Animals in Time: Neko Case and the Contemporary Country

By Michelle Banks

The music of Neko Case shows us a world of danger, guilt, regret, displaced hearts, lost time and lost faith, several deaths, the matter-of-factness of animals, and reckoning. In other words, exactly what the contemporary moment shows us. [12 May 2008]

Best Albums of 2006

By PopMatters Staff

At long last, the annual rite of passage, the "best of" list... Here's PopMatters picks for the best 60 records of 2006. Stay tuned tomorrow for the best re-issues, as well as ongoing genre top 10s the rest of this week, culminating in the year's best musical events on Friday. [23 December 2006]

Best Country of 2006

By Roger Holland

Goodbye to Academia, Pedantry, and even Austin: Roger Holland's favorite country albums of 2006 come from a very broad church indeed. [21 December 2006]

Killing Him Didn’t Make Her Love Go Away

By Bob Proehl

Violence in music begets violence in music: female artists reclaim the murder ballad. [27 April 2009]

(more Pickin' Down the Line)

Neko Case: 24 April 2009 - Chicago

By Rory O'Connor

Live, the audience gets a glimpse at two very distinct sides of Neko Case; her vocals and their ability to chill to the bone and the woman who delivers them whose charms warm you right back up [29 May 2009]

Neko Case: Middle Cyclone

By C. T. Heaney

Beguiling beauty and powerful pipes can’t save Case’s latest from feeling like a disappointment. [3 March 2009]

Neko Case: Live from Austin, TX

By Adrien Begrand

Wait, wasn't this released on DVD just a short while ago? [18 January 2007]

Neko Case: Live from Austin TX [DVD]

By Andrew Gilstrap

Blacklisted placed Case on plenty of year's best lists, but this Austin City Limits broadcast may have been her true coming out party. [5 November 2006]

Neko Case

By Dan Nishimoto

Banishing the grey days of a wintery spring. [20 April 2006]

Neko Case: The Tigers Have Spoken

By Adrien Begrand

Over the past five years, it's become abundantly clear that Neko Case has emerged as the finest female country singer of her generation, the 30-something redhead possessing such a unique, instantly recognizable voice, evoking husky-voiced torch singers from decades ago, the Nashville chanteuses of the 1960s and '70s, and combining it all with a tough-girl edge, a result of her punk rock background. [8 November 2004]

Neko Case: Blacklisted

By Adrien Begrand

Still, if given just a token listen and treated like nothing more than background music, the true depth of Blacklisted is missed. The one aspect of the record that marks a stylistic quantum leap from Furnace Room Lullaby is the quality of Case’s lyrics.

Mixed Media: Neko Case - “Red Tide” (Live on Fallon) (video)

Mixed Media: Neko Case - “This Tornado Loves You” (Live on Conan O’Brien) (video)

Sound Affects: Neko Case: Spinning to Love

Neko Case's Sixth album, Middle Cyclone is almost a month old, but has quickly become one of her most important works in her distinguished career. [30 March 2009]

Neko Case dishes on her songwriting process [17 July 2009]