In case you didn’t follow all the drama around the Sublime reunion, here’s the short version: Sublime become megastars playing reggae-ska-punk for grungy white kids with tattoos, Bradley Nowell dies, grungy white kids with tattoos roam the Earth aimlessly for 14 years with nothing to do, guitarist Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson decide to put the band back together, some 20-year-old NorCal guy no one has ever heard of named Rome Ramirez takes over vocals, Nowell’s family threatens to sue, the new band says stop trying to keep the message of Sublime away from grungy white kids, Nowell’s family says the grungy white kids can have the music as long as no one calls it Sublime, the band plays anyway, Nowell’s family gets an injunction, and finally the whole thing gets settled. Thus emerges the god-awful compromise “Sublime With Rome,” proving that in legal battles like this, it’s always the band name that loses. But hey, now they’re headlining BFD, along with the Deftones, a newly returned Hole (which, against all odds, still has Courtney Love), Silversun Pickups, Spoon, Matt and Kim, Cage the Elephant, Flyleaf, Against Me!, Gaslight Anthem, the Temper Trap, Dan Black, the Limousines, Dirty Heads, the Soft Pack, Far and Middle Class Rut also perform.
June 6
Shoreline Amphitheatre
$32.50
