It's incredibly difficult to figure out how stuff like this even happens, but the unlikely trio of Stephen King, John Mellencamp, and T-Bone Burnett have mobbed up to make a musical called Ghost…   Read Story »

Earlier this summer we heard "I'm Not Talking," the thoughtful opening track from A.C. Newman's forthcoming Shut Down The Streets. Now, he's got another vibrant slice of that record available to…   Read Story »

Country Living recently did a photo shoot at Neko Case's Vermont farm, a 100-acre property with a 225-year-old farm house in Vermont's Green Mountains. A few notable things -- mostly, Neko is paid,…   Read Story »

The Dodos got an assist from Neko Case last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, where they performed No Color's "Don't Try And Hide It." As you might recall, the band offered a download of "So…   Read Story »

Tonight, as anyone who's been near a TV in the past month already knows, the much-hyped Fox singing-competition show The X Factor makes its debut. The Americanized version of the hit British show…   Read Story »

A full moon shined the background of a lovely evening at the Hollywood Bowl that starred The National with Neko Case (with T Bone Burnett) and Sharon Van Etten. The National had some help on vocals…   Read Story »

At a show they played together a few weeks ago, My Morning Jacket and Neko Case shared a stage to cover the immortally goofy Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers duet "Islands In The Stream." And now they've…   Read Story »

As part of the encore to their Pittsburgh show at Stage AE last night, MMJ brought opener Neko Case onstage to duet with Jim James on "Islands In The Stream." The treacly Bee Gees-penned tune was…   Read Story »

The beautiful thing about a festival like Pitchfork is the genre-spanning curating: The principal principle is a commitment to independent-minded music, and from that viewpoint Pitchfork succeeds in…   Read Story »

Neko Case and Nick Cave have covered the Zombies' "She's Not There" for HBO's True Blood. KCRW DJ Gary Calamar, who serves as music supervisor for the vampire comedy (did you think it was a drama?),…   Read Story »