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

Less than a week left in the Guess Who’s a Mess vinyl campaign! We’re at 128% funded, thank you so much! It was pretty cool to get to revisit this record ten years later for the remaster, I’m excited to get it out there.

Lotion (Greenskeepers Cover)

I’m playing around with cover songs people have requested (here’s a Spotify playlist of all of them), I hadn’t heard this song before but it made me laugh to sing along with it so I gave it a whirl:

Download available on the Brad Sucks Patreon

A New Low in Hi-Fi Anniversary

A New Low in Hi-Fi turned one and I’ve been uploading one minute lyric video clips from the album as Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and TikToks, perhaps you’d like to look at and listen to them?

Other Stuff

There’s now a #bradsucks channel in the Brad Sucks Discord if for some reason you’re not getting enough detail about my career. Will it mostly be me complaining in there? Too soon to tell.

With the big vinyl project concluding (until I start shipping you all your records later this year), I’m planning to catch up on some boring housecleaning/admin stuff and I’m looking forward to getting back to playing around with music and recording more again. There’ll be a new song demo up on the Patreon on the first of July!

That’s all for now! Follow me: Instagram, Patreon, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook.

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 ☄️

We hit (and surpassed) the fundraising goal for the tenth anniversary Guess Who’s a Mess vinyl, thank you so much! Still 25 days left if you want to get in on it.

It’s the tenth anniversary of Guess Who’s a Mess this year and I’m doing a crowdfunding campaign to remaster and press it on vinyl. If we get this done, every single Brad Sucks record will be available on vinyl which is quite the thing. If you’re interested, check out the campaign. Thank you!

Happy new year! I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but up here in Ontario, Canada we’re locking down again for fun! Join me for a Brad Sucks live stream on the 27th, tickets here! Stay safe if you’re into that✌️

(poster by @sisc_daily)

A New Low in Hi-Fi — my first album in nine years — is now available wherever you buy or stream music! All the pre-orders and perks for backers have also been shipped!

I’m so grateful to everyone who supported the Indiegogo and for all the Brad Sucks Patrons. I was hoping to get $5,000 to cover a few costs but it wound up passing $20,000! Unbelievable. I’m really, really lucky. Having an actual budget made this project so much more manageable than doing it all out of pocket like always — maybe the next one won’t take nine years.

I hope you like the record, a lot of hard work and avoidance of hard work went into it 😂

Huge, huge thanks to Rob Cosh for his expert ear and incredible help pulling the record together, to Ben Mullin, Justin Purvis and Steve Gaw for all their contributions, jams and good times. Thank you to Jason Lytle of Grandaddy for singing on In It to Win It and for being such a cool dude, I’m still thrilled! Thanks to Natasha Allegri for Lonely ✨. Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering for his super skills and killer service. Giant thanks also to Matthew Pfahlert at The Silent P, Geoff Gibson, Allen Henderson, Jen Bernard and Nikki Phillips🖕 for all their amazing work on the art & visuals for the album and singles. Thanks to Kyra & Tyler & Kip at Tell All Your Friends for talking me up to strangers and to Nik Ives-Allison for all the free advice & fight talk 🙏

Hugs & thanks to all my family and friends and in particular to my mom Mary Ann for all her help & support, listening to me complain and giving me life that one time.

I can’t thank you all enough for listening to and sharing my music all these years, hope to see you soon, love ya ❤️

Brad
PS: Listening party hang stream tonight and record release concert stream next week!

NOW STREAMING! Fun Guy 🍄, the third and final single from ⚡️ A New Low in Hi-Fi ⚡️ (out June 10th). It’s a song about trying to use psychedelics to be a better person 🌈

Join me at 2pm EST over on my YouTube channel for the premiere of the little Fun Guy lyric video, I’ll be hanging out in the chat. I also have some stream events for the album release!

Thank you to @sisc_daily for the rad Fun guy art and thank you all for listening ❤️

The fourth Brad Sucks album: A New Low in Hi-Fi drops June 10th! You can pre-order it here!

Join me tomorrow at 3PM EST/12pm PST over on my YouTube channel for the video premiere for A Little Distance, the second single off A New Low in Hi-Fi (out June 10th).

In It to Win It (feat. Jason Lytle) is now available on all streaming services! It premiered in FLOOD Magazine:

As if the robotic pep talk that is “In It to Win It” wasn’t uplifting enough, the latest single from Brad Sucks’ first album since 2012, A New Low in Hi-Fi, is the story of inspiration, mortification, and redemption. With its Grandaddy vibes, the mumblecore indie-pop single was an excuse to mend bridges with the indietronica icons after a perceived ill-fated first impression with vocalist Jason Lytle.

“Grandaddy’s been one of my favorite bands since I heard The Sophtware Slump long ago and Jason’s been a huge inspiration for me ever since,” shares Brad Turcotte. “I wrote ‘In It to Win It’ and thought it had a bit of a Grandaddy vibe and fantasized about the idea of getting Jason’s voice on it but was too embarrassed to try and ask him.

“Jason and I interacted a few times publicly on Twitter,” he continues, “and then some fan of mine was an asshole to him and for a minute I thought Jason was mad at me and I had a panic attack so I DM’d him to apologize and he was super nice. I then cruelly exploited that niceness by pitching the song to him and he was super kind and wonderful.”

“I really really like this song…but unfortunately the joke is on Brad,” Lytle adds. “Turns out I was mad at him and his dumb fan for that thing that was said on Twitter and I vowed to do what I could to sabotage him if I ever got the chance. Lo and behold a year or so later I’m working on a song of Brad’s he asked me to help out on. Here is the joke part: You know that saying ‘the Midas Touch?’ Like, “That guy has the Midas Touch.” Well…I have “the Primer touch.” Like shitty early ’80s Honda Civic painted primer touch. All my collaborations go nowhere…do nothing…fade…rust…disappear. I’m sorry Brad. Good luck with all of the songs I had nothing to do with…but you know where this one is headed.”

Hear the result of this touching kismet below.

Stay tuned for future singles! A New Low in Hi-Fi releases June 10th.

I’m happy to announce the first single from the new album will be released April 1st, it’s called In It to Win It and it features Jason Lytle (from legendary band Grandaddy) on it. He’s one of my musical heroes and I’m thrilled to have him on a song I wrote. You can pre-save In It to Win It on Spotify here which would help the all-knowing algorithms recognize it as a song it should force other people to hear.

A lyric video will also premiere on the 1st and I’ll be hanging out in the chat, come join:

Hope you like it! The new record is called A New Low in Hi-Fi and will be released in June.

Thank you everyone for the huge support! Less than two days left in the A New Low in Hi-Fi crowdfunding campaign and it's gone way beyond what I ever hoped, holy smokes…

Just wanted to check in and update you that everything's on time and on track: Rob and I finished mixing the album last week and it's in getting mastered right now and all the art assets are nearly done and ready for manufacturing. Here's what the rejected songs cassette design looks like (by the awesome Geoff Gibson): 

Excited to get all this out the door and I can't thank you enough!! 

- Brad

Announcing my first new record in over eight years: ⚡️A New Low in Hi-Fi⚡️. It’s ten songs about social anxiety, alcohol, failure, healing, isolation, death and moving on — it’s fun! Out June 2021

I’m doing an Indiegogo for preorders and to raise cash for its manufacture and release. I’ve got a bunch of rewards up there you might like: vinyl, a listening party, a cassette of rejected songs, handwritten lyric sheets… have a look perhaps?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/brad-sucks-a-new-low-in-hi-fi/

Thank you for your support, I’m excited to get this record out there!

Artwork by Matthew Pfahlert
Animation by Allen Henderson

The last one was a blast so we’re gonna do it again! Doing another private stream concert, $10, 100 tickets max. December 17th!

Next Thursday (the 17th) at 8pm EST I'm gonna do a little private Zoom concert thing with my guitarist/keyboardist Ben Mullin. We'll be hanging out and chatting and playing some old and new Brad Sucks songs. I've never done a thing like this before so I can't promise it'll be good, but it should at least be a good time.

Tickets start at $10 and there are only a hundred available. Get ‘em here!

Just released! Super fun Acid Beat remix of Dropping out of School from my Brazilian friends over at Monkey in Space Records. I love it, it makes me laugh and is probably better than the original. Streaming everywhere now!

My old (classic?) cover of Goodbye Horses goes live today wherever you stream music! I recorded it in 2010 as a request and it’s been low-key popular but never officially released. I recently dug it out and cleaned it up and is now on my permanent record. Check it out on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play and other services.

If you could give it a heart, a like, a playlist, a fave or whatever, that’ll help it contend on the streaming services in these dark algorithm times.

ALSO the lyric video for Goodbye Horses (thanks to @sisc_daily for the artwork) goes live on Youtube at 2pm EST today and I’ll be there chatting, come hang!

The completely remastered I Don’t Know What I’m Doing on color vinyl is now available in the store if you didn’t get in on the crowd-funding this summer.

Also available are the I Don’t Know What I’m Doing “boat guy” enamel pins if you want to scoop one of those up.

Thank you!