Rhode Island reggae-rock veterans Badfish are continuing their evolution from one of the country’s best-known Sublime tribute acts into a band with an increasingly substantial catalog of its own.
Their latest step is “Son Of A Gun,” a new original single out now via Ineffable Records and taken from the band’s forthcoming album Watch Your Mouth, due October 30, 2026.
For more than two decades, Badfish built its reputation on the road by keeping the music of Sublime alive in clubs, theaters and festivals across the country. That foundation remains an important part of the band’s identity, but its original music has increasingly become more than a side project.
Watch Your Mouth represents the clearest statement of that transition yet. The upcoming 14-track album is set to become Badfish’s first full-length collection of original material after roughly 25 years as a touring tribute act, bringing together songs the group has steadily introduced alongside the Sublime material in its live shows.
The single draws on the reggae-rock and coastal sensibilities familiar to Badfish listeners while continuing to establish a musical identity that exists outside the catalog the band initially became known for performing.
The forthcoming record also shows Badfish connecting its own sound with the broader contemporary reggae-rock and independent hip-hop communities. The tracklist includes “High With You” featuring Little Stranger, “F You Pay Me” featuring Grieves, “Topanga” featuring SunDub, “Bad Things” featuring DJ Hoppa, “Surf Party Lord” featuring Mihali and “Stuck In The 90s” featuring Kash’d Out.
Several of those songs have already established lives of their own ahead of the album. “High With You” and “F You Pay Me,” in particular, have become part of the growing bridge between Badfish’s original catalog and the live audience the group spent decades cultivating.
That makes Watch Your Mouth an important milestone in an unusual career trajectory. Badfish does not need to abandon the Sublime tribute that built its audience in order to establish something new. Instead, the group has gradually folded original songs into the same touring ecosystem, allowing listeners who discovered them through Sublime’s music to follow the band into its own catalog.
“Son Of A Gun” is the latest piece of that progression and another preview of what will become the band’s most comprehensive original statement when Watch Your Mouth arrives later this month.
“Son Of A Gun” is out now via Ineffable Records. Watch Your Mouth arrives October 30.
