TV Girl "Grapes Upon the Vine" j-pop Swing revival band Squirrel Nut

Swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers released their third studio album

An exhaustive compilation of everything recorded by the short-lived NY goth/punk group

was made after Dawn of the Dead

they are closer to Chromatics and Com Truise's 80s-referencing synth excursions

supporting Leif Vollebekk

TV Girl "Grapes Upon the Vine" j-pop Swing revival band Squirrel NutTell me friend, how many times have you heard an overzealous young music enthusiast profess that an album saved their life? For those of us weathered by experience and humbled by disappointment, we may roll our eyes at such hyperbole. At our most generous, perhaps we give a wry smile, as we reminisce on our own youth, when music seemed a matter of life and death, and not merely just a matter of taste. After all, how could an album save your life? Its