Carter Brady is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City who has played in various bands and groups of different genres and styles, most notably 90’s nostalgic alternative rock. Similar to a Mac DeMarco-type figure, Brady writes all of the music and records all or most of the instruments on his songs. Raised in the small town of Pelham, NY, Brady is on a mission to write, record, and release as much new and refreshing rock music as possible as a male solo artist within the modern indie rock world.

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If someone were to describe Carter Brady’s signature sound in a nutshell, it might be phrased as such: 90's-centric alt rock mixed with modern American indie pop, complemented by big guitars and drums, and touching yet equally versatile and interchangeably powerful, raspy vocals. However, it’s clear that the recently cohesive sound that the unsigned NY indie artist has attained in his critically acclaimed album ‘Shopping Cart’ bends genres and touches on a wide variety of emulations of rock from the past several decades. Since breaking into the NYC music scene in 2022, Brady and his extremely talented live band of Sammy Wags, Michael Iaciofano, and Ryan Datino have headlined shows at iconic venues like Mercury Lounge, The Bowery Electric, and Arlene’s Grocery, always leaving fans wanting more. The self-released ‘Shopping Cart’ has also been a huge hit in the news media and radio circuit, with the album getting airplay on major AAA and Americana stations, making it into the Top 100 at #93 on College Radio Charts, making NACC Top 30 Adds, MMD Top Downloads and has spent 13 weeks and counting on Roots Music Report's Top 50 Charts, peaking at #18 for Alternative Rock Albums, #32 for Rock Albums, and #19 for New York Albums. Songs like “Invincible,” “We’re Talking,” and “Go Home” were voted as a Top 5 Finalist, Semi-Finalist, and Runner Up Finalist in the Rock Category of Song of the Year’s 2024 Song & Lyric Writing Competition. “Invincible” also received an Honorable Mention Award in the Rock/Alternative category in the 41st Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest sponsored by the Songwriters’ Association of Washington. Brady is also the rare independent artist with the drive and determination to produce a music video for every song on an album, with him doing just that for 'Shopping Cart.'

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Carter has received positive feedback from many seasoned music industry vets, gaining the respect of former Foo Fighters Franz Stahl and William Goldsmith (also drummer of emo powerhouse Sunny Day Real Estate who Carter takes lessons from), Momma, Louise Post of Veruca Salt, lead singer Chris Barron and drummer Aaron Comess of Spin Doctors, Grady Owens (engineer for Yeasayer, Kim Gordon, etc.; performed live with Nada Surf, Mastodon, etc.) Joey Pecoraro, Quinn Sullivan, and has worked with Nirvana In Utero touring cellist Lori Goldston, GRAMMY-nominated producer Joe DiGiorgi (also an engineer for Deep Purple’s Greatest Hits album), bassist Mark White of Spin Doctors, Jon Cobert (GRAMMY nominated piano player, multi-instrumentalist, and session musician for John Lennon’s last solo band; plays synthesizer on John Lennon’s “Stand By Me”), Al Hemberger (producer for Rihanna’s first three studio albums; producer for Rod Stewart; engineer for Kelly Clarkson and Michael Jackson’s 2009 Greatest Hits album), Mark Saunders (engineer for Mick Jagger and David Bowie’s “Dancing in the Street;” producer for The Cure, Erasure, Neneh Cherry; produced Carter’s high school band’s The Waves EP), Antonio Ciacca (highly-acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, and educator who plays piano in the outro of “Amateur”), Steve Watson (taught Carter jazz guitar at Furman University; performed and recorded with Bruce Hornsby, Dolly Parton, The Allman Brothers Band keyboardist Chuck Leavell, etc.), Peter Press (longtime mentor and guitar/mandolin teacher for Carter; classical strings player and longtime session musician who has played in many major productions including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and New York Philharmonic), Mark Sidgwick (Carter’s second guitar teacher and longtime mentor; recorded on The Ramones’ 1989 album Brain Drain; bass guitar player for Holly and the Italians, George Usher, Paul Butterfield, etc. and is a guitar tech for The Who), Eric Katz, (Carter’s first guitar teacher), Anna Comerford, Deanna Fielding (smudgeout), Connor Hanson, Charles Rhyner, Matt Graff, Jeremy Driesen and many others.

Additionally, Carter has recorded original music for mini-documentaries and content creators, along with having film credits for playing acoustic guitar in parts of Director Quinn Fluet’s short film Singularity (2021).