In the summer of 1984 two important things happened: I graduated from high school and my younger brother, Bryan, bought the soundtrack to the movie “Breakin’.”This cassette contained a song which ...

Squirrel Nut Zippers leader Jimbo Mathus calls as he’s driving through Tupelo, Mississippi. “The whole region here is quite historic,” he says. Tupelo is, of course, where Elvis Presley was, born and ...

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

Since Jimbo Mathus brough Squirrel Nut Zippers storming back to active duty in 2016, the group hasn’t taken its foot off the pedal. Even during a pandemic. 2018’s “Beasts of Burgundy” was the quirky ...

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 ...

One of the most commercially successful bands to ever spring out of the Triangle is Squirrel Nut Zippers, whose 1996 LP Hot sold more than a million copies. One of the group’s not-so-secret weapons ...

Squirrel Nut Zippers came together with the greatest of ease. Their hit came even more easily, with a song Tom Maxwell claims to have dashed off in 15 minutes. Most effortless of all was their breakup ...

Jimbo Mathus, front and center, leads the 2018 version of Squirrel Nut Zippers. Photo by Nate Burrell. Few bands have had a more unusual birth, death and rebirth than Squirrel Nut Zippers, who this ...