The phrase "rough sound" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a sound that is harsh or not smooth. Example: The car's engine made a rough sound, indicating that it needed a tune-up.
Then there was the combination of the rough sound and the whiney voice.
Under Mr. Grohl's watch, Rye Coalition's rough sound settled into a high-strung, punk-metal-pop mélange not dissimilar to the Foo Fighters' music.
Despite the rough sound of some of those names, the old-timers recalled the Red Hook Houses of their youth as an idyllic small town, where doors were left unlocked and neighbors looked out for one another.
That's partly due to the fact that these were effectively rehearsals: the rough sound quality, the musicians fluffing notes, the absence, for the most part, of drummer Levon Helm.
With no concerts announced so far either, Rum Rumble is the only chance to enjoy the rough sound of Galvanic Elephants right now, but it definitely makes you want more.
Bands today try to replicate that recording in the belief that its rough sound can be emulated with a rough recording – one bad mic, and all in one room.
It's in popular music that many of the rough sounds survived.
No rough sounds for Ms. Saariaho's "Terra Memoria," commissioned by Carnegie Hall and having its first performance here.
Mr. Barry's work, bristling with deliberately rough sounds and implacably pulsed, was honored with fine care, which it thoroughly justified.
Also playing was Hugh Ragin, who drew from a Western trumpet the overtones, steady pulses and rough sounds that are essential to music in Tibet.
"We're not afraid to include rough sounds, to explore the entire palette of sound production, of affect, of dynamics," said Karen Marie Marmer, a violinist and co-founder of the group.
