Squirrel Nut Zippers News

Attention, anybody who ever tripped the light fantastic at La Monica Ballroom on the Santa Monica Pier: Pier officials are seeking 100"alumni" of the famed ballroom, which had its heyday during the swing band era, to take a turn on the re-created dance floor from 7 to 10 p.m. on July 23.

The Santa Monica Pier , the symbolic western end of Route 66, will hold concerts July 23 to pay tribute to its former La Monica Ballroom and celebrate the pier's centennial, according to a news release .

Rapper Eminem, who is not on tour, is set to perform at the Voodoo Experience 2009, which the festival's producers say will be his only full concert performance of the year.

'That's not good.' I was sitting next to the tent for the sound and light boards for the downtown Iowa Arts Festival stage when those words were uttered by one of the tent's occupants.

Squirrel Nut Zippers will headline Friday night's Main Stage entertainment at the three-day Iowa Arts Festival in downtown Iowa City.

$10. Clarksdale-born Jimbo Mathus makes "Mississippi music," he says. "I keep the old stories alive while they help keep me alive." Luther Dickinson, of the North Mississippi Allstars and the Black Crowes, once did Mathus one better when he described him as a link in "the 'crazy Mississippi white-boy' chain of music that goes all the way back ...

The Deal: Boston-based Eilen Jewell performs hour-and-a-half-long set for small crowd.

Then came the swing revival. And now? Get ready, says Haledon musician James L. Dean, for the swing revival revival.

For more than 10 years, Luther Dickinson has assumed the duty of electric-guitar stud behind the rocking blues-jam sound of the North Mississippi Allstars.

Merge Records has been getting all the attention this year for its upcoming 20-year-anniversary shows.

Ita s kind of a strange birthday celebration. Had it survived the consolidation and various net-driven gyrations of the music industry, Mammoth Records would have been 21 this year.

The swing band Squirrel Nut Zippers will kick off the Iowa City Arts Festival in downtown Iowa City on June 5. IOWA CITY - Squirrel Nut Zippers will swing into Iowa City on June 5 to launch the three-day Iowa Arts Festival, part of the Summer of the Arts series.

Sure, it was a self-centered concern, but it was the first one that entered my mind: As the smashing, unprecedented success of the Squirrel Nut Zippers' Hot, released by Carrboro's Mammoth Records in 1996, became evident, I remember thinking, "Cool. That means Mammoth can keep releasing Joe Henry records." Hot burned through the charts one year ...

Squirrel Nut Zippers to showcase the old, new The black-tied swingers are on the road again, bringing back a taste of fashion and lifestyle from the prohibition-era underground.

Andrew Bird shows that he knows Pittsburgh weather as he rolls into town tonight.

Mississippi veterans . . . LUTHER DICKINSON, ALVIN a oeYOUNGBLOODa HART AND JIMBO MATHUS UNITE TO FORM THE SOUTH MEMPHIS STRING BAND, EMBARKS ON TOUR AHEAD OF RECORDING 2009-03-31 22:44:42 - Dickinson from the North Mississippi Allstars, Grammy winner Hart and former Squirrel Nut Zipper Mathus came together as friends and musical confreres, fans of ...

You might want to bring some earplugs to the Squirrel Nut Zippers show Saturday night at Phoenix Hill.

It doesn't bother members of the Squirrel Nut Zippers that they got swept up into the "Swing revival" of the 1990s, along with bands like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Atomic Fireballs and Cherry Poppin' Daddies.

2. Squirrel Nut Zippers , former home of Andrew Bird, ventures to the House Of Blues.

Sharing a kinship for the Hill Country's juke-joint blues and the Motor City's garage-rock boogie, North Mississippi transplant The Alcazar Hotel blasts through Come On! Dig the Unified Theory! Founder and frontman Will Dawson - also of Squirrel Nut Zippers 2.0 and Katharine Whalen's Lucky - thumps low-lying grooves from his two-string bass while ...