From growing up listening to and loving 70s rock on her dad’s car radio, to the revelation of music on MTV in the 80s, to finding and then joining a burgeoning punk scene in Tacoma, Washington, where she would play drums in her very first band as a teenager, Neko Case has been obsessed with music her whole life. And while she didn’t immediately think of herself as a singer, Neko’s journey has been as much about finding her voice and its potential, as it was about discovering a pathway to replace the isolation, fear and insecurity of her youth with a community of artists and musicians in northern Washington State, and then just over the border in Vancouver, BC, where she would go to art school and connect with her bandmates in the New Pornographers.

Fast forward to 2021, Neko Case has, to date, recorded eight albums with that band, and seven solo studio albums, earned three Grammy nominations, and teamed up with KD Lang and Laura Veirs, for a project called Case/Lang/Veirs. And now, she has added writing to her resume, as Neko just launched a new weekly series of writings and essays on Substack called Entering The Lung - what Neko describes as “...postcards about loving nature and its crazy ways.” Listen in as together we create Neko Case’s Mixtape Memoir. 

Credits:

Host/creator/creative director - Carmel Holt @carmelholt @sheroesmixtape @sheroesradio
Producer, Engineer/Mixing/Mastering - Mitra Kaboli
Additional editing - Daena Winston
Theme music - Lucius @ilovelucius
Cover Illustration - Jaf Farkas @jaf_farkas
Art direction: Carmel Holt
Guest: Neko Case / @nekocaseofficial
Label: Anti- Records / @antirecords