Every handful of years, Neko Case resurfaces with a new album and reminds listeners that she is one of our greatest living songwriters - perpetually becoming more fearless and adventurous. "She has cultivated one of the most distinctive voices in American song," Stereogum declared. "Her albums unravel like musical picaresque: restlessly digressive, bluntly funny, strange - but never in ways you'd anticipate."

The Grammy-nominated iconoclast's ninth LP, Neon Grey Midnight Green, is her biggest-sounding and most intimate-feeling album yet. Released last fall to immediate critical acclaim and declared an essential album in her catalog, the album was laid down live with a full band. More "in the room" than any of her past work, even breaths and shirt-sleeve rustlings were kept in the final mix as a reminder that "humans were here." 

"There are so few producers who are women, nonbinary, or trans," says Case, who identifies as gender fluid and uses she/her pronouns. "People don't think of us as an option. I'm proud to say I produced this record." 

Today she is announcing a new run of 'Neon Grey Midnight Green' tour dates that begin this fall on the East coast and end with two shows in Case's hometown of Tacoma, Washington.

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Tacoma, Washington: A town where hazardous waste and pulp mill fumes smelled like a breath of fresh air, old buildings were being leveled in order to "revitalize" a dying downtown, forests and farmlands were giving way to industrial parks and shopping malls, a cultural event was wrestling at the Tacoma Dome, and Girl Trouble could be found practicing with their plywood speaker cabinets and a drum set purchased for $70 from the Sears surplus store in a shed beside Bon and Kahuna's parent's house, where they still practice today.

With the minimal pounding of Bon's drums, the steady cool of Dale on bass, the buzzsaw scream from Kahuna's Ouija guitar, and the rabid rock 'n' roll vocal stylings of K.P. Kendall, Girl Trouble continues playing throughout the Northwest, 30-plus years on. So that's the story, kids. Use it or lose it. It's my way or the highway. Eat it or wear it. Hit It or Quit It!