake\u2019s his own person, he\u2019s got his own influences, and we just kind of stick with that idea. Jake brings in his feelings, and Eric brings in his and we sat there and recorded this song, and then as we were recording it, we\u2019re coming up with ideas. It\u2019s like, \u201cOh wait, we should do this here, slow that down there, stop here,\u201d it\u2019s all a conglomeration of ideas, everyone does their part, brings in their own spices and we mix it in a pot like gumbo.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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