Myself Almost — my new single — is available today everywhere you get your fine organic hand-made artisanal music streams… It’s a vibey indie electronic song about relationships and technology, disconnection despite constant connection. I am typing this into my phone instead of talking to my friends. Hope you like the song. Here’s the lyric video:

Thanks for listening. Also stream show tonight on YouTube 8pm EST/5pm PST.

I’ve got a new single streaming on Thursday: Myself Almost. It’s a mostly-electronic song about technology and relationships. Mixed & Mastered by Rob Cosh, with visuals by Mackenzie Glisson.

I’ve included the final audio file for patrons if you want to check it out early. (The demo was called Cell Phone and was posted last June.)

Also: come join Ben & I this Thursday at 8PM EST/5PM PST for a release day live stream!

Brad

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

Previously posted on the Patreon, I uploaded an old unreleased demo from 2003 called Tell Me Something I Don’t Know. This was supposed to go on my first album I Don’t Know What I’m Doing but I cut it for whatever reasons and then thought about finishing it up for oh, twenty years. I definitely re-recorded the guitars and vocals a couple of times and then abandoned and lost those as well so it probably wasn’t meant to be.

Hey all, “Lonely” the song from Bee and PuppyCat Season 1, Episode 8 is now available on all music services: Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon, Bandcamp and more here.

I also put a lyric video for it on Youtube

Thank you for listening 🖤

Hello there, after several years of procrastinating, I've started a Patreon. It's a website where you can sponsor independent creators and get access to exclusive content and stuff. I'll be posting songs I'm working on as well as writing as much as people want to hear about them as I try to finish the next album.

The first song's about psychedelic mushrooms as antidepressants. It's called Fun Guy -- I threw it on Youtube so I could maybe lure you into sponsoring me on the Patreon, let's see if it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Jpv-bk7Rw

I wrote this song for the show Bee & PuppyCat. The creator Natasha Allegri sent me a tragic story about an octopus who falls in love with a lost princess. She wanted a song for it and I came up with this one. Watch the full scene here (at 1:20).  

A video posted by Brad (@bradsucks) on Feb 20, 2015 at 10:50am PST

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.)

This one's been a struggle and I think it still needs a bunch of work, but I'm calling the demo done and I'll come back to it. I was trying to do something a bit different and ehhhh I dunno: I Need to Love Myself More and You Less (demo)

Anyway, that's a wrap on the demos for the next record. You can listen to them all here (warning: spoilers). Gonna take a short break and then start hassling friends for feedback and then I'll make a bunch of decisions on what needs to be fixed. And then fix those things.

Tired of staring at this demo, so here you go:

Come Back (demo)

Should be track #8 on Guess Who's a Mess. Only one more demo to go and then I get to start finishing this bad boy off.

Whoops. I found out on Friday that last week I accidentally uploaded a very old version of my Guess Who's a Mess demo. That's pretty embarrassing, I was actually pretty horrified but I think I'm good now. Anyway here's the latest one instead: Guess Who's a Mess (demo 2)

Okay, moving on...

Do you remember that I did a cover of a friend's Christmas song last year? And that it was called Fuck You, Motherfucker (It's Christmas)? Ah, good times. Back when I made songs.

Seriously gotta get moving on these album demos. Here’s one:

The First Thing About Me (demo)

The mix is a disaster, but I MOVE ON. It’ll be the last track on Guess Who’s a Mess.

Here's my last monthly demo thing of 2009. It's a cover of a Christmas song my friend JB wrote and that I really like. It's not safe for work, was done in a day and a half and here it is: Fuck You, Motherfucker (It's Christmas) (4MB)

Thanks to JB for the background vocals! Oh and here's the original.

Anyway, that about wraps it up for 2009. I've enjoyed doing the monthly songs but I'm looking forward to taking a break. Thanks for listening dudes, have a good holiday.

This month's demo is actually mostly a song by my pal and guitarist Ben Mullin. He played a demo of it for me and I was like "let me cram my filthy vocals into that and produce it up" and he was like "let go of me".

I Think You're Alright (5 MB)

Last month "Jack" requested twice (1, 2) that I do a cover of Goodbye Horses, the Q Lazzarus song:

Request from Brad if he's up to it. Bunch of friends and I think Clerks 2 is an awesome movie! We wanted to know if Brad would do a cover song of Goodbye Horses from Q Lazzarus. You know the creepy silence of the lambs Buffalo Bill song. Take the creepy out and see clerks 2 to understand the humor in it. Everyone at work loves Bradsux and wanted to see if Brad would attempt a cover of it. Such groups that actually sounded better that did a remix were Psyche. Anyhow just small request.

I listened to the original and didn't like it. Then I noticed it was stuck in my head and I started to like it. Then it seemed familiar and I realized my wife was obsessed with it a couple months ago. So here's my cover:

Goodbye Horses (cover) [6 MB]

September demo: Feel Free! Plastic Surgery! [5 MB]

It'll be track #4 on Guess Who's a Mess.

Tomorrow I'm going to be putting all the demo instrumentals and vocals online on that page so anyone can mess with them before I'm done. Stay tuned, etc.

So I failed again with the monthly demo. My excuse: it's been a stupid crazy busy month and I'm addressing the problem, since I can't seem to keep up anymore. It's not an awful problem to have but it's uncool.

Anyway, I need to make myself pay for my failure, so here's two humiliatingly incomplete things you can listen to.

#1: Every now and then people ask me to make intro music for their shows or whatever. Then their shows get cancelled or do not air. Amber MacArthur asked me to do one last year and the show was immediately disintegrated. Here's the thing I wrote for her:

Intro Music for the Damned [1.6 MB]

#2: Ben and I have been working on the two-person Brad Sucks live show for a while but are bringing a drummer in now. To help him out with practicing on his own we recorded the live set in my office. Direct-in, one take and at very low volume. Here are some embarrassing clips from that:

Crappy Live Clips [4 MB]

Neither are mixed worth a whatever, etc, etc, etc.