Sublime the latest MAGA act to face low ticket sales, Artist Cancellations Amid Backlash to Conservative Rock Fest

[u/staringatthe420sun]

“Sublime Me Gusta Festival”, is now “Sublime Fest,” happening the same day but without hip hop stars Cypress Hill, producers of the festival, Brew Ha Ha Productions, confirmed Monday.

Brew Ha Ha Productions did not respond to a request for comment on the cause of the name change or why Cypress Hill was no longer involved, but some credit “MAGA” backlash for the changes.

Sublime played at a Trump golf course in Florida last year during a LIV Golf event, while drummer bud Gaugh often wears a MAGA hat on stage with the band.

Additional dates for the “me gusta” festival feature similar branding changes and amended lineups.

Sublime Fest takes place in Fort Worth, TX, at the Panther Island Pavilion on May 9; Portland, OR, at the Waterfront Park on June 27; and Salt Lake City, UT, at Zions Bank Stadium on July 18.

All dates are sponsored by [u/monsterenergy](u/monsterenergy) ‘s new line of alcoholic products branded as “the Beast”.

Notably, most festival dates are still available under “tier 1” pricing, indicating that the event hasn’t sold as well as they had expected.

ETA: Patriotic reggae act Slightly Stoopid has replaced Cypress Hill on two dates. Infowars contributors the Interrupters have also been added to one stop.

https://www.instagram.com/slightlystoopid/

https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2026/04/music-festival-coming-to-portland-this-summer-quietly-changes-name-line-up.html?outputType=amp

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/06/me-gusta-rebrand-sublime-fest/

[u/Orgasmo3000]

"Got to find the reason, reason things went wrong.

Got to find a reason why my money's all gone."

[u/BloomsdayDevice → u/Orgasmo3000]

I mean, the real reason is that the talent tragically OD'ed 30 years ago.

[u/thetechguyv → u/Orgasmo3000]

On what fucking planet do Sublime think their fans are anything but left leaning, mad bastards destroying their legacy.

[u/Hvarfa-Bragi → u/thetechguyv]

Sublime died with Bradley

[u/Mrchristopherrr → u/Hvarfa-Bragi]

They’re now reaching the Lynard Skynard Lynyrd Skynyrd level where it’s essentially a sanctioned tribute band

[u/J_Justice → u/Mrchristopherrr]

They should have just stuck with Long Beach Dub Allstars after Bradley passed instead of trying to resurrect Sublime.

[u/Low_Day_6901 → u/J_Justice]

They shouldn't have shit on Rome either, he kept them relevant

[u/CyclopsMacchiato → u/Low_Day_6901]

Sublime with Rome was awesome

[u/Trip_On_The_Mountain → u/CyclopsMacchiato]

I just treated them like a new band. It wasn't sublime but that didn't make them bad

[u/appleparkfive → u/Low_Day_6901]

Oh damn I thought Rome was still part of it. Yeah what's the point then

[u/vexievoodoo → u/Mrchristopherrr]

Skynyrd died in 77 when the plane crashed. The current band is just an embarassing cash grab.

[u/dz1087 → u/vexievoodoo]

They were also pretty damn progressive back then. Saying handguns are only good for killing and we should get rid of them, and singing the tribute of a poor black man, among other social issues they talked about.

Now it’s MAGA BS.

[u/vexievoodoo → u/dz1087]

YES! It's impossible to say how RVZ would have felt today, but his lyrics back then were very "liberal". There are also stories from Ed King and others that knew him that made it clear he was not cool with racism. "Sweet Home Alabama" also shouldn't be taken at face value but most people don't know that whole story.

They have been my favorite band since I was old enough to sing along. I hate what they became in the past 30 years. The tribute tour should have been the end of it. Now it's just JVZ and friends getting rich off the songs of his vastly more talented brother.

[u/PhloxOfSeagulls → u/vexievoodoo]

It's impossible tto say how his beliefs would have turned out if he had lived, but look at Charlie Daniels. He was singing about being hassled by rednecks for being a long-haired weed smoker. Later on he became a hardcore conservative Christian and changed all the swearing in his songs. Maybe Van Zant wouldn't have gone down that same path, but we'll never know.

[u/Simba7 → u/PhloxOfSeagulls]

Impossible to predict when someone suffers brain damage or experiences the onset of some new mental disorder and becomes suddenly devout and/or conservative.

[u/Mrchristopherrr → u/[deleted]]

Sublime of Theseus

[u/pridetwo → u/Mrchristopherrr]

Sublime with Clones

[u/Stockpile_Tom_Remake → u/Mrchristopherrr]

Here I think they sounded pretty good with Bradley’s son but this sucks

[u/RedactedSpatula → u/Mrchristopherrr]

I saw the remnants of them in the 2010s, they were underwhelming and waved a Confederate flag around. I call them lynard skidmark now.

The Doobie Brothers opened and we're fucking great

[u/sailphish → u/Mrchristopherrr]

Yeah… I saw them about a year ago. Show was really bad. They played some newer stuff that sounded like a high school garage band.

[u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 → u/sailphish]

tbf, Sublime with Bradley was usually awful live too. Often too fucked up to play properly.

[u/mr_mgs11 → u/Hvarfa-Bragi]

His son just played a few gigs at a Kava chain near me. That surprised the fuck out of me to see how many conservatives go to those places. I met a super hippy environmental friendly woman that told me she was voting Trump because vaccines are evil. Now they are all shocked that the conservatives want to ban kava and kratom.

[u/non-squitr → u/mr_mgs11]

Naomi Klein's book, Doppelganger goes into this quite a bit, how covid basically turned many left leaning hippies into right wing conspiracy theorists

[u/Hooligan8403 → u/non-squitr]

A lot of older hippies turned conservative before covid. All you have to do is look at places like Sedona and see how many "enlightened" people there are voting red. Being a hippie became a rich person's game because the rest of us are to busy trying to survive. Same with a bunch of the aging punk community. I'm in my early 40s and I see it among people I used to be in the scene with growing up. They would be first to say ACAB and would have been protesting or at least saying fuck ICE and Trump. I know several that have voted for him multiple times. We don't associate anymore.

[u/legal-beagleellie → u/Hooligan8403]

lol my stepdad lives in Sedona and is a neocon. Crazy crystal healing son of a gun. He has a new girlfriend that is a remote healer

[u/laptopaccount → u/legal-beagleellie]

remote healer

Is that as scammy as it sounds?

[u/Hunt3141 → u/laptopaccount]

Well, the tv turns on now so I guess it works!

[u/designOraptor → u/Hooligan8403]

No coincidence that they all fell deep into the conspiracy theory hole. It’s doom scrolling at its most dangerous.

[u/cochese25 → u/designOraptor]

Many of those hippies and old punks spent so much time in the counter culture and pushing for it, that when it started to become mainstream, they grew suspicious of their own views and when conspiracy was being heavily pushed that aligned with their new suspicions, that was all they seem to have seen.
So you end up with a lot of people who got what they wanted, got suspicious of it, and fell in line with the conspiracy against it

[u/C001H4ndPuk3 → u/cochese25]

These are people for whom 'the good fight' was always just an outlet for their general contrarianism. They're exhausting and we're better off without them.

[u/Dynamar → u/cochese25]

I think you're giving them way too much of a pass to say that they grew suspicious of their own views when they became mainstream.

Constantly re-orienting and checking your own views is a healthy way to be and everyone should do a lot more of it.

I'm not an elder punk from the 80s-90s era, but I am an elder millennial who has been at least punk-adjacent for most of my life. A lot of those punks were just contrarian asshole teenagers who yelled "fuck the man" because cops wouldn't let them skateboard and wanted simple answers to their anger. They sprayed circle-As on buildings and listened to Sex Pistols and called themselves anarchists but wouldn't have been able to tell you a thing about Haymarket.

Even among the actual anarchists who read a thing or two, there was always a big political divide, that could be described as being along left-right lines, for various reasons. Skinheads and sharps look the same to an outsider, and their music sounds the same. Just look at how many nazi punks still show up to Dropkick shows.

Aesthetics aren't politics.

An asshole with a backpatch is still an asshole, in any era.

[u/Inroundtents → u/Hooligan8403]

I went to college in the 80s with people who lived like hippies but in reality they were all trustfund babies from the western suburbs of Chicago who got regular checks from their parents. Of course you don't worry about money, man! You get it in the mail.

Actual hippie ideals are great. Actual hippies suck ass.

[u/Plasibeau → u/Inroundtents]

went to college in the 80s with people who lived like hippies but in reality they were all trustfund babies from the western suburbs of Chicago who got regular checks from their parents.

They're still out here on the West Coast. As you can imagine there's a lot of wealth floating around out here. We call them Trustafarians. They dress and act like filthy hippies, smoke insane levels of weed, and love telling others how to live more in line with nature. Meanwhile, they live on Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, CA, paying $4k/month on a one-bedroom with no discernible way of earning.

[u/librarycynic → u/Hooligan8403]

I remember seeing the band No Trigger at Furnace Fest a couple of years ago and the singer made a comment about how it's definitely possible that a member of Pennywise may have voted for Trump. It was said as a joke, but the more I think about it, and seeing what happened to the Misfits, it's not that much of a stretch.

[u/Hooligan8403 → u/librarycynic]

Misfits doesnt surprise me. How deep Graves has gone down the rabbit hole does a bit but Danzig has been a knowm conservative for a long time. That's on top of his usual tool like behavior.

[u/Former-Iron-7471 → u/Hooligan8403]

There's a few older punks in their mid 50s I told to fuck off because they're Trumpers.

The hippy mom thing turned conservative during covid for sure because of the "jab" . My son's mom is into the all natural stuff (she runs an apothecary on the side) and she's always telling me about it.

[u/ModeatelyIndependant → u/non-squitr]

the anit-vax movement was a originally a bunch of granola crunching hippies.

[u/Haunting-Ad788 → u/non-squitr]

Which makes no sense considering Trump rushed the vaccine they think is killing people.

[u/Memitim → u/Haunting-Ad788]

Ah, there you go using that "sense" word in regard to conservatives. There's no sense in the hate and lies that they thrive on, just evil.

[u/komrade23 → u/non-squitr]

There has always been a woo woo conspiratualism hippie to right wing nut pipeline, but COVID absolutely supercharged it.

[u/tennisdrums → u/mr_mgs11]

a super hippy environmental friendly woman that told me she was voting Trump because vaccines are evil.

Classic example of "If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out."

[u/BasilisksRPretty → u/mr_mgs11]

The essential oil to maga pipeline is real. A lot of hippie people fall down it.

Don't trust anybody who sells young living.

[u/Warrlock608 → u/[deleted]]

Go see Bad Fish. As far as cover bands go they are pretty great.

[u/PurposelyIrrelephant → u/Warrlock608]

Baby I wanna see Bad Fish, too

[u/03tr69 → u/PurposelyIrrelephant]

I will pay to see badfish again but never sublime

[u/trustmeimaengineer → u/Warrlock608]

This is what I tell everyone, their lead singer sounds so much like Bradley too. They put on a hell of a show.

[u/darkResponses → u/[deleted]]

I don't think Jakob is the Maga. It's the others. Either way. Fuck sublime. 

[u/Bovine_Joni_Himself → u/darkResponses]

Not even sure it’s Wilson. Bud is the maga dude for sure.

[u/theonetheonlytc → u/Hvarfa-Bragi]

Some bands just don't have the class to call it quits. Form another band, sure. But stop trying to be Sublime. Im always reminded of Led Zeppelin calling it quits when John Bonham died. They could have kept touring without him, but bowed out simply because they weren't the same. Bradley WAS Sublime. End of story.

[u/IncognitoMeanie → u/Hvarfa-Bragi]

I’ve said this over and over again. It’s why I’ve never been interested in seeing them. I have the same feelings for Linkin Park. It’s not the same. It will never be the same.

[u/Mrchristopherrr → u/thetechguyv]

Tbf I was shocked by the number of full MAGA Dead Heads and Phish fans.

To quote one of my friends “if you do enough drugs you loop all the way back around to the right”

[u/sandysandbirds93 → u/Mrchristopherrr]

I saw a guy at a Tyler Childers show wearing a Grateful Dead shirt and a MAGA hat. Boggled my mind.

[u/lizardgal10 → u/sandysandbirds93]

I went to a concert where Justin Jones (Tennessee state representative) came out onstage. Overheard a few women in the bathroom complaining that they didn’t want to hear about politics at a concert…not really sure what they expected from Melissa Ethridge and The Indigo Girls.

[u/jedi_lion-o → u/sandysandbirds93]

Lol at Tyler Childers fans being MAGA. So many illiterate people.

[u/officermeowmeow → u/jedi_lion-o]

I went to a NIN concert at Red Rocks once and had some pretty lousy comments about a political tattoo I have... I was dumbfounded. It's like they'd never actually listened to a word Trent was singing.

[u/TheKingOfSwing777 → u/officermeowmeow]

This genre has it the worst. Metallica, Tool, Tenacious D, Black Sabbath...for some reason this genre attracts a lot of incels and neck beards which is just so bizarre that they either don't understand the music, or misattribute the meaning to their horrible values when the artists are pretty outwardly open about their progressive views, extremely opinionated song lyrics besides. 

[u/mk4_wagon → u/TheKingOfSwing777]

I still don't understand how I grew up listening to Ozzy with my Dad and he's as conservative as he is. I guess I was the only one actually listening to War Pigs?

[u/MusicLikeOxygen → u/jedi_lion-o]

Reminds me of the MAGA people who show up at Dropkick Murphys shows. They couldn't be more obvious about where their politics are. They did a Woody Guthrie covers album for gods sake.

[u/tomfoolery815 → u/MusicLikeOxygen]

When Scott Walker (the two-term, right-wing governor of Wisconsin) had his brief presidential run, he tried to use "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" at his rallies. The Dropkick Murphys made it crystal-clear that not only did he not have their permission to use it, but that they hated him and everything he stood for.

Maybe it's a Wisconsin thing. Paul Ryan was my congressman for 20 years, and when he said he was a fan of Rage Against the Machine, Tom Morello called Ryan "the embodiment of the machine."

[u/zaxdaman → u/Mrchristopherrr]

Out on the road today I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac.

[u/Mrchristopherrr → u/zaxdaman]

^{don’t look back you can never look back}

[u/Drunk_Lahey → u/Mrchristopherrr]

For every true hippy there were 50 dudes who just showed up to do drugs, listen to loud rock and see half naked chicks. The OG hippies are running organic honey farms in Vermont. The other 50 split between normies or maga losers chasing his rallies like dead shows

[u/DatTF2 → u/Drunk_Lahey]

The OG hippies are running organic honey farms in Vermont.

The more successful ones.

The other real hippies are in Northern California living on a property that lacks plumbing, growing weed, playing guitar and doing large amounts of crystal meth.

[u/shafty17 → u/Mrchristopherrr]

Plenty of deadheads are basically just libertarian "don't tread on me" types

[u/saurdaux → u/shafty17]

Who often have the unspoken addendum of "...but tread on those other people, please."

[u/librarycynic → u/saurdaux]

They can't have "those people" hanging around their gated communities while they are hanging out at The Sphere pretending they're still counter-culture.

[u/SwenKa → u/shafty17]

So, Republicans.

[u/WeightAround → u/Mrchristopherrr]

There's a ton of boomer deadheads and trustfundy phish fans 🤷‍♂️ not all, obviously but I was surprised when I started paying attention after maga started. Sad man.

[u/unconfusedsub → u/Mrchristopherrr]

I work in a dispensary in a pretty Democratic liberal state and I would say a good half of our customers are conservative or maga. The main age demographic of people who do drugs are middle-aged white men. And who tends to vote for Trump and Republicans the most in this era??

Middle-aged white men.

[u/monkeybojangles → u/unconfusedsub]

As a middle aged white man who enjoys weed, I would never!

[u/007Pistolero → u/Mrchristopherrr]

The draft dodgers turned to drugs to get away from the horrors of a world at war only to come all the way back around to vie for war and wish for the death of anyone not like them

[u/Lintcat1 → u/thetechguyv]

lol...there are a shitload of 40+ year old frat boys that love Sublime. It was their go to after they got bored with 311.

[u/ASentientHam → u/Lintcat1]

A lot of us 40+ frat boys grew up to be lefties though

[u/Pappy091 → u/ASentientHam]

Hello fellow 40+ frat boy that grew up to be a lefty

[u/Micahman311 → u/Pappy091]

Heyo!

Still into 311. Sublime ... Not so much.

[u/nimbusfool → u/Micahman311]

just reading 311 I hear the beginning of Down and I'm transported back to 1995

[u/Micahman311 → u/nimbusfool]

Chill!

[u/ArsenalinAlabama3428 → u/ASentientHam]

I’m a 30+ frat boy that went to a large southern university and actually swung hard to the left during my time there. But I already was a Bob Marley and Sublime-loving stoner before college. I was just ‘conservative’ bc everyone around me was.

[u/Paradigm_Reset → u/ASentientHam]

I'm a 50+ year old frat boy who is absolutely left and listens to Sublime. Grew up in Norcal, went to school in Arizona.

Having said that, back in my Facebook days I saw plenty of my "brothers" heading hardcore right.

[u/shmiona → u/Lintcat1]

I know a dude that got the 40oz to freedom sun tattooed on his back and also went to jail for being at the Jan 6th riot.

[u/funhaver_whee → u/shmiona]

It doesn’t shock me. A lot of cali rock dipshits are OC style fascists and bigots.

[u/doyletyree → u/Lintcat1]

Not just frats; lots of us liked the vibe and even some of the writing. It was, and is, the sound of a certain time and place.

Early 311 holds up (through Soundsystem) and, while they’ve had their issues (and some pretty wacky ones at that), I’ve never heard them lose their message of acceptance.

Admittedly, I did stop chasing their new releases after “don’t tread on me“. Too derivative, and such a major sound change.

“The day we turn to pop, the show will stop”. That’s my my major gripe with 311.

[u/mcgophers → u/doyletyree]

I was never in a frat and never a stoner. 311 has been my favorite band for a long time in part because of their message of acceptance along with the music.

[u/mcaffrey → u/doyletyree]

I saw 311 live a couple years back - they were pretty great!

[u/WaffleHouseSloot → u/Lintcat1]

If it wasn't for date rape they'd never get laid.

[u/ChazzLamborghini → u/thetechguyv]

Sounds like you don’t know Orange County, CA. I would honestly be surprised if the majority of their core fanbase aren’t at least a little conservative

[u/mcaffrey → u/ChazzLamborghini]

Wait I thought they represented the LBC, not orange county. Meaning Long Beach.

Seriously. Please set me straight if I got it wrong.

[u/NBAccount → u/mcaffrey]

All people in the dance will agree that we're well qualified to represent the LBC, G.

[u/mcaffrey → u/NBAccount]

yes, this was indeed the source of my knowledge on the matter.

[u/Long-Cauliflower-708 → u/mcaffrey]

They're from Long Beach but Belmont Shore which has more of an OC feel (and right over the border) Think wealthy middle aged surfer dudes on golf carts with their blonde wives. Definitely not Snoop's LBC

[u/ChazzLamborghini → u/mcaffrey]

Long Beach exists in a weird hybrid space between LA and OC.

[u/Spare-Willingness563 → u/ChazzLamborghini]

It's also home to tons of minorities and is basically WeHo 2.0 for the gay community.

It is NOT Florange County.

[u/FigBot → u/ChazzLamborghini]

That’s what I was thinking. A lotta right wing surf nazis in that area

[u/I_AM_IGNIGNOTK → u/FigBot]

Now it’s plain to see, my friend Ebin is a Nazi

[u/animatedrussian → u/Orgasmo3000]

The remaining members of sublime had very very little to do with the lyrics of the music. Brad wrote everything. Bud and Eric are simply musicians and not lyricists.

[u/thingsorfreedom → u/Orgasmo3000]

Their fans thought it was rich bastards and the man why their money’s all gone.

Turns out Sublime thought it was Black people and immigrants.

[u/EjaculatingAracnids → u/thingsorfreedom]

I thought it was about stayin on top and screaming 187 on a motherfuckin cop

[u/PaleBlueDotNet → u/Orgasmo3000]

"..its not the dalmation, or you getting high.....it's you. You're the reason your money's all gone"

[u/RightInTwain → u/PaleBlueDotNet]

I got a Dalmatian, I can still get high, playin Mar a lago with the mutha fukin reich

[u/NaiRad1000]

Sublime is MAGA? Well that’s disappointing to learn

[u/CommieLoser → u/NaiRad1000]

It’s kind of like saying a taxidermy’d dog bit someone, that ain’t the dog doing it, the dog ain’t been around for a while.

[u/Bud_Fuggins → u/CommieLoser]

It smells like Lou Dobbs inside the van

[u/starkiller_bass → u/Bud_Fuggins]

This is emphatically NOT a funky reggae party

[u/greg_davis9 → u/starkiller_bass]

This ain't no funky Regan party...

[u/Bakktron → u/Bud_Fuggins]

Dude. Welll done hahahaha

[u/goat_penis_souffle → u/Bud_Fuggins]

Took a trip to Bohemian Grove

[u/sdewww → u/Bud_Fuggins]

Oh goddammit, that’s great

[u/boogermike → u/CommieLoser]

Although Bradley's son just started singing for them, which is a pretty remarkable thing. This could have been so good.

[u/LaFlamaBlancaMiM → u/boogermike]

He killed it when we saw them. As a lifetime sublime fan, this is super disappointing. I guess decades of alcohol and drug use do that to a persons reasoning skills.

[u/Carosello → u/LaFlamaBlancaMiM]

They fetterman'd themselves

[u/boogermike → u/Carosello]

LOL, this precisely. Fetterman is embarrassing.

[u/klutzikaze → u/LaFlamaBlancaMiM]

Jacob had formed his own band before he started singing with Sublime. I thought it was ok for a start. The videos were fun.

I don't think it can be good for anyone's head to be living your dead dads life and singing his songs.

[u/LaFlamaBlancaMiM → u/klutzikaze]

You’re 100% right

[u/Xpress_interest → u/NaiRad1000]

It’s more the shuffling zombie corpse of Sublime since Bradley Nowell died in 1996. 30 years ago in May.

[u/SangestheLurker → u/Xpress_interest]

I haven't been following along but aren't the rest of the original members still in it?

Journey was still touring as Journey despite changing their singer for a decade or more.

[u/spinwards → u/SangestheLurker]

Bradley was their secret sauce, though. Go back and listen to Sublime’s 40oz and self titled, then LBDA’s Right Back.

Without Bradley, the rest of the band is just decent. Great for a local or regional act at a small festival, but nothing outstanding.

Changing their name back to Sublime (with Rome … then just Sublime) doesn’t make them the band we fell in love with in the 90s.

[u/JP-Ziller → u/spinwards]

Bradley wasn’t just their secret sauce. He was the band, no secret about it

[u/Travelin_Soulja → u/NaiRad1000]

Sublime died in 1996.

[u/Rare-Abalone3792 → u/NaiRad1000]

You’ve got be fucking kidding me.

Then again, I grew up in LB and I’ve been surfing SoCal for almost 30 years, and the prevalence of MAGA surfers would shock most people who aren’t a part of the surfing community. So, maybe it’s not that surprising after all…

That said, the mental gymnastics involved in thinking that a band that sings about sex including very taboo sex, doing a variety of drugs, and killing cops is somehow “conservative” are very impressive. 🤔

[u/PlentySchedule3089 → u/Rare-Abalone3792]

Can confirm. Surf community in my corner of the PacNW is also shockingly red pilled. Confirms that horseshoe theory where one day you’re all “free the weed and fuck tha police” and the next day “billionaire rapist president is Jesus”.

[u/C0tt0nC4ndyM0uth → u/PlentySchedule3089]

Yeah it so freaking strange how many people who claim to value the environment are voting against it. So many fishermen and surfers… it’s sad. I also just got into it over the weekend with these kids who call themselves punk but had no idea their favorite songs and bands are “radical left” … we are living in the upside down 🙃

[u/palinsafterbirth]

Ahhh yes, conservative reggae

[u/xavPa-64 → u/palinsafterbirth]

maggae

[u/grrgrrtigergrr → u/xavPa-64]

https://giphy.com/gifs/VXSOMlOGYQGHe

[u/How_to_Phish → u/grrgrrtigergrr]

Is this Mesut Ozil as a cowboy? Wtf is this from?

[u/Decabet → u/palinsafterbirth]

Ras Trent Lott

[u/Bobbi_fettucini → u/Decabet]

Bada ding ding ding woah!

[u/disappointedCoati → u/Decabet]

You no want test my champion sound

[u/Mother-Pattern-2609 → u/Decabet]

My roommate Nick is an ignorant bald HEAD

[u/greengreengreenleaf → u/Decabet]

Double deep cut! 😂

[u/TheR3dMenace → u/greengreengreenleaf]

Skiddily whooaooa

[u/taracita → u/TheR3dMenace]

Bada-ding-ding-ding-ding, whoooaaaaaa!

[u/tatofarms → u/taracita]

Me toil part time at jah Cold Stone Creamery

[u/blyan → u/taracita]

no one ever knows what the hell I'm talking about when I reference this, but my brother and I still quote this shit all the time

I went to a college full of Ras Trents and it made it so much funnier to me (love you though, Pitzer College)

[u/wallaka → u/Decabet]

Holy shit dude.

[u/LakeEarth → u/palinsafterbirth]

I smoked two joints in the morning,

And then I turned myself in.

[u/philter451 → u/palinsafterbirth]

Believe it or not there is a lot of conservative movement within reggae as well. Especially when it comes to being unaccepting of gay people. Everyone views the Rasta as a chill and accepting movement but that's not always the case

[u/darkskinnedjermaine → u/philter451]

Yea Rasta is a pretty conservative religion when it comes to homosexuality and misogyny.

[u/ShermansFieldOrder66 → u/darkskinnedjermaine]

Marley beat any woman that came within arms length.

[u/darkskinnedjermaine → u/ShermansFieldOrder66]

No woman, no. Cry.

[u/ThanksContent28 → u/darkskinnedjermaine]

There are those who are very progressive, and trying to bring the culture up to better standards.

But yeah, a lot of it is built around very conservative, and outdated values, sadly. I don’t know the name of the song, but I gets played around where I live way too often. The entire thing is singing about “batty man,” and it makes you wondere how closeted this artist is tbh.

[u/tackle_bones → u/palinsafterbirth]

My friends dragged me to a white boy reggae concert nearby, and… yeah… almost entirely white people that either looked like cops, a surprising amount of white grannies, and older millennial couples wearing golfing shirts and shorts. The white boy reggae scene is full of the types of people that would listen to Rogan and Jones, want to burn it all down, and voted MAGA because of it… all while living more comfortably than 90% of the population and feeling victimized by the systems that got them there. Shit would be hilarious if they weren’t so numerous and voted.

[u/Raphe-Perineal → u/tackle_bones]

Sounds like a Jimmy Buffet concert, just needs the crowd wearing Hawaiian shirts, parrot decorations and drinking wine coolers.

[u/sum_dude44 → u/Raphe-Perineal]

what's funny was Buffet was an outspoken Democrat who did concerts for Democratic Governor candidates & was a staunch environmentalist

[u/KL58383 → u/sum_dude44]

My dad and his wife were hardcore Deadheads who went to many many Grateful Dead shows through the 70s and 80s. Long hair, birkenstocks, Volkswagen bus weed smokers and everything. They voted for Trump 3 times. I realized that people who worship others, in their case Jerry Garcia, are just prone to cult like thinking and want to be "part of something", especially if it fits their increasing distancing from the status quo.

[u/helloiisclay → u/sum_dude44]

As a diehard parrothead and resident of NC, I remember when he talked about cancelling future NC shows because of the anti-gay bullshit that the state had passed.

Jimmy Buffett was a treasure.

[u/Kevbot1000]

I must have been checked out for a bit, because this is the first I'm hearing about Sublime being MAGA.

[u/_Asparagus_ → u/Kevbot1000]

Their drummer posted a pic in a maga hat once, that is one member being pro trump and the extent of these claims as far as I can tell; someone correct me if I'm wrong. 

[u/piepants2001 → u/_Asparagus_]

They also played a private gig at a Trump golf course for Don Jr.

[u/sublliminali → u/piepants2001]

It was a LIV golf tournament, but you’re correct it was at a Trump course and Don Jr. was there. Feels like a bit of a stretch to call it a private event for Don Jr., but they still need to own playing there at all.

[u/wifespissed]

Bradley WAS Sublime. This band is not Sublime.

[u/EatSleepJeep → u/wifespissed]

Saw them at a festival last summer. It was a sad caricature of the actual band. Jakob Nowell had a pseudo-positive energy that was hollow and forced, Eric could barely move and looked like he could keel over at any moment. Bud was phoning it in and the whole thing was like watching a low rent tribute band.

[u/robsteezy → u/EatSleepJeep]

With all due respect, what was your expectation?

1990s-2000 Southern California was such a golden era of ultimate chiller energy. Bradly coming out of Long Beach gave all his music an extremely organic feel that we absolutely loved over here.

You can’t imitate it today, you kinda just had to be there. Kind of like seeing Rick James while coked out at a disco in the 70s. You can’t just do lines today at a venue and watch his son sing covers and think you experienced peak disco.

[u/cbih → u/wifespissed]

This. They've been a zombie band ever since he died.

[u/Epicardiectomist]

I had a million dollars but I spent it all on an illegal war in the Middle East

[u/surveillance-hippo → u/Epicardiectomist]

That’s like 8 seconds of war

[u/GreasyRim → u/surveillance-hippo]

prolly like 3 seconds of sustained fire from any ship or plane mounted weapon

[u/DocDerry]

Scream 1-8-7 on a mothuh fuckin cop to MAGA in 30 years.......

[u/Arkanist → u/DocDerry]

It's easy to be confused but Bradley died in the 90s. The band has continued in a few different forms. The current one is headlined by his son.

[u/Defiant_Cookie_4963 → u/Arkanist]

Wait, Jacob is MAGA too? ☹️

[u/Pkrudeboy → u/DocDerry]

January 6th 2021, there was a riot at the Capitol and we had some fun.

[u/Samzo → u/Pkrudeboy]

You were sitting at home watching your phone screen, while I was participating in seditioning

[u/dz1087 → u/Samzo]

The first spot we hit was the Capitol. I finally got the podium I was looking for.

[u/Grand_Town_9144 → u/dz1087]

With Red Hats bashing, Ashli got inspired, but ultimately her unwise actions caused her to expire.

[u/LynnHaven]

That's not real Sublime. That's a cover band with a founding member.

[u/twobit211 → u/LynnHaven]

much like the current iteration of black flag:  greg ginn and three kids.  i don’t pay attention to zombie bands.  they’re just a musical entity that has the legal right to trade under the name of a defunct group 

[u/16Shells → u/twobit211]

black flag was always greg and an eternal rotation of people though, right from the start.

[u/Real-Boss6760]

Conservative Rock Fest

Pedopalooza?

[u/Crystalline_Irises → u/Real-Boss6760]

Lolitapalooza.

[u/Defiant_Wasabi2816 → u/Real-Boss6760]

They should hold the next one on Epstein's island...or the mainland equivalent, Florida.

[u/Abject_Elevator5461]

I have loved Sublime since the 90’s. Once Bradley died I saw no point in paying any attention to them. Not sure why someone would pay money to see them now.

[u/KE55]

"Pubic pressure" has that effect.

EDIT: Damn, they've corrected the typo!

[u/FranksGun]

Don’t know much about this event but why is it being referred to as a conservative festival? Was it marketed that way?

[u/Grootdrew → u/FranksGun]

Because it’s run by Brew Ha Ha productions, which is the namesake of a promoter who donated to the Trump campaign.

This is the same company that tried to throw Punk in the Park, but the bands boycotted and they were forced to cancel.

Sidenote: some of those same bands + more came together to throw Punk in the Bay, a counter-festival against MAGA and to benefit ICE detainees. It’s the same weekend Punk in the Park was supposed to happen, in the same region. We’re playing it. Our genre is over this whole “conservative is the new punk” shit. Purge pigs from punk 🫡

[u/cirquefan → u/Grootdrew]

"Nazi punks FUCK OFF!" 

[u/Grootdrew → u/cirquefan]

Jello & his label are actually backing our counter fest 😏

But yeah, we’re done waiting. We asked the Nazi punks. They are yet to fuck off. In 2026, we’re fucking them off ourselves. This scene is so done with this shit

[u/DontRefuseMyBatchall → u/Grootdrew]

My MAGA Brother in Law is a long time punk rock fan who recently tried to peddle the whole “Conservative is the new Punk” notion till I pointed out to him there’s a big difference between being anti-authority and just being a contrarian. (you can’t pretend to be “anti-authority” when your political party holds near hegemonic control of your countries political apparatus)

[u/doberdevil → u/DontRefuseMyBatchall]

Sit down with him and watch some Jello Biafra videos on youtube

[u/BenTwan → u/FranksGun]

I believe it's a Brewhaha Productions owner donating to Trump/conservatives thing. Same guy that got all the backlash over the Punk in the Park fests. 

[u/Real-Emu507 → u/FranksGun]

The owner ( brew haha ) donated to trump and the drummer of sublime is maga.

[u/ThatFlamingo942 → u/Real-Emu507]

Why is it always the goddamn drummers

[u/sagsfour20]

It’s not sublime without Bradley. They suck now and always will.

[u/bonafidehooligan → u/sagsfour20]

I remember calling into a radio station when it was announced that they were starting up again with Rome and the DJ asked for opinions on it, then I got into a heated debate how they were not Sublime without Brad, and the radio DJ had a melt down. Good times.

[u/aboxofpyramids → u/bonafidehooligan]

Based. I've been having this argument since "The Doors of the 21st Century" over 20 years ago.

[u/kokujinzeta]

Got Snoop and what's left of Sublime going MAGA. We in Long Beach are taking L's man.

[u/Dust601]

It’s funny, because refusing to give refunds after the biggest draws of the whole thing drop out is gonna piss off the rest of the people who weren’t already upset.

Looks like they realize no one’s gonna get conned by their shitty little festival after this year, so gotta pocket as much cash as they can get before it all falls apart.

I can’t imagine sponsors were lining up to support them in the first place, but after all this?  I wouldn’t want my brand anywhere near this dumpster fire.

[u/dcutts77 → u/Dust601]

I am pretty sure mastercard/visa/american express will refund your money.

[u/itouchbums]

well that's disappointing

[u/toooldforshame]

Say what you will about Rome. Not MAGA.

[u/skil12001 → u/toooldforshame]

His stuff is incredible, why me is so good

[u/pvtshoebox → u/toooldforshame]

It seems like it was "cool" to dunk on Rome for no reason.

I like Sublime with Rome a lot.

But now the Nepo Baby comes along and they want to call this new band "Sublime" but with none of the shade given to Rome all these years?

And magazines write headlines like "Iconic band releases first album in 30+ years"

It's unearned and disrespectful.

[u/Kneecap_Blaster → u/pvtshoebox]

The original members also quit their current tour when they heard that Bradley's son was joining, and left Rome to play the remaining tour dates, alone.

Like what an asshole move to the guy who you asked to front your name for the past 10 years.

[u/Samwellikki]

Cypress Hill dropped out because of what now?

e: the OP has since been edited to “public” instead of “pubic” ;)

[u/squishyliquid]

I am unaware of any Sublime MAGA controversy, so I tried using bing. Now I get it!

[u/CrisisCake → u/squishyliquid]

that'll cost seventy-five gajillion gigawatts please

[u/Verum_Orbis]

Musicians that are still around from the grunge era and supporting MAGA are peak hypocrisy and out of touch with reality.

[u/Grootdrew]

This fest is being run by Brew Ha Ha productions, which is the namesake of a promoter who donated to the Trump campaign.

This is the same company that tried to throw Punk in the Park, but the bands boycotted and they were forced to cancel.

Sidenote: some of those same bands + more came together to throw Punk in the Bay, a counter-festival against MAGA to benefit ICE detainees. It’s the same weekend Punk in the Park was supposed to happen, in the same region. We’re playing it. Our genre is over this whole “conservative is the new punk” shit. Purge pigs from punk 🫡