Artist: Neko Case
Live Reviews from web archive April 13, 2009
Neko Case
News that Neko Case’s latest album, Middle Cyclone, reached #3 on the Billboard charts upon its release last month signaled the arrival of a new phase in the singer’s gradually building career. No longer is Case a nightclub act; she’s reached the theater/concert-hall circuit now – thus her appearance at the home of the Raleigh [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #71 Sep-Oct 2007
New Pornographers – Challengers
Nearly seven years have passed since the New Pornographers became overnight darlings of indie rock with their debut Mass Romantic. That’s practically an eternity in today’s hyper-accelerated world, which might explain why Challengers finds the Vancouver-spawned supergroup sounding, for the first time, strangely dated. In an era where the orchestral likes of the Arcade Fire [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Neko Case is such a good singer that I sometimes wish she didn’t bother with the songwriting. As an interpreter, she’s almost as good as anyone going. Listen to the Everly Brothers’ “Bowling Green” on her first album, The Virginian. Or Hank Williams’ “Alone And Forsaken” on her EP Canadian Amp. Or her rollicking version [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
Wasting no time getting to the great stuff, the New Pornographers kick off Twin Cinema with a stone-cold killer. That would be the title track, and, as a slanted-and-enchanted dose of lethal anti-pop, the song doesn’t sound like the rest of the band’s third album. Over gloriously off-kilter guitars, ragged-glory bass and whipcrack drums, the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004
Neko Case – The Tigers Have Spoken
Tucked away at the end of The Tigers Have Spoken, there’s a spoken introduction to the title track, wherein Neko Case sets forth a modest proposal: Tigers should be reintroduced to their natural environment…and the big cats should be fed children. “Tigers are noble and sleek. Children are loud and messy,” Case declares. If a [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Neko Case / Kelly Hogan / Carolyn Mark / Jon Rauhouse – Solar Culture (Tucson, AZ)
Kelly Hogan took the Solar Culture stage looking like a more voluptuous version of Prince in her tastefully fitted maroon western-cut pants suit. She could’ve taken the show as well. Hogan’s almost peerlessly lyrical and soulful vocal delivery was set like a jewel in the company of the brassier beauty of Neko Case’s contralto and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
New Pornographers – The Electric Version
Think of your favorite sad-sack album, the one that should come packaged with a prescription for Paxil and stickered with a warning against operating heavy machinery while under its influence. Now behold that album’s polar opposite, the aural equivalent of a party in a can, The Electric Version. The New Pornographers exploded out of nowhere [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Neko Case / Lisa Marr Experiment – Derby (Los Angeles, CA)
It wasn’t Vancouver 1993 all over again. Neko Case and Lisa Marr have both come a long way since the days when Case was an occasional drummer for the Marr-fronted cuddlecore band Cub. Marr expressed excitement about sharing a stage again with her old friend, but she deserved to be equally excited about the songs [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Neko Case – Just For Laughs (Montreal, Quebec)
Neko Case didn’t find it too funny. Her Montreal gig was in the showbar of the city’s Just For Laughs humor museum, but then, in classic touring band fashion, her van gave out. It was near midnight before Case and her two band mates finally took the stage, almost 90 minutes late. Not that the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #41 Sept-Oct 2002
Neko Case – Blacklisted
Where Neko Case’s earlier albums established her as a big-voiced belter who could overpower the listener with her pipes (to these ears a mixed blessing), her third release is a more subtly sophisticated stunner. It’s as if, having reached that fork in the road where k.d. lang split from Patsy Cline, Case decided to soar. [...]
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