If you grew up in the ‘90s and early ‘00s, you may have spent countless hours with a beer in one hand and a spliff in the other, your ears tuned onto a set of speakers blaring Bradley Nowell’s classic tunes What I Got, Smoke Two Joints and Garden Grove.
Nowell’s amalgamation of skate punk, ska and reggae via his band Sublime – which he formed in Long Beach, California, in 1988 alongside drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson – was a revelation. Their three albums, 40oz. to Freedom (1992), Robbin’ the Hood (1994) and Sublime (1996), are proof.
