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Daily Mail
28-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Sublime singer suffers personal tragedy, almost cancels performance
Sublime singer Jakob Nowell nearly didn't take to the stage during Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach on Saturday following a heartbreaking loss. The music artist, 30, emotionally revealed to the audience during the set that he had to put his beloved hairless cat Creature down before the band's performance. 'Creature the cat was my best f***ing friend,' he expressed as the other members prepared to play the next song. Jakob then admitted, 'I almost didn't want to play today but I thought to myself, "I don't know what any of you guys are going through out there."' After commenting on the size of the crowd outside, he added, 'I know a lot of people look forward to a set like this man. So, good to be up here playing my father's music with my best friends and family.' Jakob is notably the son of late singer Bradley Nowell - who had been the frontman of Sublime until his tragic passing in 1996 due to a heroin overdose at the age of 28. Jakob's hairless sphynx cat had often appeared on his main Instagram page, along with another hairless cat named Fluffy. Some images show Creature cuddling up on his lap, or wearing adorable outfits for special occasions. He has also mentioned his beloved pet during interviews, including his conversation with Rooster Magazine last year. At one point, Jakob was asked if Sublime has plans to have another mascot. Before his father's death, Bradley's dalmatian named Lou Dog had been the band's official mascot. 'Oh no because I have my band cat, Creature the hairless sphynx cat. He's pink. He's chubby. He's my mascot for Jakob's Castle,' the singer explained, referencing to his other band. Sublime had been formed in 1988 with Bradley as the frontman along with Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh. However, the ska punk band disbanded after Bradley's death. In 2009, Eric and Bud came together wanting to reform the group - which they eventually did with Romeo Ramirez. They called the group Sublime With Romeo due to not having the rights to use the original name. But in 2023, Jakob became the lead singer of the band alongside Eric and Bud, officially reforming Sublime. The following year, Sublime With Romeo disbanded after Eric announced his exit. Jakob has followed in his late father's musical footsteps aside from currently being the lead singer of Sublime - which has previously dropped tracks such as What I Got and Wrong Way. He formed his own group called LAW, which he left in 2021 and is also the frontman of his other band Jakob's Castle. Jakob is the son of Bradley and mom Troy Dendekker. The pair had begun dating in the 90s and married just one week before the singer's death during a ceremony in Las Vegas. During an interview with L.A. Magazine, Jakob got candid about his childhood, getting sober and his relationship with his mother. 'I grew up with a crazy tumultuous home life,' he explained. 'When I got sober, I didn't speak with [my parents] for years. 'There was just a lot of white-trash chaos. Definitely no silver spoon status. It was insanity.' He has since reconciled with his mother Troy as well as the man who raised him since he was six named Keith. Jakob also reflected on deciding to reform Sublime and explained to the outlet that he wants 'to bring attention to the very powerful California subculture that [he] created, and then use it as a tool to help people.' While talking to last year, the singer further opened up about his father - who passed away less than a year after he was born. 'I think that he was a man who was widely loved and respected by his friends. He was a human being like anybody else. He was varied. He had good days and bad days.' Jakob continued, 'But I think we have to just take everybody's character based on their actions and what they produced and created in the world. 'And I know that his music helped a lot of people, and I just feel so grateful to get to be involved with and get to interface with it like that.' The performer also added, 'It's been really nice getting to put together the gestalt to who he was 'cause I never met him personally... 'But all his different friends and family and the fans, they each have a little piece of who he was, and he seemed to be a very multifaceted and interesting man.' Jakob also discussed being compared to his later father and said, 'When I'm up there on stage, I always tell fans I'm not my dad. They're like, "He doesn't play the guitar the same or sing the same or do this." 'It's almost like I'm not him, dude; I'm a different guy. My larynx just happens to be biologically similar, so sometimes it sounds similar.' 'But I will play them genuinely and I'll have fun doing it, and that's all I can promise,' the singer expressed. Ahead of the Sublime's set during the Vans Warped Tour on Saturday, the band dropped their new single titled Ensenada on July 17.
Forbes
27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
How Vans Warped Tour Tradition Engages Music's Youth Market
Chris Demakes (L) and Roger Manganelli of Less than Jake perform during the Vans Warped tour at Pier ... More 30/32 on June 27, 2009 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by) After a five-year pause, the Vans Warped Tour is making a nostalgic and novel comeback. Marking its 30th anniversary this year, the tour kicked off a three-city jaunt June 14-15 in Washington, D.C. followed by shows July 26-27 in Long Beach, California, and Nov. 15-16 in Orlando, Florida. Returning artists Falling in Reverse, 311, Ice Nine Kills, Simple Plan, Asking Alexandria and Black Veil Brides join new acts Avril Lavigne, Body Count and Better Lovers on stage. An 88-page Official Vans Warped Tour Guide this year features a foreword by Warped founders Kevin Lyman and new interviews with Avril Lavigne, MGK, Simple Plan and All Time Low. The guide also includes "Warped Memories" comics illustrated by Luke McGarry and stories from Warped Tour regulars Mark Hoppus and Hayley Williams. In partnership with Z2 Comics, the nostalgic festival is spotlighting comics at performances to engage younger fans. Humor resonates with newer generations seeking out more authentic, immersive live shows built around real-life experiences. This offers artists new opportunities to design creative programming beyond the recent rise in virtual concerts, live streaming engagements, and concerts featuring design installations. Z2 Comics President Josh Bernstein says, "Warped Tour was an amazing rite of passage for so many bands and fans over those years, and so probably many people's first concert experience. Kevin built 'a little festival that could' back in 1996 with Sublime and others. And we're talking about it 30 years later; it's incredible." Most Warped Tour attendees this year are first-time festival-goers, illustrating the success of blending tradition with innovation. Festival community engagements like food and blood drives are growing community engagement and new connections among socially responsible fans. More than 250,000 complimentary zines were distributed to attendees wanting a lasting memory of the event. Jeffree Star performs during the Vans Warped tour at Pier 30/32 on June 27, 2009 in San Francisco, ... More California. (Photo by) Warp Tour tickets sold out for the first two events before bands were announced. Tickets are fairly priced at $149.99 per two-day event compared to most festivals that cost upwards of $600 for general admission weekend access. According to Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman, personal interactions between fans and artists are vital to the festival brand's long-term cultural relevance and success. The first show received positive reviews, he says, crediting nostalgia of the tour and its future focus on community and bands. Lyman says that as a professor at the University of Southern California, he has noticed among his students over the past few years that concepts like zines are becoming important again. He notices that students burned out from constantly scrolling and using social media enjoy slowing down to read and absorb content on paper. "Those moments and touchpoints like zines are becoming important to young people again. They also serve as a foundation for building community," Lyman says. "If you can find that microcommunity to relate with, it's a foundation for rebuilding the things we need as a society to be whole." Black Veil Brides founder and lead vocalist Andy Biersack considers the Warped Tour the most significant event in his life and says, "As a kid, it was my everything and my safe haven. As a young teen, it was my dream to be a part of it on stage, and as an adult, it was the single most vital and transformative thing for my career." Biersack, who considers Warped Tour production staff and artists his family, also met his wife, fellow musician Lilith Czar, on the Warped Tour. The pair serenaded each other from converted truck stages in amphitheater parking lots and spent evenings walking the festival grounds. Now future generations are carrying on the tradition in a new style.
Los Angeles Times
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Vans Warped Tour, the original punk rock circus, returns to Long Beach
Sublime's drummer Bud Gaugh says his most memorable moment at the first Warped Tour in 1995 was when he broke his ribs riding a BMX bike on a half-pipe during their stop in Houston, an incident, he says, later led to his arrest in Florida. 'I got arrested because [Warped Tour founder] Kevin Lyman wouldn't let me go see a doctor,' Gaugh jokingly told The Times . 'I was having a hard time breathing, I could not sleep. So, at the Orlando show that we were playing at, I found a girl whose mom was a nurse and she took me home and we raided the medicine cabinet, and I got some Vicodin and some other things to help me sleep. … Unfortunately I was arrested in the parking lot returning with those drugs in zero-tolerant Florida.' Gaugh was bailed out, and after being on the road for two weeks with broken ribs, Gaugh finally received proper treatment in Massachusetts. 'That was an amazing memory,' he says. This month, Gaugh returns with Sublime to the Vans Warped Tour for the festival's 30th anniversary, playing with late singer Bradley Nowell's son Jakob on vocals. Sublime was recently revealed to be one of the teased secret bands slated to play the shows in their hometown of Long Beach. Long Beach will be one of the first cities to hear their new song, 'Ensenada,' live. 'Thirty years later — I can't even believe I'm saying that — 30 years later and now we get to do it with Jakob, this is insane … and I just can't wait for Jakob to experience it, we get to live vicariously through his emotions as well as our own, it's incredible, it's such an amazing feeling, I'm such a proud uncle.' After a six-year hiatus, the Vans festival is being rebooted in partnership with live events production company Insomniac for a three-city tour in Washington, D.C., Long Beach and Orlando. The Long Beach shows take place at the Shoreline Waterfront on July 26 and 27 and includes an eclectic variety of heavyweight acts such as Pennywise, Sublime, 311, Ice-T, Fishbone, All-American Rejects, the Vandals and more. The festival is also featuring its classic extreme sports showcase of skateboarding and BMX stunts, along with art displays, vendors, the 'Gritty Garage' lounge dedicated to uplifting female musicians and an official Vans Warped Tour Museum pop-up celebrating the festival's 30-year legacy. 'Warped Tour is in my heart, I did a lot of brands. I had Mayhem, Taste of Chaos, I had probably like 40 different branded things, those were more business,' Lyman tells The Times. 'If you're going to come back at my age now — I'm 64 and I've been in the music business 45 years, going back to the Goldenvoice days — you're going to do something from the heart.' Lyman, who is also an associate professor at USC, had been itching to bring back Warped Tour, and the encouragement to revive it largely came from Insomniac founder and CEO Pasquale Rotella. Rotella says that for years, he was 'bugging' Lyman to consider it, and even though Insomniac had previous opportunities to produce other rock events, Pasquale had his sights set on Warped Tour. 'The reason why I went out and asked Kevin is because I knew that there was lots of interest. Everyone wants to be involved with a special event like Warped Tour; it's really in line with what we do,' Rotella says . 'Not only is there a huge crossover with attendees, but I love — we love as a company — community-driven events, and I don't believe that the other brands that are out there, even ones Kevin has been involved with, have as strong a community behind it.' Insomniac is better known for producing electronic dance music festivals such as Electric Daisy Music Carnival, Hard Summer Music Festival and Beyond Wonderland among others, but Rotella is no stranger to the punk rock world that Warped Tour is rooted in. When Rotella was a teenager, he was a surfer and came up in the skateboard and surf communities in L.A., which he says was full of punk rockers. For him, working on Warped Tour is simply a return to a scene and community that's always been embedded in his background. 'I was part of a lot of different communities — graffiti, skateboarding, surfing … I appreciate so many different kinds of art. I love the culture and community behind these different scenes … it's great to be able to knock those walls down and bring people together, expose people to different things and it's a lot of fun. I think Warped Tour does that well.' When Lyman started the Warped Tour in 1995, he had already been a promoter and booker in L.A. for years, initially working for the legendary Gary Tovar, founder of Goldenvoice — the company that puts on festivals such as Coachella, Cruel World and Stagecoach. The inspiration for Warped Tour simply came from the diverse shows he was putting on every night in L.A., and the first festival lineup reflected that, featuring bands including No Doubt, Sublime, L7, Deftones, Face to Face, and many other ska, punk, indie and alternative acts. 'It goes back to 1995. I was working in the clubs 320 nights a year, listening to [bands] every night, I was working Roxy, Whisky, Palace, Palladium, a whole bunch of venues that don't exist [anymore], and watching the audiences and going, 'Why are we isolating them into segments? I think there's a lot more here in common,'' Lyman says. Despite being varied in genre, Warped Tour has always been known as a predominantly punk rock festival. Pennywise guitarist Fletcher Dragge says that when his band first played Warped Tour in 1996, the lineup was mostly punk rock bands and he shared the stage with peers like Rancid, Descendents, Bad Religion and Social Distortion. 'It was like a full-on summer camp for degenerate punk rockers, if you will,' Dragge says. 'We'd done some festivals, we'd done some tours at that time, but nothing like wow, here's all your friends in the same place and eating at the same tables, barbecuing, drinking beers, hanging out, playing dice, playing poker, supporting each other onstage. There was nothing like it. I never went to summer camp, but I imagine this was the craziest summer camp of all time.' Dragge says that even though Pennywise is playing this year with a slew of younger bands across different genres — an experience he says differs from the old-school days of the Vans festival — Dragge constantly gets 'stoked' about seeing and discovering new bands in the scene, and he's excited to witness the fresh talent at this year's Warped Tour. 'It's inspiring, for me. It makes me feel like there's a future and hope for punk rock in general, it's not going away,' he says. Warped Tour has significantly evolved since its humble beginnings, becoming one of the longest-running music festivals in the world. Dragge says, 'Warped Tour deserves the ultimate respect of any festival on the planet' because of what it accomplished with its revolutionary idea to take a festival on wheels nationwide, creating a blueprint for other music festivals, which according to Dragge, is now copied by everyone. 'That's all Kevin's doing and he's going to go down in history as the greatest of all great operators for the biggest, craziest punk rock circus of all time that ran around this globe,' Dragge says.
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Warped Tour to Head to Washington, D.C., for Second Consecutive Year
People's black-checkered sneakers aren't even dry yet from this weekend, but emo fan-favorite Vans Warped Tour isn't waiting for anyone. Festival organizers announced Wednesday that the punk festival will return to Washington, D.C. in 2026 for another two-day concert rager on June 13 and 14. 'Let's run it back next year?!' the official Vans Warped Tour Instagram posted Wednesday. 'Same time, same spot.' More from Rolling Stone Warped Tour Pulled Off the Impossible and Took Fans Back in Time Cartel to Celebrate 'Chroma' 20th Anniversary With Re-Recording and Fall Tour Sublime Will Play DC Warped Tour 30 Years After Headlining First Edition The Vans Warped Tour had been a staple in the punk rock scene since its creation in 1995. The festival played its last shows in 2019. But last year, founder Kevin Lyman announced a three-city 2025 revival of the festival to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The 2025 Washington D.C. shows took place over the weekend, giving thousands of screaming punk fans peak view of performances from All Time Low, Machine Gun Kelly, Avril Lavigne, the Wonder Years, Modsun, and Boys Like Girls, as well as the festival's emphasis on indie and emerging artists. Now, it seems like fans will be able to keep the party going for at least one more year. 'Since 1997, I said I was hoping that there was some kid in a garage that was going to come out and kick Kevin Lyman's ass someday, and put on a better festival,' Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman told Rolling Stone in 2024 ahead of the festival's return. 'People start remembering once something's gone that it was important, it was fun — and I'm hoping to recapture a lot of that again.' The lineup for 2026 hasn't been announced yet. Ticket pre-sales for the 2026 Washington D.C. Vans Warped Tour begin this Friday, June 20 at 12 p.m. ET via its website. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
AsiaOne
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
Avril Lavigne praises ex-husband Deryck Whibley after they reunited for performance, Entertainment News
The 40-year-old singer and the Sum 41 frontman, 45, wed in 2006, but they split in 2009 and their divorce was confirmed in 2010. However, the former couple are still on good terms, and Deryck joined Avril on stage at the RFK Stadium Grounds in Washington on Sunday night (June 15) as she headlined the Vans Warped Tour. Avril and Deryck performed Sum 41's song In Too Deep together to "one of the best crowds" she has experienced. The Complicated hitmaker wrote on Instagram: "Headlined @vanswarpedtour last night and it was everything I would have expected and more! It was one of the best crowds and you guys know how to rock. "Also this legend @deryckwhibley from @sum41 joined me for one of the best pop punk anthems of all time In Too Deep" Deryck is now married to model Ariana Cooper, and Avril previously wed Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger in 2013, but they divorced in 2015. Avril and singer Mod Sun got engaged in March 2022, but the pair went their separate ways less than a year later. A month after the pair got engaged, Avril insisted relationships were "not easy", and she had learned to "prioritise" herself rather than relying on other people. Speaking to FAULT Magazine at the time, she said: "Yes, love is hard and relationships are not easy. "It's not easy for anybody and I've now lived long enough to realise that I need to prioritise myself and take care of myself. "I went through a phase where I was like 'I'm gonna be independent and have time on my own for a minute... "And it really didn't last that long! But when I started the album, I was definitely in the mindset of, 'If I'm going to rely on anyone in this world, it's going to be me.' " [[nid:719052]]
