On March 8, 2025, Sublime brought their modern-era lineup to São Paulo, Brazil, delivering a high-energy set that showed just how far the band’s legacy continues to travel decades after their original rise in Southern California.
The performance featured founding members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh alongside frontman Jakob Nowell, the son of original singer and guitarist Bradley Nowell. The show marked another stop in the band’s expanding international run as the new lineup continued bringing Sublime’s catalog to audiences around the world.
Footage captured by Giordo from the crowd shows the unmistakable energy of a Sublime show — a sea of fans singing along as the band runs through songs that helped define the reggae-punk hybrid sound that emerged from Long Beach in the early 1990s.
Since re-emerging with Jakob Nowell on vocals, Sublime have steadily reintroduced the band’s music to both longtime fans and younger audiences discovering the catalog for the first time. International shows like the São Paulo performance demonstrate how deeply the band’s music has traveled, with fans thousands of miles from California still responding to the same mix of reggae grooves, punk urgency, and hip-hop attitude that made Sublime one of the most influential alternative bands of the decade.