No Doubt Is Back At Coachella: What Gwen Stefani & Crew Have Been Up To Since Their Last Breakup

Life’s about to get "Hella Good" again.

Sublime aren’t the only SoCal musical wizards reconstituting for Coachella 2024: No Doubt, led by indomitable three-time GRAMMY winner and 18-time nominee Gwen Stefani, will also reunite in Indio, California. (Remember when Stefani dueted with Bradley Nowell on Sublime’s "Saw Red" back in 1994? Fingers crossed for a reprisal of that moment.)

Given that the two-time GRAMMY winners and nine-time nominees boast a top-shelf frontwoman, much of our perspective on this pivotal band hinges on Stefani’s public moves. (She’s enjoyed a prodigious solo career, with earworms like "Hollaback Girl" and "The Sweet Escape.") But No Doubt has never been Stefani and her sentries: guitarist Tom Dumont, bassist Tony Kanal, and drummer Adrian Young are all crucial to the band’s music and legacy.

While No Doubt have been inactive since 2015, and previously took a hiatus from 2004 to 2008, their Coachella set will surely be a worthy return to their tragic kingdom. Ahead of No Doubt’s appearance at Coachella — they’ll play on Saturdays, check the schedule here — take a spin through what each member’s been up to since the band last went their separate ways back in 2015.

Stefani Got Remarried — And Found A New Beginning

2015 marked a period of upheaval for Stefani; that’s the year she filed for divorce from Bush’s Gavin Rossdale. But that year, she happily got with country singer Blake Shelton; they’ve been together ever since, and married in 2021.

And despite any personal changes, she’s remained a creative force. Stefani hasn't stopped touring or releasing music — and she has a few solo gigs on the docket, in Toronto, Las Vegas, and Lakedown Shakedown festival in Lake Cowichan, British Columbia. In 2024, Stefani and Shelton released a moving duet, "Purple Irises," along with an adorable video.

Stefani Hit The TV Airwaves

In 2016, Stefani released her third studio album, This is What the Truth Feels Like, with top-shelf producers (like Greg Kurstin) and songwriters (like Justin Tranter) augmenting her. (Happily, and kookily, rapper Fetty Wap also makes an appearance.)

In 2017, Stefani’s Christmas TV special, "You Make It Feel Like Christmas," aired on NBC; she released an album of the same name. The following year, she enjoyed her first concert residency, Just a Girl: Las Vegas — of course, a reference to the immortal No Doubt hit.

In 2019, Gwen Stefani replaced Adam Levine after a four-season hiatus from "The Voice." (She’d flit in and out of the show from then on; she remains one of its most recognizable characters.)

Stefani hasn’t released a solo album since You Make It Feel Like Christmas, and has also had some high-profile collaborations with artists like Shelton, Dua Lipa (a Mark Ronson remix of Lipa’s "Physical") and Saweetie (her own single "Slow Clap").

Members Have Been In The Producer’s Chair — And Stayed Under The Radar

Even when No Doubt has been on the backburner, its non-Stefani members have stayed in the mix. Part of this is via production — Kanal has worked with acts like Weezer and Stefani himself, and produced three tracks for the 50 First Dates soundtrack. As for Dumont, he’s had behind-the-scenes production gigs as well — staying out of the spotlight, staying surfing. As for Young, you can catch him out on the links.

Overall, the other members of No Doubt have mostly stayed within the rock sphere, while Stefani aimed her arrow at the pop sphere. Bullseye.

The Dreamcar Got Going

Since 2015, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young have been spending a great deal of their creative lives playing in Dreamcar, a synth pop and new wave supergroup with Davey Havok from AFI. (Havok clarified to Billboard that he was not replacing Stefani — who could? — but forging an off-ramp into new territory.)

"It doesn’t sound like anything, it actually doesn’t sound like AFI or No Doubt. And sometimes I'm not objective enough to really understand it," Havok said. "And I ask my wife or friends, I play them a snippet and I go, 'Does this sound like either one of these bands?' And they’re like, 'No.' And I think that's a good thing."

So far, Dreamcar have only released one album, 2017’s Dreamcar. And with No Doubt gearing up again, who knows when they’ll have the time to strap back in. But they’re bound to be well-oiled from the experience — another reason we can’t wait for Indio.

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