The Crimewave is about to hit again. Codefendants have announced “Lonely Life,” the second single from their upcoming sophomore album LIFERS, due April 3. “Lonely Life” is described by the band as one of the most collaborative songs on the record. Fat Mike calls it “a roller coaster ride with no seat belt or safety […]
San Diego is getting a full stadium-level reggae-rock takeover this summer. The inaugural Field Of Dreamz Festival lands at Petco Park on Saturday, June 13, transforming the Padres’ home field into a multi-stage music destination. Organizers have confirmed a lineup led by Sublime and Slightly Stoopid, joined by Stephen Marley, The Elovaters, Pepper, DENM, and
Sublime has added two major stops to the inaugural Sublime Me Gusta Festival: June 27 in Portland, Oregon at Tom McCall Waterfront Park and July 18 in Salt Lake City, Utah at Zions Bank Stadium. The multi-city concept debuted earlier with a May 9 launch in Fort Worth, and it is already shaping up to
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Sublime are taking their comeback victory lap offshore. The band have announced the Sublime Reef Madness Cruise, a four night music cruise sailing November 15 through 19 from Miami to Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas aboard the Norwegian Jewel. Produced with Sixthman, Reef Madness is framed less like a nostalgia trip and more like
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SNS & iHeartRadio Turns the Kia Forum Into a Modern Alt-Rock Pressure Cooker It’s not every night you get to open one of the biggest alternative rock festivals on the planet. But on January 17, 2026, that’s exactly what happened. The 2026 edition of iHeartRadio ALTer EGO, presented by Capital One, transformed the Kia Forum
Sublime weren’t subtle about it from the start—“Me gusta mi reggae, me gusta punk rock.” Now they’re proving it. With tickets already on sale, Sublime have officially unveiled the full lineup for their new traveling festival Sublime Me Gusta, and it leans hard into punk history, underground attitude, and scene-level credibility. Set to kick off
If 2025 was the year rock began to reassert itself in the cultural bloodstream, then 2026 is shaping up to be the year it fully detonates. From legacy acts writing new chapters to modern outliers redefining the boundaries of the genre, the coming year looks stacked with records that promise to shift the landscape. These
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The water was black, cold, and crowded with bodies when Jakob Nowell felt his leg extend just a little too straight. Just moments earlier, fresh off his set with Sublime’s at Bayfest in San Diego last October, Jakob had done what he always does: skipped the backstage victory lap and headed straight for the fans.
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Ventura County’s Strange Case are pushing the next wave of SoCal alt/indie rock straight into 2026 with their brand-new single “HBK.” Driven by sharp guitars and sun-baked hooks, the track dives into the chaos of chasing someone you know you shouldn’t. “You just can’t scrub them from your brain,” Bassist Aaron Chapman says. Strange Case
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Sublime are back on top — and they did it with a song they didn’t even expect to blow up. “Ensenada” has now spent seven straight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative chart, officially becoming the biggest radio hit in Sublime’s entire career. Not bad for a track Jakob Nowell says started out
