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 ...

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 ...

Squirrel Flower is a longtime Stereogum favorite, and Ella Williams is arguably only getting better. "Reelin," the lead single from new album Say A Prayer To The Gods Of Getting Going, was a stunner.

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 ...

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Daily Dose is your daily source for the song you absolutely, positively need to hear every day. Curated by the Paste Music Team. Squirrel Flower—the musical project of indie-rock songwriter Ella ...

As severe storms struck Chicago on Sunday night, Ella Williams was coming home from a music-video shoot. Walking to her apartment, she felt a strange yet familiar sensation. “There was thunder and ...