It took Bradley Nowell's son years to embrace Sublime. Now he'll lead the band at Coachella
LOS ANGELES — It's Leg Day for Jakob Nowell, who's fueling up for his workout on a recent afternoon with a late breakfast at a Long Beach diner just down the street from his gym.
The only son of the late Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell, Jakob got into weightlifting a few years ago and adheres zealously to his daily exercise regimen. "Working really, really hard," he says, is a necessity for someone "not naturally good at anything. Growing up, there were all these boy-genius shows like 'Jimmy Neutron' and 'Dexter's Lab' on TV. I was always like, These guys are just geniuses at 6 years old? That's f— up. I knew I was gonna have to cheat to be good, and the best form of cheating is to practice for hours and hours and hours." He laughs over a greasy plate of steak and eggs.
"Plus, if you work out a lot, you can eat this and not feel like s—."
What Nowell, 28, has been practicing lately is the music of Sublime, the beloved his father led from the
