Tomorrows Bad Seeds are in the lab working on their first full-length album since 2017’s Illuminate, and bassist J-Bird promises it’s going to be worth the wait.
While no release date has been announced, the upcoming album is already stirring anticipation within their fanbase, who’ve watched the group evolve from Warped Tour staples into genre-defying veterans of the underground circuit. J-Bird drops some insight into who the band is currently working with.
“We’re working over at the LAW Studio at Kona Town with our boys, and some at Tunnel Vision, and we’re also working with DENM. So we’re going to just try to get this new album released ASAP, and it’s coming along,” he says about the band’s upcoming new album.
The band is expected to debut new material on the road this summer, with J-Bird now fully locked in as their bassist. From fan to family, J-Bird’s journey with Tomorrows Bad Seeds feels less like a lineup change and more like a natural evolution.
When J-Bird got the call to join Tomorrows Bad Seeds a couple of years ago , it wasn’t some carefully staged industry audition. It was instinct. Family.
“I started going out on the road with them. Started, you know, touring with them and being on the road. And I started subbing for Dre and just, like, holding it down when he couldn’t make shows. And then, as he left, he passed the torch to me, and it kind of just fell into my lap,” J-Bird says.
For the SoCal-based bassist, whose roots run deep in the reggae-rock and punk circuits, stepping into Tomorrows Bad Seeds wasn’t a career move—it was the culmination of years of friendship, collaboration, and shared stages. Fans got their first glimpse of the new lineup, when J-Bird joined the band. He’s been holding down bass duties for the past couple years as they rocked shows from coast to coast.
The new Tomorrows Bad Seeds album marks a new chapter for the band.
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