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Tomorrow's bad seeds was formed by Moises Juarez the lead singer and Mathew McEwan the guitars/turntablist in Hermosa beach, California in 2004. Mats cousin, Johnny McEwan joined the band as their drummer later that year. The band had two bass players over the years the original bass player was Al Arnado, after he left the band he was replace by Andre Davis. They also added Sean Chapman later on as a guitar player and backup vocalist; he was a long time friend of the band he even to high school with some of them. The band use to be from a graffiti crew called TBS; they use the acronym to come up with the band’s name Tomorrow Bad Seeds. They released their reggae rock album Early Prayers in June 2007 with the independent label Urban Tone Records.  After dropping their debut album they toured all over Hawaii 4 times that year..(Wikipedia)

Reggae is music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its Diaspora.While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance musice the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento and calypso music, as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, especially the New Orleans R&B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political comment. Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field, being known first as ‘Rudie Blues’, then ‘Ska’, later ‘Blue Beat’, and ‘Rock Steady. It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat, and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rock steady; from the

latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument. Since most of the group grew up in the South bay, they were highly influenced by the reggae, rock, punk culture and bands like Sublime, Pepper, and Pennywise among others. After releasing both records TBS has established the band's sound as a fusion of rock, reggae, ska punk, surf rock, hip hop, and blues.(Wikipedia)