Neko Case

The Hunger Games Soundtrack: Five Things You Need to Know

​As you may have gathered from all the relentless hype and advertising and media anticipation, The Hunger Games movie is finally out today. And, yes, despite our vaguely dismissive tone, we're actually thoroughly excited about the whole thing. Especially since Rolling Stone just told us to "relax" ... More >>

Watch the Dodos and Neko Case Soar Through 'Don't Try and Hide It' on Jimmy Fallon

San Francisco's very own Dodos hit network TV on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday, bringing along occasional member Neko Case for a special version of "Don't Try and Hide It." Notable aspects include: Case's high-pitched accents on the chorus sonically eclipsing everyone else; Meric Long's eer ... More >>

Oakland Rock-Lit Magazine Alibi Needs Your Help with a New Name

​ You may have heard about Alibi, an exciting new nonprofit magazine based in Oakland that aims to present "rock 'n' roll and literature side by side" in order to explore their relationship. With Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave and Neko Case on the board of directors, and Case slated to play the live ... More >>

Music Links: Secret Alley Show This Weekend, a Chat with Bob Mould, and More

via The Owl MagShepard Fairey and Bob Mould in conversation.​ There's a special show at the Secret Alley this weekend featuring local bands Lilac, Melted Toys, Talk Normal, and a special guest. Who is it? A good local band that's getting attention from around the world. [The Bay Bridged] Anot ... More >>

So, What Do Neko Case's New Tattoos Mean?

via Pop-Quiz KidThe new look of Case's arms​ Anyone at Stern Grove on July 3? (Yes, duh.) Anyone notice anything different about the arms of alt-country singer and cult figure Neko Case? Well, we did. Case, you see, recently got large tattoos on each of her forearms. As the picture above ind ... More >>

Fun with Neko

via Pop-Quiz KidThe new look of Case's arms​ Anyone at Stern Grove on July 3? (Yes, duh.) Anyone notice anything different about the arms of alt-country singer and cult figure Neko Case? Well, we did. Case, you see, recently got large tattoos on each of her forearms. As the picture above ind ... More >>

A Guide to NorCal Music Festivals

via Pop-Quiz KidThe new look of Case's arms​ Anyone at Stern Grove on July 3? (Yes, duh.) Anyone notice anything different about the arms of alt-country singer and cult figure Neko Case? Well, we did. Case, you see, recently got large tattoos on each of her forearms. As the picture above ind ... More >>

Mountain Winery 2011: Huey Lewis! Grace Potter! Neko Case! Yacht Rock!

The Mountain Winery​Sorry for all the exclamations, but there's a lot of shows here we're going to make our parents take us to. The Mountain Winery recently announced its schedule for 2011, and there are some most notable artists coming. Among them, a five-day period this September in which b ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

The Mountain Winery​Sorry for all the exclamations, but there's a lot of shows here we're going to make our parents take us to. The Mountain Winery recently announced its schedule for 2011, and there are some most notable artists coming. Among them, a five-day period this September in which b ... More >>

Stern Grove Festival 2011: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Neko Case, the Dodos, the English Beat, and More

What you're doing on Sundays this summer.​ You know what summer means in San Francisco -- uh, besides fog? It means free concerts on Sundays at Stern Grove, courtesy of the long-running Stern Grove Festival. Today, festival organizers announced the lineup for the festival's 74th consecutive ye ... More >>

The New Pornographers, Feat. Neko Case, Serve Crisp Pop at Regency Ballroom

The New Pornographers at the Regency Ballroom last night.​The New Pornographers Menomena April 18, 2011 @ Regency Ballroom Better than: Brunch at Zazie (maybe). If nothing else, at least the New Pornographers will remember San Francisco for our breakfast. Six songs into a speedy ... More >>

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The New Pornographers at the Regency Ballroom last night.​The New Pornographers Menomena April 18, 2011 @ Regency Ballroom Better than: Brunch at Zazie (maybe). If nothing else, at least the New Pornographers will remember San Francisco for our breakfast. Six songs into a speedy ... More >>

My Morning Jacket, Neko Case, Ween To Headline High Sierra Music Festival

Last weekend we were all talking about snow, but right now, let's talk about summer. Specifically, that oh-so-summery High Sierra Music Festival, which today announced My Morning Jacket, Neko Case, and Ween as its headliners. This year's festival kicks off June 30 to July 3 at the fairgrounds in Qu ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

Last weekend we were all talking about snow, but right now, let's talk about summer. Specifically, that oh-so-summery High Sierra Music Festival, which today announced My Morning Jacket, Neko Case, and Ween as its headliners. This year's festival kicks off June 30 to July 3 at the fairgrounds in Qu ... More >>

In Print: Zoe Keating's Tech-Fueled Cello Explorations, the Beautifully Stoned Noise of Young Prisms, and More

​Zoe Keating: "The technology creates this little box that you're always pushing against the edges of," she says. "I find it really good to have these limitations of [recording] latency or RAM or even frustration -- all those things are annoying, but they actually create the music." This goes ... More >>

The Dodos Dodge Extinction A Little Longer With Neko Case

What, we have to use a photo of Neko Case just because she's a babe? Grow up.​You know what they say about porn stars and monogamy. No? Well, surely someone must have said something about it once. Point is, San Francisco twosome The Dodos announced yesterday that alt-country vixen and sometime N ... More >>

The New Pornographers are Satanists: Eight Songs That Prove It

Dan Bejar - very clearly a zombie. AC Newman - blushing or red with evil thoughts? Neko Case - a little TOO much passion in her face.​Don't worry, Calvin College. Everyone may be scratching their head at your decision to cancel The New Pornographers' performance on your campus (allegedly out of an ... More >>

The New Pornographers and the Dodos at the Fox Theater

Joseph SchellThe New Pornographers​The New PornographersThe Dodos July 18, 2010 The Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: The old pornographers, presumably As everybody who is not Canadian knows, the New Pornographers consist of the main guy, the weird guy, Neko Case, the other gal, the other guitari ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Social Studies' Meandering Twee-Pop

​We do detect a cozy twee-ness in the new "Holler Boys" from San Francisco's Social Studies. But mostly we're still puzzling over Natalia Rogovin's voice: Sometimes on "Holler Boys" it soars majestically in big feminine tones a la Neko Case, other times it sounds intimately girly (and not in a goo ... More >>

What To Do? Wednesday's Pick: Jakob Dylan and Three Legs

​Rarely has a great songwriter, a man who is an icon and a joy to behold, been very nearly outclassed by his backup singers. The only other example we know is the early work of Gram Parsons and his tiny white-hot sidekick, Emmylou Harris. Jakob Dylan's new record, Women and Country, draws inspirat ... More >>

Powerful Backup

​Rarely has a great songwriter, a man who is an icon and a joy to behold, been very nearly outclassed by his backup singers. The only other example we know is the early work of Gram Parsons and his tiny white-hot sidekick, Emmylou Harris. Jakob Dylan's new record, Women and Country, draws inspirat ... More >>

Listomania 2009: College Records of the Year

​Rarely has a great songwriter, a man who is an icon and a joy to behold, been very nearly outclassed by his backup singers. The only other example we know is the early work of Gram Parsons and his tiny white-hot sidekick, Emmylou Harris. Jakob Dylan's new record, Women and Country, draws inspirat ... More >>

Always on a Sunday

​Rarely has a great songwriter, a man who is an icon and a joy to behold, been very nearly outclassed by his backup singers. The only other example we know is the early work of Gram Parsons and his tiny white-hot sidekick, Emmylou Harris. Jakob Dylan's new record, Women and Country, draws inspirat ... More >>

Look At Me, I'm As Helpless As a ... Doggie Up a Tree?

Sam Hamady​This tree, which offered a view of the Star Stage at last weekend's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, was usually stocked with hippies. But at one point it was occupied by a nimble Border Collie (we think.) While the dog seemed not at all freaked out, prancing around the branch and th ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass '09: Steve Martin, Neko Case, and more

Steve Martin is a wild and crazy guy...who happens to dig bluegrass. The above video is from a performance he had last September with The Steep Canyon Rangers in that band's home state of North Carolina, with the white-haired comedian plucking away on the banjo. Martin will bring these boys and the ... More >>

Last Night: Neko Case at the Warfield

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

Neko Case, fan-eater

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

White No Lie

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

Lead Members from Magnetic Fields, Mountain Goats, New Pornographers Talk Music for SF Lecture Series

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

Neko Case in Good-Weird Magazine

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

Merle Haggard at Regency Center - Today’s Calendar Pick

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

Haggard Far from Tired

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

The War Between the Guitars

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

Hank-ering

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

CD Review: The New Pornographers - Challengers

Scott CarisNeko CaseTuesday, June 9, 2009The WarfieldBetter than: Fighting a cyclone.It looked like Guitar Center up there on stage last night before Neko Case strode up to the mic, with a dozen different guitars lined up for the cherry-haired songstress to pick up and play over the course of the ev ... More >>

The New Pornographers' Feel Good Rush

Pleasure-centered pop singles

CD Review: The New Pornographers -- Challengers

Pleasure-centered pop singles

Brave New World

M. Ward creates a Post-War state

Fathers of invention, from Zappa to Radiohead

M. Ward creates a Post-War state

Hogan Country

Kelly Hogan's rich voice mines country music's anti-authoritarian elements

All Mixed Up

Songs to get you psyched on this year's piNoisepop festival

Cowboy Junkies

One Soul Now

Pinup Energy

Sweet and sexy, the New Pornographers make pop that sticks

Neko Case Is God

OK, maybe we're exaggerating, but her daredevil voice takes her work into addictive territory

The New Pornographers

Electric Version

House of Tudor

A Case of country blues

Various Artists; Dan Zanes and Friends; Tom Paxton

The Bottle Let Me Down (Bloodshot)

Family Dance (Festival Five)

Your Shoes, My Shoes (Red House)

The New Pornographers

Mass Romantic (Mint)

Night + Day

Mass Romantic (Mint)

Reviews

Mass Romantic (Mint)