Just days before sending me a copy of the new Brave Combo album, Carl Finch was busy trying to make a CD that will listen seamlessly, without any pauses to between songs, so that I can get what he ...

What happened to the internationally recognized percussionist Joe Cripps is a still an unanswered question. Cripps was best known for his work with Denton-based, Grammy Award-winning polka band Brave ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Police in Little Rock are searching for a former drummer for the Grammy Award-winning polka-rock band Brave Combo who hasn't been seen in two weeks. Police say Joe Cripps was ...

Silver-haired fans in worn Brave Combo T-shirts polka alongside toddlers, teenagers and other couples under an August sun beating down on a rooftop bar on Denton’s downtown square. As the dancers ...

Brave Combo, the Denton-based "nuclear polka" band that's been chugging along for more than 35 years, is going to sound — and look — a little bit different. Jeffrey Barnes, who has played sax, ...

Earlier this year, the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby wrote of legendary polka band Brave Combo: There exists no greater invitation to dance than the music of Brave Combo. The Texas mainstay has been ...

"It's been a 24-hour-a-day job since 1979," Carl Finch, founder of Denton's Brave Combo, tells us before a recent show. That makes this their 30th year playing the "nuclear polka" tunes that have ...

Percussionist Joe Cripps, who spent most of the 1990s playing with Brave Combo, is missing. Police in Little Rock, Ark., on Tuesday asked for the public's help in finding the Grammy Award-nominated ...

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 ...

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.

Percussionist Joe Cripps has been missing since October 2016. A concert is being held on Friday — his birthday — at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton. Ed Steele Courtesy Percussionist Joe Cripps, once a ...

St. Louis may be without a major jazz festival this June, but fortunately there's enough other activity this weekend that many fans of jazz and creative music can probably find something to their ...