Definitions
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- verb intransitive, informal To produce a
raw anddiscordant sound withelectric guitars .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And Mr. Lucas's virtuosic playing, with its mercurial flashes of Delta blues and cosmic skronk, shares a fuller soundscape.
Gods, Monsters and Guitars Steve Dollar 2011
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That Rock Band gives you its now embarrassingly too-familiar skronk on every missed note is key to sustaining the illusion that you're participating in the performance, even just by slapping a thumb onto a glass sheet.
Boing Boing 2009
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Drummer Chris Corsano pulverizes his kit, and the trio's two-guitar attack, by Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny, is the definition of the grating, frenetic playing style known as "skronk."
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You can still seek out bands like Tyvek for joyous blasts of tuneless skronk, if that's your thing.
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With a unique take on post-punk dance music, Maximum Joy meld punky choppy guitars, disco-funk beats and basslines, skronk-y jazz elements, reggae and dub effects, polyrhythms and (more!) cowbell.
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With a unique take on post-punk dance music, Maximum Joy meld punky choppy guitars, disco-funk beats and basslines, skronk-y jazz elements, reggae and dub effects, polyrhythms and (more!) cowbell.
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Their sound is low on skronk, high on drone and performer interplay, such that the expected saxophone sounds are often submerged in harmoniously unrecognizable waves of tone, color and percussion.
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One of the other sets we went for a heavily percussive piece, Brian and I did a call&response skronk kind of conversation.
partypartymaskandcar badger 2003
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Funhouse pushed the chaos of rock 'n' roll to its natural conclusion, pitting lusty skronk and noise against raw, distorted blues.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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In any case, in the past his scruffed-up skronk did a lot to reconcile the band's affable garage-pop jangle with lyrics about, say, killing cops.
Chicago Reader 2010
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