Polka music has taken Brave Combo from Denton, Texas — the latest stop in our Sense of Place series — to some wild places: from Japan to being featured in an episode of The Simpsons to playing at ...

Brave Combo has the best of both worlds. In the United States, the Denton creators of “nuclear polka” get to walk the streets in unfettered anonymity, but when they’re in the mood to experience ...

In 1979–the year WLUP hosted Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park and I learned to polka in gym class–the boys of Brave Combo turned to polka, not punk, to thumb their noses at commercial music.

Before the Thanksgiving dishes were washed and dried, the question was on everyone’s lips: “What are you doing on New Year’s Eve?” The answer, an honest one at least, would sound something like this: ...

As Brave Combo founder Carl Finch talks about polka from an office phone in Denton, Texas, his passion for the multicultural art form knows no bounds. But get him going about the mainstream perception ...

Brave Combo might be one of the best bands you’ve never heard of. The Denton-based polka group also has won two Grammy awards and was nominated four other times. That’s right, polka. Jeffery Barnes, ...