Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to the Untitled Fifth Album campaign! We’re 41% of the way there with 50 days to go!

Unfortunately, the first thing I need to announce is I MESSED UP!! I didn’t specify shipping on the “SIGNED Limited Edition Vinyl” perk. I feel awful about it, but if you ordered that one I’ll need to ask you to cancel & request a refund and then re-purchase the same perk (which now includes shipping). I’m very, very sorry for the hassle — don’t hesitate to contact me if you need any help with cancelling your order. 

In other campaign news, I’ve added a “Name in credits + Signed Vinyl” tier by request in case you want both of those things at once. 

Folks who posted custom cover songs: I'll be reaching out to find out what your song selections are soon!

In actual album production developments: we’ve gone ahead and started working on the songs and filming the process, so assuming things go well for the budget, we’re targeting a late February recording date for the drums, tracking the rest shortly after.

I posted a live clip of us playing the unreleased song In Trouble on Youtube if you want to check that out. (A clip of Bad Attraction from my first album is up there as well.)

Anyway other than my dumb shipping mistake, it's been going well so far and I'm optimistic. The support has been really encouraging, thank you so much!

Brad
PS: Ben & I are doing a live stream show on Thursday 8pm EST, come on out to see if I've forgiven myself by then!

Just a reminder that Ben and I are back live streaming tonight at 8pm EST! We had no idea it was American Thanksgiving today when we agreed on it, but hopefully some people will still tune in. I'll try not to schedule the next one on a major national holiday (unless it goes really well and then major national holidays only from now on.)

Been feeling a bit guilty towards my $10/month Patrons as I haven’t been digging up any good embarrassment content lately so I decided to throw your names (minus last name for privacy) on the opening and closing stream screens. No shade to the other Patreon tiers, just thought it might be a fun thing to try out as a thank you for that extra support.

Anyway, missed doing this so I’m looking forward to getting back at it, see you in the chat!

Brad

Oh boy, I’m about to hit this long weekend running. It’s nice weather & Starfield for the foreseeable future for me, thank you very much. But after that? The plan is to return even more powerful.

20 years 🥳

I Don’t Know What I’m Doing turned twenty years old! Crazy. That’s so many years! Thanks for all your kind messages, it means a lot.

The Rainbow

We played a show, it went well! Last Friday was a great time as I mentioned on Instagram:

Wow, what a night that was. So many people came from far away: Hungary, North Carolina, Missouri, New Orleans, Michigan, Texas — incredible, I’m really overwhelmed and touched… thanks to you all. I hope we rocked for you? We played nearly every song we know, for the most part successfully (swipe to the last pic to see when I took full blame for screwing up a song.)

Super fun night! Really enjoyed meeting some of you and hope the show was worth the journey.

Sorta final live stream

Ben and I did our last scheduled live stream last night, ending a multi-month campaign of scheduled stream-rocking. Thanks for hanging out with us if you popped by, it’s been really fun to play and read the comments. Haven’t decided what to do next… I’d love to experiment a bit more maybe? Let me know if you have any thoughts or requests or ideas.

Other stuff I posted

• The I Don’t Know What I’m Doing Instrumentals are on YouTube now

• I posted all the Brad Sucks tattoos I’ve been sent

• Patreon: In Trouble (Extended) - working on this one for the next single(?)

Social media

When not in the sunshine or playing Starfield I’ll be on social media:  Instagram, Threads, Mastodon, X and Facebook. Anything important gets mentioned on Patreon and the mailing list.

Thanks for listening, til next time!

Brad

Hey hey, how’s it going? I’m avoiding packing all my gear up for band practice tonight, it’s grown into a lot of stuff which is unfortunate because I’m very, very lazy. Anyway, here’s all the news from me:

• Tickets are available for my first full band shows since 2019!

• As the 20th anniversary of I Don’t Know What I’m Doing is coming up, I asked people (on Instagram and on Facebook) to share where they found out about the album and I was blown away by the replies. It’s often a bit tough to think anything I’ve made is worthwhile at all but that gave me a much-needed boost, so thank you all for that.

• We did a live stream on May 25th which was also very encouraging, everyone was so nice. Also last stream I was recovering from Covid and basically braindead so this was a nice redemption.

• I made an AI voice replacement of Grimes singing Making Me Nervous. The future is freaky. On the one hand I don’t want my career to be ruined by machines, but on the other hand creatively it’s pretty irresistible getting to play with other people’s voices. I’m still thinking the human element will be tough to simulate but I’m also an idiot human so what do I know.

• Even though machines can do it better than my stupid brain and hands, I’ve been trying to improve my piano playing. While thinking about some ideas for Brad Sucks video games on the Brad Sucks Discord, I made a moody piano cover of Making Me Nervous for the Patreon.

• I’m working on another single release (finishing up the In Trouble demo from the Patreon). I’ve had people ask if I’m doing another album but I think I’m just gonna do singles for a while and see how that goes.

Okay, uh now I’ve run out of news and have to start packing my stuff up, wish me luck. Hope you’re all well, love y’all.

Hey all! My new song The Comfort Zone is streaming today (and it’s also on Bandcamp). If you could give it a glance, a listen, a like, a share, a playlist add, I’d appreciate it. Here’s the lyric video (premiering 11am EST):

Get all the links here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/bradsucks/the-comfort-zone

I wrote and recorded the original demo and posted it on my Patreon in January 2021 which feels like a lifetime ago now. But that’s a relatively quick turnaround for me. I revisited the track a couple of months ago, re-recording a lot of it and making some tweaks. Ben Mullin added some guitars and Rob Cosh mixed it, making it sound much better than I could on my own.

This song may sound sad but I like to think of it as withdrawing in order to come back stronger. I hope you like the song, thanks for listening ❤️

Brad

New Brad Sucks Newsletter just dropped where I self-promote and stuff

My new single The Comfort Zone streams on all platforms 4/14/23, please pay attention to it 😵‍💫

Links will all be here

Super stoked to have my song & voice kick off Episode 3 of the new Bee & PuppyCat reboot & series on Netflix. The scene:

While my most popular contribution, the Lonely/Jellyfish song scene, didn’t make it into the reboot, writing and performing the birthday song was a really cool creative challenge for me. I had to write the lyrics in a way that hinted at a big reveal about the main character. I had never done any songwriting in service of other people's stories so it was really satisfying to pull it off and I’m thrilled it made the new series. Thanks to Natasha Allegri and everyone else at the show!

Been a rocky time over here at Brad Sucks HQ, but still we persist. Here’s some catch-up:

• I put a recent Patreon song demo up on YouTube that people seem to like. It’s called Too Sick to Love but Too Well to Die.

• Ben & I are gonna play a free public Brad Sucks show stream on YouTube on September 22nd at 8pm EST.

• I revised the Brad Sucks shop with a new fancier merch provider and Fun Guy t-shirts as well as five A New Low in Hi-Fi test pressings.

• Over on the Patreon I announced that I’m gonna focus on revising/finishing up some of the unreleased Patreon songs as there are getting to be a lot of them. I’m gonna try doing some production streams as I do that, we’ll see how it goes. Subscribe to my YouTube channel and turn on notifications if you wanna come hang as I doubt I’ll be able to stick to any particular schedule.

• Guess Who’s a Mess vinyl is deep in production and should be on its way to me and then to you soon.

That’s it for now, thanks for hanging in there with me. Join me on the social media: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Brad

A New Low in Hi-Fi is one year old today! 🔥 Thanks everybody for helping make it happen, for listening, for your kind comments and for spreading the word. Appreciate you all ❤️‍🔥

PS: there’s still vinyl available on my website… for now ☄️

Hey! I’m doing a crowdfunding/pre-order thing to press my record I Don’t Know What I’m Doing on vinyl. I’ve got some rewards including some sweet enamel “boat guy” pins:

Records will ship in November! You can check out the campaign here. Thanks so much for listening to and supporting my little album all these years ❤️

Status update: I’m still doing music full time in 2016! I’ve got some things I’m excited for you to hear/see but they ain’t ready yet. So here’s other stuff:

I’ve got a live show coming up on April 16. Details over on Facebook. If you’re near the place where it’s happening on the date and at the time that it happens, you should come inside the place and see a music show. 

I was on a couple podcasts recently if you wanna hear me talk with my dumb mouth. One of ‘em’s short and serious and the other’s long and wacky:

The Passionative Podcast [iTunes]

In this episode, I interviewed Brad Sucks, the OG of crowdfunding your album and one of the first people to give away his music for free online. Brad and I talk about how to trust yourself and your art, stop worrying about things being perfect and focusing on building a fan base instead.

The Crapshoot [iTunes]

We’re thrilled to welcome Brad back to the show for a deep dive on Stardew Valley. On the way, we also touch on Moshow the Cat Rapper, Stovokor, Axl Rose, Bee and Puppycat, Kickstarter entitlement syndrome, Undertale disruption, Josh’s impending spin-off podcast Quarter Quorner, John Campbell, blind-fire delivering psychology services, a series of tweets that Jesse never got over, veterinary rackets, Andre Agassi, getting involved in an ass tattoo, signatures versus Signature signatures, living in the formative and evolutionary age of video games, and what kind of murderer you would be.

Also I have a note here reminding myself that I’m way, way overdue on sending out my mailing list, so sign up for that if you want to get in on that.

I think that’s all for now. Thanks for reading. I enjoyed 10 Cloverfield Lane. 

Happy New Year to you all. I'm gonna do music full time in 2016, so that'll be weird.

Hey, the new album's on iTunes finally. That took longer than I thought it would. It's also on Spotify and most other digital services now and you can of course still get it on this here website. I posted track #5 to Youtube because did you know that's where kids listen to music now?

Me? Oh, I've been busy filling orders and I turned 36 yesterday. Trying to do what I can to promote the album but I'm excited to get back to work on music. It's a big relief no longer being creatively jammed up with this thing. My plan is to never do that again. It's gonna be great.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the CD release party on Friday. Nice to see you all, let's do that again sometime. Here's the fourth (and title) track off the new album, which, if you did not know, you can get here.

Guess who's got a new album out? That's right, it's this guy. And probably other people. Click the cover art to check it out and possibly buy it:

It's called Guess Who's a Mess. Ten songs of kinda loud uptempo stuff. I think it's about dealing with people's expectations. It should be on iTunes soon.

The CD release party is tonight at Zaphod Beeblebrox in Ottawa. I'll be on CBC radio today at 3 to say some things with my mouth.

Thanks to everybody for their patience and help and support while I struggled through the production of this record and my other records and my whole life. Here's the latest song I posted to Youtube:

Creep me on Twitter if you require further updates.

Hey hey. You can now pre-order my new album through this website. It'll be out November 2nd and then up on iTunes and Amazon and whatever else shortly after.

Also there's still a record release party happening.

The new album will be out November 2nd. There'll be a release party:

Here's the info on Facebook.

Welp, the album's off to mastering. What a needlessly awful process that was (spoiler: all my fault). Maybe one day I'll write up all the things I learned but for now my priority is to move on and keep some guilt-free momentum going. I'm excited to not take four years to make my next thing. So there are some shows booked. I'll have an official release date (spoiler: November 2nd) and all that jazz sometime soon. I'm working on new songs and I'm not sure what I'll do with them yet. Slow and steady wins the race.

Also: my buddy JB who runs Songfight! had a 40th birthday recently. A bunch of us did covers of his songs as a birthday surprise. I covered What We Need More of is Science (original is here.)

2011 was kinda bananas. I think the original plan was to kick ass and make a lot of progress on this dusty old music career of mine but that hasn't really happened so much. People have been asking me about my record and I really appreciate that you guys are looking forward to it despite all the radio silence from me. Honestly I'm still struggling with it, getting the songs how I want them while not going all Chinese Democracy. It's a tough balance.

But it's moving forward now and I'm optimistic I'll be able to wrap it up soon. Thanks for your patience and support. Have a sweet 2012.