Brad Sucks
Brad Turcotte | |
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 Promotional art of Turcotte | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Brad Sucks |
| Born | November 14, 1978 |
| Origin | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Experimental pop, pop rock |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, programming |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels | Magnatune |
| Website | http://www.bradsucks.net/ |
| Members | Brad Turcotte, Ben Mullin, Justin Purvis (live band) |
| Past members | Rob Cosh, Bruce Spence, Matthew McGarvy (live band) |
Brad Turcotte (born 14 November 1978) is a musician from Ottawa, Ontario. Turcotte performs under the name Brad Sucks. Promoting his music through sites such as Magnatune and ccMixter, as well as MySpace and Podsafe, he has used micropatronage to fund his albums, and releases his songs under a copyleft license,[1][2] granting freedom to share and modify his work.
Turcotte received publicity through blogs and interviews in free culture magazines. His first full CD, I Don't Know What I'm Doing, was released through both Magnatune and a limited "professional" printing from his own website.
Discography
Early career
Turcotte opened his website in 2002 with the intention of producing "open source music". His self-produced single, Brad Sucks One, included the audio source files used to create the finished files, and later he posted these source files to his website along with the mp3s.
I Don't Know What I'm Doing (2003)
I Don't Know What I'm Doing was released independently and without charge online on December 19, 2003, in mp3 form. It was also released in CD form on June 7, 2005, through both Magnatune and a limited "professional" printing from his own website with an extended version of the final track.
The twelve songs included on the album are as follows:
- Making Me Nervous
- Look and Feel Years Younger
- Fixing My Brain
- Bad Attraction
- Sick as a Dog
- Borderline
- I Think I Started a Trend
- Never Get Out
- Overreacting
- Dirtbag
- Time To Take Out the Trash
- Work Out Fine
Out of It (2008)
Turcotte's second album, Out of It, was released on September 8, 2008.
It includes the following songs:
- Dropping out of School
- Certain Death
- Fake it
- Bad Sign
- There's Something Wrong
- Gasoline
- Total Breakdown
- Understood By Your Dad
- Out of It
- You're Not Going Anywhere
Guess Who's a Mess (2012)
Turcotte's third album, Guess Who's a Mess, was released on November 3, 2012.
It includes the following songs:
- In Your Face
- Come Back
- Feel Free! Plastic Surgery!
- Guess Who's a Mess
- Waste of TV
- Model Home
- The First Thing About Me
- Thanks for the Add
- Fluoride
- Just in a Phase
Better Than Nothing (2017)
Turcotte's fourth album, Better Than Nothing, was released on November 17, 2017 (originally released as a limited-edition vinyl in September 2017[3]).
The album is described[4] by the author as "a fully remastered compilation of eleven of the most popular Brad Sucks songs in one convenient package".
It includes the following songs:
- Making Me Nervous
- Certain Death
- Guess Who's a Mess
- Dropping Out of School
- Feel Free! Plastic Surgery!
- Fixing My Brain
- Bad Sign
- There's Something Wrong
- Borderline
- Thanks for the Add
- You're Not Going Anywhere
In an interview[5] Turcotte voiced his intention to produce more records in the future.
Other work
Turcotte also runs the website stripcreator.com, which allows participants to create their own talking-head webcomics. He is also the creator of the now-defunct in4mador, an aggregator of user-submitted "interesting" links.[6] He is now working on some demos, and we may see the release of a new album.
Turcotte has his albums available on his website at Bradsucks.net. On the website there are two more albums. One is called I Don't Know What Im Doing Remixed. The album was designed by Brad, and other composers who put their own sound to his music and song. Another album available on the website is Outside The Inbox, where he took other artists' music that he received in his email, and put it into an album. There was never any album art released for these records.
References
- ↑ I Don't Know What I'm Doing, bradsucks.net. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ↑ Out of It, bradsucks.net. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ↑ "Brad Sucks Preorder - Feedbands". Feedbands. 19 July 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ↑ "Better Than Nothing, by Brad Sucks". Brad Sucks. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ↑ "Greatest Hits or Better Than Nothing? Q&A With Brad Sucks". Ottawa Life Magazine.
- ↑ "In4mador.com - In4mador". ipaddress.com. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
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- Magnatune artists
- Canadian indie pop musicians
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