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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was an American folk rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2005. The group was led by singer Alex Ebert. The band's name is based on a story Ebert wrote in his youth, about a messianic figure named Edward Sharpe.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, a folk rock band, was formed in Los Angeles, California in 2005. The band was led by singer Alex Ebert. In 2014, singer Jade Castrinos left the band. Numerous people have asked why Castrinos left and where she went.
Despite the much bemoaned departure of band co-founder Jade Castrinos following their last full-length, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros still had 10 different musicians packed on the tiny stage at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music in an intricate intertwining of instruments and personality.
Ebert, via his alter-ego messiah character Edward Sharpe, brought back a new earnestness and authenticity to music with country-inspired folk-pop. With the Magnetic Zeros, Sharpe’s breakout single and signature song across four albums is, of course, “Home.”
That’s essentially how music writers view Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: inauthentic hippie shit. It doesn’t help that Edward isn’t real — he’s the messianic alter ego of Alex Ebert, frontman of the 10-person psych-folk troupe.
Jade Castrinos, vocalist for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, has been kicked out of the band.
Alex Ebert, frontman for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, hasn’t stopped moving — even though the band is on a brief break from its summer tour, the first without singer Jade Castrinos.
Indie folk act Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros have taken to social media to confirm to fans that their founding singer Jade Castrinos was not booted out of the band via email as she had ...