Articles by Stuart Henderson

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

Fort York, Toronto ON, September 19

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

I just don't get Edward Sharpe and his Whole Shtick.   The headliner, Alex Ebert's psychedelic big band took the stage at 9:30 p.m. to rapt...

Maddie and Tae

Start Here

PUBLISHED Aug 26, 2015

How do you follow a manifesto? In the case of 20 year olds Madison Marlow and Tae Dye, the task is doubly fraught, since that manifesto &#8...

Lindi Ortega

Star Struck

PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2015

"It's one thing," explains Lindi Ortega, "if you get signed when you're 19 and you have a hit song that goes through the charts. You have a...

Lindi Ortega Says Jeff Bridges Inspired 'Faded Gloryville'

PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2015

By any measure, Lindi Ortega is a veteran. Six full-length records into her career — her latest, Faded Gloryville, drops August 7 on...

Lindi Ortega

Faded Gloryville

PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2015

Nashville-based, Toronto-bred singer-songwriter Lindi Ortega is hardly a typical country artist. Her music draws from a deeper well than ma...

Jason Isbell

Something More Than Free

PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2015

Ever since his astonishing debut with the Drive-By Truckers in the early 2000s, we've been watching Jason Isbell. Here was a kid from a tin...

Kacey Musgraves

Independent Woman

PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2015

"I'm not a feminist," declares Kacey Musgraves (as my head explodes). "There are double standards that are annoying to me, but I just write...

Sturgill Simpson

Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 23

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2015

The preshow music was golden oldie soul — James Brown, Booker T. & the M.G.'s — and the band came onstage while Michael Jackson...