The spirit of Sublime was alive in Long Beach on Monday. Fellow Southern California musicians packed the Vault to celebrate the release of Look at All the Love We Found, a tribute album to the late, great ska band featuring No Doubt, Jack Johnson and Pennywise. Fishbone got the crowd moshing with a raucous version of "Date Rape," their contribution to the album, before Los Lobos wrapped the night with a set of their own songs as well as Sublime's "Santeria." "When I heard them I was like, 'Nobody's doing music like this. Nobody's singing like that,'" Los Lobos' David Hidalgo said backstage of late Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell before the show. "And then as soon as you started to hear the music and get into it, Bradley dies. It made it hard to listen to the music after that" . . .
In other Los Lobos news, after touring Europe, Japan and the U.S. this summer, the band plans to hit the studio in the fall to record a spring 2006 release. The group set aside the month of May for writing -- and how'd that go? Quipped Louie Perez, "I've got really great tomatoes growing in my backyard" . . .
Andre 3000 was at L.A.'s Roosevelt Hotel, where the funkier OutKast member was being honored for his acting by Premiere magazine. After his share of Grammys, how does it feel it to be recognized for his cinematic work? "I know there's a train right now of entertainers jumping into film, but I want to do well at it," he said. "I didn't just want to be a personality onscreen." As for the next OutKast album -- the soundtrack to their retro musical film, My Life in Idlewild -- Andre said they're on the case. "The style is the Thirties," he said. "But it's not corny" . . .
Before the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit the Vegas strip for their July 2nd performance in honor of Sin City's centennial anniversary, Flea is headed to London for the Patti Smith-curated Meltdown Festival. The bassist will take part in a Jimi Hendrix tribute and join Smith in a performance of her classic 1975 album, Horses. "I'm so excited," Flea said. "She asked me, and I was so honored. I mean, she's Patti" . . .
Perry Farrell played the party for the L.A. premiere of The Lords of Dogtown. Count him among the fans of the film, as well. "It's great to see Jay Adams get that much respect," Farrell says of the skateboarding pioneer portrayed by Emile Hirsch in the film. "He was at the premiere with his wife and kids. Thank God somebody's giving him that cred. All the cats came after him, and he put in a lot of hard time" . . .
50 Cent and the Game may have some competition for the biggest music beef: Pat Boone, still feeling feisty at seventy-one, took some shots at a rival crooner: "I know Paul Anka is out promoting his new album. He's got big-band treatments of alternative rock songs, and he's acting like this is the first time anybody ever did that. It evidently slipped his mind that I did In a Metal Mood in '97." Boone added his pioneering ways are in his genes: "Daniel Boone was my great-great-great-great-grandfather, and was always going places other people hadn't gone."
Additional reporting by Colin Devenish