She’s wearing a black Sublime shirt, complete with the sun and clean white script above it. “They’re definitely one of my favorite bands,” says Nikki, a twentysomething woman walking down Pine Avenue in the East Village Arts District. Millennials and Gen-Zers can quote lyrics as easily as gnarled skankers and rockabillies. Critics who dismissed the bar ballads and soul vocals of Bradley Nowell are finally reassessing their worth. The reconstituted Sublime With Rome tours the world their back catalog continues to sell well. Two decades after the trio’s eponymous album propelled them to national recognition and quickly became a summer soundtrack for Southern California, Sublime is more popular than ever. And then the homie blurted out a common conversation opener in beach-themed dives, pretty much the official compliment of SoCal surfer and stoner bros everywhere from Menifee to Solana Beach, Baja Sharkeez to Woody’s Wharf. But the homie kept looking at a simple white shirt with a basketball-sized print of a multicolored crying sun across the chest: resplendent, oversized, a skeleton on the bridge of its nose, a devil on one cheek and a switchblade on another, a mushroom for a brain-folk art to the max. The maroon one had the band’s hometown of Long Beach written in white under the group’s name the black tee featured a round “LBC Sublime” logo in an ornate font. Instead, one of the guys pointed at a bunch of T-shirts reppin’ Sublime. Before them was a galaxy of iconic rock-band logos on T-shirts, including the golden “W” of Wu-Tang Clan the Doors’ bubbly lowercase font a red, yellow and green headshot of Bob Marley and the Rolling Stones’ wagging tongue. Not intended for children under 12.The two men in front of a booth at the Body Art Expo convention in Pomona resembled homeboys straight out of American Me: black tank tops, backward baseball caps, dark-gray shorts, each heavily tattooed with black-and-gray portraits and imagery down their arms and back. Lead Compliant: Product contains trace amounts of lead, but not enough to be considered harmful to humans.Hypoallergenic: This cosmetic has been manufactured to reduce or eliminate common allergens, and is less likely than conventional products to cause allergic reactions or skin irritations.Flame Retardant: As a safety feature, this product is treated with or contains materials or substances which inhibit the ignition and spread of flames.Flammable: This product is flammable and should be kept away from open flames, space heaters, ovens, and other sources of high heat.Keep uninflated balloons from children discard broken balloons immediately. Do not place bags in cribs, beds, carriages or playpens. To avoid the danger of suffocation, keep plastic bags and balloons away from babies and children. Suffocation Hazard: This product contains plastic bags or balloons.Choking Hazard: This product contains small parts and may present a choking hazard to children under 12 years old.In the interest of safety, this product has been manufactured without the use of Bisphenol A (BPA). BPA Free: BPA is an FDA-approved synthetic compound often used in food containers, and which studies have shown may be hazardous to the development of fetuses, infants, and young children.
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