Sublime Releasing New Material

Gasoline Alley/MCA act Sublime will release a new album and video collection. The new album, Second Hand Smoke, due Nov. 25, includes 19 tracks culled from unreleased material, rarities, and remixes recorded while the ska/punk group was working on its three previous albums -- sublime, Robbin' The Hood and 40 Oz. To Freedom.

The song "Saw Red," recorded in 1994 and featuring Gwen Stefani of No Doubt, is among the set's centerpieces, as is "Thanx Dub," featuring the group's DJ, Field Marshall, on drums. The album will be preceded by a home video package, "sublime," expected Nov. 18. As well as impromptu interview footage, the work includes six videos: four from Sublime and two earlier tracks.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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