“I’d have to be the guitar player,” she says, “and I don’t really have any of that material worked up. I don’t believe we’ll get into any of that stuff, but I don’t know, maybe we will. It doesn’t ...

He’s talking about the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Chapel Hill—specifically the rich alt-nineties ferment that produced nationally charting acts such as Ryan Adams, Ben Folds, and the Zippers, as well as ...

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, ...

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 ...

Twenty years later, the swing music revival of the late nineties remains a perplexing hallmark of the decade. For a few years, bands that swung made a forceful showing on mainstream radio. Leading the ...

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 ...