When Ari spoke with the singer-songwriter Neko Case about her memoir, he said that he thought her music often sounded like the gray skies and green hills of Washington state, where she grew up. Well, ...

Neko Case is a singular voice in music. Across 11 albums, she has crafted a canon of songs that are sharp, haunting and vulnerable. Case, who was raised in the Pacific Northwest but lived in Chicago ...

If Neko Case had just one word to describe her first solo album in seven years, she would settle on “formidable.” Fair enough. Writers have twisted themselves into knots trying to describe Case's ...