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Neko Case is a force of nature on her latest album

XPN | By Raina Douris,
Kimberly Junod
Published December 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM CST
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On Neon Grey Midnight Green, Neko Case is a force of nature.

From her vocals to her lyrics, there are few artists that can harness and unleash nature's wild power in their songwriting. But it's also the way she performs, as if that power is being channeled through her.

Her connection to nature is something you can also sense in her stunning new memoir, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You. The book details her early days as a musician, as well as a childhood that found Case forging her connection to the natural world and music.

World Cafe: Neko Case set List

  1. "Wreck"
  2. "Oh, Neglect..."
  3. "Rusty Mountain"
  4. "Little Gears"

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod.  Our digital producer is Miguel Perez. World Cafe's engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

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Artist Interviews
Raina Douris
Raina Douris, an award-winning radio personality from Toronto, Ontario, is the host and writer of NPR's daily nationally-syndicated music interview and discovery program World Cafe. She has interviewed artists like Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Questlove and Brandi Carlile, and was a 2022 keynote lecturer on the topic of Folk Music and music discovery at the Chautauqua Institution.
Kimberly Junod
World Cafe senior producer Kimberly Junod has been a part of the World Cafe team since 2001, when she started as the show's first line producer. In 2011 Kimberly launched (and continues to helm) World Cafe's Sense of Place series that includes social media, broadcast and video elements to take listeners across the U.S. and abroad with an intimate look at local music scenes. She was thrilled to be part of the team that received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for excellence in music programming. In the time she has spent at World Cafe, Kimberly has produced and edited thousands of interviews and recorded several hundred bands for the program, as well as supervised the show's production staff. She has also taught sound to young women (at Girl's Rock Philly) and adults (as an "Ask an Engineer" at WYNC's Werk It! Women's Podcast Festival).