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Neko Case
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Member Since5/22/2006
Band Websitewww.nekocase.com
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Neko Case iTunes Originals
2009
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Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Bonus Disc Version)
2007
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Furnace Room Lullaby Reissue
2007
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Blacklisted Reissue
2007
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Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
2006
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The Tigers Have Spoken
2004
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"People Got A Lotta Nerve" video

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"Maybe Sparrow" video

Fox Confessor Brings the Flood EPK

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Type of LabelIndie


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   About Neko Case
Biography
There's a special challenge to being an artist in this increasingly fractured cultural age; a delicate balancing act, between being of your time, and striving for timelessness. Few contemporary artists even try. Neko Case is an exception.

Case's last album, 2006's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, brought her to that nexus where critical acclaim meets commercial success. But Case's impact can't be measured merely in chart placements or press plaudits. It's her ability to connect - on an uncommonly deep and meaningful level - with her audience. She's one those artists, you see: the kind whose songs linger in your head, your heart and soul long after the record has stopped spinning.

While Case's creative evolution has made for an impressive story so far, she's about to write the most remarkable chapter in that continuing saga with the release of her sixth studio album, Middle Cyclone.

The tornado that blows through the title and several songs on Middle Cyclone is an apt metaphor. Neko has famously taken her own twisted route, lighting for a time in the South, in the West, in the Northwest, in Canada, flirting with as many musical styles as homes. She is settled-or unsettled-in Tucson for the moment, with dreams of moving full-time to the former dairy farm she owns in Vermont. She recorded the new album in both locations, as well as studios in Toronto and Brooklyn.

For Case, the beauty of making music, of creating, is that it remains a mysterious, confounding and, occasionally, contradictory process. "When I toured for Fox Confessor one of the things I said in interviews about that record was that I don't like writing love songs, that I can't write them," she recalls. "Of course, as soon as I said that, I ended up writing a bunch of love songs."

It should be noted here that Case's "love songs" are not the typical boy- meets-girl variety, as the opening track, "This Tornado Loves You," dramatically attests. "What would it be like to be pursued by a force of nature?" asks Case. "That's a frightening and exciting prospect."

Case resists the temptation to see the tornado as metaphor for something more personal, like a destructive relationship from her past. "Of course, I'm fine if people want to interpret it that way, but for me, the song is very literal," she says.

Neko is equally earnest when she sings exultantly about the revenge of caged animals on their keepers, in the polemic "People Got A Lotta Nerve." The lyrics we're tempted to read as ambiguous and layered ("But you seemed surprised when it pinned you down/ to the bottom of the tank… I'm a man-eater, and still you're surprised when I eat you") are in reality the plainest. Neko's killer whales and elephants really are killer whales and elephants. But with a magician's gift for misdirection, she keeps us off balance, questing and questioning.

Like the old tale of the scorpion and the frog, Case's message here seems to be that instinct is immutable. It's an idea she explores further on the anthemic "I'm An Animal." "I feel like one of the real tragedies is that, as a species, human beings are constantly trying to deny or sublimate our natural instincts," says Case. "And I've made a conscious effort not to do that, but to trust myself, both in my life and in my work."

Instinct runs through Middle Cyclone as a theme and a goal, most often and most forcefully as the instinct for love. "But," notes Case, "only in the sense that the songs are about the need for love -- no matter how cool you think you are. What other people might call ‘love songs' I think of as homages. They can be to a person, a region, a feeling, even sad feelings."

That notion is captured vividly on "Pharaohs" – a kind of cousin to Fox Confessor's "That Teenage Feeling" – as Case's character pines wistfully for an idealized romance that seems to exist only in the imagination: "You kept me wanting…like the wanting in the movies and the hymns," she sings, "I want the Pharoahs, but there's only men."

As you listen to the album, Case's evolution as a writer is, at times, almost overwhelming. The modest lyrical aims of her debut LP - - released just over a decade ago - - have been continually outstripped with each successive effort, and Middle Cyclone continues that trend in spectacular fashion.

And then there's the songs she didn't write. Having covered everyone from Bob Dylan to Aretha Franklin, Case's ability to re-make the material of others has long been celebrated. On Middle Cyclone she again flexes her interpretive muscles re-imagining a pair of early-‘70s gems: Sparks' "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth" and Harry Nilsson's "Don't Forget Me."

Sparks' 1974 song was an obvious choice, fitting perfectly into the foreboding nature-oriented theme of the album. "Plus, I just love Ron Mael's lyrics," says Case. "Sometimes I go to the Sparks website and just read their songs as poetry. ‘Cause they're bizarre and really controversial, and tongue-in-cheek and funny – all at once."

With the Nilsson tune – an emotional farewell to his ex-wife originally included on his 1974 party album Pussycats – Case felt a deep tug in funny-sad couplets like: "I'll miss you when I'm lonely, I'll miss the alimony too/Don't forget me…just for a little while."

"The song has a Roger Miller and Ray Davies quality to it," says Case. "That heartbreaking comedy line that punches you in the gut and makes you cry that much harder."

Case decided the only way to record "Don't Forget Me" was to turn the original's grand orchestral arrangement on its head. She began answering ads on Craigslist advertising free pianos, gathered half a dozen of them up in her disused Vermont barn, and invited a group of friends and fellow musicians to form a ragtag "piano orchestra" to play on the song.

Middle Cyclone is awash in similar moments of sonic inspiration and homespun creativity. In one magical interlude we hear the sound of birds chirping, just as Los Lobos' Steve Berlin begins a midi sax solo. "Which I think is so hilarious," says Case of the charmed collision. "We've got natural robins and unnatural midi sax. But somehow they work perfectly together."

With Neko's indefatigable touring band (guitarist Paul Rigby, bassist Tom V. Ray, vocalist Kelly Hogan, multi-instrumentalist Jon Rauhouse and drummer Barry Mirochnick) building the bedrock of the tracks, Case was able to bring in a collection of friends and fellow travelers including M. Ward, Garth Hudson, Sarah Harmer, and members of The New Pornographers, Los Lobos, Calexico, The Sadies, Visqueen, The Lilys, and Giant Sand, among others. "Everyone who worked on the record had their input and sculpted things," says Case.

Ultimately, for Case, the songs and themes on Middle Cyclone express a long internal struggle, a pitched battle between nature and nurture. "Things like animals and nature, they're located in the tender receptor of my brain. And I'm just now trying to come to terms with the notion of loving people as much as I love those other things - because I grew up in a way that made me love the one but not the other.'

"So, I guess I've been working that out for myself, and these songs are my way of reconciling those feelings."


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Susan Hickman Up for 6 1stRound Grammy Nominations

Susan Hickman Up for 6 1stRound Grammy Nominations



Nov 8 2009 12:25 AM

Stopping by to wish you a fantastic week!!!
Hope all is going great with you!!!
Check out my newest single Whipping Post on Texas radio NOW!!!
I also hope to see you out at Armadillo Palace Wednesday November 11th @ 12:00pm for my interview and acoustic performance with 740 KTRH's Michael Berry (Texas Music Show)
And later that night I will be at Dosey Doe in the Woodlands (9:15pm)
See you there!!!
Love,
~Susan Hickman
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Gregory

Gregory Lea



Nov 7 2009 8:57 PM

Check out my profile And Let me know Do you like me YES or NO http://www.doulike.us/photos/7100840.html?b=4&w=46
The One and Only Paul Ma$$on

The One and Only Paul Ma$$on



Nov 7 2009 8:34 PM

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k.

k.



Nov 7 2009 5:30 AM

"Can't scrape together quite enough to ride the bus to the outskirts of the fact that I need love."

Story of my life.
Come to Arizona?
Pedro

Pedro



Nov 6 2009 5:12 PM

Hello, Neko

Your music is fantastic
Maurice Mattei & The Tempers

Maurice Mattei & The Tempers



Nov 6 2009 11:50 AM

Watch TEMPERS "HEARTLESS BASTARDS" Video @ http://www.youtube.com/user/deluxeride
Laudable Sepia Dominical

Laudable Sepia Dominical



Nov 6 2009 11:05 AM



LOVE IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.


Ever felt so happy you could cry
Tears of laughter fallin' down your face
Smiling wide at all passers-by
Flick a coin into a beggar's plate

Ever felt you wanna sing and shout.
Jump for joy and try to click your heels
Stand on your head or do a somersault
Hug and kiss your neighbour on the cheek

This is heaven. Peace within yourself.
Respecting others
Love is what it's all about
Love is what it's all about
Love is what it's all about.

Why do harm?. Why cause pain.

Why do wrong?. What's the aim?


Love is what it's all about.







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Christian Lamitschka, Journalist for Country Music

Christian Lamitschka
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Nov 5 2009 2:26 PM

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If you don't have the chance to request the list of donations in kind, please add HelpCharity to your Top Friends!

Thanks for helping me to support handicapped children!

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Whisper Cornsilk



Nov 5 2009 2:34 AM

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SHAWN DOUGAN

Shawn Dougan Promoting Arts



Nov 4 2009 6:39 AM

Hey thanks for the friendship!
I like your music.
Shawn
Blue Sky Canopy

Blue Sky Canopy



Nov 4 2009 4:45 AM

Hey everyone!


We're a new acoustic band from Minnesota, USA!

Our influences include:

Coldplay
Dispatch
The Fray
John Mayer
Dashboard Confessional
Michael Buble
One Republic
We The Living
The Rocket Summer
Jack Johnson
Jimmy Eat World
Jason Mraz
This Providence
Augustana
and MANY MANY more...

We just finished our new album and it is now on iTunes!!!

If you have a minute, PLEASE swing on by our page and check us out!

Thank you, and we hope you enjoy the tunes!

=)

-Brian
Blue Sky Canopy
Star Club Cologne

Star Club Cologne



Nov 3 2009 9:21 AM

Samstag 14. November 2009 - 23h
STARCLUB presents: SANTOS - der Macher des Ibiza-Hits 2009 !!!!


23.00 – 00.30 Uhr - Mike Litt
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Jeweils am 2. Samstag im Monat findet die Neue House Party im Alten Wartesaal statt! Mike Litt der bekannte Journalist und DJ bei dem Kölner Radiosender 1Live gestaltet das musikalische Musikkonzept für das Publikum.


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Nov 2 2009 10:20 PM

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Mathieu Connor

Mathieu Connor



Nov 2 2009 8:23 AM

Hi Neko!

Been a fan of the New Pornographers and your solo stuff for a while now. I just got tickets for your show in Wellington, NZ on January 20th. Saw the Pornographers at the San Francisco Bath House here last year, but was disappointed you weren't there. They still sounded awesome tho...

I've got tickets #5 and 6. I'm trying to get more people to come, been sending them a couple of your live tracks, like "Loretta" and "The Tigers Have Spoken"

Can't wait to see the show!

M
Calderone

Calderone



Nov 1 2009 7:18 PM

Love your new record!
Check our myspace if you have time... ;)
Ernest

Ernest Danel



Nov 1 2009 2:25 AM

Wishing you a happy and safe Halloween!!!
Jeffrey Barkin

Jeffrey Barkin



Nov 1 2009 12:03 AM

BoooooOOOOOO!!!

Hope you have a HORRIFIC HALLOWEEN!

However, your evening and year sure will NOT be scary; you and Darryl sure produced a GEM!!!
Blue Dog And Sponge Cake

Blue Dog And Sponge Cake



Oct 31 2009 2:11 PM

Happy Halloween!
Daniel Marini

Daniel Marini



Oct 30 2009 10:31 PM

Love your music ... hope you'll like my work

music video
http://www.vimeo.com/7350127

ciao
Daniel Marini
Of Silence and Salvation

Of Silence and Salvation



Oct 30 2009 8:58 PM

How's it goin?
Richard Nelson

Richard Nelson



Oct 30 2009 3:21 AM

Greetings from Maine!
Vanessa Thompson

Vanessa Thompson



Oct 29 2009 5:17 PM

Hey! Thank you for supporting my music. Check out my web site at www.vanessathompson.net and my music videos at www.youtube.com. My new music video to my song "Heartbreakin game" is below for you to view. If you like it, feel free to put it on your page and share it with your friends. There are also some banners on my page if you want to use them on your page. If you have Facebook, please add me. Some are putting me in their top friends. The support is really appreciated. Hope you liked the cover on Hollywood Celebrity Magazine. If you like my music, please add it to your play list for others to hear. Thank you :)

My new music video to my song "Heartbreakin game" is here. Go to www.youtube.com. let me know what you think. There is also a fanpop page for me that has been set up. If you get a chance, visit it at http://lnk.ms/0zvbC . You can also sign up to follow me on twitter at www.twitter.com/vanessathompson :)

Thank you to all those who supported my live performance at Club Heaven in Seattle, Washington for the Seattle Music Revival. This is an event that will help define the Seattle music scene.
Ruby Jane

Ruby Jane



Oct 29 2009 2:53 PM

Ruby Jane Article in New York Times!!
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/who-do-these-guys-think-they-are/
AND
Check out the new pictures and video! Let me know what you think!
Ruby Jane
Lauren

Lauren



Oct 27 2009 4:19 PM

Thanks for your friendship! I hope you like my tunes as much as I like yours. Please check them out if you get a chance :) Have a great day!! Lauren
Sandy Zacky

Sandy Zacky



Oct 27 2009 3:00 PM

Have a great day : )

Best Wishes,
Sandy
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