This past summer was an important one for me: The latest season of The Righteous Gemstones came out and a new Squirrel Flower album was announced. Those two interests became interconnected, albeit not ...

The Squirrel Nut Zippers in 2018: Top: Eddie Lehwald, Dave Boswell, Leslie Neilson, Tamara Nicolai, Henry Westmoreland, Neilson Bernard III. Bottom: Cella Blue, Jimbo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new single from Ella Williams’ latest album as Squirrel Flower, Planet (i) (June 25, Polyvinyl), isn’t new at all to the true Paste heads out there: “Flames and Flat Tires,” out now alongside its ...

Of all the trends in contemporary music that have come and gone over the years, the swing boom of the mid-to-late 1990s remains one of the most memorable. Seemingly out of nowhere, the hot-jazz sounds ...

Saturday marked a big anniversary for a former local institution: on June 4, 1996, Chapel Hill’s Squirrel Nut Zippers released Hot, the record that would propel them toward stardom with “Hell.” In ...

With a remastered 20th anniversary edition of "Hot" slated for release July 29th on Hollywood Records and a reunion tour to follow, Billboard is exclusively debuting "The Puffer" a… By Andy Gensler ...