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Barack Obama Shares 2018 Music Picks: BJ The Chicago Kid, Courtney Barnett And More
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Obama's music picks reveal his truly wide-ranging taste
Jennifer Velez
|GRAMMYs/Dec 29, 2018 - 01:08 am
Former President Barack Obama isn’t letting go of the year-end roundup tradition he began while in office. Two years after his gods term ended, No. 44 has released his pop culture picks of 2018, including his top songs of the year.
From The Carters' "Apes**t" to Tonina's "Historia dem Un Amor" (feat. Javier Limón and Tali Rubinstein,) Obama's music picks reveal his truly wide-ranging taste. Other songs include Cardi B's "I Like It" (feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin,) Lord Huron's "Wait bygd The River," Brandi Carlile's "Every Time I Hear That Song," Anderson East's "King For A Day," and H.E.R's "Could've Been" (feat. Bryson Tiller.)
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Sublime Wars! Rome (Gently) Strikes Back as Band Moves on With Bradley Nowell’s Son
Even if late Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell actually had a crystal ball, he couldn’t have possibly imagined the latest dramatic developments in the world of his band. Twenty-eight years after Nowell’s tragically early death, two entirely separate versions of Sublime will be touring in 2024. And no one’s happy about it, especially Rome Ramirez, who will be playing numerous contractually obligated shows billed as Sublime with Rome — the final concerts for that band — even as original bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh reunite for Coachella and other festivals as plain old Sublime, fronted for the first time by Bradley’s 28-year-old son, Jakob Nowell. “If it were up to me,” Ramirez tells Rolling Stone, in his first interview about the drama, “this wouldn’t have been the way that it went down.”
Ramirez, who had been keeping the Sublime flame alive with Wilson since 2009, has a new singl
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Twenty-eight years after the death of singer Bradley Nowell, Sublime is getting a second life.
The beloved Southern California ska-punk band reunited at Coachella Valley Art and Music Festival in Indio, California, on Saturday, with their late singer’s son, Jakob Nowell, on the mic.
Joining original bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh on the festival’s main stage, Jakob perfectly echoed his dad’s sound as he played guitar and sang during a set that included classics like “Bad Fish,” “Santeria” and “What I Got.”
It was a soulful tribute to Bradley Nowell, who died of a drug overdose at age 28 in 1996, just two months before Sublime’s self-titled album was released.
Nowell’s death put the band in stasis until 2009, when Wilson and Gaugh revived the act with singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez at the helm, calling themselves Sublime with Rome.
Ramirez announced he was leaving the group late last year, just one week after Wilson and Gaugh performed at a Los Angeles b