Each day leading up to First Ave’s Best New Bands of 2010 show (1/26), we will highlight one of the bands selected.
As odd as it sounds, I think this “story of BadNraD” (via badnrad.com) is, aside from being extremely inventive, an accurate description of his sound and provides some much needed context for what BadNraD is all about:
“Born into the world wearing neon sunglasses and a pair of hi-tops, Jake Sullivan was raised on casio keyboards and cartoons. As he grew, so did his tastes for electronic music. Soon he was creating music that was undeniably radical! However, it wasn’t until he learned to shred guitar and keytar that he truly became BADNRAD! Borrowing from multiple styles and genres, his music plays with a new realm of sonic possibilities. Utilizing dynamic song structuring and inherently catchy melodies, he weaves an aural spectral-gasm of electronic emotions ranging from fun and funky to deep down and dirty to sexy sc-fi cyberlicious to booming bad ass bass in your face!!”
There you have it… Straight from the mind of Jake Sullivan aka BadNrad, whose one-man show is anything but mundane. Under his 80′s rock persona, BadNraD, Sullivan released a self-titled LP early in 2010 and has been clearing out thrift stores of their neon-colored inventory ever since…
BadNraD will play this Wednesday 1/26 @ First Avenue’s Mainroom
Video above: “BAD GIRL” – Badnrad from Vimeo. Video below the jump: “Werebabe” on MPLS.TV’s City of Music
