Since 2018, Neko Case has published a memoir, collaborated again with the New Pornographers, and continued working on songs for a hopefully Broadway-bound musical. What she hasn’t done since then is roll out a record under her own name, but that drought ends in September, when Case releases Neon Grey …
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On the heels of a new memoir and ahead of a new album, Neko Case has announced an extensive fall tour. The singer-songwriter and New Pornographers co-founder will kick off the North American trek on Oct. 1 at Woodstock, New York’s Levon Helm Studios and remain out on the road …
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Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut album until he was 33 — he was never young in public. Faithfull was …
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People always ask Neko Case how she writes her songs. She can’t explain it — some are “grim chores,” others seem “like they just fell out of a pocket of a coat I haven’t worn in a while.” But, as Case — a singer-songwriter known for her clarion voice and …
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Close to three decades removed from her debut album, 1997’s The Virginian, Neko Case will tell her life story in a new memoir, out Jan. 28. The book, The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You — which takes its moniker from the second half of Case’s celebrated, prolixly …
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Over the course of their 20-plus-year career, the New Pornographers have often specialized in catchy ambiguity. If leader Carl Newman was just a machine cranking out power-pop tunes, it would get boring. But there’s also a lot of mixed emotions going on under the surface of their studiously nuanced pop-rock …
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