Anti- reissued three Neko Case albums today: Furnace Room Lullaby from 2000, Blacklisted from 2002, and last year's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Stock up if you don't have 'em. If you're like Seattlest -- obsessed -- you already own them. So what's new? Bonus disc. This year's Fox Confessor comes with a 5-song disc containing "Set Out Running" and "Furnace Room Lullaby" from Furnace, "Deep Red Bells" and the lovely "I Wish I Was......

Ah, the festival. The half-pound Gorge Burger, the ten-dollar beer, the fragrant smell of weed and clove cigarettes carried along by an occasional, much appreciated breeze. And of course, all that music. By the time our feet hit festival ground, Viva Voce were setting up at the Yeti Stage. We got our burger and a beer and settled in for a bit of Seattlest's favorite married rock couple. We hadn't seen Viva Voce live......

On Friday, December 29th at 10am, KEXP will begin counting down the top 90.3 albums of 2006 (does that mean 90 good albums plus one only a third of which is any good? We don't know). In the meantime, until December 26th you and everyone you know can vote for your own top five albums of the year. Seattlest Jack voted and as difficult as it was, here's his top five: 1. Neko Case -......

If you're like us, you already own all of Neko Case's CDs. Get ready to expand your collection. Her first DVD -- her 2003 performance on Austin City Limits -- will be available October 10: Performing on Austin City Limits, one of Neko and her grandmother's all-time favorite programs, was one of Neko's proudest career moments, and probably one of her proudest personal moments as well... Neko and the band were so thrilled (and nervous!)......

Her-own-drum majorette and alt-boy dream date Neko Case was interviewed on NPR's World Cafe today. The latest chapter in the singer's story is a solo album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, which serves as one of those rare pleasurable paradoxes: offbeat but faithful to the classics, artsy but accessible, emotional while remaining intriguingly playful. We don't think it's airing on KUOW -- NPR's website says it airs Sundays from 7-8 pm, but KUOW's weekly schedule......

Saturday night Neko Case came to the Moore Theater, and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer covered it. Now that she's from Canada, see, she gets all sorts of attention. Of course, she's also a well-known Satanist. He started out inaudible, but singer-songwriter Sonny Smith got the hang of the mic, opening the show with what struck as a blend of Lou Reed and Randy Newman. We wanted to like him more than we did......

Remember when you thought Neko Case just couldn't get any cooler? Ha! Now she's being held up as an example of the evils of rock-n-roll. A few lyrics from Fox Confessor's brilliant "Hold On, Hold On" caught the attention of David J. Stewart at jesus-is-savior.com: In the end I was the mean girl Or somebody's in-between girl Now it's the devil I love And that's as funny as real love Stewart explains why this is......

What's the difference between seeing Neko Case in Seattle vs. seeing her in Milwaukee? In Seattle, concertgoers sip microbrews. In Milwaukee, they're drinking tallboys of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Officially, Seattlest went to Wisconsin last week to give new grandparents some time with their granddaughter. Unofficially, Seattlest went to Wisconsin last week in particular because Neko Case was playing at Milwaukee's Pabst Theater, the second show on her Fox Confessor tour. We don't normally travel several......

“It just sounds like a website,” she says. She’d rather her sound be dubbed “country noir” or “Americana,” …if anything at all. “Country-noir” sounds pretty, and “Americana” is kind of endearing, but if there’s one thing Seattlest has learned about Neko Case, it’s that her sound transcends genre and chews up attempted categorizations like no other recording artist out there. Last week, Seattlest provided a preliminary report on Case’s fourth studio album, Fox Confessor......

It's been over 24 hours since the new Neko Case album hit stores, and Seattlest still hasn't said anything about it? Unacceptable. Seattlest picked up Fox Confessor Brings the Flood last night at the Ballard Sonic Boom and loaded it onto our iPod. We've made it through the album twice so far today. Preliminary report: at least as good as Blacklisted, very possibly better. Case's voice is, as expected, utterly gorgeous. "John Saw that Number"......