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Newsweek
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- Entertainment
- Newsweek
'You Can't Out-Myth the Original Myth': Jakob Nowell's Time With Sublime
Famed ska-punk band Sublime, originally composed of the late Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh, rose to prominence in the 1990s with a multi-genre approach that blended elements of punk and reggae. But, in the decades since, things have evolved a bit. Nowell's son, Jakob, met with original members Wilson and Gaugh as part of a special charity performance. The show was so well-received that it sparked the trio to reform Sublime with Jakob as frontman. Since 2024, the group has been in the studio preparing new music, including the fresh single "Ensenada." With that in the cards, Newsweek sat with the lead singer and guitarist to talk about the reunion, channeling the Sublime vibe, and the reception to the band. Jakob Nowell of Sublime performs during the 2025 BottleRock festival at Napa Valley Expo on May 23, 2025. in Napa, California. Jakob Nowell of Sublime performs during the 2025 BottleRock festival at Napa Valley Expo on May 23, 2025. in Napa, California. Jim Bennett/WireImage When it comes to music, there can be a tendency to lean on nostalgia and want things to remain the same. The renewed Sublime trio, though, has been traveling and headlining shows across stages, including their public debut at Coachella, to much praise from fans. "If people didn't like it, we wouldn't keep doing it. I do it for the fans, truly. So Sublime for me really has to be like, 'Do the fans want this kind of thing, Is this legit enough? Is this authentic enough?' Nowell said. "And for the most part, you know, 99 percent of people are on board. You know, I see families out there in the audience. I see multigenerational. I always say that is like, every single generation is like, into Sublime right now. If you just go to any of our shows, you just see it from the teenage demographic, the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, even 60s and beyond." And, for Nowell, that reception is more than just a positive omen for the group's commercial prospects. There's something larger at play. "This is a brand of music, or a scene that just appeals to people on this unique, specific level," he said. "And my theory has always been because the music seems genuine and authentic. So we never want to put on airs or become too poppy, or change the style and sound when it comes to Sublime. Because for me, that crowd response and that reaction and people telling me how emotional it is for them and how much the music got them through their own loss, maybe their family, losing loved ones just like we have, I think we share in our trauma and our music is our song of hope and an escape too, from all of those difficult things. So for me, it feels really special to get to be a part of it." Stepping Forward Into the Spotlight Nowell joining the band seemed to be divine timing. "I was on tour with my band, Jakob's Castle, and I had this kind of cool spiritual experience at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, California, where my dad played his last show or Sublime played their last show. That coincided with me turning 28, the same age my dad was when he technically left the band," he said. "I had always said, 'I'll play Sublime songs when it's something for charity or when it can raise awareness for something or shed light on other things, but never for my own personal benefit.' And so my uncles wanted to play this benefit show for H.R. from Bad Brains. He's just like a hero to us, and good friends of Bud and Eric. Playing that show, we had just connected and we rehearsed, and it was so awesome getting to be in each other's lives that it all kind of coincided naturally." But even if something feels natural, there can still be challenges. Stepping into that frontman role once held by his father and as part of such an iconic band can be rattling, Nowell admitted. "Especially in the beginning, it's just so much pressure, because I want to prove myself," he said. "And I think we all have a little bit of impostor syndrome. Everybody out there, in every industry, we just want to fit in, and that would also feel like we legitimately belong. "And I think that the worst one was Coachella, for sure, because that was really like our first real show together in Sublime, and it's like, 'All right, your first one, go play Coachella.' You're kidding me," he laughed. "This is going to be the most publicized event. And I really shouldn't care what people's thoughts are of me, but I'm the only human and I care because, because I care, because I love Sublime, I love the music, and I respect it." Even out of the public eye, there's still pressure. Hitting the studio with an iconic group requires being authentic to the original sound, but Nowell is well-versed in the music. And there's an additional ace up Sublime's sleeve should any additional challenges arise. "We have a book. We call it the Skin Bible, and it has all of our notes," Nowell explained. "We check to see if things are canonical and authentic, and if someone's like, 'Well, I want to put this in there.' It's like, 'Well, prove that it was in a Sublime song. And we have to do that [to] keep us on track. But you don't want to be too rigid. But I felt like in this process, you almost did like the fun part. We can make it fun, but we kept this big Venn diagram, too, on the wall of all of the differing influences and how we wanted to stay in the middle, never on any one, two sides of this huge multi-circle Venn diagram. And so that way, if we ever want to do something that was slightly outside of it, it was very conscious and intentional." Experiences Researching and Recording To tap into the quintessence of Sublime, the frontman immersed himself in the band's catalog and emerged with a deeper reverence for the music. "There were two phases of my Sublime research," he said. "There was learning about the performance and how to portray it live, which, you know, obviously listen to all the songs in the catalog and then watch a lot of live performance videos and be like 'OK. What's the essence of this band? What is the vibe like? How am I gonna do this without just feeling like I'm copying and make it authentic?' I got really familiar with the sound of the band and their approach to playing music. "Then the second half of my training and studies was like when we decided 'Are we gonna try to write Sublime songs? How do we do that?' So we poured through all the old bootlegs, demos and unreleased material in the vaults that nobody's heard and through them, in tandem with the help of my friend Jon Joseph, who's the producer for this upcoming record, and Zane Vandevort, who was just a natural Californian fan of Sublime since birth, you know, like his favorite band. Basically, we then went to go map out what is the essence of a Sublime song, and what recurring themes, vocally, lyrically, recurring guitar parts? What's canonical? What do they do, for sure? What do they never do when it comes to instrumentation." That understanding laid the foundation for the next step: new music. Nowell described the recording process of "Ensenada" and the band's upcoming new music as "a bonding experience," saying, "I think when you're sitting in any room for eight hours, eventually it becomes sort of like a little bit of a therapy room, too. I mean, the world outside the studio doesn't stop. It's kind of like the hyperbolic time chamber. The other world slows down. You're just in there practicing our f***ing martial arts. "It's so cool when people will accept that material, too. It shows that we're doing something right and that it fits in the catalog. That's all I want. I don't think that you know. I'll knock on wood. Who knows, time will tell. I'm proud of what we did, but I don't think we were able to achieve writing like a 'Santeria' or even a 'What I Got' like, I consider those two like their big, big, just timeless rock 'n' roll classics, just without a doubt, alternative classics, and that's because those go beyond their influences. That's a riddle that we would not be able to solve without the original members. "They probably didn't know. They probably had versions of those jams 100 times, and then one recording just sort of did it time and place, bam. You know, timeless song. You can't out-legacy. You can't out-myth, the original myth. So we just wanted to create a bunch of songs that were well within the same sound genre." And, on the subject of timeless, iconic music, what is Nowell's favorite Sublime song? "Definitely the song 'All You Need.' It just is such a good example of the band's influences and capabilities," he said. "'All You Need' and Greatest Hits and 'S.T.P.,' as well." Sublime's new single "Ensenada" is available now.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jakob Ingebrigtsen's father found guilty of hitting daughter
The father of Jakob Ingebrigtsen has been found guilty of hitting his younger sister with a wet towel but has been cleared of abusing Norway's double Olympic champion. Gjert Ingebrigtsen, 59, has been given a suspended 15-day prison sentence for whipping Ingebrigtsen's sister, Ingrid, in the face with a towel but was acquitted of all other charges after a trial in Norway. Advertisement Gjert, who coached Jakob at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics before they split, had been accused of enforcing a regime of 'physical and verbal abuse' during their upbringing. Jakob, the 5,000m Olympic champion and one of the biggest stars in track and field, told the court that he had been a victim of domestic violence and said he had been punched and kicked by his father. The court ruled there was insufficient evidence of Jakob's claims, but found Gjert of hitting Ingrid, who is now 19, in the face with a towel in 2022. Ingrid, who quit athletics and left the family home aged 15, was awarded compensation of 10,000 kroner (£745) after prosecutors had called for Gjert to be handed a two-and-a-half-year sentence. Advertisement Gjert had denied all allegations of violence and abuse but accepted that he had been demanding in his coaching and admitted to once throwing a PlayStation out of a window. Gjert's intense training methods were the subject of the popular documentary Team Ingebrigtsen, which shone a light on the family's almost cult-like obsession with sporting excellence, with the children put on strict professionalised training programmes at a young age. Gjert Ingebrigtsen (NTB) Jakob's older brothers, Henrik and Filip, are also professional athletes, and in October 2023, the trio published a joint letter in Norwegian outlet VG, spelling out the behaviour of their father. Advertisement Jakob, 24, told the court about several incidents of violence. Prosecutors alleged Gjert struck Jakob several times after he received a negative report about his behaviour from school when he was eight. He was also accused of kicking Jakob in the stomach after he had been playing in the street on a scooter. Gjert coached his three sons until 2022, helping Jakob to secure his first Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 in the 1500m as he forged a glittering career as one of the world's leading athletes. After the split, Jakob added 5,000m success at Paris 2024 along with a large collection of other global medals.
The Advertiser
19-06-2025
- Science
- The Advertiser
Clue to record-breaking temperatures in clearer skies
Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November. Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November. Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November. Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November.
Perth Now
19-06-2025
- Science
- Perth Now
Clue to record-breaking temperatures in clearer skies
Disappearing clouds are contributing to faster global warming and tumbling temperature records. Scientists have seen a decline of somewhere between 1.5 per cent and three per cent in the world's storm cloud zones each decade over the past 24 years. The shrinking coverage, observed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led team, results in less sunlight reflected back into space, allowing more in to boost global warming. Overall clearer skies, a trend driven by evolving wind patterns, the expanding tropics and other shifts linked to climate change, is now thought to be the largest contributor to the planet's higher absorption of solar radiation. Christian Jakob, a co-author of the study and director at the Monash-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, said the major heating consequences of shrinking cloud cover was now evident. "It's an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the extraordinary recent warming we observed, and a wake-up call for urgent climate action," Professor Jakob said. Last year was the hottest on record, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, clocking in at about 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial era average. A single year above 1.5C is not enough to breach the Paris Agreement, however, as the global pact's goals are based on long-term averages measured over decades. The UN weather agency expects temperatures to keep rising, with a 70 per cent chance the 2025-2029 five-year mean will exceed 1.5C. Unprecedented ocean heating has been felt particularly acutely in the waters surrounding Australia, leading to coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms. The elevated rate of warming is due to global greenhouse gas emissions holding at all-time highs, largely due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study released on Thursday. If current emissions trends continue, the report prepared by dozens of scientists from around the world says there will be just over three years left in the carbon budget to achieve 1.5C of heating. Policymakers and experts have gathered in Germany for a mid-year convention ahead of the main UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil scheduled for November.
Fox Sports
16-06-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Jakob Ingebrigtsen's father convicted of 1 count of minor assault, acquitted of other abuse charges
Associated Press SANDNES, Norway (AP) — Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of Norwegian track star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was convicted Monday of one count of assault against his daughter and given a suspended prison sentence. A court acquitted Gjert of other charges including abusing Jakob, a multiple Olympic and world middle-distance champion. In a trial that started in March and has gripped Norway, Gjert, 59, was accused of an alleged years-long campaign of domestic abuse toward Jakob and younger sister, Ingrid. Gjert denied the charges against him. A verdict in the case was delivered in writing by Soer Rogaland District Court and Gjert was convicted of a single incident of minor assault against his daughter, his legal team confirmed to The Associated Press. He was handed a 15-day suspended sentence and ordered to pay NOK 10,000 ($1,010) in compensation. John Christian Elden and Heidi Reisvang, defense attorneys from Elden Law Firm, said it was the court's conclusion that there 'was no evidence to show that Gjert Ingebrigtsen created a continuous fear in his children.' 'There are no winners in this case,' Reisvang, who was assisting counsel during the trial, told the AP. 'He (Gjert) hopes that one day he will have contact and a relationship with his family again.' Gjert became a prominent media figure in Norway in 2016 following his involvement in the TV documentary series Team Ingebrigtsen, in which he was seen coaching his three track-and-field sons, Jakob, Filip and Henrik. The series ran until 2021. By 2022 the trio had parted ways with their coach-father and the following year co-signed a column in the national newspaper, VG, accusing Gjert of physical violence and intimidation. The police opened an investigation, with court proceedings eventually brought relating to Gjert's treatment of Jakob and Ingrid. Gjert continued coaching after the split with his sons and now guides Jakob's 1500-meter Norwegian rival, Narve Gilje Nordas. The 24-year-old Jakob won Olympic gold in the 1,500 meters at the Tokyo Games in 2021 and the 5,000 at the Paris Games in 2024. He was world champion at the 5,000 in 2022 and '23. He listed his achievements on the track in a post on Instagram — published soon after the verdict in the trial was announced — in which he said the goal he most cares about is that his daughter, Filippa, 'will love and respect me for her upbringing.' ___ AP sports: recommended in this topic
