Still riding the highs of his critically-acclaimed 2022 album, $oul $old $eperately, Freddie Gibbs has shared the newest music video from the record. His latest is ...

Before him, we didn’t have our own music. "It was European music." That’s sort of what the Zippers have done since Mathis put the first version of the band together in North Carolina in the mid 1990s, ...

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

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 ...

Before he became a mainstay of the tasteful, NPR-friendly indie firmament, the whistling, violin-wielding chamber-pop king Andrew Bird was a member of the quirky ’90s swing revival band Squirrel Nut ...

Originally released way back in the summer of 1996, Squirrel Nut Zippers’ second album, Hot, defied all expectations. At the time, pop fodder from acts such as the Spice Girls ruled the airwaves. What ...

Glasgow's Dogs Die in Hot Cars -- their music is imaginative and catchy enough to deflect criticism of the name -- wear their influences boldly and deliver an impressive, energetic show with material ...

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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 ...

Ferociously rapping about his gang ways and selling narcotics, Gibbs shows a day in the life on “Zipper Bags.” The video opens with him arguing with a significant other, while receiving a voicemail ...

Camerata Pacifica, the international chamber music collective renowned for its musical versatility and bold programming, traverses a range of groundbreaking music from the 20th century and the dawn of ...