Coheed and Cambria have given their song “Goodbye, Sunshine” a tropical treatment with the help of 311 singer Nick Hexum and dub producer The Scientist.
Whereas the original is a hard-driving rocker — included as the second track on Coheed’s 2025 album Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe — this new alternate version re-imagines it as a something Hexum might sing with 311. In short, Coheed turn it into a full-blown dub/reggae vamp, dialing back the volume and swapping up the instrumentation.
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“The arrangement was born out of a Chicago Q101 Pop-Up stripped down radio performance,” said frontman Claudio Sanchez in a press release. “We enjoyed the version so much, we chose to explore it further by enlisting the help of 311’s Nick Hexum and dub producer The Scientist.”
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The Josh Forbes-directed video is also amusing and sees the band parodying ’80s tropical party life (Coheed do have their own festival cruise, after all).
“It plays within the concept of the alternate realities we explored in our previous videos for our new album The Father of Make Believe, while paying homage to one of our earliest videos, ‘A Favor House Atlantic’ with some inspiration from the 1986 Harold Ramis comedy film, Club Paradise,” Sanchez explained.
The alternate take — formally titled “Goodbye, Sunshine (Endless Summer)” — arrives amidst Coheed and Cambria’s ongoing co-headlining tour with Taking Back Sunday. The trek stops Wednesday night (August 20th) in Minneapolis and runs through mid-September. Get tickets here.
Watch the video for “Goodbye, Sunshine (Endless Summer)” below.