Neko Case
Every handful of years, Neko Case resurfaces with a new album and reminds listeners that she is one of our greatest living songwriters — perpetually becoming more fearless and adventurous. “She has cultivated one of the most distinctive voices in American song,” Stereogum declared. “Her albums unravel like musical picaresque: restlessly digressive, bluntly funny, strange — but never in ways you’d anticipate.”
The Grammy-nominated iconoclast’s ninth LP, Neon Grey Midnight Green, is her biggest-sounding and most intimate-feeling album yet. Released last fall to immediate critical acclaim and declared an essential album in her catalog, the album was laid down live with a full band. More “in the room” than any of her past work, even breaths and shirt-sleeve rustlings were kept in the final mix as a reminder that “humans were here.”
“There are so few producers who are women, nonbinary, or trans,” says Case, who identifies as gender fluid and uses she/her pronouns. “People don’t think of us as an option. I’m proud to say I produced this record.”
In addition to numerous acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated solo records, Case is a founding member of Canadian supergroup The New Pornographers. She is the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir The Harder I Fight the More I Love You and the weekly Substack newsletter Entering The Lung, and is currently composing the musical theatre adaptation of the Academy Award-winning motion picture Thelma & Louise.
Opening act: Destroyer (solo)
Destroyer is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1995 in Vancouver by Dan Bejar, known for his cryptic lyrics and genre-blending style of chamber pop, folk, and indie rock. Dan Bejar was also a member of indie rock band The New Pornographers, and performs solo as Neko Case’s support act.
