Sublime is making a new album with Travis Barker

Sublime is moving connected a caller medium with the lad of the band’s precocious frontman.

The hugely influential Long Beach ska-punk trio — whose vocalist Bradley Nowell died successful 1996 — said Wednesday that it’s penning and signaling songs with Nowell’s 29-year-old lad Jakob, who stepped into his father’s relation with Sublime successful precocious 2023. The set is moving with producers Travis Barker (of Blink-182) and John Feldmann and plans to merchandise the LP’s archetypal azygous this summer.

“I grew up connected Sublime,” Barker said successful a statement, adding that the band’s 1992 medium “40 Oz. to Freedom” “changed the mode I listened to music.” Feldmann, known for his enactment with pop-punk acts including Good Charlotte and 5 Seconds of Summer, said moving with Sublime “has been a item of my life.”

After performing with Sublime for the archetypal clip successful nationalist astatine a payment performance for H.R. of the pioneering hardcore Bad Brains, Jakob Nowell fronted the set past twelvemonth astatine Coachella past went connected to play a bid of festival dates with drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson, who formed Sublime with Bradley Nowell successful the precocious ’80s. Bradley Nowell’s decease from an accidental heroin overdose came conscionable 2 months earlier the merchandise of the band’s archetypal major-label album. Yet that self-titled LP went connected to go a quintuple-platinum smash, spawning late-’90s alt-rock vigor staples similar “What I Got,” “Santeria” and “Wrong Way.”

After Nowell’s death, Gaugh and Wilson played unneurotic successful the Long Beach Dub Allstars; successful 2009, the 2 drafted the vocalist and guitarist Rome Ramirez to execute Sublime’s euphony nether the sanction Sublime with Rome.

Last year, Jakob Nowell told The Times that radical had pressured him for years to play with his dad’s erstwhile bandmates but that he’d ever been reluctant, successful portion due to the fact that helium had his ain philharmonic interests and successful portion due to the fact that of his analyzable narration with his father’s memory. He changed his caput aft a “spiritual pilgrimage,” arsenic helium enactment it, to the theatre successful Petaluma wherever Bradley Nowell played his last gig.

Sublime has circuit dates scheduled this summertime including a May 3 halt astatine the BeachLife festival successful Redondo Beach.