“Hot,” the title of the Squirrel Nut Zippers' breakthrough album recorded a quarter century ago, was apt. Swing was the rage during the mid-to late ’90s and Squirrel Nut Zippers, a retro act out of ...

The current incarnation of the Squirrel Nut Zippers (Jimbo Mathus is at far right). Credit: Photo by Jamie Harmon When the Houston Press last spoke with Jimbo Mathus, the singer/guitarist and head ...

As unlikely as it sounds, in the mid-’90s there was a swing music revival. Movies like Swing Kids and Swingers inspired a new generation to sign up for swing-dancing classes. Right in the middle of ...

Ella Williams, the Massachusetts-born musician who makes music as Squirrel Flower, released her first EP, Early Winter Songs From Middle America, while attending Grinnell College in 2015, and she’s ...

Boston-born, Chicago-based singer/songwriter Ella Williams, AKA Squirrel Flower, memorably released a seven-song EP, Planet, last year. One of the tracks on that EP was the spare, echoing “your love ...

Squirrel Flower — the moniker of Massachusetts singer-songwriter Ella Williams — has released a pair of new songs, “Ruby at Dawn” and a cover of Björk’s “Unravel,” both of which will appear on her new ...

Swingin’ jazzy revivalists the Squirrel Nut Zippers just announced a small handful of standalone Florida dates set for the autumn, their first time back in the area since their Christmas show in ...