Neko Case has announced her 2026 North American tour alongside the release of her latest single, “Winchester Mansion of Sound,” – the most poignant and elegy track from her upcoming album Neon Grey Midnight Green.
The song is inspired by Case’s late friend and collaborator Dexter Romweber of the Flat Duo Jets. Musically, it draws inspiration from Robbie Basho’s “Orphan’s Lament” and the classic “Down Down Baby” nursery rhyme. The latter struck Case as both comforting and a little melancholy, a bittersweet melody, like nostalgia itself.
Case penned the piano-driven epic about two years before Romweber’s 2024 passing, haunted with a sort of intuition about death.
In her recent memoir The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, the first time she heard Romweber’s pioneering psychobilly group, “something unlocked in her that day, the way making music could become a physical manifestation of the blazing wild horse energy inside of her body.” She called it “not a romantic love, but an all-consuming one” – a common theme across her memoir and new album.
The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You was released in January and reached #5 on The New York Times nonfiction best sellers list. Raised “by two dogs and a space heater” in Washington state, Case’s vibrant wordplay and trademark humor were familiar to fans. She has also been composing the musical adaptation of the 1991 Academy Award-winning motion picture Thelma & Louise, having been personally selected by the original screenwriter and Academy Award winner Callie Khouri.
Neon Grey Midnight Green, Case’s first new album in seven years, arrives on September 26. Her last record, 2018’s Hell-On, was acclaimed by The Guardian as “a pitch-perfect roar of female defiance.” Her latest work is no less urgent but carries a deep streak of sentimentality in its blaze.
The album was recorded live with a full band, preserving breaths and shirt-sleeve rustlings in the final mix as a reminder that “humans were here.” Recording took place at Case’s own Vermont studio, Carnassial Sound, with additional sessions in Denver, Colorado with the PlainsSong Chamber Orchestra and in Portland, Oregon with Tucker Martine.
There are so few producers who are women, nonbinary, or trans. People don’t think of us as an option. I’m proud to say I produced this record. It is my vision. It is my veto power. It is my taste.
Case, who identifies as genderfluid and uses she/her pronouns
Case’s songwriting explores themes of this world such as human nature’s cruelty, perseverance and terrifying beauty, but also the natural world– the moon and the stars, bees, lions and magpies.
Case begins touring in promotion of Neon Grey Midnight Green days after the album’s release, beginning with a sold-out show at Woodstock’s Levon Helm Studios on October 1.
Her official 2026 tour begins January 8 in Montreal and includes stops at the Smith Opera House in Geneva (January 10) and the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy (January 14).
Tickets are available at nekocase.com/tour.
2026 Tour Dates
January 8 – Beanfield Theatre # – Montreal, QC
January 9 – Bronson Centre # – Ottawa, ON
January 10 – Smith Opera House # – Geneva, NY
January 11 – The Flynn # – Burlington, VT
January 12 – State Theatre # – Portland, ME
January 14 – Troy Savings Bank Music Hall # – Troy, NY
January 15 – The Palace Theatre # – Stamford, CT
January 16 – The Queen # – Wilmington, DE
January 17 – Archer Music Hall # – Allentown, PA
January 18 – The Paramount # – Charlottesville, VA
January 20 – Paristown # – Louisville, KY
January 21 – Barrymore # – Madison, WI
January 22 – Palladium # – Carmel, IN
January 23 – Virginia Theatre # – Champaign, IL
January 24 – Uptown Theatre # – Kansas City, MO
January 27 – House of Blues # – New Orleans, LA
January 28 – Iron City # – Birmingham, AL
January 29 – Decca Live # – Jacksonville, FL
January 30 – The Plaza Live # – Orlando, FL
January 31 – TBA # – Miami, FL
w/ Des Demonas #
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