Brad Sucks

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Brad Turcotte

Promotional art of Turcotte
Background information
Also known as Brad Sucks
Born (1976-11-14) November 14, 1976
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)
Notable instruments
Guitar, Keyboards

Brad Turcotte (born 14 November 1976), 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 free publicity through blogs and interviews in free culture magazines. His first full CD, I Don't Know What I'm Doing, was released both through 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)

Main article: I Don't Know What I'm Doing

I Don't Know What I'm Doing was released independently and without charge online on the 19th of December 2003 in mp3 form. It was also released in CD form on the 7th of June 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:

  1. Making Me Nervous
  2. Look and Feel Years Younger
  3. Fixing My Brain
  4. Bad Attraction
  5. Sick as a Dog
  6. Borderline
  7. I Think I Started a Trend
  8. Never Get Out
  9. Overreacting
  10. Dirtbag
  11. Time To Take Out the Trash
  12. Work Out Fine

Out of It (2008)

Turcotte's second album, Out of It, was released on 8 September 2008.

It includes the following songs:

  1. Dropping Out of School
  2. Certain Death
  3. Fake it
  4. Bad Sign
  5. There's Something Wrong
  6. Gasoline
  7. Total Breakdown
  8. Understood By Your Dad
  9. Out of It
  10. You're Not Going Anywhere

Guess Who's a Mess (2012)

Turcotte's third album, Guess Who's a Mess, was released on 3 November 2012.

It includes the following songs:

  1. In Your Face
  2. Come Back
  3. Feel Free! Plastic Surgery!
  4. Guess Who's a Mess
  5. Waste of TV
  6. Model Home
  7. The First Thing About Me
  8. Thanks for the Add
  9. Fluoride
  10. Just in a Phase

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 in4mador, an aggregator of user-submitted "interesting" links.[3] 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 an album art released to these records.

References

  1. ↑ I Don't Know What I'm Doing, bradsucks.net. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  2. ↑ Out of It, bradsucks.net. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  3. ↑ "In4mador.com - In4mador". ipaddress.com. Retrieved 2009-12-03. 

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