JamBase — HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL 2009 FREE in Golden Gate Park - First Round of Artists The 9th Annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival will once again come to San Francisco's Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park. Set to go down October 2-4 2... more info

Live Daily — Americana singer/songwriter Tom Russell [ tickets ] will head out on the road this fall for a headlining trek in support of his forthcoming studio album, "Blood and Candle Smoke." The veteran performer's trek gets underway in the West, with a Sept... more info

Stereogum — From Bumbershoot and beyond, we've heard Neko Case do Middle Cyclone tracks live on a number of occasions. She's hit so many radio station affiliates and late-night television shows that it could be construed as overkill, but she really does sounds g... more info

JamBase — Blood And Candle Smoke In Stores September 15, National Tour To Follow Tom Russell With a career stretching back nearly four decades, and a catalog of more than 20 albums, Tom Russell is already considered one of the great singer/songwriters of o... more info

Stereogum — The Tonight Show's Triumph The Insult Comic Dog was everywhere at Bonnaroo '09 -- backstage, onstage, Tent City, the Discotheque Arcade, Scratch DJ Academy. We saw the puppet hound duet with animal rights activist Neko Case ("Do any of those dogs th... more info

JamBase — Lollapalooza Has Announced Set Times Stage Conflicts Included The Chicago festival has announced the set times of their festival (STS9 gets a 4-5 p.m. slot...wtf?) prompting attendees to ponder which bands they'll be able to catch and who they'll... more info

Rock Sellout — For a long time now there has been a woeful lack of indie chanteuse’s to swoon over downunder when spoilt yanks have the likes of Cat Power and Neko Case rolling out smokey, spikey, artful torch songs for the more troubled romantics amongst us for ... more info

Live Daily — Sunday (6/14) marked the final installment of the four-day Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN. The reported 80,000-plus crowd no doubt embodied the famous Mae West line: "Too much of a good thing is wonderful." The day's lineup inc... more info

JamBase — NEKO CASE CONFIRMS THIRD LEG OF BIGGEST-EVER N. AMERICAN TOUR INCLUDING LOLLAPALOOZA, ALL POINTS WEST, GEORGE WEIN'S FOLK FESTIVAL 50 AND MORE Neko Case Neko Case has confirmed a third leg of her North American tour in support of her acclaimed... more info

Stereogum — The night after performing on Conan, and two nights before duetting with Triumph The Insult Comic Dog at Bonnaroo, Neko Case headlined the Greek in LA. Maybe a little ambitious as the show wasn't very well attended (photographer Andrew Youssef not... more info