Neko Case Releases New Studio Album ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’ This Friday
The GRAMMY-nominated iconoclast Neko Case is releasing her highly anticipated new studio album ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’ this Friday. “It’s an album that blossoms with awe,” Pitchfork beautifully described in a new interview. “Soundtracking Case’s words are windswept arrangements and contagious melodies where baritone guitar, violin swells, and steady percussion crumple up feelings of dread and anxiety.” Today, Case shares the sprawling highlight “Rusty Mountain,” where the heart of the record seems to live and she declares: “We all deserve better than some love song.”
‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’ album release events, presented in collaboration with Record Store Day, will take place at 100+ independent record stores this weekend. Case also starts her North American tour with a sold-out show at Woodstock’s Levon Helm Studios on October 1, and dates to follow include Massey Hall in Toronto, the Beacon Theatre in New York City and The Bellwether in LA. Tickets are available now.
As if cosmically enacted, every handful of years Neko Case breaks to the surface with a new album and reminds listeners that she is one of our greatest living songwriters - perpetually becoming more fearless and adventurous. This has been true throughout her more than twenty-five-year career, during which her ferocious indie-rock and country-noir sound has swelled and shrunk to fit the mood, but the walloping impact of the universes she creates has never wavered. Listening to Case’s music will teach you about this world— human nature’s cruelty, perseverance and terrifying beauty, but the natural world as well — the moon and the stars, bees, lions and magpies. Should you encounter a wayward soul who has never heard her music, you might respond, “Well, she once sang from the perspective of a tornado,” as if to say: there’s no physical form that could stop her potent voice and evocative storytelling.
This record is Case’s first new music this decade, following 2018’s ‘Hell-On’, an eclectic piece that The Guardian called “a pitch-perfect roar of female defiance.” Her latest is no less urgent but carries a deep blue streak of sentimentality in its incandescent blaze. More than any of her past albums, ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’ was laid down live with a full band – even breaths and shirt-sleeve rustlings were kept in the final mix as a reminder that “humans were here.” Recording primarily took place at Case’s own Vermont studio, Carnassial Sound, with additional sessions in Denver, Colorado with the PlainsSong Chamber Orchestra and in Portland, Oregon with Tucker Martine.
“There are so few producers who are women, nonbinary, or trans,” says Case, who identifies as gender fluid and uses she/her pronouns. “People don’t think of us as an option. I’m proud to say I produced this record. It is my vision. It is my veto power. It is my taste.”
Case’s memoir The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You was released in January and reached #5 on the New York Times nonfiction best sellers list. Raised “by two dogs and a space heater” in Washington state, the book’s vibrant wordplay and unflinching humor were a familiar balm to fans; as The Washington Post wrote in a glowing review, it “hits you in the same places her songs do: heart and gut, funny bone and sad bone.”
Case has also been hard at work composing the musical adaptation of the 1991 Academy Award-winning motion picture Thelma & Louise after being personally selected by the original screenwriter and Academy Award winner Callie Khouri. Said Case of her memoir: “I hope my story will cast a spell of love, invite everyone inside, and smash the illusion that we have no connection to each other.”
2025 TOUR DATES
October 1 - Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studios # SOLD OUT
October 2 - Washington, D.C. @ Lincoln Theatre #
October 3 - Towson, MD @ The Recher #
October 4 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Met #
October 5 - Durham, NC @ Durham Performing Arts Center #
October 7 - Richmond, VA @ The National #
October 8 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel #
October 9 - Pelham, TN @ The Caverns #
October 10 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse #
October 11 - Charleston, SC @ Charleston Music Hall #
October 14 - Cincinnati, OH @ The Taft Theatre #
October 15 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant #
October 16 - Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed #
October 17 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue #
October 18 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Pabst Theater #
October 20 - Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall #
October 22 - New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre #
October 23 - Boston, MA @ The Wilbur #
October 24 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall #
October 25 - Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theatre #
November 7 - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre %
November 8 - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up % SOLD OUT
November 9 - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up %
November 10 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether %
November 11 - San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic %
November 13 - Vancouver, BC @ The Vogue % SOLD OUT
November 14 - Seattle, WA @ The Paramount Theatre%
November 15 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater % SOLD OUT
November 16 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater %
November 18 - Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory %
November 19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Eccles Theater %
November 20 - Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre %
November 21 - Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theater %
November 23 - Dallas, TX @ Longhorn Ballroom %
November 24 - San Antonio, TX @ Tobin Center %
November 25 - Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre %
w/ Des Demonas #
w/ John Grant %
2026 TOUR DATES
January 8 – Montreal, QC @ Beanfield Theatre #
January 9 – Ottawa, ON @ Bronson Centre #
January 10 – Geneva, NY @ Smith Opera House #
January 11 – Burlington, VT @ The Flynn #
January 12 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre #
January 14 – Troy, NY @ Troy Music Hall #
January 15 – Stamford, CT @ The Palace Theatre #
January 16 – Wilmington, DE @ The Queen #
January 17 – Allentown, PA @ Archer Music Hall #
January 18 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Paramount Theater #
January 20 – Louisville, KY @ Old Forester’s Paristown Hall #
January 21 – Madison, WI @ Barrymore Theatre #
January 22 – Carmel, IN @ Palladium #
January 23 – Champaign, IL @ Virginia Theatre #
January 24 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theatre #
January 27 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues #
January 28 – Birmingham, AL @ Iron City #
January 29 – Jacksonville, FL @ Decca Live #
January 30 – Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live #
January 31 – Miami, FL @ TBA #
w/ Des Demonas #