Word: brashness
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...amid the hype over the nouveau punk radio revolution, Rancid blasted onto the mainstream modern rock scene with ...And Out Come the Wolves, a pop powerhouse that provided a Clash-esque revitalization of the rock airwaves. The rough-around-the-edges quartet wooed listeners and fans alike with its brash musicianship while roping in the critics despite the band's inescapable unoriginality. No matter how much Rancid sounded like the punks of old, though, the band undeniably impressed the masses with its raw street-rock energy and perspective. As Green Day resurrected the three-chord pop-punk love song...
Bust, which began as a photocopied 'zine, is essentially a product of alternative culture's Riot Grrrl movement, an effort by new female bands in the early '90s to reclaim the brash, bratty sense of self-control that psychologists claim girls lose just before puberty. And in many ways, the movement succeeded, as any fan of Sleater-Kinney and even the Spice Girls will tell you. But even in the world of pop music, with the spirit of girl power behind it, the concept of feminism is often misapplied. Look how the label is tossed about: female singers like Meredith...
Basketball seasons come and go, but for "The NBA on NBC," the theme song remains the same. That brash melody that leads viewers in and out of commercials is called Roundball Rock, and it was composed by New Age instrumentalist extraordinaire John Tesh. Ever agreeable, Tesh says he doesn't mind that his best-known, and perhaps most hummable, creation is rarely attributed to him. "It happens to other composers as well, and I love hearing it." Tesh says he wrote the tune while in Europe; without a tape recorder or piano, he called home and sang it onto...
...Goldwater's 1964 Presidential campaign was a disaster for the candidate but a war won for the Republicans. Goldwater had wrested the nomination process from the kingmakers in the East, and though it ended in one of the worst defeats in American electoral history, Goldwater's brash, shoot-from-the-hip candidacy had given the GOP new energy and a new self-image -- a party of Marlboro Men, of rugged individualists, of small government and wide freedoms. A party of true Conservatives. And after four years of licking his wounds, the Senator from Arizona regained his seat and became...
Sinatra lived the music at every tempo, the sad soul of it as well as the brash, brassy swing. Or maybe his need to graft his life onto every song he sang was an unintended effect of his artistry, a scramble to find personal corollaries for every melody he molded, every lyric he bent to his own will and purpose...