My new song Myself Almost has been out for over a week and people seem to like it? Here’s the lyric video. Thanks for the streams and views and comments, they make a huge difference. The song’s received enough streams to make it into Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist so hopefully it’ll have some legs — all hail the merciful algorithm.

After a long stretch of rehearsals, we tracked the drums to the new album recording 13 songs over a weekend, whoo-eee. It went pretty well, I think we got good stuff. I’m working on getting them comped and edited so we can move on to tracking the rest. I’ll post some progress clips on the Patreon soon.

Stream shows

I’ve got TEN cover songs to deliver from the album crowdfunding so Ben and I are gonna try working on them live on stream tomorrow at 1pm EST, not sure how that’ll go but feel free to pop by. Next full concert stream will be April 25th.

Stuff I’ve liked

Some things I’ve been into this month:

• Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel is an excellent adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut classic.

• Edward Gorey illustrated a lot of the books by John Bellairs that I loved as a kid but I didn’t know much about him until I read The World of Edward Gorey. (He was also quite the dresser.)

• Ghanaian Fantasy Coffin Maker Paa Joe makes amazing coffins. He has the KISS Kasket beat for sure.

• I dove into the world of fan-made fantasy Nirvana albums — they’re like demo and rarity mixtapes with a helping of AI to modernize the production. AI stem separation is getting scary good and I’m fighting the urge to make my own “lost” Nirvana album.

• ‘Twas the season for me to be re-obsessed with Drew Sarich’s performance of Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) from Jesus Christ Superstar. I’ve watched every performance by everyone on Youtube and this one’s the best. (Skip to 2:08 for the best part.)

That’s all, thanks everybody!

Brad
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Four days until the Untitled Fifth Album campaign wraps up! Thanks so much to everyone who’s contributed — pretty difficult to express what your support means to me but in these especially turbulent music industry times I’m very grateful to get to do this. Even though we’re likely going to land a bit short of 100%, I’m still making the album. I’m lucky to have this amount of budget to work with.

In other news, my song Making Me Nervous is currently in a Lexus commercial! People have reported seeing it on CBS and NBC (and Peacock!), mostly during sports. Don’t worry, I’m still in touch with my root out here driving a lightly damaged Kia Rio. The commercial opportunity came completely out of the blue — they asked, I said yes. I’m an incredible businessman and don’t let anyone tell you any different. It’s pretty nuts that my dumb twenty year old song is still doing stuff. If you see the ad, let me know where you saw it!

Speaking of songs: I’m still writing and recording them! Here’s a new chill demo called Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake, named after a real place in South Carolina. (It’s a public post on Patreon so you should be able to check it out even if you’re not a patron.)

Oh, and finally Ben & I did a stream show on the 25th that you can watch here. Next one is on February 22nd, I’m told you can hit “notify” on Youtube to be reminded when we go live. Get your requests in so I can badly fumble playing them!

That’s all I got for now, hope your 2024’s off to a good start! Thanks everybody!!

Brad
PS: Oh and I’ll also have a new single coming out next month

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I return this month to report that Starfield is a boring video game and not the mental and emotional space vacation I was hoping for so I’m regretfully back to living in the real world again. So sad.

Spookily though, I re-recorded my cover of Lotion by The Greenskeepers. Check the new version with some creepy animation by my buddy Allen here:

It’s also available for free download on Patreon even if you’re not a patron!

Stream show

Ben & I return from hiatus to stream at you once again on November 23rd, any requests? I request that you hit the “Notify me” bell on the video if you want a reminder when it’s close.

Other stuff

• New Patreon demo: Killed by the Very Best - wrote a rock song, no idea if it’s any good.

• I’ve been working on planning out a new big Brad Sucks project… hope to have news of that to you once my fear of failure is cured completely and forever.

Social media

Seems like it’s getting harder to stay connected online lately which is a drag. For the record, I’m still posting on: Instagram, Threads, Mastodon and Facebook. Anything important gets mentioned on Patreon and the mailing list.  Oh and come hang out in the Brad Sucks Discord, it’s a cool little group there.

Thanks for listening, til next time!

Brad