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Brad Sucks
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Brad Turcotte
Bradsuckspress.jpg
Promotional art of Turcotte
Background information
Also known as Brad Sucks
Born November 14, 1978 (age 36)
Origin Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Genres Experimental pop, pop rock
Instruments Guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, programming
Years active 2001–present
Labels Magnatune
Website
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.
Contents [hide]
1 Discography
1.1 Early career
1.2 I Don't Know What I'm Doing (2003)
1.3 Out of It (2008)
1.4 Guess Who's a Mess (2012)
2 Other work
3 References
4 External links
Discography[edit]
Early career[edit]
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)[edit]
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:
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)[edit]
Turcotte's second album, Out of It, was released on 8 September 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)[edit]
Turcotte's third album, Guess Who's a Mess, was released on 3 November 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
Other work[edit]
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[edit]
Jump up ^ I Don't Know What I'm Doing,
bradsucks.net. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
Jump up ^ Out of It,
bradsucks.net. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
Jump up ^ "In4mador.com - In4mador".
ipaddress.com. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
External links[edit]
Official website
Brad Sucks on
Jamendo.com
Interview with Brad Sucks at Flak Magazine
Article in the Ottawa Citizen
Interview with Brad Sucks on Show X
Article in the Silicon Valley Business Journal
(Japanese) Article in Oricon Style
Brad Sucks Interview where he speaks about the future of Open Source music
Brad Sucks, the open source one-man-band from Red Hat Magazine