Blessings, released on May 31, is the band’s latest update to the surf rock genre with smooth modern production elements and more mature subject matter-on the lead single “Blessings,” Rome sings, “They try to kill us in the streets / Oh Lord put your blessings over me.” Sublime with Rome has also been releasing original music since 2011. (Nowell’s estate threatened legal recourse when the band performed under its original name at the Devore, Calif.-based Smokeout Festival in October 2009.)Īside from refreshing the Sublime catalog with covers of contemporary artists, the original band’s songs have been given new life with recent covers: Lana Del Rey included her own rendition of 1996’s “Doin’ Time” on Norman F-king Rockwell! this year. Rome joined the band in 2009 when surviving members Wilson and Gaugh reformed as Sublime with Rome. Sublime exalted the band to rockstar status with hits including “Santeria,” “Wrong Way,” and “What I Got.” Prior to releasing Sublime, the band released a string of albums that established it as a wave-maker in the ska punk genre that surfed radio airwaves through the ’90s. This reinvention allowed Rome to claim a small piece of what the band’s original lead singer, Bradley Nowell, established with bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh in the late ’80s and carried into May of 1996, when Nowell died of a heroin overdose-just two months before Sublime was set to release its now-iconic, self-titled album. “So I put the guitar solo of ‘Santeria’ over the song, and it worked out really good.” “We noticed that the song was like really close to ‘Santeria,’ so we were just like, ‘Yo, we should just like, use the tune,’” Rome said. The band sampled parts of the song on “Goodbyes,” a cover of a Post Malone track that Sublime with Rome released on Sept. “It’s the new stuff we gotta really practice all the time.”Īlthough Rome chalks up performances of the band’s foremost songs to muscle memory, the musical legacy of “Santeria” extends itself into the band’s current creative process.
“It’s totally muscle memory at this point,” Rome said of playing Sublime’s classic hits. In a recent interview with The Heights, Rome Ramírez, known as Rome onstage, discussed the band’s latest album, Blessings, and life on the road. Sublime doesn’t practice “Santeria”-the band has no need to rehearse the popular surf rock song that has been permanently etched into popular music consciousness since its 1996 release.
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