Editing Brave Combo (section)

==History and influences==
In a 1995 feature in ''[[The Santa Fe New Mexican]]'', band cofounder [[Carl Finch]] described Brave Combo's influence as a polka band with rock styles as an earnest way to escape an increasingly corporate cultural landscape, lamenting-<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/583928886/|url-access=subscription|date=September 8, 1995|location=Santa Fe, N.M.|work=The Santa Fe New Mexican|title=Brave Combo's polkas are 90 percent serious; It's 'a beat, a dancing drug'|last=Prince|first=David|page=59}}</ref>

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'Rock had been removed from the common people' he said 'and musically I wanted what I do to have depth, I started listening to polka and ethnic records I'd find at Target six for $5 — nothing could beat that. At first, I’d just buy whatever covers looked strangest but after a while I’d do research and find out what was good.' Among the best, he soon discovered, were names like [[Larry Chesky]] and his big band polka sound, Norwegian accordion virtuoso Andrew Walter (“exciting intense” is Finch’s assessment), and [[Eddie Blazonczyk]], the “Godfather” of Chicago’s Polish community. 'All this came out of a sense of desperation'.
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Brave Combo had its website at brave.com/bo, a [[domain hack]]. The [[domain name]] brave.com was purchased in 1995 by a fan of the band, who transferred it to the band in 1997. In mid-2010s, Finch sold the domain to Brave Software, which develops the web browser [[Brave (web browser)|Brave]], in exchange for bravecombo.com, which had been taken by a [[domain squatter|squatter]], and an undisclosed sum of money.<ref>{{cite podcast|last=Jeffries|first=Adrienne|date=December 3, 2019|url=https://underunderstood.com/podcast/episode/brave-combo/|title=Brave Dot Com|website=Underunderstood|access-date=February 14, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Brave Software|date=November 13, 2019|url=https://brave.com/the-road-to-brave-one-dot-zero/|title=The road to Brave 1.0|work=Brave Software|access-date=February 14, 2024}}</ref>