Neko Case

Singer, songwriter, music producer, visual artist, and writer Neko Case is the consummate career artist — fearless and versatile, with a fierce work ethic and a constant drive to search deeper within herself for creative growth. “One of America's best and most ambitious singer-songwriters" (Rolling Stone) and “essentially peerless” (NPR), Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In addition to numerous acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated solo records, Case is a founding member of Canadian supergroup The New Pornographers. She is the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir 'The Harder I Fight the More I Love You' and the weekly Substack newsletter ‘Entering The Lung,’ and is currently composing the musical theater adaptation of the Academy Award-winning motion picture 'Thelma & Louise.'

Delivering unguarded ballads and scathing rants in a rich baritone, singer/songwriter John Grant writes about life as a gay man, hypocrisy, and injustice with dry wit and unflinching honesty. While his literate songwriting is a constant of his music, his sound evolved over time. His 2010 solo debut Queen of Denmark built on the lush sound of his former band, the alt-country-meets-dream pop act the Czars, but Grant incorporated more of his enduring love for synth pop and industrial music on releases such as 2015's Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. On 2021's Boy from Michigan and 2024's The Art of the Lie, his increasingly personal and political songwriting made the most of his one-of-a-kind ability to switch from ironic to heartfelt at a moment's notice.

Grant was born in Michigan, where he lived with his Methodist parents -- who disapproved of his emerging sexuality -- until he was 12. His family then moved to Colorado, where he was bullied in high school and struggled with anxiety and addiction. After moving to Germany in 1988 to study languages (he is fluent in German, Russian, Spanish, and Icelandic), he returned to the States in 1994 and formed the Czars, a Colorado-based band whose music split the difference between shoegaze, dream pop, and alternative country.