blog Profiles in Awesomeness: Neko Case
After leaving her professed hometown of Tacoma at the age of fifteen, she wandered the country until moving to Vancouver for art school and to play drums in several punk bands (there are at least four things awesome about that very sentence, and that’s before she even started singing).
After graduating (and thus being effectively forced out of Canada), she moved to debatably the most kick-ass city on Earth: Seattle. Here she honed her signature “country noir” sound, something that has Awesome written all over it. But her best was yet to come.
It’s hard to select Neko’s most awesome moment. Could it be when she was voted “Sexiest Babe of Indie Rock?” Or perhaps when her breakthrough album Fox Confessor Brings the Blood was selected as the #1 editors pick at Amazon.com? Or what about providing her vocal talents to the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force? With all of those things in mind, it would be nearly impossible for anyone to choose her greatest moment. Luckily, I’m not anyone and this is up to me.
I believe that Neko was at her most Awesome when, during a recent show with New Pornographers (a Canadian supergroup she is a member of), she fell and injured her ankle. While this action is not inherently amazing, in and of itself, her subsequent actions were. After her fall, she elected to continue playing on the tour for two more dates before finally succumbing to what turned out to be a fractured ankle and damaged ligaments. That folks is Awesome, and why Neko is so deserving of this title.
Congratulations, Neko. We’ll see you at Bumbershoot.
posted July 15 '08 at 12:26PM by Evan in music, neko case
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