Out of It (album)
| Brad Turcotte | |
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Promotional art of Turcotte
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Brad Sucks |
| Born | November 14, 1978 |
| Origin | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Experimental pop, pop rock |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, programming |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels | Magnatune |
| Website | http://www.bradsucks.net/ |
| Members | Brad Turcotte, Ben Mullin, Justin Purvis (live band) |
| Past members | Rob Cosh, Bruce Spence, Matthew McGarvy (live band) |
Brad Turcotte (born 14 November 1978), 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, 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 through both Magnatune and a limited "professional" printing from his own website.
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 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:
Turcotte's second album, Out of It, was released on 8 September 2008.
It includes the following songs:
Turcotte's third album, Guess Who's a Mess, was released on 3 November 2012.
It includes the following songs:
Turcotte's fourth album, Better Than Nothing, was released on 17 November, 2017 (originally released as limited-edition vinyl in September 2017).
The album is described by the author as "a fully remastered compilation of eleven of the most popular Brad Sucks songs in one convenient package".
It includes the following songs:
In an interview Turcotte voiced intention to produce more records in future.
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. He is now working on some demos, and we may see the release of a new album.
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